Kangxi Emperor Commissions the Complete Tang Poems
1695
The Kangxi Emperor ordered the compilation of the Quantangshi, a monumental anthology gathering every surviving poem from the Tang dynasty into nine hundred volumes. The project enlisted dozens of scholars and preserved nearly fifty thousand poems. It was cultural statecraft at its grandest - a Manchu emperor claiming custodianship of China's golden literary age.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.