Abstract
Hong Yixuan (1765-1837) was an important scholar during the Qing Jiaqing and Daoguang reign periods known for his work in evidential research and textual collation and collection, work that was appreciated by scholars such as Ruan Yuan and Sun Xingyan. His broad scholarship ranged from research on Chinese history to classical studies, and was published in twenty-one works that were held in high regard by his contemporaries. Never very successful in his repeated attempts in the civil service examination, he made his living as Sun Xingyan’s house guest and by advising Sun on his post as Shandong Supervisor of Grain Transport (duliangdao), helping Sun with his evidential research. After the age of fifty he left for Guangdong and continued to survive by performing menial jobs. As he was absent from centers of scholarship like Beijing and Jiangnan, his accomplishments have long been ignored by researchers of Qing learning, and his life and career are not well-known. For the reference of scholars, this article compiles from a great number of sources a chronicle of Hong’s activities that have missed scholars’ attention. To it is appended an annotated bibliography of Hong’s published and unpublished works, thirty in total, accompanied by a summary of each work and a description of its editions.
Keywords
annals, Hong Yixuan, scholarship in the Qianlong and Jiaqing reign periods, scholarship of Zhejiang Province
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