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Jiaoxuan suilu 蕉軒隨錄

May 17, 2026 © Ulrich Theobald

Jiaoxuan suilu 蕉軒隨錄 "Miscellaneous records from the Banana Pavilion" is a "brush-notes"-style book (biji 筆記) written during the late Qing period 清 (1644-1911) by Fang Junshi 方浚師 (1830-1889), courtesy name Ziyan 子嚴. He passed the provincial examination during the Xianfeng reign-period 咸豐 (1851-1861) and rose to the office of Director-General of the Yongding River Section (Yongding hedao 永定河道).

The work of 12 juan is a miscellany recording various forgotten anecdotes and trivial matters, along with content relating to textual criticism of the classics and histories, and literary criticism of poetry and prose. Each fascicle is preceded by a table of contents, though the entries themselves are arranged in a rather unsystematic fashion. In terms of intellectual stance, the book takes issue with the arguments and scholarship of such Qing-period scholars as Huang Zongxi 黃宗羲 (1610-1695), Yan Ruoqu 閻若璩 (1636-1704), and Bao Shichen 包世臣 (1775-1855), while lavishing praise on figures such as Lü Liuliang 呂留良 (1629-1683) and Yuan Mei 袁枚 (1716-1797).

A printed edition from 1872 exists.

Sources:
Li Xueqin 李學勤, and Lü Wenyu 呂文郁, eds. 1996. Siku da cidian 四庫大辭典, vol. 2, 1994. Changchun: Jilin daxue chubanshe.
Qi Longwei 祁龍威. 2011. "Du Jiaoxuan suilu zhaji 讀《蕉軒隨錄》札記." Yangzhu Daxue xuebao (Renwen shehui kexue ban) 揚州大學學報(人文社會科學版) 15 (3): 86-86+88.