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Together with Wei Yuan, He Changling edited an influential anthology on statecraft, known as the "Collected essays about statecraft of the Qing" (, "Qīng Jīngshì Wénbiān"), originally titled "Huángcháo Jīngshì Wénbiān" (). 120 scrolls long, the collection includes more than 2000 documents about practical issues of governance, based on the editors' experience from the beginning of the Qing dynasty until the Daoguang era in the mid-Qing dynasty. A similar book existed for the Ming dynasty, called the "Ming Jingshi Wenbian".