Qing scholar-official who was chief editor of the imperial book collection 四库全书 under the Qianlong Emperor. TV comedies such as 《铁齿铜牙纪晓岚》 made him famous for outwitting the corrupt minister 和珅.
Ji Xiaolan oversaw the compilation of the 'Complete Library in Four Sections'.
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The 《四库全书》 copied about 3,500 works into some 36,000 bound volumes. It was also a censorship drive: about 3,100 titles judged hostile to the Qing were banned and destroyed while it was compiled.
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The TV feud bends history: Ji was 26 years older than 和珅. His contemporaries paired him instead with the poet 袁枚 as 北纪南袁, 'Ji in the north, Yuan in the south'.
