For those interested in learning more about the liuwang students as well as the refugee situation in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the following books are very worthwhile:
The Great Flowing River: A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan, by Bangyuan Qi, John Balcom (translator). Columbia University Press (2018)
Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, by Peter Harmsen. Casemate Publishing (2013)
In a Sea of Bitterness: Refugees During the Sino-Japanese War, by R. Keith Schoppa. Harvard University Press (2011)
Race the Rising Sun, by Chao-Min Hsieh, Jean Kan Hsieh. Hamilton Books (2009)
Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China, by Stephen R. MacKinnon. University of California Press (2008)
Lianda, A Chinese University in War and Revolution, by John Israel. Stanford University Press (1998)
Teaching in Wartime China, by Edward Gulick. University of Massachusetts Press (1995)
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai Under Japanese Occupation, by Christian Henriot. Cambridge University Press (2004)
Some online information about the real encyclopedias:
“The C. V. Starr East Asian Library Receives Monumental Gift”: https://ieas.berkeley.edu/news/c-v-starr-east-asian-library-receives-monumental-gift
The Yongle Dadian: http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Science/yongledadian.html