¹ Usually, it is hard to criticize a bibliography, unless it shows conspicuous gaps; here I only want to point out that among Japanese works Fujieda Akira's study, ‘Chōjō no mamori’ , in Shizen to Bunka , supplementary vol. II, Kyoto, 1955, 241–344, is missing, as this is the most complete survey of the organization and of the daily life and work on the northern limes.

² ‘Tung Han cheng-ch'üan chih chien-li yü shih-tsu ta-hsing chih kuan-hsi’ Hsin Ya Hsüeh Pao , i, 1956.

³ ‘The restoration of the Han dynasty’, BMFEA, xxvi, 1954, 1–209.

⁴ op. cit., 44 ff.

⁵ Yves Hervouet, Un poéte de cour sous les Han: Se-ma Siang-jou, Paris, 1964, esp. pp. 59–134

⁶ Li Chien-nung , Hsien Ch'inliang Han ching-chi shih-kao , Chunghua shuchü ed., Peking, 1962, 149–69; the above quotation is to be found on p. 149.

⁷ Records of Han administration, Cambridge, 1967, I, 58.

⁸ BMFEA, xxxix, 1967.

⁹ op. cit., 102–31, esp. pp. 116 ff.