{"id":156579,"date":"2026-08-26T04:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156579"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:00:05","slug":"ming-dynasty-work-shows-how-chinese-understood-the-world-in-the-1600s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156579","title":{"rendered":"Ming dynasty work shows how Chinese understood the world in the 1600s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLong before the digital age, a Ming dynasty scholar made it his mission to map human knowledge from a Chinese perspective.<br \/>\nThe result was an encyclopaedia spanning 127 volumes known as the Tushu Bian, or Compendium of Illustrations and Texts.<br \/>\nThe work \u2013 published in 1613 \u2013 was compiled by Neo-Confucian scholar Zhang Huang and drew on more than 200 printed sources across several decades to document the concepts of heaven, Earth and humanity.<br \/>\n\u201cHis goal was to gather all the illustrations and texts&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3365150\/ming-dynasty-work-shows-how-chinese-understood-world-1600s?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLong before the digital age, a Ming dynasty scholar made it his mission to map human knowledge from a Chinese perspective. The result was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}