Dunhuang jie yu lu 敦煌劫餘錄 [An Analytical List of the Dunhuang Manuscripts in the National...
Six vols. Small 8vo, orig. wrappers (upper wrapper of Vol. I a little defective), orig. stitching. Beijing: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 1931.
The scholarship of an era must have its own new sources and new questions. To use these sources in order to research those same questions is what constitutes the new tide of the era’s scholarship.Thus polyglot scholar Chen Yinke 陳寅恪 (or Yinque, 1890-1969) begins the Preface for Chen Yuan’s Analytical List of the Dunhuang Manuscripts in the National Library of Beiping (i.e., Beijing). Like Chen Yinke, Chen Yuan (1880-1971) was one... More