Traces of Zoroastrian and Manichaean activities in pre-T'ang China.--The Taoists' knowledge of tuberculosis in the twelfth century.--The penetration of Taoism into the Ming Neo-Confucianist elite.--Lin Chao-ên (1517-1598), the master of the three teachings.--Lu Hsi-hsing.--Lu Hsi-hsing and his commentaries on the Ts'an T'ung Ch'i.--Yüan Huang and his Four admonitions.--Wu Ch'êng-ên, his life and career.--Social and moral limitations of Chinese fiction before the Republic.--C. T. Hsia, The classical Chinese novel.--On Jaroslav Průšek's Chinese history and literature.--Chinese scholarship in Australia.--One item from the Canon of the moists.--Men of letters in the lighe of Chinese historiography