Book of Documents

Summary

Book of Documents is a written work^[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (289 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Book of Documents's image is recorded as Shujing NCL 1.png^[3].
• Book of Documents's instance of is recorded as written work^[4].
• Book of Documents's editor is recorded as Confucius^[5].
• Book of Documents's editor is recorded as Kong Anguo^[6].
• Book of Documents's genre is recorded as jingbu^[7].
• Book of Documents's part of is recorded as Five Classics^[8].
• Book of Documents's Commons category is recorded as The Classic of History^[9].
• Book of Documents's language of work or name is recorded as Old Chinese^[10].
• Book of Documents's country of origin is recorded as Zhou dynasty^[11].
• Book of Documents's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0402jv^[12].
• Book of Documents's has edition or translation is recorded as Classic of History (Legge)^[13].
• Book of Documents's has edition or translation is recorded as Q76730991^[14].
• Book of Documents's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Book of Documents^[15].
• Book of Documents's earliest date is recorded as -0551-00-00T00:00:00Z^[16].
• Book of Documents's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[17].
• Book of Documents's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng^[18].
• Book of Documents's described by source is recorded as Q18900688^[19].
• Book of Documents's described by source is recorded as Records of the Grand Historian^[20].
• Book of Documents's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Shujing^[21].
• Book of Documents's title is recorded as {'lang': 'lzh', 'text': '尚書'}^[22].
• Book of Documents's title is recorded as {'lang': 'lzh', 'text': '書經'}^[23].
• Book of Documents's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'lzh', 'text': '昔在帝堯，聰明文思，光宅天下，將遜於位，讓於虞舜，作《堯典》。'}^[24].
• Book of Documents's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as shu-jing-chou-king^[25].
• Book of Documents's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 20126261^[26].
• Book of Documents's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Shujing^[27].

Body

Geography

Book of Documents's part of is recorded as Five Classics^[8].

Designation and Status

Book of Documents's instance of is recorded as written work^[4].

Why It Matters

Book of Documents ranks in the top 5% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (289 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 101 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]