¹ See Chü-yen Han-chien k'ao-cheng pu-cbenc, in Liu-t'ung pieh-lu , Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology, Special publication (wai-pieri) of the Bulletin, 1945–46 (later republished as vol. 14 of the Bulletin); Chü-yen Han-chien k'ao-shih hsü-mu, Bulletin, 10 (1948), 647–658Google Scholar; and Chü-yen Han-chien k'ao-shih, rev. ed., 1949. I have been unable Co examine the last named work. It is listed in the bibliography of works on Han inscribed wooden slips in Tōyōshi kenkyū, 12.3 (March, 1953), postface, 9–10; see also article by Mori Shikazō, ibid., 193. (The Academia Sinica's list of its own publications gives 1948 as the date of the revised edition; see the Institute's Ch'u-pan-p'in mu-lu, 9. Since the usual month of publication is omitted, and the list was itself issued in 1948, I presume that this date represents a publishing schedule rather than an accomplished fact.) Both Tōyōshi kenkyū and the Academia Sinica list note that only the Shih-wen section was included in this revised edition.

² See Han shu (K'ai-ming ed.) 28B.0425d, Hou Han shu 33.0709c, and Dubs, History of the Former Han Dynasty, 2:83. The site of the town Chü-yen was probably close to, or even identical with, that of Kharakhoto, the Tangut (Hsi Hsia) center explored by Koslov in 1908.

³ See article by Bergman in vol. 4 of History of the Expedition in Asia, 1927–1935 (Pub. No. 26 of the Sino-Swedish Expedition), Stockholm, 1945, especially 135–155; and Hedin, ibid., vol. 3 (Pub. No. 25), Stockholm, 1944, 306–307. The slips were removed from Peking National University to Shanghai and finally to Hongkong during the war (Hedin, loc. cit., and Lao's preface).

⁴ The statement about Bergman is repeated on p. 650 of the 1948 version of Lao's preface (see note 1). Presumably Bergman, who I am informed died in 1946, never did complete this task.

⁵ The table of contents issued in 1948 (p. 648) lists an index, following the K'aocheng section. But it seems clear that this section was not published with the revised edition of the documents in 1949; hence, if an index was drawn up it presumably applies only to the documents themselves.

⁶ Students of Han script can, of course, turn to Chavannes' Les documents chinois découverts par Aurel Stein (Oxford: 1913)Google Scholar; or to Kuo-wei, Wang and Chen-yü, Lo,Liu-sha chui-chien (preface dated Kyoto: 1914)Google Scholar.

⁷ Tōyōsbi kenkyō, 12.3, entirely.devoted to the Chü-yen finds and largely based on Lao's present work, is highly recommended. See especially bibliography on Han slips (postface, 9–10) and introductory article by Mori, 193–205.