several historical and biographical works , such as (
Chinese characters)
A History of the Kitan Tartars, (Chinese characters), Biographies of Officials, etc. etc. The treatises on the Constitution entitled (Chinese characters) and (Chinese characters) are founded an unfinished work of his.
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Chiang T'ing-hsi (Chinese characters) (T. (Chinese characters)). A.D. 1668—1732. A native of Kiangsn, who graduated as
chin shih in 1703, and in 1717 became one of the Readers to
the Emperor K'ang Hsi. Under Yung Ch[[subst:e^}}ng he rose rapidly to
be a Grand Secretary. As a youth, he was successful as a poet
and a flower-painter. Author of a collection of poems and essays
entitled (Chinese characters) President of the Commission
under which the (Chinese characters), the vast encyclopaedia initiated
by the Emperor K'ang Hsi, was ultimately brought to completion.
He had also been Vice President of the Commission appointed
to compile the Institutes of the present dynasty. Canonised as (Chinese characters)
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Chiang Tzŭ-ya (Chinese characters). 11th and 12th cent. B.C. The
common designation of an old man named (Chinese characters) Lü Shang
(T. (Chinese characters)) whose clan name was Chiang, and who became the
chief counsellor to Wên Wang. One day, when the latter was
going out hunting, he was told by the divining-grass that his
quarry would be none of the usual animals, but a "Prince's
Teacher." He fell in with the above old man, then eighty years
of age, who was fishing with a straight piece of iron instead of
a hook, upon which the fishes readily allowed themselves to be
caught, in order to satisfy the needs of this wise and virtuous
angler. "Ah!" cried Wên Wang, "it is you for whom my
grandsire (Chinese characters) looked." Thereupon he carried the old man home
with him in his chariot, and named him accordingly (Chinese characters).
