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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.

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

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.

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.

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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