清代乾隆时期完成的《四库全书总目》(以下简称《总目》)是18世纪中国学术文化发展史上具有里程碑意义的重大事件,如果说与它几乎同时出现的法国《百科全书》是法国资产阶级革命前夕启蒙学者们在思想文化领域向旧的封建制度和意识形态提出挑战的话,那么,《总目》则是在中国封建社会 The “Sikuquanshuzongmu” (hereinafter referred to as “the Head of the Siku”), which was completed in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, was a landmark event in the history of Chinese academic culture in the 18th century. If the French Encyclopedia appeared almost simultaneously Enlightenment scholars on the eve of the French bourgeois revolution challenged the old feudal system and ideology in the field of ideology and culture.