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Textual Research on the Catalogue of the Yuan Dynasty

Dai Tiancai (Institute of the Studies of Ancient Books & Writings, East China Normal University)   

  • Online:2024-11-15 Published:2024-12-02
  • About author:Dai Tiancai (Institute of the Studies of Ancient Books & Writings, East China Normal University)

Abstract:

The research on bibliography in the Yuan Dynasty is relatively less in the past century, andthe analysis for bibliographic literature of the Yuan Dynasty can change this situation to some extent.Through counting the number of Yuan Dynasty catalogs, it was found that there were 67 types of theYuan Dynasty catalogs, which can be divided into three categories: book collection catalogs, historicalrecords catalogs and specialized catalogs. Among them, the collection catalog can be divided into nationalcollection catalog, academy collection catalog, and private collection catalog. Specialized catalogs canbe divided into sub-categories such as guide catalog, religious catalog and reference catalog. Due to theinfluence of academic trends and politics, there are a large number of religious and reference catalogs. Theideology for guiding the Yuan scholars to catalog is summarizing numerous books and being proficient inlearning, which had a value orientation of respecting sages, pursuing great principles and using catalogingfor practical purposes.

Key words: Yuan Dynasty, Introduction table of contents, Bibliography, Religious catalogue, Neoconfucianism,Buddhism