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Cefu yuangui 冊府元龜 "The Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau"

The strange title of this political encyclopedia is interpreted as "Guiding lights". It was compiled under the guidance of Wang Qinruo 王欽若 (d. 1025) and published in 1013. It comprises 31 sections, reaching from emperor, feudal rulers, palaces, ancestral temples, consort clans, chancellor, generals, to the particular offices of the historiographers, academicians, rites officials, inspectors, eunuchs, and so on.
Chapters of the Cefu yuangui
1.-181.帝王部 Diwang
182.-218.閏位部 Runwei
219.-234.儹偽部 Zanwei
235.-255.列國君部 Lieguojun
256.-261.儲宮部 Chugong
262.-299.宗室部 Zongshi
300.-307.外戚部 Waiqi
308.-339.宰輔部 Zaifu
340.-456.將帥部 Jiangshuai
457.-482.臺省部 Taisheng
483.-511.邦計部 Bangji
512.-522.憲官部 Xianguan
523.-549.諫諍部 Jianzheng
550.-553.詞臣部 Cichen
554.-562.國史部 Guoshi
563.-596.掌禮部 Zhangli
597.-608.學校部 Xuexiao Education of state officials
609.-619.刑法部 Xingfa Penal law
620.-625.卿監部 Qingjian
626.-628.環衛部 Huanwei
629.-638.銓選部 Quanxu
639.-651.貢舉部 Gongju
652.-664.奉使部 Fengshi
665.-670.内臣部 Neichen
671.-700.牧守部 Mushou
701.-707.令長部 Lingzhang
708.-715.宮臣部 Gongchen
716.-730.幕府部 Mufu
731.-750.陪臣部 Peichen
751.-955.總錄部 Zonglu
956.-1000.外臣部 Waichen
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Translated by Ulrich Theobald.

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