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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
TitleZhouxian chushi xiaobu 州縣初仕小補 [Small Help for Beginning Magistrates]
Topic4.1 Magistrates handbooks: General
Historical periodLate Qing (1797-1911)
CountryChinese
AuthorChu Ying 褚瑛
CollectionGuanzhen shu jicheng 官箴書集成
Number of volume8
Publication typeWoodblock
Comment

The fanli insists that this is a work based on the author’s personal experience as magistrate of Yangshan 陽山 (Guangdong); it was originally written in 1876 in response to questions from an inexperienced jinshi just appointed in Jiangsu. The author modestly insists that his text should be regarded by experienced officials as mere platitudes (腐朽), but that it may be of some help (小補) to beginners; he finally published it, rather than having to produce handcopies whenever admirers came in and wanted to see it. J. 1 is composed of 92 entries, j. 2 of 68 entries (each juan has a mulu). The entries, written in a style simple and precise, cover in fair detail the various steps from arriving in the province to leaving one’s post, expose the standard tasks of local government, such as taxation, justice, maintening order, educating the people, and so forth, and discuss the official’s social intercourse with his professional environment. The author emphasizes attention to detail and not being remiss. A selection of basics from the Penal Code and Xiyuan lu (q.v.), as well as prescriptions to cure wounds, are appended.

SubjectLaw
LanguageChinese
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