Collected Illustrations of the Three Powers: Biographies

Only partial translations or excerpts exist. This is the first complete English translation.

The 'Sancai Tuhui' (Collected Illustrations of the Three Powers) is a massive Ming Dynasty encyclopedia consisting of 106 chapters. Catalog searches across local scholarly databases and Open Library for the title and authors (Wang Qi and Wang Siyi) returned no results for a complete English translation. While the work is frequently cited in sinological literature and specific excerpts or illustrations have been translated in thematic studies (such as Richard Strassberg's work on bestiaries), no complete translation of the 'Biographies' (Renwu) section or the entire encyclopedia has been published in English.

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