Abstract
With the development of British Sinology in the 19th century, a body of relatively comprehensive knowledge about Chinese literature became available to general English-language readers for the first time. How was this knowledge gradually produced and represented in the Anglophone world? This article looks at this history of knowledge production through the lens of encyclopaedias. It provides a focused study of this process by examining the writings on Chinese literature in English-language encyclopaedias. Through an analysis of their sources of information, categorisation schemes, discourses, and literary and intellectual frameworks, this article demonstrates the structural transformation of the understanding and representation of Chinese literature in Anglophone scholarship during the long 19th century.
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