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 pan ts'ung-shu (1924). A collection of P'an Tsêng-ying's prose works, entitled Hsiao-ou po kuan p'ien-t'i wên-ch'ao (駢體文鈔), 2 chüan, was printed in 1845; and a collection of verse, Hsiao-ou po kuan shih-ch'ao, was printed several times, one edition consisting of 12 + 2 chüan. For brief information about the third son, P'an Tsêng-shou, see under. The fourth son, P'an Tsêng-wei 潘曾瑋, left a literary collection, 自鏡齋集 Tzŭ-ching chai chi, 5 chüan, which was printed in 1887.

Of the grandsons of P'an Shih-ên, probably and P'an Tsu-t'ung 潘祖同, a chin-shih of 1856, were the most distinguished.

The following six works by P'an Shih-ên may be mentioned: 思補齋筆記 Ssŭ-pu-chai pi-chi, essays, chiefly autobiographical, published in 1850 in 8 chüan; 讀史鏡古篇 Tu shih ching-ku p'ien, selected passages from history (from the Han to the Ming dynasty), published in 1824 in 32 chüan; 正學篇 Chêng hsüeh p'ien, 8 chüan, comprising proverbs and sayings selected from forty-three sources of the Sung, Yüan, and Ming periods, published in 1867, with annotations by P'an Tsêng-wei; Ssŭ-pu-chai shih-chi (詩集), 6 chüan, a collection of his poems, printed in 1850; an autobiography, entitled P'an Shih-ên tzŭ-ting nien-p'u (自訂年譜), printed in 1850 soon after his death; and his collected short prose writings in 9 chüan, entitled 有眞意齋文集 Yu-chên-i chai wên-chi, which was printed in 1873.

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 P'AN Tsu-yin 潘祖蔭, Nov. 20, 1830–1890, Dec. 11, official and scholar, was a grandson of. His father, P'an Tsêng-shou 潘曾綬, a chü-jên of 1840, was an assistant reader of the Grand Secretariat (1851–53). P'an Tsu-yin was born and reared in Peking, but spent short intervals at his ancestral home in Wu-hsien (Soochow). Early in 1849 Emperor Hsüan-tsung conferred upon him a chü-jên degree in honor of the eightieth birthday of Pan Shih-ên. Graduated as chin-shih in 1852, P'an Tsu-yin was made a compiler of the Hanlin Academy, and thereafter filled various posts in the capital until the beginning of the year 1867 when he was appointed junior vice-president of the Board of Works. During this period he went to Shensi (1858) and to Shantung (1862) to conduct provincial examinations.

He frequently memorialized the throne about methods of reforming a corrupt administration. In 1862 he and several other officials compiled for the Dowager Empresses and Emperor Mu-tsung a book in which were gathered examples of good administration in preceding dynasties. The work was entitled Chih-p'ing pao-chien (see under ). For several months in 1867 he was dispatched to Shêng-ching (Mukden) to investigate construction in the Imperial Mausoleum. In 1868 he was transferred to the junior vice-presidency of the Board of Revenue, and was promoted to the senior vice-presidency of the same Board in the following year. Early in 1874, however, he was discharged from his position because as assistant examiner at the Shun-t'ien provincial examination he had, apparently without warrant, granted to a candidate a chü-jên degree. A month later he was again made a compiler of the Hanlin Academy, and after several promotions was appointed junior vice-president of the Board of Ceremonies (1876), and then (1878) was transferred to the Board of Revenue. In 1879 he was promoted to the presidency of the Board of Works and shortly afterwards (1879) was transferred to the Board of Punishments. In the years 1880–81, he took part, as one of the Emperor's advisers, in settling Russo-Chinese affairs in Turkestan (see under ). Late in 1882 he was made a Grand Councilor, but early in the following year was obliged to leave Peking in order to observe the period of mourning for the death of his father. Returning to the capital in 1885, he was made acting president of the Board of War, and early in 1886 was named president of the Board of Works, a position he held until his death. He was posthumously canonized as Wên-ch'in 文勤. Having spent the later half of his life as a high official in Peking, he had a hand in aiding many men of talent who later became famous, among them. He was, however, a, conservative official, and was also anti-foreign.

P'an Tsu-yin was famous as a collector of books and of ancient bronzes and inscribed stones, although many of his bronzes and stones are said to have been forgeries. He had three studios for his collections: P'ang-hsi chai 滂喜齋 and Kung-shun t'ang 功順堂 for books, and P'an-ku 608