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Hui Dong was a Qing-dynasty scholar. Public information about his life and official career is limited, and his scholarly profile is known mainly through his surviving writings. The library holds six of his works, including Zhouyi Shu and the collected and individual volumes one, two, and three of Jiuyai Zhai Biji. Zhouyi Shu concerns the exposition of the Book of Changes and belongs to classical and philosophical reading; Jiuyai Zhai Biji, written in note form, records reading reflections and textual notes and leans toward classical literature and literary appreciation. On the whole, Hui Dong's writing focuses on close study of classical texts and on the analysis of meaning and documentary evidence. His prose is plain and concise rather than ornate. His works are later classified among philosophical readings and classics, offering reference value to readers of classical scholarship and the Book of Changes. Given limited materials, details of his life and associations await further research.