Four-part series - Si-bu cong-kan (English name)

Japanese: 四部叢刊 - しぶそうかん（英語表記）Si-bu cong-kan

A Chinese series. Compiled by Zhang Yuanji and others. Three volumes, 468 varieties. Published by the Shanghai Commercial Press. The first volume was published in 1919 with 323 varieties, the second volume with 75 varieties in 1934, and the third volume with 70 varieties in 1935-1936. The series selected four major classics, Jing, Shi, Zi, and Ji, and published them as facsimiles (photographic prints), with the aim of collecting the best editions available at the time, including those in the Hanfenlou collection at the Commercial Press, as well as those in libraries and private collections around the country and even those in Japan. Even if a work was published once, if a better copy was obtained later, it was published twice. However, although the position is that the older the text, the better the copy, the later texts are superior in that they have been edited, and the editions in this series are not necessarily considered to be the best today. It has also been criticized that some parts have been arbitrarily altered during the photo-printing process, but in any case it was a groundbreaking project for classical publishing after the Republic of China.

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Japanese:

中国の叢書。張元済らの編。3編 468種。上海商務印書館発行。初編は 323種で 1919年，続編は 75種で 34年，3編は 70種で 35～36年刊。商務印書館が蔵していた涵芬楼 (かんぷんろう) 蔵本をはじめ，各地の図書館，家蔵，さらに日本に存するものまで当時手に入る最上の版を集めるという方針で，経，史，子，集の4部にわたる主要な古典を選び影印 (写真印刷) して出版したもの。いったん出版した書でも，その後さらに善本が得られたときはあらためて2重に出版している。ただ古いテキストほど善本であるという立場をとっているが，後代のテキストは校訂が加えられているという点ではすぐれており，必ずしもこの叢刊の版が最上であるとは現在では考えられていない。また写真印刷の過程で勝手な修正を加えている個所もあると批判されるが，いずれにせよ民国になってのちの古典出版事業としては画期的なものである。

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