Waifan Menggu Huibu wanggong biaozhuan 外藩蒙古回部王公表傳

(Qinding) Waifan Menggu Huibu wanggong biaozhuan (欽定)外藩蒙古回部王公表傳 "(Imperially endorsed) Genealogical tables and biographies of the princes and dukes of the Outer Mongols and the Muslim leaders", shortly called Menggu huibu wanggong biaozhuan 蒙古回部王公表傳 or Menggu wanggong gongji biaozhuan 蒙古王公功績表傳, is a collection of biographies compiled during the late Qianlong reign-period 乾隆 (1736-1795) of the mid-Qing dynasty 清 (1644-1911).

It includes the biographies of leading persons from the allies of the Manchu dynasty of the Qing. The 120-juan long book was finished in 1789. The text description of the imperial series Siku quanshu 四庫全書, the Siku tiyao 四庫提要, calls it (Qinding) Menggu wanggong gongji biaozhuan 欽定蒙古王公功績表傳 "(Imperially endorsed) Genealogical tables and biographies of meritorious princes and dukes of the Outer Mongols" and indicates a length of only 12 juan, which might be an error. The book consists of 16 juan of 43 genealogical tables (shixi biao 世襲表), 33 "summary biographies" (zongzhuan 總傳) of tribes and peoples, and 284 individual biographies (liezhuan 列傳) of noble families.

Fascicle 12 is dedicated to persons from Tibet (Xizang 西藏), and fascicle 14 to Uyghur chiefs from Hami 哈密 and Turfan 吐魯番. All others are dedicated to Mongolian persons. The rest of the book included prose biographies, each part of which is headed by a general introduction that explains the political and tribal situation among the peoples dealt with.

The book begins with a preface written by the Qianlong Emperor 乾隆帝 in which he explains the structure of the 49 Mongolian leagues (qi 旗) and the history of the ruling house of the various jasagh (Chinese transcription zhasake 紮薩克) chieftains of the Qalqa Mongols. The concept of the book follows the biographic collection (Qinding) Zongshi wanggong gongji biaozhuan (欽定)宗室王公功績表傳, which includes the biographies of persons from the imperial house.

For each tribe, a distinct chronological table is provided that gives an overview of the leaders and eminent persons of this people and their relations to the Qing court. The sources for the biographies were mainly the so-called "red documents" from the Grand Secretariat Archives (neige daku kuzhu hongben 內閣大庫庫貯紅本), and also the official veritable records (shilu 實錄), but also registers and family rosters from the Court of Colonial Affairs (lifanyuan 理藩院).

The arrangement of the tribes follows the imperial atlas Huangyu quantu 皇輿全圖. The biographic collection is included in the Siku quanshu and found entrance into the collection Guochao qixian leizheng 國朝耆獻類徵.

A sequel to the text was compiled in 1812 and printed by the Imperial Palace in 1814. The (Qinding) Xuzuan waifan Menggu Huibu wanggong biaozhuan (欽定)續纂外藩蒙古回部王公表傳 consists of five bilingual Chinese-Manchu parts. The first has a length of 48 juan.

The second part was finished in 1836, printed in 1839 and has a length of 72 juan. The third was completed in 1849 and consists of 24 juan in three languages, namely Manchu, Chinese and Mongolian. The fourth part of the supplement appeared in 1859. Manchu-Mongolian version is 48 juan long, the Chinese version only 24. The fifth, last part of the supplement was begun in 1884 but was not yet finished, when the empire was terminated in 1911. Some drafts might remain in the First Historical Archive. The quality of these supplements is not as high as the first collection of biographies because all of them were compiled in a quite hasty manner. For this reason, there are no tables, like in the original book, but only crude biographies.