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Xi yuan lu (Collected cases of injustice rectified) was compiled by Song Ci of Southern Song. This is the world’s first-ever systematically written book of forensic science. It summed up the achievements in forensic science prior to and during the Song dynasty. Song Ci (1186‒1249), courtesy name Huifu, a native of Jianyang (in present-day Fujian), received his jinshi degree in the tenth year (1217) of the Jiading era. He served successively as provincial judicial commissioner in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Hunan, in charge of penal and prison affairs ...