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Youqiuzi 幽求子 "The Master Seeking in the Dark"


The Youqiuzi 幽求子 "The Master Seeking in the Dark" is a Daoist treatise compiled by the Jin period 晉 (265-420) writer Du Yi 杜夷. His 20 (or 30) juan "scrolls" long book was also called Youqiu xinshu 幽求新書. It has still existed during the Tang period 唐 (618-907) but is since lost and only preserved in fragments collected by the Qing period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Ma Guohan 馬國翰 (Yuhanshanfang jiyi shu 玉函山房輯佚書) extracted from encyclopedias like Beitang shuchao 北堂書鈔 or Taiping yulan 太平御覽.

Source: Li Xueqin 李學勤, Lü Wenyu 呂文鬰 (1996). Siku da cidian 四庫大辭典, vol. 2, p. 2306. Changchun: Jilin daxue chubanshe.

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