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Zheng Qiao

Song Historiographical Giant, Encyclopedist, and Author of the Tongzhi

Also known as Zheng Yuzhong · Yuzhong · Master Jiaji · Zheng Jiaji · Tongzhi Zuozhe

Southern Song historian and encyclopedist who authored the 200-volume Tongzhi. His 'Twenty Treatises' (Ershi Lue) pioneered universal classification of historical knowledge.

Life and times

  1. 1104BornSong
  2. 1162Died

Records

Zheng Qiao writes the Tongzhi at Mount Jiaji

Southern Song

Zheng Qiao, courtesy name Yuzhong, from Putian in Xinghua Prefecture, loved writing books. He lived at Mount Jiaji away from company, and whenever he met a book collector he borrowed and read the collection through before leaving. He was later allowed to return home to copy out his Tongzhi; when Emperor Gaozong came to Jiankang he was ordered to present it, but at that moment he fell ill and died, aged fifty-nine.

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