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See the entries in the Siku quanshu index: “Fuliang taozheng zhi,” Sikuquanshu cunmu,
juan 84, Electronic Version of the Siku quanshu. National Taiwan University Library,
Taipei, TW. Accessed on: February 14, 2007 <<www.sikuquanshu.com>>; See also the
brief notes compiled for the Wu Yunjia’s text in the annotated catalog of works included
in the library (cunshu) and the catalogue (cunmu) in the Siku quanshu zongmu completed
in 1798: “Fulian taozheng zhi,” Shi bu, zheng shu lei, huangchao tongzhi, juan 99,
Electronic Version of the Siku quanshu. National Taiwan University Library, Taipei, TW.
Accessed on: February 14, 2007 <<www.sikuquanshu.com>>.

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The editors of the Siku quanshu, the great imperial library project that began in the late
Qianlong era, compiled an annotated catalog of all 3,461 books included in the library
(cunshu) and together with brief notes for the works listed by title (cunmu). Begun in
1773, it was completed in 1798 and the two portions together was called Qinding Siku
quanshu zongmu, which can be separated into two parts: the annotated catalogue for
included books, Siku quanshu cunshu and the annotated index of titles not included in the
library, Siku quanshu cunmu. The Wu Yunjia text was categorized in the cunmu (index
for books not included in the library). For a concise explanation of the differences
between the portions of the Siku quanshu, I relied on Edymion Wilkinson, Chinese
History: A Manual (Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2000), 274- 275. A
longer full-length study is Kent Guy, The Emperor’s Four Treasuries: Scholars and the
State in the Late Ch’ien-lung Era (Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 1987).

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Huang Zhimo රॣᅼ, Xunmin tang congshu Ⴥઽੀᓉࣣ (np: Huang, 1840-1851),
composed of a total of six volumes, is now a rare book item found in some library
collections throughout the world. I have examined the series at the Harvard Yenching
library, University of California at Berkeley East Asian Studies library, and National
Taiwan University library in Taipei. The compiler and publisher was Huang Zhimo, a
nineteenth-century Qing scholar. Around 1848, he also compiled and anthologized a
collection of women’s poetry from the Qing Dynasty, also seen at the East Asian Studies
library at Berkeley. The dates of Huang Zhimo’s life are not found in biographical
reference books.

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See for instance Hong Mai, “Fuliang tao,” from Rong zhai suibi, in Xiong and Xiong,
comps. (2006), 164. Hong Mai was a Poyang, Jiangxi native, as indicated by Xiong and
Xiong, 164, fn. 123. See also Li Rihua, “Hao Shijiu,” from Zitao xuan za zhui
reproduced in Xiong and Xiong, 230.

14 Craig Clunas, Superfluous Things (1991), Introduction, 1.

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The discursive phenomenon of texts on things and their hierarchical distinctions among
literati writers in the Ming dynasty are the focus of Craig Clunas’ book Superfluous
Things.