Qu Wanli (1907–1979), courtesy name Yipeng, was a native of Yutai, Shandong, and a Chinese scholar of ancient texts and classical studies. He served as a professor at National Taiwan University and as director of the Taiwan Central Library, and was elected an academician of Academia Sinica in 1972. Throughout his life he devoted himself to the study of the classics, oracle bone inscriptions, and textual bibliography, with particular expertise in the Book of Songs and the Book of Documents. His scholarship was grounded in textual criticism, with attention to edition collation and character glossing. His works, including An Interpretation of the Book of Songs, An Interpretation of the Book of Documents, A Guide to Ancient Books, and Collated Fragments of the Han–Wei Stone Classics, remain standard references for the study of pre-Qin classics. Two of his works are held in this collection, chiefly the Book of Songs and the Complete Works of Qu Wanli: An Interpretation of the Book of Songs, commonly classified under ancient poetry and classical works, showing that his academic writing combines annotation with interpretation and has had a lasting influence on Book of Songs scholarship.
