[2] The section Official Posts (百官), which spans volumes 85–92, describes the agencies and positions within them that made up the Yuan imperial government.
A team of 16, led by Song Lian with contributions from Wang Yi (王禕) (1321–1372), Zhao Xun (趙壎), Li Shanchang, and others,[4] compiled the first draft of the history within months.
[4] Farquhar mentions that the section of the Treatises on Official Posts was largely based on the Jingshi Dadian (經世大典), now lost.
[5] The History of Yuan was criticised by imperial Chinese scholars for its lack of quality and numerous errors, attributed to the haste with which it was compiled.
The Qing-era historian and linguist Qian Daxin commented that of the official histories, none was more quickly completed—or worse in quality—than that of the Yuan dynasty.
Qianlong's "corrections" ended up compounding the errors and making the transcription of some foreign words in the History of Yuan even worse.
[6] Marshall Broomhall wrote that "So unscientific was this work that the K'ien-lung editions of the Liao, Kin, and Yüan histories are practically useless.