Kiyon

Japanese: 紀昀 - きいん

1724‐1805
A Chinese scholar in the mid-Qing Dynasty. His pen name was Xiaolan, and he also called himself Shunfan, and in his later years he went by the name Shiyun. He was born into a distinguished family in Hejian Prefecture, Zhili Province. He was a Jinshi in the 19th year of the Qianlong era (1754). He was an official at the Hanlin government and was a great patron to the scholars who gathered in the capital, such as Dai Zhen and Qian Daxin. In 1768, however, he was exiled to Urumqi (Urumqi) for reporting information to a relative who was accused of a crime. He was pardoned after about two years, and when the Siku Quanshu Guan was opened in 1773, he oversaw the compilation work as the general compiler, and in particular, he wrote the commentary on the bibliography, Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tieyou, on the compiled manuscripts prepared by scholars in various fields.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1724‐1805
中国，清中期の学者。字は暁嵐，また春帆，晩年に石雲と号した。直隷省河間府の名門の生れ。乾隆19年(1754)の進士。翰林の官にいて，戴震，銭大昕（せんたいきん）ら都へ集まる学者たちにとってのよき庇護者であったが，1768年，罪に問われた姻戚にその情報を内報したかどで，ウルムチ(烏魯木斉)に流された。2年ほどで許され，1773年に四庫全書館が開かれると，総纂官として編纂の事業を統括し，とくに書目解題《四庫全書総目提要》は各専門分野の学者の手に成る分纂稿に筆をふるって定稿とした。

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