Episode 3 of 3
Establishment of Editorial Board
- When
- March 1773
- Where
- Qing Capital
By March 1773, an editorial board in Beijing began gathering and reviewing books for the encyclopedia.
An editorial board composed of hundreds of editors, collators, and copyists was created in Beijing. It included more than 361 scholars, with Ji Yun and Lu Xixiong as chief editors. Around 3,826 scribes copied every word by hand, receiving government positions after transcribing set sections.
Sources
- Siku Quanshu Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-27
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.