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Muling quanshu 牧令全書

Aug 24, 2021 © Ulrich Theobald

Muling quanshu 牧令全書 is a collection of handbooks for local administration compiled by Ding Richang 丁日昌 (1823-1882), courtesy name Yusheng 禹生 or Yusheng 雨生, style Chijiezhai 持静齋, Qingjietaing 清節堂, De'entang 得恩堂, Bailian Shanguan 百蘭山館 or Jiaoyu Shuwu 蕉雨書屋, from Fengshun 豐順, Guangdong.

Ding belonged to the staff of the governor-generals Zeng Guofan 曾國藩 (1811-1872) and Li Hongzhang 李鴻章 (1823-1901) and was entrusted with the creation of a modern navy. In the 1870s, Ding was governor (xunfu 巡撫) of Jiangsu, and then of Fujian. Ding himself wrote the administrative book s Ding Yusheng zhengsu 丁禹生政書, Fu Wu gongdu 撫吳公牘, and Bailan Shanguan zhengshu 百蘭山館政書. As a private book collector, he compiled the catalogue Chijiezhai shumu 持静齋書目.

Table 1. The series Muling quanshu 牧令全書
(Qing) 丁日昌 Ding Richang (comp.)
1868 edition by Jiangsu Shuju 江蘇書局; 1873 edition by Yangcheng Shuju 羊城書局
書名, length in juan Title Author(s)
牧令書輯要 十卷 Mulingshu jiyao (Qing) 徐棟 Xu Dong; 丁日昌 Ding Richang (rev.)
保甲書輯要 四卷 Baojiashu jiyao (Qing) 徐棟 Xu Dong
牧民忠告 二卷 Mumin zhonggao (Yuan) 張養浩 Zhang Yanghao
(劉簾舫先生)吏治三書: (Liu Lianfang Xiansheng) Lizhi sanshu: (Qing) 劉衡 Liu Heng
庸吏庸言 二卷 Yongli yongyan
讀律心得 三卷 Dulü xinde
蜀僚問答 一卷 Shuliao wenda
(附)(欽頒)州縣事宜 一卷 (app.) (Qinban) Zhouxian shiyi (Qing) 田文鏡 Tian Wenjing, 李衞 Li Wei
Source:
Shanghai tushuguan 上海圖書館, ed. (1982). Zhongguo congshu zonglu 中國叢書綜錄 (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe), Vol. 1, 683.