''Collected Stele Biographies'' () is a biographical book of the

Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...

, by . It is compiled from the contents of

steles A stele ( ) or stela ( )The plural in English is sometimes stelai ( ) based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ ( ) based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles ( ) or stela ...

covering almost 200 years, from the early Qing dynasty to the

Jiaqing The Jiaqing Emperor (13 November 1760 – 2 September 1820), also known by his temple name Emperor Renzong of Qing, personal name Yongyan, was the sixth Emperor of China, emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fifth Qing emperor to rule over Chin ...

era. It details over 2000 people in 25 categories and comprises 160 volumes. It was started in the early years of the

Daoguang Emperor The Daoguang Emperor (16 September 1782 – 26 February 1850), also known by his temple name Emperor Xuanzong of Qing, personal name Mianning, was the seventh List of emperors of the Qing dynasty, emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the sixth Qing e ...

and published in 1893 (the nineteenth year of the reign of the

Guangxu Emperor The Guangxu Emperor (14 August 1871 – 14 November 1908), also known by his temple name Emperor Dezong of Qing, personal name Zaitian, was the tenth Emperor of China, emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China ...

). In the early years of Guangxu, the 86-volume ''Continued Collected Stele Biographies'' () was compiled by

Miao Quansun Miao Quansun () (20 September 184422 December 1919), courtesy name Yanzhi (), was a Chinese philologist, historian, educationalist, bibliographer and librarian. He oversaw the foundation of the Jiangnan Library in Nanjing and was the first admini ...

, with 1111 additional figures collected from the reigns of the

to that of the

. It was published in 1910 (the second year of the

Xuantong Emperor Puyi (7 February 190617 October 1967) was the final emperor of China, reigning as the eleventh monarch of the Qing dynasty from 1908 to 1912. When the Guangxu Emperor died without an heir, Empress Dowager Cixi picked his nephew Puyi, aged tw ...

). later compiled the ''Supplementary Collected Stele Biographies'' () in 60 volumes, containing records of more than 700 people. It was completed in 1923 and published by

Yanjing University Yenching University () was a private research university in Beijing, China, from 1919 to 1952. The university was formed out of the merger of four Christian colleges between the years 1915 and 1920. The term "Yenching" comes from an alternativ ...

in 1932.

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* {{cite web , url = https://ctext.org/library.pl?if=gb&res=83576 , title = Beizhuan Ji , script-title = zh:碑传集 , publisher=Chinese Text Project , language = zh, en Chinese-language books Qing dynasty 1893 non-fiction books