Guanzhen 官箴 [Admonitions to Officials]

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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	Guanzhen 官箴 [Admonitions to Officials]
Topic	4.1 Magistrates handbooks: General
Historical period	Antique and Medieval period
Country	Chinese
Author	Lü Benzhong 呂本中
Collection	Guanzhen shu jicheng 官箴書集成
Number of volume	1
Publication type	Woodblock
Comment	33 short precepts for local officials. The emphasis is on the official’s personal conduct and attitude and his relations with his professional environment, the leading values being encapsulated in the standard triad qing 清 (uprightness), shen 慎 (prudence), qin 勤 (diligence). Examples or anecdotes about earlier officials are occasionally adduced. According to the Siku commentators, the text was given a title and printed as an independent work only after its author’s death, which might explain why the title is not mentioned in Lü’s Songshi biography.
Subject	Law
Language	Chinese

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