Huang-Qing jingjie 皇清經解

Huang-Qing jingjie 皇清經解 "Commentaries on the Classics from Our August Dynasty" is a series compiled by the late Qing-period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Ruan Yuan 阮元 (1764-1849). It includes 180 commentaries and treatises to the Confucian Classics written during the Qing period by 73 scholars. The collection has a total length of 1,412 juan.

The book was not completed by Ruan himself because he was transferred to a government post in Yunnan. The task of editing was therefore taken over by Yan Jie 嚴傑 and Xia Xiushu 夏修恕 (d. 1840), and the text was critically revised by Sun Chengyan 孫成彥. The first version was finished in 1829, but in 1860, two books by Feng Dengfu 馮登府 (1783-1841) were added, and in 1870 a book by Xu Hongpan 許鴻磐 (fl. 1795). These editions were published by the Xuehai Studio 學海堂 in Guangzhou and are therefore also known as Xuehaitang jingjie 學海堂經解.

In later editions, four fascicles are missing at the end of the book. The edition from the Tongzhi reign-period 同治 (1862-1874) was reproduced as a facsimile in 1988 by the Shanghai Shudian Press 上海書店.

Huang-Qing jingjie xubian 皇清經解續編

There is a supplement called Huang-Qing jingjie xubian 皇清經解續編, Xu Huang-Qing jingjie 續皇清經解 or Nanjing shuyuan jingjie 南菁書院經解 that was compiled by Wang Xianqian 王先謙 (1842-1918). It includes 209 books of 111 authors with a total length of 1,430 juan. Wang Xianqian's series imitates the structure of Ruan Yuan's collection. Wang Xianqian added older books missing in Ruan Yuan's collectanea but also added some younger texts. The edition from 1884 was reproduced in 1988 as a facsimile by the Shanghai Shudian Press 上海書店.