https://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/siku-quanshu-the-book-that-spans-5000-years-of-chinese-history/

With prompt 6 still in mind, consider an image of The Siku Quanshu, the 18thcentury encyclopedia of Chinese knowledge. At 79,000 chapters and 800 million words, The Siku Quanshu is a compendium of a body of knowledge so large in volume that it has only been surpassed by Wikipedia, and that has only happened recently. It is organized according to traditional classification into

“4 Branches (部): (a) the Classics (經), (b) the Histories (史), (c) the Masters (子), and (d) the Anthologies (集)”. This complex system developed over the course of 15 centuries and does not neatly map onto the domains of knowledge in Western thought. Including The Siku Quanshu in your exhibition allows you to engage with its specific historical and cultural meanings and make compelling connections to both the prompt and the world. You can explore how applying categories such as “literature” and “philosophy” to Chinese thought prior to the 18th century limits or distorts our understanding of them. Indeed, you can consider limitations and distortions that occur when we apply one way of organizing knowledge to an intellectual tradition that organizes knowledge differently.

From: Marija Uzunova Dang ,Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang, Oxford Theory of Knowledge Course Companion, Oxford University Press 2020, p. 363.