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Unless otherwise specified, the descriptions of sources in this section are extracted from Pierre-Etienne Will and collaborators, Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China: A Descriptive and Critical Bibliography, 2 vols., Leiden: Brill, 2020
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documentTypeBook
TitleJuguan rixing lu 居官日省錄 [On the Office Holder’s Daily Self-Examination]
Topic4.1 Magistrates handbooks: General
Historical periodLate Qing (1797-1911)
CountryChinese
AuthorWuertong’a 覺羅烏爾通阿
CollectionGuanzhen shu jicheng 官箴書集成
Number of volume8
Publication typeWoodblock
Comment

A work of the “models and warnings” (法戒) type, following the model of Congzheng yigui and Juguan guaguo lu (qq.v.), arranged in 40 sections corresponding to the topics on local government and official behavior discussed in standard magistrate handbooks, and similarly organized. J. 1 is devoted to assuming one’s post and establishing fruitful relations with superiors and colleagues, private secretaries, clerks and runners, and scriveners (代書); j. 2 concerns relief, baojia, and education; j. 3 is on the administration of justice, with entries devoted to investigation and imprisonment, prosecution and punishment of homicide, banditry, and sexual crimes; j. 4 discusses the administrative and surveillance responsibilities of magistrates, with descriptions and models of various types of documentation, e.g., reports to superiors, responses to requests, or public proclamations; j. 5 focuses on the officials’ social and ritual responsibilities, including performance of sacrifices and other ritual duties, promotion of public morals, education, care for orphans and the poor, maintainance of public roads, and prohibition of bad social customs like gambling; j. ­6 is devoted to the qualities of an official, such as integrity, prudence, devotion to work, austerity, etc. Each section includes (1) an introduction by the author; (2) anecdotes (示蹟), classified by contents (first models and then warnings) rather than chronology, without date or indication of source; and (3) maxims (格言). The sources include dynastic histories, various texts, and even “hearsay” (傳聞) on recent officials. Quotations from such texts as Juguan guaguo lu, Dangguan gongguo ge 當官功過格 by Ma Huiwo 馬惠我, and the works of Wang Huizu, are included. Xiao Peiyuan’s pref. insists that the work can be read with profit by officials of every rank.

SubjectLaw
LanguageChinese
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