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Chinese Literature
State offices (zhiguan 職官)
The type of books on state offices (zhiguan lei 職官類) is a sub-category to the literary category of historiography (shibu 史部) in the collectaneum Siku quanshu 四庫全書. The books in this section describe the offices, the duties of the officials and gives instructions how to control the officialdom. The compilers of the Siku quanshu divided this section into two parts, namely books on the government officials system (guanzhi 官制) and admonishions towards state officials (guanzhen 官箴). The section includes 21 books. The most important is the Tang liudian 唐六典.

書名 Title Composer(s)
官制之屬 guanzhi Government officials system
唐六典 Tang liudian (Tang) 張九齡 Zhang Jiuling (et al.; comp.); 李林甫 Li Linfu (et al.; comm.)
翰林志 Hanlinzhi (Tang) 李肇 Li Zhao
宋宰輔編年錄 Song zaifu biannian lu (Song) 徐自明 Xu Ziming
禮部志稿 Libuzhi gao (Ming) 林堯俞 Lin Yaoyu (et al.; rev.); 俞汝楫 Yu Ruji (et al.; comp.)
欽定國子監志 (Qinding) Guozijian zhi (Qing) 梁國治 Liang Guozhi (et al.; imp. ord.)
欽定歷代職官表 (Qinding) Lidai zhiguan biao (Qing) 紀昀 Ji Yun (et al.; imp. ord.)
官箴之屬 guanzhen Officials admonishions
官箴 Guanzhen (Song) 呂本中 Lü Benzhong

* not contained in the Siku quanshu
Chinese literature according to the four-category system

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