and annals, the imperial household, biographies of mandarins, kinship and relations, social intercourse, dictionary of surnames, human relations, biographies of women Nature (博物): Procivilities (crafts, divination, games, medicine), spirits and unearthly beings, fauna, flora (all life forms on Earth) Philosophy (理学): Classics of non-fiction, aspects of philosophy (numerology, filial piety, shame, etc.), forms of writing, philology and literary studies Economy (经济): education and imperial examination, maintenance of the civil service, food and commerce, etiquette and ceremony, music, the military system, the judicial system, styles of craft and architecture The six series in total are subdivided into 32 subdivisions. Note that a pre-modern sense is intended in both "society" (that is, high society) and "economy" (which could be called "society" today), and the other major divisions do not match precisely to English terms. Gallery Part 1: Heavens/Astronomy Part 2: Geography Territories Borders Part 3: Society Human Affairs Describes some anatomy of the human body Imperial Harem Imperial Perfection Part 4: Nature Plant Kingdom Part 5: Philosophy Canonical and other Literature section Mathematics Education and Conduct Study of Characters Part 6: Economy Military Punishments and blessing Food See also Yongle Encyclopedia Siku Quanshu Hua Sui References Citations Sources Search for Modern China, Jonathan Spence, 1990. External links 故宮東吳數位古今圖書集成 etext WorldCat Archive.org HathiTrust An Alphabetical Index To The Chinese Encyclopaedia WorldCat Google Books Library of Congress Chinese culture Chinese encyclopedias Qing dynasty literature Sinology Chinese literature 1725 books 1726 books 18th-century encyclopedias Leishu