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 advice to his sons and grandsons, 雙節堂庸訓 Shuang-chieh t'ang yung-hsün, were printed together by Chang Yüeh (see under ) in 1886 under the title 汪龍莊先生遺書 Wang Lung-chuang hsien-shêng i-shu.

Wang Hui-tsu made friends with many well-known scholars of his time, among them: whom he first met in 1767;  and Lo Yu-kao 羅有高, both of whom he met in Peking in 1769;  whom he visited in 1769, styling himself the latter's pupil; Lu Chiu-kao 魯九皋 ; and the famous bibliophile, Pao T'ing-po.

[1/483/15b; 3/242/8a; Ch'ü Tui-chih 瞿兌之, Wang Hui-tsu chuan-shu (傳述, 1935); Nien-p'u by Ch'ên Jang in Fu-jên hsüeh-chih (see bibl. under ), vol. 1, no. 2; Hirth, F., "Bausteine zu einer Geschichte der chinesischen Literatur", T'oung Pao, VI, p. 319; Tanaka Suiichirō, "On Reading Wang Hui-tsu's Literary Remains" (in Japanese), Mitagakkai zasshi, vol. XIII, no. 7.]

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 WANG Hung-hsü 王鴻緒, Sept. 22, 1645–1723, Sept. 14, official and calligrapher, was a native of Hua-t'ing, Kiangsu. He was the youngest brother of. After taking the chin-shih degree and becoming a Hanlin compiler in 1673, he held various official posts at Court and educational positions in the provinces. In 1682 he was made one of the chief editors of the official history of the Ming Dynasty (明史 Ming-shih) with which he was connected off and on for the ensuing forty years. After mourning the death of his father, he returned to Peking in 1689 but was soon ordered to retire owing to a charge of corruption brought against him by the president of the Censorate,. Kuo accused him of being in collusion with, Wang Hsü-ling, and others who had received bribes. In 1694 Wang Hung-hsü was recalled to Peking as a co-director for the compilation of the Ming-shih. Not long after, he was made president of the Board of Works, and in 1708 president of the Board of Revenue. During this time and in later years he acted as a spy for Emperor Shêng-tsu, submitting secret reports about other officials, sometimes with scandalous details. However, early in 1709 he was again forced to retire, this time for having taken the side of in support of  on the question of the succession to the throne.

In 1714 Wang Hung-hsü submitted to the throne 208 chüan of biographical sketches intended for the Ming-shih, which he had compiled at home with a staff under his direction. The next year he was recalled to Peking for editorial work. In a private capacity, during the following years, he expanded his draft of the Ming-shih to include not only biographies but also other sections, using, without recognition, the manuscripts of many historians, especially that of, who had died in 1702 after almost completing a draft of the history. In 1723 Wang submitted to the throne his draft of the Ming-shih, entitled Ming-shih kao (稿), 310 chüan. Although the work was based on the labors of Wan and other historians, Wang treated it as his own work and had his name inscribed on the margin of every page of the manuscript as though it constituted a part of his collected works. He did spend some time in editing it, but the changes and omissions which he made were frequently unwarranted.

Wang Hung-hsü was a celebrated calligrapher. His collected poems, entitled 橫雲山人集 Hêng-yün-shan-jên chi, 27 chüan, were printed in 1719.

[1/277/3a; 3/58/16a pu-lu; 29/2/12a; Hua-t'ing hsien-chih (1879) 16/14a; Wên-hsien ts'ung-pien (see bibl. under ), nos. 2, 3; Ch'ên Shou-shih, "A Study of the Ming-shih kao" (in Chinese), Kuo-hsüeh lun-ts'ung (Chinese Classical Review, Tsinghua University), 1927; Li Chin-hua, Ming-shih tsuan-hsiu k'ao (A History of the Compilation of the Ming Dynastic History), Harvard-Yenching Monograph Series, no. 3 (1933).]

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 WANG I-jung 王懿榮, 1845–1900, Aug. 15, official and scholar, was a native of Fu-shan, Shantung. His grandfather, Wang Chao-ch'ên 王兆琛, was a chin-shih of 1817 who rose in his official career to governor of Shansi (1846), but was denounced for bribery and exiled to Sinkiang (1849). His father, Wang Tsu-yüan 王祖源, was a senior licentiate (pa-kung) of 1849, who, after holding minor positions in Szechwan, became acting governor of that province (1879). His sister became the wife of. Wang I-jung himself became a chü-jên in 1879, and in the following year a chin-shih and a member of the Hanlin 826