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Information about Yang Jie's life is limited in publicly available sources; his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background cannot currently be confirmed. Judging from the seventeen works held in the collection, Yang Jie focuses mainly on compiling and studying documents related to early Qing Fujian. His representative work is the Ping Min Ji series, which covers various genres such as memorials, letters, official communications, and prefaces, presented in separate volumes alongside a combined edition. Ping Min Ji is a historical source work dealing with local military and administrative affairs and official correspondence, and it carries considerable reference value for documentary research. The collection classifies Yang Jie's works under Eastern philosophy and popular science, suggesting that his editorial work touches on both traditional thought and the dissemination of knowledge. Overall, Yang Jie is an author known for documentary compilation, and his works provide primary materials for the study of early Qing local history in Fujian, while details of his personal life remain to be further verified.