Taiping Yulan

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The Taiping Yulan, translated as the Imperial Reader or Readings of the Taiping (Xingguo) Era, is a massive Chinese leishu encyclopedia compiled by a team of scholars from 977 to 983. It was commissioned by the imperial court of the Song dynasty during the first era of the reign of Emperor Taizong.

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