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Rh the Manchu forces at that time, was made a hereditary colonel of the first class, and in 1636 was appointed president (ch'êng chêng 承政) of the Censorate with the hereditary title of baron (meiren i janggin 梅勒章京) of the third class. (Some sources say the title was of the first class). In 1640 and 1641 he submitted plans and suggestions for the campaign against the Mings, including the taking of Chin-chou with the aid of propaganda literature addressed to the Mongols inside the city wall. After the fall of Chin-chou in 1642 he wrote to urging him to come over to the Manchu side. In the summer of that year, with the extension of the banner system to Chinese auxiliaries, he was made meiren ejen 梅勒額真 lieutenant-general, of the Chinese Bordered Blue Banner. In 1643 he served under and was in charge of the cannon of his Banner at the taking of the cities of Chung-hou-so (November 6) and Ch'ien-t'un-wei (November 11). Serving under Yecen 葉臣 (1586–1648) in 1644, he subjugated a large part of Shansi, and commanded the artillery of his banner in the taking of the provincial capital, Taiyuanfu. He also followed in Honan and Kiangnan, making effective use of his artillery.

In 1645 he served under in the subjugation of Chekiang, and he became governor-general of that province. He recommended that opportunity for an official career be given to scholars by renewal of the civil service examinations and that agricultural taxes be lightened. Both of these suggestions were decreed by the emperor. He was successful in resisting the attacks of the Southern Ming armies under Fang Kuo-an (a brigade-general for Prince Lu, see under ) and. In December 1645 he was made governor-general of Chekiang and Fukien. He continued to be successful in defeating supporters of Ming princes, not only in Chekiang but in Honan and Kiangnan which he "pacified" in 1646. Pleading illness, he resigned about the end of 1647; but as his successor had not arrived, he continued in office for some months during which his forces regained three more districts and captured Southern Ming leaders. In 1649 he was made governor-general of Chihli, Shantung, and Honan. In 1652 he was given the hereditary title of viscount (jinggini hafan 精奇尼哈番) of the first class. He died soon after and was given posthumously the honorary title of Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent and the name Chung-ch'in 忠勤. He was highly praised by Emperor Shêng-tsu (see under ).

[1/243/11a; 2/78/13a; 4/5/11a; Hauer, E., K'ai-kuo fang-lüeh pp. 277, 281, 294 ff., 575; 1/177/4a; 34/275/4a.]

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 CHANG Tsung-yüan 章宗源, 1752?–1800, scholar, was a native of Shan-yin, Chekiang, and a distant relative of. His family, once well-to-do, met reverses of fortune during his grandfather's time, chiefly owing to a disastrous tidal wave. His father, Chang Chin-lin 章錦麟, held a minor post in the Board of Revenue and in 1748 was made head of a post station in Shantung. Chang Tsung-yüan was born and reared at Tzŭ-ch'uan, Shantung, where his father served as jail-warden during the years 1749–68. Later he lived with his family in Peking where he studied under. It was through the latter's influence that he came to devote himself to the reconstruction or collation of lost or distorted texts. He obtained his chü-jên degree in 1786. About 1794 he lived at the residence of Ho T'ien-ch'ü 何天衢, a native of Po-chou, Anhwei, who, like him, was a disciple of Shao Chin-han. Returning to Peking about three years later (1797?), Chang Tsung-yüan became an ardent devotee of a Buddhist monk named Ming-hsin 明心, (lay name Wang Shu-hsün 王樹勳) who attracted much notoriety by his esoteric doctrines. A few years later Ming-hsin was banished, and Chang Tsung-yüan, implicated with him, was deprived of his chü-jên degree. In addition to this misfortune Chang's landlord, annoyed by his poverty and his peculiarities of temper, burnt the greater part of the manuscript drafts of the works to which Chang had devoted the best years of his life. Disheartened and in destitute circumstances, he fell ill and died in 1800.

Manuscript drafts of six texts reconstructed by Chang Tsung-yüan later came into the possession of, who with and other scholars edited and printed them in Sun's P'ing-ching kuan ts'ung-shu. Among them is the 漢官儀 Han kuan i, 2 chüan, a 'lost' history of governmental organization in the Han dynasty, written about 197 A.D. by Ying Shao 應劭 , 57