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Ch'ing Dynasty Education Materials in the Department of Special Collections, UCLA

Two groups of rare materials of interest to Ch'ing social and intellectual historians are now available in the Han Yii-shan Collection in the Department of Special Collections as part of the UCLA University Research Library. The collection at UCLA enables scholars to get at materials that are for the most part unavailable anywhere else in the world. Altogether the collection contains almost 500 imperial civil service examination and related papers (in both Chinese and Manchu languages) and twenty-four printed works on private Confucian academies. Dating from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, these have been organized according to date and will soon be microfilmed for more general use. David Zeidberg, Director of the Department of Special Collections, and James Cheng, Director of the UCLA Oriental Library, are presently arranging appropriate microfilm exchanges with the Morman Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City (and through them with the No. 1 Historical Archives in Beijing), which will permit the specialized library collection at UCLA to develop and grow. The most important part of the Han Yii-shan Special Collection contains the original palace examination papers of 2 1 1 chin-shih candidates for the imperial Confucian civil service from 1646 to 1904. In addition, the collection contains 39 special examinations in the Manchu language given to Chinese and Manchu Hanlin academicians, which Professor Pamela Crossley of Dartmouth College helped to identify. Examination "papers" (actually accordion-folded into a rectangle slightly over nineteenby-five inches containing thirty pages) prepared by Chinese and Manchu students give us a unique window from which to look into the educational world of late imperial China before the abolition of the imperial examination system based on the Confucian classics in 1905. When complemented with source material available in Japanese archives, the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and the No. 1 Historical Archives in Beijing and elsewhere via the Morman Genealogical Library, we are able to recreate the ideological mind set that permeated the classically-inspired questions and