Yixi suoyü 已畦瑣語

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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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documentType	Book
Title	Yixi suoyü 已畦瑣語
Topic	4.1 Magistrates handbooks: General
Historical period	Early Qing (1644-1796)
Country	Chinese
Author	Ye Xie 葉燮
Collection	Guanzhen shu jicheng 官箴書集成
Number of volume	2
Publication type	Woodblock
Comment	Rem.: The author served two years as a magistrate of Baoying 寶應 (Jiangsu). The work was intended as advice to his fellow magistrates in the form of random musings on official morality. The first part consists of aphorisms and reflections by the author on good and bad modes of official conduct and includes maxims on subjects such as the proper use of sanctions, the need for integrity, the benefits of frugality, and so on. The second part consists of short descriptions of exemplary officials of the past. [n.p.] (compléter)
Subject	Law
Language	Chinese

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