Zhibuzuzhai congshu 知不足齋叢書

Zhibuzuzhai congshu 知不足齋叢書 "Collectanea of the Studio of Conscious Insatiability" is a series of collectanea (congshu 叢書) compiled by the Qing-period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Bao Tingbo 鮑廷博 (1728－1814). It includes 207 books in 30 collections (ji 集) with a total length of 823 juan.

Bao Tingbo, courtesy name Yiwen 以文, style Luyin 渌飲, hailed from Shexian 歙縣 (modern Shexian, Anhui) and moved later to Wulin 武林 (modern Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang), where he was very famous for his extremely large private library in Wuzhen 鄔鎮. When the imperial series Siku quanshu 四庫全書 was projected, Bao Tingbo submitted more than 600 precious volumes to the throne. During the Jiaqing reign-period 嘉慶 (1796-1820), he was therefore awarded the title of provincial graduate (juren 舉人). The name of his studio is derived from a sentence in the Confucian Classic Da Dai Liji 大戴禮記, in which someone speaks of the "insatiability for learning".

The series includes both prints and manuscripts of ancient date. The concept of the book is that only such texts were included that corresponded to the high standards of Confucian Classics and could be seen as supplementary "wings" and a help for the understanding of the important classics. Among the books on poetry, only such were included that had an equal poetry level as the Shijing 詩經 "Book of Songs".

The Zhibuzuzhai congshu was not printed as a whole, but the sections were published as they were finished. When Bao Tingbo died, 27 collections were published, and his son Bao Shigong 鮑士恭 later published three further collections as literary remains. The series has also a high printing quality. In 1921, the Gushu Liutong Chu Press 古書流通處 published a facsimile of the original editions

It later served as a model for Gao Chengxun's 高承勳 Xu zhibuzuzhai congshu 續知不足齋叢書, the anonymous Fang zhibuzuzhai congshu 仿知不足齋叢書, and Bao Tingjue's 鮑廷爵 Hou zhibuzuzhai congshu 後知不足齋叢書.

Xu zhibuzuzhai congshu 續知不足齋叢書

Xu zhibuzuzhai congshu 續知不足齋叢書 is a series of collectanea (congshu 叢書) compiled by the Qing-period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Gao Chengxun 高承勲. It includes 17 books in two collections with a total length of 44 juan.

Gao Chengxun, courtesy name Songsan 松三, hailed from Cangzhou 滄州 (modern Cangzhou, Hebei). His series imitates the structure of Bao Tingbo's 鮑廷博 (1728－1814) Zhibuzuzhai congshu 知不足齋叢書 and was thought as a supplement to the latter, with two collections (ji 集). It is often seen as the thirty-first and thirty-second collections of this famous series. Most texts included in Gao's supplement are relatively short and have the character of essays.

Hou Zhibuzuzhai congshu 後知不足齋叢書

Hou zhibuzuzhai congshu 後知不足齋叢書 is a series of collectanea (congshu 叢書) compiled by the Qing-period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Bao Tingjue 鮑廷爵. It includes 76 books, arranged in 8 "book cases" (han 函), with a total length of 171 juan.

Bao Tingjue, courtesy name Shuheng 叔衡, hailed from Changshu 常熟, Jiangsu, and obtained the title of expectant prefect (houbu zhixian 候補知縣) in Zhejiang. His father Bao Zhenfang 鮑振芳 was a great book collector and transmitted this love to books to his son who decided publishing several critical editions of Confucian Classics and historiographical texts in his own series. Some of the books are of great importance because they were prohibited under the Qing, like Xu Lun's 許倫 (b. 1412) Jiubian tulun 九邊圖論 or Hu Zongxian's 胡宗憲 (1512-1565) Haifang tulun 海防圖論. Bao Tingjue has also written postfaces to his father's book Jinshi dingli 金石訂例 and the book Jirui 稽瑞 of the Tang-period 唐 (618-907) writer Liu Geng 劉賡.

The series was published between 1874 and 1884 in separate cases. It is therefore not easy to obtain in one compact edition but is fortunately included as a whole in the "meta-series" Baibu congshu 百部叢書.

Fang zhibuzuzhai congshu 仿知不足齋叢書

Fang zhibuzuzhai congshu 仿知不足齋叢書 is a series of collectanea (congshu 叢書) compiled by an anoymous person during the Qing-period 清 (1644-1911). It includes but five books with a total length of 13 juan. The series had quite probably but commercial value by alleging to be a supplement to Bao Tingbo's 鮑廷博 (1728－1814) important series Zhibuzuzhai congshu 知不足齋叢書. It was printed by the Renshoutang Hall 仁壽堂.