Book/Printed Material Dong Sikou shu cao : liu juan 董司寇疏草 : 六卷 /
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Title
- Dong Sikou shu cao : liu juan
Other Title
- 董司寇疏草 : 六卷 /
Summary
- Compiled and printed by Dong Yuwei when he served as the high official in charge of the department of crime and punishment in Hubei and Yunnan.
- Dong Yu (1537-1606), the author of Dong si kou shu cao (Collected memorials of Justice Minister Dong Yu), printed during the Wanli reign (1573-1620), was a native of Le'an, Jiangxi Province. He received his jin shi degree in 1571 and held a number of different posts. He became the prefect of Dongwan, Guangdong Province. He later was sent to Yunnan to suppress the insurgents and eventually became a vice minister of the Ministry of Works and a minister of the Ministry of Justice. Si kou in the title of this work means "justice minister." During his tenure in the provinces, Dong Yu submitted a number of memorials, which highlighted contemporary events and his proposals to the court. When he was a provincial military commander in Yunyang, in present-day Shaanxi Province, for example, there had been rampant famine. Dong Yu sent a memorial, proposing that the government suspend revenue collection and send financial aid and food to the people of the province. The local gazetteer, Le'an Xian zhi, contains all his memorials, except for this collection. The first four juan contain those written while he was the provincial military commander in Yunyang and the last two juan consist of memorials written while he was in Yunnan. They all originated from the years prior to his appointment as the justice minister and were not arranged in a chronological order. The preface was written by Yang Qiyuan, a tutor in the Imperial Academy. World Digital Library.
Names
- Dong, Yuwei. zhu
- Yang, Qiyuan, 1547-1599, xu
- Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [China : s.n., Ming Wanli jian, i.e. between 1573 and 1620]
Headings
- - China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644--Sources
- - Chinese history, Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Notes
- - In case.
- - Also available in digital form.
- - 十行二十一字. Ten lines, with twenty-one characters per line.
- - 原題：「江右樂安董裕惟益父著」。裕字惟益，號擴庵樂安人，按樂安縣志：「裕隆慶五年進士，任東莞令。徵拜御史出按秦，奏免諸路虛稅。按滇，莽寇竊發，裕遣宿將征之，皆潰散。又奢寇煽亂，縛渠魁十數殲之，滇患以平。滇苦礦課，裕奏留課佐軍，先罷其礦。入掌河南道，督學北畿，以公直忤中貴左遷。起為大理寺少卿，擢僉都御史，提督鄖陽。時寧夏叛，部檄鄖貸餉八萬，調兵三千西援。鄖人洶洶思亂。裕亟請罷之，民始靖。環楚大飢，人相食，道殣累累，裕疏請帑金四十萬，南糧二十萬，分救得活，鄖人感之。陞南京工部侍郎，晉刑部尚書」。此稱「司寇」，蓋官刑部尚書時所輯刻也。惟僅督卷一至卷四按滇卷五卷六兩疏草，裕有內臺工刑奏議，不及是草。蓋縣志著錄之本，是全集，此則殘本也。楊起元(序).
- - 明萬曆間刻本. Ming woodblock print, ca. 1573-1620.
Medium
- 6 v.
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2012402120
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