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The classification being studied is the scheme used in a catalog, entitled the <jats:italic>Seven Epitomes<\/jats:italic> (<jats:italic>Qilue<\/jats:italic>), for organizing the Chinese imperial library collection in the Former Han dynasty over 2,000 years ago. Its knowledge organization model influenced almost all bibliographic classifications throughout imperial China. By applying a multidimensional framework to place the target scheme in its own cultural and historical context, the study identifies and discusses three key aspects of the Chinese classificatory approach. First, the scheme purposefully embraces a <jats:italic>ru<\/jats:italic> classicist ideology as its guiding principle. Second, it presents the knowledge universe as an integrated whole. Third, it applies correlative, rather than analytic, thinking to organizing textual categories, with the so\u2010called <jats:italic>ru<\/jats:italic> Classics in the center of all major relationships. 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