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bone inscriptions, the study of foreign names in the history of
the Mongol Dynasty. Others had as their hobbies the ancient non-
Confucian philosophers, the Yuan dramas, the Book of Changes
(Yiking), Sung philosophy (lihsiiefi), history of Chinese
painting, ancient coins, Chinese Turkestan, the Mongol dialects,
etc. So much depended on the teachers with whom they came in
contact and on the fashion of academic studies of the period. In
the middle of the Manchu regime, when Chinese philologic
scholarship had reached its summit, there were collected in the
HuangcKing Chingchieh and Shu HuangcKing Chingchieh about four
hundred works running to over a thousand volumes, consisting of
scholarly treatises on extremely specialized topics, very
similar in nature and spirit to the doctorate dissertations of
modern universities, only