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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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TitleZuoza xuzhi 佐雜須知[What Subordinate Officials Must Know]
Topic4.1 Magistrates handbooks: General
Historical periodEarly Qing (1644-1796)
CountryChinese
AuthorWoniu shanren 臥牛山人(comp.)
Collection中國古代地方法律文獻 (丙編)
Number of volume1
Publication typeManuscript
CommentRem.: Wang’s preface insists that a specific manual is due to help those who start their careers as assistant officials. The work had been transmitted in manuscript form, hence numerous errors. Haozhai jushi has carefully edited the text which is now printed. Even though it is considered laughable by the “superior scholars” (shangshi 上士), it is still a useful model for beginners. The status of Woniu shanren (from Guiji 會稽, Zhejiang) as “original compiler” (yuanbian 原編) and Haozhai jushi as editor is indicated at the head of each chapter. The text, which is in four rather short chapters, insists on the extremely modest position of the assistant officials, many of whom have started as clerks. It dwells in a fairly concrete fashion on some of the problems particular to their status, such as how to behave with their immediate superiors (called the tangweng 堂翁), how to deal with the clerks and runners from superior yamen, what level of fees is acceptable, how to organize their own yamen and personnel (for example, their private secretaries do not need to be as talented as those of the ranking officials, but they must be particularly honest), and how to manage judicial cases. There are several examples of internal yamen regulations and models of official documents. [n.p.] (phtgr. éd. 1796 en entier)
Ed.:1796 ed. entitled Zengshan 增刪 Zuoza xuzhi, with preface by Wang Xianglin 王香霖 (1796), as a set with the 1794 ed. of the Zhouxian xuzhi (q.v.). [Jimbun]
SubjectLaw
LanguageChinese
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