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TitleLizheng zhaiyao 蒞政摘要 [Selected Essentials on Being an Administrator]
Topic4.1 Magistrates handbooks: General
Historical periodEarly Qing (1644-1796)
CountryChinese
AuthorLu Longqi 陸隴其
CollectionGuanzhen shu jicheng 官箴書集成
Number of volume2
Publication typeWoodblock
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According to Lu Zhen’s 1839 note, the ms. that was printed that year had been kept in the Lu family and was titled Zhengxia buguo du 政暇補過讀 (“Readings for making up for one’s mistakes when free from government duties”; this title appears at the end of the text in the Luzi quanshu and Guangren tang eds.). The text consists of reading notes and extracts from several Song and Ming authors. The approach tends to be theoretical in j. 1, which largely consists of quotations from Hu Taichu’s Zhoulian xulun and Lü Benzhong’s Guanzhen (qq.v.), concentrating on the fundamentals of local administration, e.g., how to get along with the populace, underlings, and superiors; litigation and criminal prosecution; collecting taxes; torture and punishment; and official evaluation. J. 2 features extracts from Ming texts, viz. Chen Yuwang’s 陳于王 Ling Jurong zhengji 令句容政蹟, She Ziqiang’s Zhipu [q.v.], and Li Chenyu’s 李陳玉 Neipian 內篇. This part is more practical in emphasis, citing successful methods for dealing with such administrative challenges as baojia management, gathering evidence, investigating homicides, imprisonment, and more. The last text is titled Zhi He yaolüe xu 治河要略序, by Liu Shilin 劉士林.

SubjectLaw
LanguageChinese
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