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| | Object: Encyclopedia Maxima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The original edition of this large work, The Great Standard of Ta Tien or the Encyclopedia Maxima, was comprised of 917,480 pages in 11,100 bound volumes. |
 | | Produced by a commission of over two thousand scholars in 1408, it purported to record all knowledge of the Confucian canon, Buddhism, history, philosophy, astronomy, geography, medicine, and the arts. |
 | | The encyclopedia remained in the hands of an elite few, and was practically forgotten until the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when all but a few volumes perished in an incendiary attack on the British Mission. |
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