Comparative Study On List Of Important Books And Bibliography Answered Questions

Selected bibliography aims at a particular group of readers and has definite goals and stringent criteria.Speaking of selected bibliography,the first one comes into people's mind is Bibliography Answered Questions edited by Zhang Zhidong.Having sophisticated characteristics and informative content,this book is the most representative and influential one among all the selected bibliography.Nevertheless,when it comes to the writing time,List of Important Books edited by Long Qirui was finished thirty years earlier than Bibliography Answered Questions and is an indispensable work that leads to the development of selected bibliography.These two books have many similarities and also have their own characteristics,and they both have advantages and disadvantages in contents.List of Important Books did not enough attention just because it was not widely spread.This article will do an overall research on these two books' classification methods and collecting content by using method of comparative analysis.For on thing,the characteristics and value of selected bibliography can be recognized.For another,the advantages and disadvantages of these two books can be fully discovered.For the above reasons,a deep and profound understanding of these two books is of great significance.This article is divided into five parts.The first chapter will give a definition to selected bibliography,trace its origin and development,and introduce the current researches on Bibliography Answered Questions and List of Important Books.We found that the research on List of Important Books still needs to discuss.The second chapter will present the basic information of these two books,including a brief account of the author's life,academic achievement,the background of these two book,circulation of the books.We found that the background of two books are similar.The third chapter will make a comparison on these two books' classification methods and summarize their features of classification by doing research.We found that the classification of List of Important Books is simple and rough,remains to be improved.the classification of Bibliography Answered Questions is relatively perfect and mature.The fourth chapter will make a comparison on the books' collecting content,which contains bibliography,annotates,annotated bibliography,and the preface of the book and the preface of each article.We found that the annotated bibliography of List of Important Books is creative,the bibliography and annotates of Bibliography Answered Questions are amateur and strict.And we can see the similar standard of choosing books from these two books' preface of the book and the preface of each article.The last part is conclusion which summarize the characteristics,advantages and disadvantages of these two books.