The Siku Quanshu

Jintan Ancient Printing Ltd (JAPL) was established in 1978. It combines traditional craftsmanship with high-tech digital printing to produce high end, replica ancient products. Based in Jintan, Jiangsu, China, the multiple award winning company is a leading name in the premier print industry, both nationally and internationally. Specialities of JAPL include hard back and hand bound books, xuan (bamboo paper) colour printing and woodblock printing.

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Colour printing on xuan (bamboo paper), hand embossing, woodblock printing and xian zhuang (stitched binding) are all ancient techniques used by JAPL. Items of particular interest produced include the recreation of 500 year old books originally made by Emperor Yongle to record the Ming Dynasty, as well as key Confucius teachings. The books and scriptures, amongst other collections and art works, all displaying the time consuming and intricate skills, can be found in the vast on-site product exhibition room.

Description: Variously translated as the Complete Library in Four Sections, Imperial Collection of Four, Emperor's Four Treasuries, Complete Library in Four Branches of Literature, or Complete Library of the Four Treasuries, is the largest collection of books in Chinese history. The complete encyclopedia contains an annotated catalogue of 10,680 titles along with a compendiums of 3,593 titles. The Siku Quanshu ended up surpassing the Ming dynasty's 1403 Yongle Encyclopedia in size, which was China's largest encyclopedia prior to the creation of the Siku Quanshu.