The spiritual culture of China is the most detailed of the encyclopedic publications in Russian dedicated to Chinese civilization (total volume of 490 accounting and publishing sheets). Prepared by a team of authors from all the main oriental centers of Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok) under the auspices of the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences and published by the Oriental Literature Publishing House in five volumes in 2006-2009.