ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations are used in the notes and the list of books and articles quoted. For convenience,where possible references to primary sources are given to modern editions that are readily available; for full details and for abbreviations of titles of secondary writings, see the entries in the bibliography.
| AM | Asia Major (new series) |
| Annuaire | Annuaire du College de France |
| BEFEO | Bullerin de l/Ecole frangaise d’Extreme Orient |
| BMFEA | Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities |
| BSOAS | Bulletin of the Scbool of Oriental and African Studies |
| CASS | (Chinee Academy of Sorial Sciencs |
| CFL | Cb’ien-fu lun(P’eng Tuo: Ch’ien-fu lun chien, Peking,I979) |
| CHHW | Cb’ian How Han wen(in Yen K’o-chün: Ch’ian shang-ku san-tai Cb’in Han San-kuo lix-cb’ao wen) |
| CICA | C(bina in central Asia (see Hulsewe) |
| CPAM | Commission for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments |
| CS | Cbin sbu(Peking:Chung-hua shu-chü,I974) |
| CYYY | Bulletin of tbe Institute of History and Pbilology, Academia Sinica,Taipei |
| HFHD | Hisory of the Former Han Dynasty(see Dubs) |
| HHC | Hou-Han chi(references are to SPTK and the punctuated reprint, Taipei,1976) |
| HHS | Hou-Han sbu,Hsii Han sbu(Peking:Chung-hua shu-chü,
I96s) |
| HHSCC | Hou-Han sbu chi-cbieh(Wang Hsien-ch’ien; Ch’ang-sha, 1915) |
| HJAS | Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |
| HNT | Huai-nan-izu (Liu Wen-tien: Hwai-nan bung-lieh chi-cbieb, Shanghai,I926) |
| HS | Han sbu(Peking:Chung-hua shu-chü,I962) |
| HSPC | Han sbu pu-thu(Wang Hsien-ch’ien; Ch’ang-sha,19oo) |
