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Rh of War, and then, president of the Board of Civil Office.

In 1799, after Ho-shên was sentenced, Chu Kuei was ordered to the capital where he at first served as president of the Board of Civil Office and then as president of the Board of Revenue (1799–1805). He was concurrently made chief tutor of the princes and director-general of the Historiographical Board, and was allotted by the emperor a dwelling outside the Western Gate 西華門 of the Forbidden City. In 1802 he became Associate Grand Secretary and in the following year, was made concurrently chancellor of the Hanlin Academy. In 1805 he was appointed Grand Secretary and at the same time had supervision of the Board of Works. In 1807 he died and was buried in the Western Hills outside Peking. He was canonized as Wên-chêng 文正—a posthumous title traditionally granted to but few officials—and his tablet was entered in the Temple of Eminent Statesmen.

During six decades in which Chu Kuei served the dynasty he was greatly honored and trusted by Emperors Kao-tsung and Jên-tsung, both for his sound scholarship and for his ability as an official. Between him and these emperors there existed a genuine literary friendship. On numerous occasions Chu Kuei matched poems with Emperor Kao-tsung (see under ) or made comments on the latter's writings. With Emperor Jên-tsung he was still more intimate. That ruler owed to Chu Kuei not only a great part of his early education, but possibly also his good will and his ambition as a ruler. When the two were separated, at the time of Chu Kuei's employment in the provinces, as many as 139 letters are said to have been written to Chu by Yung-yen while he was still a prince. The prince also composed two volumes of verse, all inspired by his thoughts of Chu, as the titles show. The first volume was entitled 蒹葭遠目 Chien-chia yüan-mu, the second 山海遙思 Shan-hai yao-ssŭ. When Chu Kuei died Jên-tsung attended the mourning ceremony in person, and in 1816 made a visit to his tomb in the Western Hills.

The literary works of Chu Kuei were first printed under the title 知足齋集 Chih-tsu-chai chi, 32 chüan. An anthology of his verse, entitled Chih-tsu-chai shih-chi (詩集), 20 chüan, was compiled (1803) by and honored by four prefatory poems written by Emperor Jên-tsung in 1805. The most complete edition of the works of Chu Kuei is the Chih-tsu-chai shih-wên chi (詩文集). It contains the poems he wrote from 1750 to 1803, in 20 chüan; the verses he composed after that time, in 4 chüan; his miscellaneous prose works in 6 chüan; the formal essays which he submitted to the throne, entitled 進呈文稿 Chin-ch'êng wên-kao, 2 chüan; and a nien-p'u by his eldest son.

Chu Kuei married Ch'ên Ying 陳穎 (1732–1775), a native of Wan-p'ing (Peking) and a daughter of Ch'ên Pang-hsün 陳邦勳, a chü-jên of 1727 who served as prefect of Ssŭ-nan, Kweichow (1759). They had two sons and one daughter. The elder son, Chu Hsi-ching 朱錫經, a chü-jên of 1779, became a sub-director of the Court of the Imperial Stud (1809–10). The younger son, Chu Hsi-wei 朱錫緯, died about 1782 at the age of twenty-two sui, but left a son, Chu T'u 朱涂, who was made an honorary chü-jên in 1800. The daughter married Fêng Ping-ch'ien 馮秉騝, a native of T'ung-chou, Chihli, a senior licentiate of 1777, and magistrate of Chang-yeh, Kansu (ca. 1785).

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CHU Kuei-chên 朱桂楨, 1767–1839, official, was a native of Shang-yüan (Nanking). His grandfather, Chu Lan 朱瀾, served for many years as an official in Chihli, finally rising to be intendant of the Ch'ing-ho Circuit at Paoting (1786–89, 1790). His father, Chu Hsü-tsêng 朱續會, served as a magistrate in the provinces of Hupeh, Shantung, and Kansu, finally rising to be prefect of T'ai-p'ing-fu in Kwangsi.

Chu Kuei-chên was a chü-jên of 1788 and a chin-shih of 1799. He served as a secretary in the Board of Civil Offices, rising to be a department director, and then a censor. In 1816 he was appointed prefect of Chên-yüan-fu in Kweichow, and later served as intendant of the T'ung-Shang Circuit in Shensi (1820–22), as provincial judge of Chekiang (1822), and as financial commissioner of Kansu (1822) and of Shantung (1823–24). In September 1824 he was promoted to be governor of Shansi, but in the same month was obliged to retire, owing to the 186