leishu
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- In other countries
- Importance
- Major compilations
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Cited works
thumb|upright|A page from the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China, the largest leishu ever printed
The leishu () is a genre of reference books historically compiled in China and other East Asian countries. The term is generally translated as "encyclopedia", although the leishu are quite different from the modern notion of encyclopedia.
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