Problems of Han Administration: Ancestral Rites, Weights and Measures, and the Means of Protest. By Michael Loewe. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. xi + 326. €114, $137.

Among the many manuscripts that emerged from the library cave at Mogaoku 莫 高窟 are copies of a medieval vernacular rhapsody entitled “Rhapsody on the Ershi General Spring”. The poem relates a legend about the Han general Li Guangli 李廣利, who is said to have created a spring to provide drinking water for his troops traversing the desert near Dunhuang 敦煌. This article introduces the manuscripts containing “Rhapsody on the Ershi General Spring,” discusses the background and content of the rhapsody, (...) and translates it. (shrink)

Von Briefen und Kompilatoren: Zur Einbindung von Texten des Genres shu in Geschichts- und Sammel-werken. By Clara Luhn. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2022. Pp. xiv + 266. €58.