Haishanxianguan congshu 海山仙館叢書

Haishanxianguan congshu 海山仙館叢書 "Collectanea of the Studio of the Immortals from the Seas and the Mountains" is a series of collectanea (congshu 叢書) compiled by the late Qing-period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Pan Shicheng 潘仕誠. It included 56 books with a total length of 492 juan.

Pan Shicheng, courtesy name Deyu 德畬, hailed from Guangle 廣樂 and was director in the Ministry of War (bingbu langzhong 兵部郎中). The series was published in 1848 and then again in 1903. It imitates the structure of the Zhibuzuzhai congshu 知不足齋叢書. Intended to serve for higher education, it includes many historiographical texts and commentaries on the Confucian Classics from the Ming 明 (1368-1644) and Qing periods. Yet there are also some medical and mathematical texts to be found, among them books written by Western authors, like Matteo Ricci's (Chinese name Li Madou 利瑪竇) book on geometry, the Jihe yuanben 幾何原本, or his Tongwen suanzhi 同文算指 and Huanrong jiaoyi 圜容較義.