ABSTRACT
This document is of almost unique value in so far as it sets out in the form of a dialogue and with remarkable clarity many of the controversial issues of the day. These are discussed by the spokesmen of the two opposing parties, whose views are
1 See YTL i (i) and HS 6.5a (HFHD, vol. II, p. 160). Part of the Yent‘ieh lun has been translated by E. M. Gale, as Discourses on Salt and Iron, Leyden, 1931, and in vol. LXV of the Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1934), pp. 73-no. Both of these works were reprinted by the Chung-wen Publishing Company, Taipei in 1967.
