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sources of information. These three volumes were: Hsi 

 Ch'ing ku chien, 14 Hsi Ch'ing hsu chien, 15 and the Ning 

 Shou chien ku. 16 These were, indeed, mirrors of antiquity 

 as their names imply. The Imperial example was followed 

 by scholars such as Chang T'ing-chi and Chu Yi-tsun. 17 In 

 1804 Yuan Yuan published his "Inscriptions on Vessels" — 

 Chi Ku Chai chung ting i ch'i k'uan chih 18 in which the 

 rubbings of 560 inscriptions are criticized and explained. He 

 was followed by the Feng brothers, authors of the Chin 

 Shih So, 19 "Besearches in Metal and Stone" and by a long- 

 list of such men as Wu Ta-ch'eng, Wu Jung-kuan, Weng 

 Fang-kang, Wu Yun, Liu Tieh-yim, Wu Shih-fen, 20 and 

 others. A generation ago there was a group of men in 

 Peking, including such scholars as P'an Tsu-yin and Shen 

 Po-hsi, 21 who not only collected ancient objects, but added 

 to this careful scholarly research. To carry on the work of 

 this earlier generation, Tuan Fang 22 made a noted collection 

 and published his "Becords" of stones and metals, but un- 

 fortunately his life was cut off before his great work as an 

 antiquarian was completed. In many respects, it may be 

 said that his mantle has fallen upon the shoulders of Lo 

 Chen-yu. 



Lo Chen-yu — Shu-yiin, 23 is a native of Shang Yti near 

 Shao Hsing in the province of Chehkiang. He attained the 

 highest literary rank and under the Manchu Dynasty, he was 

 appointed Literary Chancellor of the province of Shantung. 

 After the abdication of the Manchus, he removed to Japan 

 where he still professes himself to be a subject of the Manchu 

 Dynasty. In several of his writings, he continues to use the 

 title of the reign of the abdicated emperor, Hsuan T'ung. 

 In no instance has he dated any of his books according to 

 the years of the Bepublic. Whenever he has not used the 

 Imperial title, he has used the name of the cyclical year. 

 In one of the volumes described below is a photograph of Lo 

 which shows him wearing the official garb of the Manchu 

 regime including the queue. His political predilections are 

 of little interest, but his work as an antiquarian is a distinct 

 contribution to the permanent scholarship of his nation. 

 His investigations have led him into many fields starting 

 with his comments upon the literary finds of Stein at 

 Tun-huang. 24 A separate article even would be insufficient 

 to discuss each one of the separate books which Mr. Lo has 

 written in recent years, and it is proposed in this brief review 



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