Abstract: The transcript kept in Shanghai Library is a newly discovered draft of Baoying Collection by Liu Baonan. Based on the sources of the five lost articles in this transcript, and the formation reason of this version, some clues can be found to reconstruct the compilation process of Baoying Collection. Liu Baonan continued the idea of an extensive collection of Liu’s Qing Fen Collection and tried to collect Baoying’s poems and essays to compile Search for Posthumous Works Collection. In this way, he changed the standard that the local anthology of Xiang Qiuji originally did not include special collections and presented the literary appearance of hometown. Liu Baonan also took the opportunity of compiling this book to perfect the family works included in it, and the transcript kept in Shanghai Library is a representative result. In the twenty-sixth year of Daoguang, Search for Posthumous Works Collection was roughly completed and renamed as Baoying Collection. However, this book was not formally compiled and published. In the end, the book was lost. Although the transcript kept in Shanghai Library is a periodical version, it is also the final version with a special documentary value to fill the missing materials in the current research on Baoying Collection. In addition, clarifying the compilation process of Baoying Collection also provides an important case for studying the relationship between the family collections and regional compilations.

Key words: Liu Baonan, Baoying Collection, Liu Duanlin’s Collection, The transcript in Shanghai Library