Lithographically printed. Four vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. title labels on upper covers (labels a little defective), orig. stitching. Shanghai: Hongwen shuju 鴻文書局, 1896.

Second edition (first ed.: 1892), of this reference work for navigating the most important collection of Confucian classical scholarship of the Qing period.

The voluminous Huang Qing jingjie 皇清經解 [Explanations of the Classics of the August Qing], published in 1825-29, was compiled under the auspices of Ruan Yuan 阮元 (1764-1849), the leading patron of classical scholarship of the era, Viceroy of the Two Expanses (Guangdong and Guangxi), and founder of the famous academy Xuehai Tang... More

55; 92 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. [Suzhou]: Jiangsu shuju, 1873.

Genealogy “illuminates all the other parts of history, and without it they bear basically no fruit at all.” Ori Sela draws attention to these words of German Renaissance historian Reiner Reineck (1541–1595) in relation to Qian Daxin’s work on clans in the History of the Yuan. Qian’s “vast project of Yuan genealogies” (Sela, China’s Philological Turn, 263) has indeed been called “an indispensable reference for this History [of the Yuan],” as Qian’s student Huang Zhong 黃鐘 wrote in his colophon to the present... More

50 juan in 20 vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. [Hangzhou]: Zhejiang shuju 浙江書局, 1888.

An edition of the annotated bibliography of philological works by Xie Qikun (1737-1802). Philology, known as the “lesser learning” (xiaoxue 小學) in imperial China, comprised studies of the Chinese script and its history, phonological treatises and lexicographical works, and to a certain extent grammar. The category was generally subsumed under the “classics” (jing 經) division in Chinese bibliographies, even though its purview extended beyond the classics to issues of general linguistics. Xie wrote his Examinations on Philology, or “lesser learning,” to complement Zhu... More