This is Wen-lin"s second collection of studies in the Chinese humanities. It contains articles by W.A.C.H. Dobson, Chow Tse-tsung, D.C. Lau and Liu Wu-chi, amongst others, and topics range from the "Odes", the "Hsun tzu" and the "Han fei tzu" of the Pre-Ch"in period to the "His-yu pu" of the Ming.