Juyan Han jian kao shi 居延漢簡考釋 [Examination and Explication of the Han-Era Bamboo Slips Found...
Six vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. title labels on upper covers, orig. stitching. [Nanxi 南溪, Sichuan]: Guo li zhong yang yan jiu yuan 國立中央研究院, 1943-44.
First edition of these studies on excavated historical Chinese documents. In 1930, the Northwestern Scientific Investigation Group 西北科學考察團 in the town of Juyuan, Gansu province, found over 10,000 bamboo slips dating from the Han period (202 BCE-220 CE). Such slips were one of the main media for writing in that period. These inscribed slips count among the most important archaeological finds of the 20th century in China. Lao Gan (1907-2003), the author of... More