He Changling
He Changling (Template:Zh) (March 18, 1785—July 6, 1848), courtesy name Ougen (Script error: No such module "Lang".), was a Chinese scholar and official of the Qing dynasty from Changsha, Hunan. In 1808, he obtained the highest degree in the imperial examination and the following year he entered the prestigious Hanlin Academy in Beijing.
Drawing on his extensive experience in the Qing government, he became a prominent spokesman of the statecraft school, which was concerned with the practical application of Confucian scholarship. One of He Changling's students was Zuo Zongtang.
Huangchao Jingshi Wenbian
Together with Wei Yuan, He Changling edited an influential anthology on statecraft, known as the "Collected essays about statecraft of the Qing" (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Qīng Jīngshì Wénbiān), originally titled Huángcháo Jīngshì Wénbiān (Script error: No such module "Lang".). 120 scrolls long, the collection includes more than 2000 documents about practical issues of governance, based on the editors' experience from the beginning of the Qing dynasty until the Daoguang era in the mid-Qing dynasty. A similar book existed for the Ming dynasty, called the Ming Jingshi Wenbian.[1]
The Wenbian contained eight chapters and 56 subchapters:
- Education (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Xuéshù)
- Human resources (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Zhìtǐ)
- Officialdom (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Lìzhèng)
- Ministry of Revenue (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Hùzhèng)
- Ministry of Rites (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Lǐzhèng)
- Ministry of War (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Bīngzhèng)
- Ministry of Justice (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Xíngzhèng)
- Ministry of Works (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Gōngzhèng)
References
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