On the Compilation Style of Digest of Anhui Government

As an official book reflecting Anhui’s general pictures in late Qing Dynasty, Digest of Anhui Government is perfect in its compilation. And on the basis of inheritance, it opened up the new historical looks in various flexible ways. The book is divided into ten sections with the new official system of late Qing Dynasty, among which negotiation, civil affairs, education affairs, agriculture, industry and commerce and post are initiative either in form or in content. Under the two sections, expenditure and military, there are various sub -brunches which are also new in more aspects than one. With the careful arrangement by author, the articles broke the old forms and created new ones. And in the content, it also took the new. Accordingly, the new things appearing in late Qing Dynasty can be included in the book. And the new changes can be shown to readers. This greatly expanded the narrative space and capacitance of official-style book, which can be seen as the great innovation and hence has the important academic value.