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Yue-Min xunshi jilüe 粵閩巡視紀略

Jul 18, 2010 © Ulrich Theobald

Yue-Min xunshi jilüe 粵閩巡視紀略, also called Min-Yue xunsh jilüe 閩粵巡視紀略, is a personal report of the early Qing-period 清 (1644-1911) official Du Zhen's 杜臻 (1633-1703), courtesy name Zhaoyu 肇余, style Muxu 慕徐, travel as inspection official in Guangdong (Yue) and Fujian (Min). In 1683 he was sent out to accompany Grand Academician (neige xueshi 內閣學士) Shi Zhu 石柱 (1698-1758) to inspect the local governments, opening of arable land, the fishing and salt industry, maritime defence as well as the great harbours.

Du Zhen also compiled a book on maritime defence called Haifang shulüe 海防述略. His collected writings are called Jingweitang ji 經緯堂集.

The 6-juan long book covers the travel from Beijing to the south and the six months long inspection tour through the two southern maritime provinces. It begins with a map presenting the coastline of the southeast. Juan 6 includes information about the islands in the Taiwan Strait. The book itself describes the local conditions, history of administration, landscape, ancient sites, maritime defence, and the military garrison system, and is therefore an important contribution to the history of southeast China during the early Qing period.

It is included in the imperial series Siku quanshu 四庫全書. In 1979 the Shanghai Guji Press 上海古籍書店 published a facsimile of the Yuexue Studio 岳雪樓 manuscript.

Sources:
Liu Xueqin 李學勤, Lü Wenyu 呂文郁, ed. (1996). Siku da cidian 四庫大辭典 (Changchun: Jilin daxue chubanshe), Vol. 1, 981.
Tang Kaijian 湯開建 (1996). "Du Zhen Yue-Min xunshi jilüe zhong de Aomen shiliao 杜臻《粤閩巡視紀略》中的澳門史料", Jinan xuebao (Zhexue shehui kexue ban) 暨南學報(哲學社會科學), 1996 (7).
Wang Zhaoming 王兆明, Fu Langyun 傅朗雲, ed. (1991). Zhonghua gu wenxian da cidian 中華古文獻大辭典, Part Dili 地理卷 (Jilin: Changchun wenshi chubanshe), 341.