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The collection Beizhuanji 碑傳記 "Biographies [to be worth recording] on stone tablets" (bei 碑) was compiled by the late Qing period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Qian Yiji 錢儀吉 and includes the biographies of more than 2,000 persons of every social level from the beginning of Qing until the Jiaqing reign 嘉慶 (1796-1820), in 160 juan "scrolls". Sources of biographies were semi-official family records (jiazhuan 家傳), official conduct descriptions (xingzhuang 行狀), or tomb inscriptions (muzhiming 墓誌銘). All persons are divided into 25 different categories according to their social or functional status or according to their conduct which are very similar to the categories used in the normal biographies (liezhuan 列傳) of the dynastic histories. The Beizhuanji was completed in 1893.
Only a few years after the publication of Beizhuanji (1910) a supplement in 86 juan was published by Miao Quansun 繆荃孫, called Xu beizhuanji 繼碑傳記, which included 1,111 persons from the Daoguang 道光 (1821-1850) to the Guangxu reigns 光緒 (1875-1908). A third collection was published in 1932, compiled by Min Erchang 閔爾昌 who listed the biographies of more than 700 people from the last decades of the Qing period. The two supplements did not adhere to the categories used in the first Beizhuanji.
Source: Guo Songyi 郭松義 (1992). "Beizhuanji 碑傳記", in: Zhongguo da baike quanshu 中國大百科全書, Zhongguo lishi 中國歷史, vol. 1, p. 25. Beijing/Shanghai: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe.
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宗室 Zongshi The imperial house
功臣 Gongchen Meritorious ministers
宰輔 Zaifu Prime minsters
部院大臣 Buyuan dachen Ministers
內閣九卿 Neige jiuqing Members of the imperial secretariat
翰詹 Hanzhan Members of the state academy
科道 Kedao Members of the recruitment system
曹司 Caosi Members of the state transport bureaus
督撫 Dufu Governors
河臣 Hechen Officials of the (Grand Canal) transport system
監司 Jiansi Officials of the censorate
守令 Shouling Magistrates
校官 Xiaoguan Officials of the state schools
佐貳雜臣 Zuoer zachen Various secondary officials
武臣 Wuchen Military officials
忠節 Zhongjie Persons of loyal conduct
逸民 Yimin Hidden worthies
理學 Lixue Specialists in Neo-Confucian teaching
經學 Jingxue Specialists in the Confucian classics
文學 Wenxue Literati
孝友 Xiaoyou Persons of filial and amical Conduct
義行 Yixing Persons of righteous conduct
方術 Fangshu Magicians
藩臣 Fanchen Officials of different ethnic stock
列女 Lienü Eminent women
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