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Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China (2 vols)
A Descriptive and Critical Bibliography
Series: - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China, Volume: 36
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The 1,165 entries of
Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China by Pierre-Étienne Will and collaborators provide a descriptive list of extant manuscript and printed works—mainly from the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties—created with the aim to instruct officials and other administrators of imperial China about the technical and ethical aspects of government, and to provide tools and guides to help with the relevant procedures. Both generalist and specialized texts are considered. Among the latter, such disciplines as the administration of justice, famine relief, and the military receive particular attention. Each entry includes the publishing history of the work considered (including modern editions), an analysis of contents, and a biographical sketch of the author.
Pierre-Étienne Will, Ph.D. (1975), EHESS, is Professor Emeritus of modern Chinese history at Collège de France. He has published extensively on the socio-economic history of late-imperial and early-Republican China, including
Bureaucracy and Famine in Eighteenth- Century China (Stanford, 1990).
"The Bibliography is very useful for scholars keen to locate topics relevant to religion in these sources [...] with the right keywords at hand, the Bibliography is a treasure trove of materials that await scholarly elaboration, especially so concerning Confucianism in practice."
– Lukas K. Pokorny, Religious Studies Review 48.3 (September 2022)
– Lukas K. Pokorny, Religious Studies Review 48.3 (September 2022)
All interested in the history of the imperial (especially Ming-Qing) Chinese state and bureaucracy, students of Chinese book history. As a reference work it is particularly interesting for East Asian librarians.