The Inter-record Method and Analytic-record Method in Ancient Chinese Booklist Record
Wang Guo · Journal of Zhengzhou University · 2002
There are two record methods in ancient Chinese booklist record, i.e. inter record method and analytic method . The book List Record of Hundreds of Books by the advanced scholars in Ming dynasty is an earliest book list written with analytic method, meanwhile, as well as with analytic method.Both Qi Cheng and Zhang Xuecheng explained that the purposes of inter record method and analytic method were different; the former was convenient for indexing literature, while the latter was convenient for seeking the source of the literature. Inter-analytic record method is bred by the whole concept of Chinese culture and is the result grown at the time when the Chinese bibliography develops to a certain stage. As a good auxiliary method of the literature record, inter-analytic record method has the value convenient for both seeking the resource of the literature and indexing it.