Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Chinese Buddhist canon is a traditional collection of Chinese-language Buddhist texts that serves as the central scriptural authority for East Asian Buddhism in China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Its traditional name is the Great Storage of Scriptures. It includes translated Indian sutras, vinaya and treatises alongside works composed in China, such as histories, catalogs and biographies of monks.
The first printed edition, the Kaibao Canon, was printed between 971 and 983 during the Song dynasty. It was carved onto roughly 130,000 individual woodblocks.
The scholar He Mei has counted 4,878 individual texts that make up the Chinese Buddhist canon. These texts accumulated over centuries through translation and original composition rather than being compiled all at once.
The Taisho Tripitaka is the modern edition most widely used by scholars studying the Chinese Buddhist canon today. More than 300 Japanese scholars, led by Junjiro Takakusu, Kaigyoku Watanabe and Ono Genmyo, compiled it between 1922 and 1934, publishing it in Tokyo in 100 volumes.
The woodblocks of the Tripitaka Koreana, a Korean edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon, are kept at Haeinsa temple in South Korea. This surviving set was carved between 1236 and 1251 into 81,258 woodblocks after Mongol invaders destroyed an earlier edition in 1232.
Dr Yehan Numata founded the Society for the Promotion of Buddhism, known as BDK, in 1965 with the goal of translating the Chinese Buddhist canon into English. BDK has since published numerous English translations, though many texts from the canon remain untranslated.