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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
TitleZizhi guanshu 自治官書[An Official Book on Natural Good Governance]
Topic4.1 Magistrates handbooks: General
Historical periodLate Qing (1797-1911)
CountryChinese
Authorattributed to Liu Heng 劉衡
CollectionGuanzhen shu jicheng 官箴書集成
Number of volume6
Publication typeWoodblock
CommentRem.: Although Liu Heng is indicated as the author in the GZSJC reprint, there is in fact not one word by him in the text. This is a dossier collecting various pieces sent to the court in support of the demand for Liu Heng’s inclusion in the Temple of Eminent Statesmen in 1846-1847; Guo Shangxian’s preface to the Yongli yongyan (q.v.) has been inserted at the beginning. The text includes the following items: (1) an approved memorial of the Board of Rites acknowledging a memorial from the Sichuan authorities and asking that Liu Heng be honored in the Temple of Eminent Statesmen (1846); (2) a joint petition by the gentry of Boluo 博羅 County (Guangdong); (3) a register compiled by the Confucian school of Boluo, summarizing Liu Heng’s career and listing his qualities and accomplishments in Boluo under 10 items; (4) a memorial of the Guangdong provincial treasurer acknowledging the petition and register (the notables are listed by name), duly verified by the local authorities, and passing it on to the Board; (5) reports from the magistrate of Boluo and the prefect of Huizhou confirming the contents of the notable’s petition, and in particular noting that thirty years after his one-year tenure remembrance of Liu’s deeds is still vivid among the populace; (6) an approved memorial of the Board of Rites acknowledging a memorial from the Guangdong authorities and asking that Liu Heng be honored in the Temple of Eminent Statesmen (1847); (7) a memorial of the Sichuan governor-general endorsing similar petitions from the three counties of the province where Liu Heng had served, including a rather long one by the notables of Ba 巴 County; (8) a report of the director of studies of Ba County summarizing Liu’s career and listing his qualities and accomplishments under 8 items; (9) similar reports from Dianjiang 墊江 (10 items) and Liangshan 梁山 (5 items) Counties. By themselves the reports sent by the counties have the value of a magistrate handbook inasmuch as they list in fairly concrete detail the attitudes and policies of a model official. About the same materials, but in a different order, were published in Henan in 1871 under the title Nanfeng Liu Lianfang xiansheng xingshu zhengji (q.v.).
SubjectLaw
LanguageChinese
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