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Cuishi zhenglun 崔氏政論 "Treatise on politics by Master Cui" is a political treatise written by the Later Han-period 後漢 (25-220) scholar Cui Shi 崔寔 (d. c. 170 CE). The imperial bibliography Jingji zhi 經籍志 in the official dynastic history Suishu 隋書 lists a book Zhenglun 正論 "Treatise on orthodoxy" with a length of 5 juan, but the bibliographical chapter in the Jiutangshu 舊唐書 gives the correct characters 政論.
The book was soon lost, but the Qing-period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Ma Guohan 馬國翰 (1794-1857) collected surviving fragments and compiled a reconstructed book he called Cuishi zhenglun. The book stresses the importance of laws and regulations for a well-functioning administration.
The Cuishi zhenglun is included in Ma Guohan's series Yuhan shanfang jiyi shu 玉函山房輯佚書.