Collected Stele Biographies

Collected Stele Biographies is a biographical book of the Qing dynasty, by. It is compiled from the contents of steles covering almost 200 years, from the early Qing dynasty to the Jiaqing era. It details over 2000 people in 25 categories and comprises 160 volumes. It was started in the early years of the Daoguang Emperor and published in 1893.
In the early years of Guangxu, the 86-volume Continued Collected Stele Biographies was compiled by Miao Quansun, with 1111 additional figures collected from the reigns of the Daoguang Emperor to that of the Guangxu Emperor. It was published in 1910.
later compiled the Supplementary Collected Stele Biographies in 60 volumes, containing records of more than 700 people. It was completed in 1923 and published by Yanjing University in 1932.