Compiled over eleven years under the Qianlong emperor, the Siku Quanshu assembled 3,503 works in 79,337 juan as a vast imperially sponsored collection.
At the height of the High Qing era, the ordered an exhaustive collection of imperial and private libraries to compile the definitive compendium of Chinese literature.
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Epochal Overview
Chief editor Ji Xiaolan and over 360 scholars worked for a decade to produce the *Siku Quanshu* (Complete Library in Four Sections: Classics, History, Philosophy, Literature), comprising 3,461 works in 79,337 volumes (nearly 800 million characters) housed in seven imperial libraries.
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Civilizational Impact
The *Siku Quanshu* stands as the largest single collection of premodern books in Chinese history, comprehensively consolidating two millennia of traditional literature and scholarship.
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Key Figures
The directed the project alongside Chief Editor Ji Xiaolan and Qianjia evidential scholars such as .
