Abstract: Hanlin guanke compilations refer to a series of books that were compiled from the test papers of those editors with the Hanlin Academy. As a kind of textbooks for Zhiju, an irregular exam for selecting officials and scholars, such books got published on a large scale in the late Ming Dynasty thanks to the publishing industry's flourishing and social needs.
   Later, many got lost with the regime change and the social turbulence thus caused. The survivors, though small in number, carry the intrinsic values and political philosophy of senior civil service training system in the Ming Dynasty, or the Hanlin Bachelor system on the one hand, and tell a real imperial court and society of that dynasty on the other. Hence we can say that they serve as important historical data for our interpretation of the Hanlin Bachelor system and the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Key words: the Ming Dynasty, Hanlin guanke compilations, the surviving collections