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Collecting and hoarding are distinguished by order. An agglomeration of objects is defined by chaos while a collection comes into being through its organization. The largest collection of texts undertaken in Chinese dynastic history, the  Complete Writings of the Four Repositories  ( Siku quanshu  四庫全書), is the high point of late imperial compilation projects ( congshu  叢書). While much scholarship has been devoted to explaining the criteria of inclusion, the question of order remains largely unexplored. In this article, I investigate the link between the collection of knowledge and its organization in the high Qing. Specifically, I explore the poetic understanding of knowledge, the intellectual, non-political purposes behind the collection and its fundamental principle of order. I end this essay offering some remarks on the nature of the  Complete Writings , high Qing scholarship, and contemporary attitudes towards classification.

To Collect and to Order: the Siku quanshu 四庫全書 and its Organization