experience with rare editions. For that reason his notes have been widely studied by collectors and students of bibliography. About half a century after Huang died a fellow townsman, P'an Tsu-yin [q. v.], with the help of Miao Ch'uan-sun (see under Chang Chih-tung), collected Huang's bibliographical notes on 352 books. These were printed in 1883 under the title, 士禮居藏書題䟦記 Shih-li chü ts'ang-shu t'i-pa chi, 6 chüan. Later, Miao collected more of Huang's notes of which a part, entitled Shih-li chü ts'ang-shu t'i-pa hsü-lu (續錄), was printed in 1896 by Chiang Piao 江標 (T. 萱圃, H. 建霞, 1860–1899) in the Ling-chien ko ts'ung-shu (see under Ho Ch'iu-t'ao); and another part, entitled Shih-li chü ts'ang-shu t'i-pa tsai-hsü chi (再續記), 2 chüan, was printed in the first series of the Ku-hsüeh hui-k'an (see under Li Ch'ing). In 1919 Miao brought together the three collections and printed them, with further additions, under the title 蕘圃藏書題識 Jao-p'u ts'ang-shu t'i-chih, 10 chüan, including a collection of Huang's prefaces and postscripts to twenty-seven of the books he printed, entitled Jao-p'u k'o (刻) shu t'i-chih. In 1933 there appeared a supplement containing yet other annotations which were collected and printed by Wang Ta-lung 王大隆 under the title Jao-p'u ts'ang-shu t'i-chih hsü-lu, 4 chüan, including miscellaneous examples of Huang's prose and verse, entitled Jao-p'u tsa-chu (雜著).
In later life Huang P'ei-lieh was more and more pressed financially, and therefore was obliged to part with most of his rare books. These were gradually purchased by his fellow-townsman, Wang Shih-chung 汪士鐘 (T. 䦘原), whose library was known as the I-yün ching (shu-) shê 藝芸精(書)舍. In the middle of the nineteenth century, however, the latter's library was in turn dispersed, passing for the most part to Ch'ü Yung (see under Chang Chin-wu), Yang I-tsêng and Lu Hsin-yüan [qq. v.]. In the meantime Huang P'ei-lieh helped in the compilation of the Su-chou fu-chih of 1824 (see under Shih Yün-yü). Early in 1825 he opened at Soochow a bookstore called P'ang-hsi yüan 滂喜園, but as he died the following September, it is not known how long the business was carried on. A son named Huang Shou-fêng 黃壽鳳 (T. 同叔, b. 1823), was a famous seal carver. In 1860, when the Taiping army entered Soochow, twelve of Huang's descendants took their lives by drowning in a pond in front of the family cemetery.
Huang P'ei-lieh numbered among his friends such scholars as Ch'ien Ta-hsin, Tuan Yü-ts'ai and Pao T'ing-po [qq. v.]. His friendship with Ku Kuang-ch'i was severed about 1820, although he had patronized the latter for many years. Another of his friends was Wu Ch'ien 吳騫 (T. 槎客, H. 兔牀, 葵里, 1733–1813), a bibliophile and poet of Hai-ning, Chekiang, who possessed a large library. Wu was the editor of the collectanea, 拜經樓叢書 Pai-ching lou ts'ung-shu of more than thirty titles printed about the period 1780–1812. It includes a collection of his own works in prose, entitled 愚谷文存 Yü-ku wên-ts'un, 14 chüan (printed in 1807), and two collections of his poems, entitled Pai-ching lou shih-chi (詩集, printed in 1803), and Pai-ching lou shih-chi hsü-pien (續編, printed in 1812). Wu also left a collection of colophons about rare books, entitled Pai-ching lou ts'ang-shu t'i-pa chi (藏書題跋記), 5 + 1 chüan, edited and printed in 1847 by Chiang Kuang-hsü [q. v.]. When Wu Ch'ien heard, in 1804, that Huang P'ei-lieh had named his studio Po-Sung i-ch'an, he wrote a poem informing Huang that he himself had modestly named his studio Ch'ien Yüan shih-chia 千元十駕, meaning that though he could not, like Huang, boast a hundred Sung editions his thousand Yüan editions might conceivably match them, just as ten weak horses might counterbalance a strong one.
[Chiang Piao, 黃蕘圃年譜 Huang Jao-p'u nien-p'u (1897); Wang Ta-lung, Huang Jao-p'u nien-p'u pu (補) in 蘇州圖書館館刊 vol. I, no. 1, (1929); 2/72/32b; Shih Yün-yü [q. v.], Tu-hsüeh lu ssŭ-kao (四稿) 5/1a; Yeh Ch'ang-ch'ih, Ts'ang-shu chi-shih shih (see under P'an Tsu-yin) 5/62a, 63b, 64b; Yeh Tê-hui, 郋園讀書志 Hsi-yuan tu-shu chih 4/27a; Wu-hsien chih (1933) 69上/32b, 40/35b; Fan K'ai 范鍇, 華笑廎隨筆 Hua-hsiao ch'ing sui-pi 3/2a.]
HUANG P'êng-nien 黃彭年 (T. 子壽, H. 陶樓, 更生, also used ming 邦鎮), July 18, 1823–1891, Jan. 13, scholar and official, was a native of Kuei-chu, Kweichow, to which place his family migrated from Li-ling, Hunan. His father, Huang Fu-ch'ên 黃輔辰 (T. 琴隖, 1798–1866), was a chin-shih of 1835 who rose in his official career to intendant (1866) of the Fêng-Pin Circuit 鳳邠道, Shensi. His uncle, Huang Fu-hsiang 黃輔相 (T. 斗南, 1793–1856), a chin-shih of 1845, died at his post in Kwangsi
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