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LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS VOLUME. CHINESE WORKS; WITH BRIEF NOTICES OF THEM.

1. In the (See proleg. to vol. 1., p. 129):—

[i.], ‘The Ch‘un Ts‘ëw and the Chuen of Tso, with Commentary and Explanations; in 60 Books;’

[ii] ,, 'The Ch‘un Ts‘ëw and the Chuen of Kung-yang, with Commentary and Explanations; in 28 Books;’

[iii] ,, 'The Ch‘un Ts‘ëw and the Chuen of Kuh-lëang, with Commentary and Explanations; in 20 Books.’

The above three Works are of course K‘ung Ying-tah’s editions of the labours of Too Yu, Ho Hëw, and Fan Ning,’ on the text of the Ch‘un Ts‘ëw and the early Commentaries of Tso-she, Kung-yang, and Kuh-lëang;—|undefinedof all of which I have spoken in the first Chapter of these prolegomena. K‘ung’s own explanations are as learned and prolix as in the case of the other Classics. Very little is to be gleaned after him from the books that have come down to us of the dynasties from the Han to the T‘ang. I have generally used the edition of the thirteen King by Yuen Yuen; and to the text of the She in it I have referred in the prolegomena to vol. IV., p. 172. The student should use no other, where this is procurable. The above Works all contain Yuen’s examination of K‘ung’s texts ‹.›

4., ‘Compilation and Digest of Commentaries and Remarks on the Ch‘un Ts‘ëw. By imperial authority.’ In 40 Books, the ﬁrst two being occupied with introductory matter. The Work was ordered and its preparation entrusted to a committee of the principal scholars of the empire in 1,699, the 38th year of the period K‘ang-he, and appeared in 1,721, the 60th year of the same. I have generally called it the K‘ang-he Ch‘un Ts‘ëw. It deserves the praise which I have bestowed on the imperial editions, in the present dynasty, of the Shoo and the She, though I have been disposed to dissent more

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