Collected Stele Biographies Explained

Collected Stele Biographies is a biographical book of the Qing dynasty, by . It is compiled from the contents of steles covering almost 200 years, from the early Qing dynasty to the Jiaqing era. It details over 2000 people in 25 categories and comprises 160 volumes.^{[1] [2]} It was started in the early years of the Daoguang Emperor and published in 1893 (the nineteenth year of the reign of the Guangxu Emperor).

In the early years of Guangxu, the 86-volume^[3] Continued Collected Stele Biographies was compiled by Miao Quansun, with 1111 additional figures collected from the reigns of the Daoguang Emperor to that of the Guangxu Emperor. It was published in 1910 (the second year of the Xuantong Emperor).^[4]

later compiled the Supplementary Collected Stele Biographies in 60 volumes,^[5] containing records of more than 700 people. It was completed in 1923 and published by Yanjing University in 1932.^[6]

References

1. Book: 桐城派编年 . The Chronicle of Tongcheng School . Yu . Zhanghua . Hu . Jisheng . 978-7999084396 . 221 . 道光三十年 庚戌1850年 . November 2007 . People's Literature Publishing House.
2. Web site: 錢儀吉 . . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200609105511/http://archive.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/ttscgi/ttsquerynew?0:0:mctauac:(9405)@NO . 2020-06-09 . 9 June 2020.
3. Web site: 繆荃孫 . . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200609105527/http://archive.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/ttscgi/ttsquerynew?0:0:mctauac:(14559)@NO . 2020-06-09 . 9 June 2020.
4. Book: 魏源研究著作述要 . Summary of Wei Yuan's Research Works . 夏剑钦 . September 2009 . Beijing Book Co. . 430 . 978-7811135763 .
5. Book: Qu . Lindong . 2002 . 中國史學史綱 . 720 . 9571129674 . Wu-Nan Books.
6. Book: 最初的国会:晚清精英救国之谋1910–1911 . Li . Delin . January 2015 . 978-7510833052 . 282 .

External links

• Web site: Beizhuan Ji . zh:碑传集 . Chinese Text Project . zh, en.