Mid-Qing Spirit-Altars, Officialdom, and Patrilineal Power:Peng Qifeng’s Prefaces to the Complete Works of Thearch Guan, Patriarch Lü, and Wenchang(1772-1775)

Introduction Beginning less than a decade after his attainment of the position of Secretary of the Board of War(1763-1766), Peng Qifeng 彭启丰(1701-1784;jinshi 1727)authored prefaces to the canonical'complete works'(quanshu全书)of the newly crystalized trinity of spirit-altar deities of the mid-Qing dynasty: Complete Works