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-- Concerning steel, we follow Yang K'uan; a special study by J. Needham is under preparation.

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Chieh-kang on the titles of nobility, research by Yang K'uan and textual criticism by B. Karlgren, O. Franke, and again Ku Chieh-kang and his school.

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Huan K'uan is named as the compiler in each case, and is classed with the Confucian writers.

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Huan K'uan was steeped in the Kung-yang commentary5 of the

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Had the Shih-chi been accessible to Huan K'uan, and had he chosen to make use of it, he would have had at hand a veritable thesaurus of material upon which to draw.

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Ch'ien-han-shu indicate the volume of literature which may have been available to Huan K'uan.

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It may thus be concluded that Huan K'uan had available his own collection of books, from which his citations were culled.

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To be sure, it cannot be ascertained whether the excerpt in the Ch'ien-han-shu represents the original text of Huan K'uan.

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Yet the occurrence of an actual quotation from Ssŭ-ma Ch'ien's work, in the words of the historiographer himself, would tend to indicate that Huan K'uan, nevertheless, was familiar with the Shih-chi.

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This debate serves as the canvass on which Huan K'uan embroiders many a dialectical gem, and into which he weaves the red thread of "Confucian" aphorisms and "sacred texts".

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