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5 unusual facts about Vietnamese encyclopedias


Vietnamese encyclopedias

The two largest online Vietnamese-language encyclopedias are Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam, a state encyclopedia, and Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Kiến văn tiểu lục (Small Chronicle of Things Seen and Heard), another encyclopedic work by Lê Quý Đôn.

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The first work which was considered as an encyclopedia of Vietnam is an 18th-century book "Vân đài loại ngữ" by Lê Quý Đôn, a Lê Dynasty Confucian scholar.

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Lịch triều hiến chương loại chí (Regulations of Successive Dynasties by Subject-Matter), a hand-written encyclopedic work by Nguyễn Dynasty Confucianist scholar Phan Huy Ích.

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Vân đài loại ngữ (The Classified Discourse of the Library), an encyclopedic work compiled in 1773 by the Lê Dynasty Confucianist scholar Lê Quý Đôn.



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