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 totaling 24 chüan. In addition, he compiled a collection of inscriptions on metal and stone, of his native district, 偃師金石錄 Yen-shih chin-shih lu, 4 chüan, printed in 1788; and of An-yang, Honan, entitled 安陽金石錄 An-yang chin-shih lu, 12 chüan, printed in 1807. He was noted for his commentaries on the Three Rituals entitled 三禮義證 San Li i-chêng, in 12 chüan. His commentaries on the other classics were entitled 羣經義證 Ch'ün ching i-chêng, 8 chüan. He also wrote two works on the punctuation of the classical texts. His collected shorter works in prose, entitled 授堂文鈔 Shou-t'ang wên-ch'ao, in 10 chüan, and his collected poems, entitled Shou-t'ang shih-ch'ao (詩鈔), in 8 chüan, were printed with his other works mentioned above, under the collective title Shou-t'ang i-shu (遺書). The first edition of the Shou-t'ang i-shu was published in 1801, under the editorship of his son, Wu Mu-ch'un 武穆淳 ; the second in 1843 under the editorship of his grandson, Wu Lei 武耒. Wu Mu-ch'un's collected works, entitled 讀畫山房文鈔 Tu-hua shan-fang wên-ch'ao, in 2 chüan, were also printed in the collection.

[1/487/30b; 2/68/70b; 3/243/4a; Appendix to the second edition of the Shou-t'ang i-shu.]

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WU Jên-ch'ên 吳任臣, 1628?–1689?, historian and mathematician, was a native of Jên-ho (Hangchow), Chekiang. Because of his achievements in the field of historical scholarship he was recommended in 1678 to take the special examination known as po-hsüeh hung-tz'ŭ (see under ) which he passed in the ensuing year. He was thereupon made a corrector in the Hanlin Academy, assigned to the compilation of the official Ming history (Ming-shih). The section of that history which deals with the calendar was primarily his contribution, and differs from similar sections in preceding dynastic histories in giving diagrams. Wu Jên-ch'ên directed his studies to various fields, writing treatises on the Rites, on the calendar of the Spring and Autumn Annals and on etymology. But his best known works are the 十國春秋 Shih-kuo ch'un-ch'iu, first printed in 1678 in 114 chüan; and the 山海經廣註 Shan-hai ching kuang-chu, printed for the first time in 1667, in 18 chüan. The former is a history of the ten kingdoms which flourished from 902 to 979 A.D. during the period of transition between the Tang and the Sung dynasties. The latter is an amplification of an ancient commentary to the Shan-hai ching—a commentary prepared, early in the fourth century, by Kuo P'u (see under ). Both works were given descriptive notice in the Imperial Catalogue and both were copied into the Imperial Library (see under ).

[2/68/2b; 16/14/25a; 17/2/16b; 30/2/19a; 32/3/22b; Hangchow fu-chih (1922) 145/15a; Wu-lin ts'ang-shu lu (see under ) hsia 2b; Ssŭ-k'u 66/7a, 142/1a; Chou-jên chuan (see under ) 3d series 1/1a in Nan-ch'ing shu-yüan ts'ung-shu (see under ).]

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 WU Ju-lun 吳汝綸, Oct. 15, 1840–1903, Feb. 9, educator, official and man of letters, came of a family of gentry at T'ung-ch'êng, Anhwei. His immediate ancestors had some appreciation of literature, and his grandfather, Wu T'ing-sên 吳廷森, left a collection of verse. Wu Ju-lun's father, Wu Yüan-chia 吳元甲, was distinguished for his filial piety and for his benevolent practices. Having graduated as chü-jên in 1864, Wu Ju-lun went to Peking where he obtained the chin-shih degree in 1865 and was made a secretary of the Grand Secretariat. Soon after, through the influence of, he was invited (1865) to Nanking by. About the same time his father, Wu Yüan-chia, became tutor to Tsêng Kuo-fan's grandsons. Thereafter, as a member of the secretarial staff of Tsêng Kuo-fan, Wu Ju-lun accompanied him in the campaign against the Nien banditti (see under ) and for his military services was given (1867) a nominal rank as assistant reader of the Grand Secretariat. After a short sojourn at Nanking where Tsêng Kuo-fan resided as governor-general of Liang-Kiang, Wu followed him early in 1869 to Paoting, Chihli, where Tsêng served as governor-general of that province. Late in the following year, on the recommendation of Tsêng, Wu was appointed department-magistrate of Shên-chou, Chihli, a post he assumed in the summer of 1871. He held this position until 1873 when he retired (1873–77) to observe the customary mourning periods for his father and mother. During his term at Shên-chou Wu wrote a history of the department which was revised by his pupils, including Kung Ju-hêng 870