Collected Works of Ouyang Xiu, 153 juan, with Supplement, 5 juan

Southern Song (1127�1279), Qingyuan period (1195�1200)

Compiled by Ouyang Xiu (1007�1072; jinshi of 1030); edited by Ouyang Fa et al.; proofread by Sun Qianyi; recompiled by Zhou Bida (1126�1204) et al.; engraved by Ye Yuan et al.

Jizhou, Jiangxi Province: Zhou Bida, 1196

10 columns per half folio; 16 characters per column; white folding margin at center of folio with double "fishtails," number of engraved characters indicated at the top and name of engraver at the bottom; double-line borders on left and right; single-line borders at top and bottom; overall dimensions of volumes: 36.7 x 23.5 cm; block sizes of text: approx. 21.1 x 15.5 cm; stitched binding

Inventory number: 2392

Ouyang Xiu, a statesman, historian, epigrapher, essayist, and poet, was one of the leading cultural figures of the Northern Song dynasty (960�1127).� He was the principal compiler of the Xin Wu dai shi (New History of the Five Dynasties) and the Xin Tang shu (New History of the Tang) as well as teacher to other great Song scholars such as Su Shi (1037�1101).

Ouyang Xiu undertook the compilation of his own collected writings just before his death in 1072; the collection was published as the Jushi ji (Collected Works of the Retired Scholar) in 1091.� A century later, in 1191, Zhou Bida (1126�1204), and other scholars from Ouyang Xiu's ancestral hometown of Luling, Jiangxi, began compiling the Ouyang Wenzhong gong ji (Collected Works of Ouyang Xiu), which was printed in 1196.� There are no longer any complete sets of the 1196 Zhou Bida edition of the Ouyang Wenzhong gong ji.� The National Library of China has several fragmentary sets from which this volume was taken.