摘要
This huge volume of approximately 7.5 million words synthesizes the results ofancient and modern scholarship, while avoiding these predecessors’ shortcomings, andcan be said to be the most complete catalogue of book series in Chinese history.There has been a copious supply of books and records throughout Chinese his-tory.The publication of book series can be traced to the 'stone classics'(i.e.,Con-fucian classics carved in stone) of the Han and the Tang Dynasties;but it was
