These are the main subject headings. The system is rather simple and basically an adaption of our general library system. They can be used to create result sets with logical AND (default setting). The slash ("/") divides alternative subject headings on the same level.
dictionaries - general
dictionaries - paleography - general (辭海、詞源 etc.)
dictionaries - paleography - oracle bones/bronze/stone/silk/bamboo
(甲骨文、金文 etc.)
dictionaries - paleography - seal script (籀文、篆文 etc.)
dictionaries - calligraphy
dictionaries - traditional - shuo wen (說文解字)
dictionaries - traditional - radicals (玉篇、類篇、康熙字典 etc.)
dictionaries - traditional - rhyme ( 廣韻、集韻、配文韻府 etc.)
dictionaries - traditional - subject (爾雅、廣雅 etc.)
dictionaries - traditional - various (e.g. 一切經音義)
dictionaries - language - classical
dictionaries - language - modern - chinese chinese
dictionaries - language - modern - chinese english (or other languages)
dictionaries - language - modern - english chinese (or other languages)
dictionaries - language - modern - japanese english (or other
languages)
dictionaries - language - particles (虛字、虛辭)
dictionaries - language - idioms (成語、俗語、諺語 etc.)
dictionaries - language - dialects (or newspapers etc.)
dictionaries - language - special (synonyms or antonyms, vocabulary
etc.)
dictionaries - language - various (simplified characters, script forms
etc.)
dictionaries - biography - general
dictionaries - biography - classical
dictionaries - biography - modern
dictionaries - biography - philosophy/religion/buddhism/taoism etc.
dictionaries - biography - literature/art
dictionaries - biography - politics/economy/society
dictionaries - biography - science/medicine
dictionaries - biography - foreigners
dictionaries - biography - various
dictionaries - biography - names
dictionaries - subject - philosophy/logics/linguistics
dictionaries - subject - religion/mythology
dictionaries - subject - literature/theatre
dictionaries - subject - archeology/art/music
dictionaries - subject - history
dictionaries - subject - geography/ethnology
dictionaries - subject - politics/economy/society/law
dictionaries - subject - science/technology/mathematics/social science
dictionaries - subject - medicine/biology
dictionaries - subject - various
encyclopedias - traditional
encyclopedias - modern - language/philosophy/history etc.
bibliography - language/philosophy/history etc.
bibliography - traditional
bibliography - rare editions (善本、藏書)
bibliography - catalogs
bibliography - ts'ung shu
bibliography - recent publications (全國新書目 etc.)
bibliography - periodicals/newspapers
bibliography - language/philosophy/history etc.
index - classics
index - history
index - philosophy
index - literature
index - various
yearbooks - language/philosophy/history
handbooks - language/philosophy/history
tables - language/philosophy/history
language - general
language - textbooks - modern/classical
language - grammar - modern/classical
language - phonetics - modern/classical
language - dialects - modern/classical
language - script
language - idioms
language - book science
philosophy - general
philosophy - classics - lun yue/meng-tzu/i ching etc.
philosophy - confucianism
philosophy - neoconfucianism
philosophy - taoism
philosophy - buddhism
philosophy - various schools
philosophy - modern philosophy
philosophy - marxism
philosophy - various
religion - general
religion - folkreligions
religion - foreign religions
religion - geomancy
religion - buddhism
religion - various
literature - general
literature - anthologies (文心雕龍 etc.)
literature - complete works
literature - poetry/modern poetry
literature - prose/modern prose
literature - fiction/modern fiction
literature - drama/modern drama
literature - poetics
literature - notes (筆記)
literature - diary (日記)
literature - folklore - fairy tales/riddles/songs
literature - various
literature - connoisseurship (鑑賞詞典、欣賞詞典)
art - general
art - anthologies
art - catalogues
art - painting
art - calligraphy
art - crafts - pottery/porcelain/lacquer/sculpture/bronze
art - architecture
art - music
art - theatre
art - film/movie
history - general
history - anthologies
history - mythology
history - prehistory
history - shang/chou/han/liu ch'ao/sui/t'ang/wu
tai/sung/liao/chin/ming/ch'ing
history - revolution/republican era/communist era/taiwan
history - foreign relations
history - biography/family chronicle/year tables/chronology
history - archeology/inscriptions/manual scripts
geography - general
geography - travels
geography - regional
geography - botany/zoology
ethnology - general
ethnology - regional
geography - maps
Special collection, South China:
south china - general
south china - language
south china - macao
south china - hongkong
south china - fu chien/kuang tung/kuang chou/kuang hsi/hai nan
south china - history/biography
south china - geography/economy/politics
south china - portuguese/dutch
economy - general
economy - agriculture/irrigation
economy - urban
economy - crafts/industry
economy - money/tax/weights and measures
economy - transportation/trade
society - general
society - sociology
science - medicine
institutions - general
institutions - administration - civil/military
institutions - law
institutions - various
institutions - education
politics - general
politics - various