Chinese library classification schemes through the millennia.

1. Chinese Cataloging Through History Victoria Ludas Dr. Pattuelli LIS 653-02 Knowledge Organization Spring 2011 Image source: http://ed101.bu.edu/StudentDoc/current/ED101fa09/lbryfo/quizhome.html

3. Oldest known bibliography in the world.

4. 7 main classes and 38 subdivisions, ordered in terms of ideological importance:

5. General Summary (more of an introduction than full class)

6. Classics

7. Philosophy

8. Poetry

9. Military Science

10. Science and Occultism

11. Medicine

12. Original 7 Epitomes lost around 10th century, and what remains was saved by scholars from other works, particularly the History of the Former Han Dynasty

13. Written by Pan Ku, AD 82, who based his bibliography on the 7 Epitomes but took out the General Summary

15. Wang Chien's Seven Reviews (473)

16. Juan Hsiao-hsu's Seven Records (523)

18. Classics

19. Philosophy

20. History

21. Literature

22. Adopted by imperial curators who compiled catalogs of imperial libraries:

23. Hsun Hsu, Chin dynasty (279)

25. Established fourfold scheme's official order:

26. Chia: Classics

27. I: History

28. Ping: Philosophy

29. Ting: Poetry

30. Fourfold scheme adopted for official bibliographies (618-1911)

31. History of the T'angDynasty (945, later rewritten 1061)

32. History of the Sung Dynasty (1345)

33. History of the Ming Dynasty (1739)

34. Draft History of the Ch'ing Dynasty (1927, allowed to continue, though not to finish, by the People’s Republic)

35. Complete Collection of Four Treasuries (1773-1782):

36. 2,000+ scholars worked to preserve and annotate 10,254 works in 36,275 volumes color-coded to correspond with their classification

37. Green for classics, red for history, blue for philosophy, brown for literature

39. Evolution of catalog entries from book to loose-leaf to card

40. Initial effort to centralize library cataloging by National Library of Beijing, which distributed catalog cards starting in 1931

41. 1949: Communist Revolution

42. Classification for Chinese Libraries (aka Chinese Library Classification), begun in mid-1960s, first published 1975

43. 5th edition published August 2010

44. Currently contains more than 43,000 categories in 5 major groups with 22 subclasses

45. Enlarged version: Chinese Classification for Monographs and Materials with 50,000 classes

46. Also includes:

47. Chinese Classified Subject Thesaurus

48. CCL for Grade Schools and Children's Libraries

49. CCL for Periodicals; Agriculture; Education

50. Used by almost all public, academic, and school libraries around China for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese materials, which has helped to standardize national information research and retrieval language

51. Chinese Library Classification A. Marxism, Leninism, Maoism & Deng Xiaoping Theory § A1 The Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels § A2 The Works of Vladimir Lenin § A3 The Works of Joseph Stalin § A4 The Works of Mao Zedong § A49 The Works of Deng Xiaoping § A5 The Symposium/Collection of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Deng Xiaoping § A7 The biobibliography and biography of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Deng Xiaoping § A8 Study and Research of Marxism, Leninism, Maoism & Deng Xiaoping Theory B. Philosophy and Religion § B0 Philosophical schools § B1 Philosophy (World-wide) § B2 Philosophy in China § B22 Pre-Qin Dynasty Philosophy( ~before 220 BC) § B222 The Confucian School § B222.2 Confucius (KǒngQiū, 551-479 BC) Image of the 5th edition of the CLC from http://www.nlc.gov.cn/en/2010/0902/article_185.htm

52. An example of Chinese classification at work: D923.4 = Intellectual property Image source: Judiciary Library of Hong Kong, http://library.judiciary.gov.hk/search

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55. Tsien, T.-H. (1952, January 01). A History of Bibliographic Classification in China. The Library Quarterly, 22, 4, 307-324. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4304148.

56. Zhang, W. (2003, January 01). Classification for Chinese Libraries (CCL): Histories, Accomplishments, Problems and Its Comparisons. Jiao Yu Zi Liao Yu TuShu Guan Xue (Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences), 41, 1-22. Retrieved from http://joemls.dils.tku.edu.tw/fulltext/41/41-1/1-22.pdf.