An anthology of judicial cases (mostly reports introduced by the phrase “it is found that” (審得), dating from the years 1631-37, when the author was prefectural judge (推官) of Ningbo 寧波 (Zhejiang). The 210 cases deal with marriage (婚姻, j. 1), inheritance (承襲, j. 2), real estate (產業, j. 3), forgeries (詐偽, j. 4), sexual crimes (淫姦, j. 5), banditry (賊情, j. 6), taxes (錢糧, j. 7), administrative mistakes (失誤, j. 8), recidivists (重犯, j. 9), and injustices (冤犯, j. 10). An appendix features three examples of “doubtful cases” (疑犯) and 20 “reports” (詳語) (the last are absent from the Beitu copy). The cases in this xiangyu section are introduced by the words kande 看得 instead of shende 審得 in the rest of the work. The text of the Guoxue zhenben wenku ed. apparently reproduces the heavy punctuation and underlining of the original (similar in both Chongzhen eds., but lost in the Lidai panli pandu modern ed.). According to Tam (see below), this collection belongs to a genre of “heavily edited” cases rewritten as narratives aimed not only at practioners of justice but also at the larger public to instruct and entertain about crime and punishment. Indeed, in his note handwritten on the Beitu copy Huang Shang says that the text recalls Ming fiction literature; he also remarks that the work is “not without its usefulness” to study the circumstances of urban society (市井人情). In many of the cases the final decision is omitted. In both Chongzhen copies the authorship (著) is attributed to Li Qing, while Wang Siren 王思任 (z. Jizhong 季重, 1575-1646, js. 1595), an official with legal expertise and a popular author who retired to his native Shaoxing in 1636, and who also signs the pref. (in the Jilin copy), is given as “reviser” (訂); according to Tam, 157-8, Wang’s role as editor and preface writer is probably spurious and a bookseller’s invention.