Chinese Library Classification
The Chinese Library Classification (??????
?? CLC), also known as Classification for
Chinese Libraries (CCL), is effectively the
national library classification scheme in Ch-
ina. It is used in almost all primary and sec-
ondary schools, universities, academic insti-
tutions, as well as public libraries. It is also
used by publishers to classify all books pub-
lished in China.
The Book Classification of Chinese
Libraries
(BCCL) was first published in
1975, under the auspices of China’s Adminis-
trative Bureau of Cultural Affairs. Its fourth
edition (1999) was renamed CLC. CLC has
twenty-two top-level categories, and inherits
a Marxist orientation from its earlier edi-
tions[1]. (For instance, category A is Marx-
ism, Leninism, Maoism & Deng Xiaoping The-
ory.) It contains a total of 43600 categories,
many of which are recent additions, meeting
the needs of a rapidly changing nation[2].
The CLC System
The 22 top categories and selected sub-cat-
egories of CLC (4th Edition) are as follows:
A. Marxism, Leninism, Maoism
& Deng Xiaoping Theory
• A1 The Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels
• A2 The Works of Vladimir Lenin
• A3 The Works of Joseph Stalin
• A4 The Works of Mao Zedong
• A49 The works of Deng Xiaoping
• A5 The Symposium/Collection of Marx,
Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Deng
Xiaoping
• A7 The biobibliography and biography of
Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and
Deng Xiaoping
• A8 Study and Research of Marxism,
Leninism, Maoism & Deng Xiaoping
Theory
B. Philosophy and Religion
• B0 Philosophical schools
• B1 Philosophy (Worldwide)
• B2 Philosophy in China
• B22 Pre-Qin Dynasty Philosophy
(~before 220 BC)
• B222 The Confucian School
• B222.2 Confucius (Kǒng Qiū,
551-479 BC)
• B3 Philosophy in Asia
• B4 Philosophy in Africa
• B5 Philosophy in Europe
• B6 Philosophy in Australasia
• B7 Philosophy in America
• B8 Cognitive science
• B9 Religion
• B91 Sociology of Religion, Religion and
Science
• B92 Philosophy and History of Religion
• B93 Mythology and Primitive religion
• B94