Lost in translation: The treatment of Chinese classics in the library of congress classification

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-14

  Jiang, Shuyong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese classics; Classification; Classification schemes; Confucian canons; Library of congress classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548948945     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v45n01_02     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Fung Yu-lan, A History of Chinese Philosophy, trans. Derk Bodde (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953), 2:2.
2. Lois Mai Chan, Immroth's Guide to the Library of Congress Classification, 4th ed. (Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1990), 19.
3. Library of Congress Classification, PL-PM, Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania; Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial Languages (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2001), 73.
4. Liu Xie, The Literary Mind and The Carving of Dragons, trans. Vincent Yu-Chung Shih. (Taipei: Taiwan Zhonghua shuju, 1960), 24-25.
5. Ibid.
6. Stephen Durrant, "Ching," in The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, ed. William. H. Nienhauser (Bloomington: Indiana Press University, 1986), 309-316.
7. John B. Henderson, Scripture, Canon, and Commentary: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Exegesis (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), 34-35.
8. Ming Dong Gu, Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing, A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005), 9.
9. Zhou Yutong, "'Jing,' 'jingxue,' jingxue shi" ("The Classics," "Classical Studies," and the History of Classical Studies), in Zhou Yutong jingxue shi lunzhu xuanji (Selected Treatises by Zhou Yutong on the History of Classical Studies), comp. Zhu Weizheng (Shanghai: Renmin chubanshe, 1983), 660.
10. Trans. from Henderson, Scripture, Canon, and Commentary, 3.
11. Stephen Durrant, "Ching," in The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, ed. William H. Nienhauser (Bloomington: Indiana Press University, 1986), 309-316.
12. Pan Gu, Han Shu (Han History) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1975), 1723.
13. A comparative study of differences and the treatment of the two in LC Classification will be addressed in a separate article.
14. Chan, Immroth's Guide to the Library of Congress Classification, 19.
15. Ibid.
16. Francis Miksa, The Development of Classification at the Library of Congress, Occasional Papers no. 164 (Champaign: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1984), 26.
17. Ibid., 5.
18. Chan, Immroth's Guide to the Library of Congress Classification, 2.
19. Ibid.
20. Gu Hung-ming, The Spirit of the Chinese People (Peking: Commercial Press, 1922), 24.
21. Ibid., 16.
22. The examples are taken from Chan, Immroth's Guide to the Library of Congress Classification, 238-239.
23. LC Classification-Additions and Changes publishes these changes and additions periodically.