Four Volume Catalog (Complete Three Volumes)

Author: Ding Fubao
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Publishing Date: 2006-12-01
Features: The Four Divisions General Catalog is a bibliographic work that includes the four major categories of Confucian classics (Jing), history (Shi), philosophy (Zi), and literature (Ji). It specializes in collecting the works of scholars from ancient to modern times, limited to those that still have extant copies, and it also includes prefaces, postfaces, and commentaries by previous scholars. Since 1929, when my teacher Mr. Ding Zhonghu published a sample edition through his self-established medical publishing house, he personally typeset over 2,000 pages. However, due to the vast volume, my teacher was concerned that he might not be able to complete it, so he handed it over to the Commercial Press to continue the work. However, the Commercial Press was able to typeset only about 3,000 pages, totaling nearly 6,500 pages. All of these have been completed with molds, and there are still about 1,000 pages of manuscript that have not been typeset. This spring, the Commercial Press responded to the call of the central government to promote the study and research of traditional Chinese medicine, and they plan to use the existing molds to first publish the section on medical scholars in the Zi division, renaming it "Four Divisions General Catalog—Medicine Edition" as a standalone volume to facilitate readers studying and researching Chinese medicine. This is a source of great joy for the compilers. This book serves as an introductory guide for studying traditional Chinese medicine and a fundamental reference tool for researching it. Yu Jiaxi in his work Micro-Expositions on Bibliography states: "Bibliographic works are meant to guide scholars in their reading, saving them from the labor of exploration." This book fulfills exactly such a role. Once published, I believe that all comrades who study and research traditional Chinese medicine and the history of Chinese medicine will find this book to be of great help.