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Zhao dai ming liang lu (Records on worthy officials of the dynasty of brightness) was compiled by Tong Shiming, a magistrate of Yongchun during the Wanli reign (1573‒1620), edited by Li Qiaoxin and Qian Shiyang, and published by Tong Wenlong, the compiler’s brother. In addition to the compiler’s own preface, the work has five other prefaces and two postscripts, dated between 1605 and 1612, mostly written by fellow magistrates. This Wanli edition records 12 emperors, 53 ancient and honorable families, and has biographies of more than 400 ...