Ma Tuan-lin

Pinyin  Ma Duanlin  Chinese historian who wrote the Wen hsien t'ung k'ao (“General Study of the Literary Remains”), a huge encyclopaedia of general knowledge. This work, with the works of two other historians of the Sung dynasty (960–1279), Cheng Ch'iao (1108–66) and Ssu-ma Kuang (1019–86), is considered one of the greatest institutional histories ever written on China and, as such, was a model for many later