Papers from the XI Junior Sinologues Conference held in August 1958. These are: "XI JUNIOR SINOLOGUES CONFERENCE" (Padua/Venice August 3-9, 1958) - introductory pages PROBLEMS IN EVALUATING HAN TEXTS: TWO EXAMPLES OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM by Derk Bodde QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE LIEH-TZU by Angus Graham TWO PARALLEL CHAPTERS OF THE SHIH CHI AND CH'IEN HAN SHU LE BILAN DE LA ROMANISATION CHINOISE by René Hussenet Critical Evaluation of the South Manchurian Railway's North China Rural Survey by John Young ON K'ANG YU WEI'S CRITICAL APPROACH TO THE CLASSICAL CONFUCIAN CANONS by S.L. Tikhvinsky THE DATE OF TERMINATION OF THE SHIH CHI by Pan Chung-Kwei CRITICAL STUDY OF TAO YUAN-MING by L. Eidlin The importance of Palaeography for the Intepretation of Chinese Texts by Eduard Erkes PERSIAN GLOSSES OF A CHINESE MEDICAL TEXT by Jutta Rall THE WAR CHARIOT IN ANCIENT CHINA AS SEEN BY ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS by Magdalene v. Dewal What are characteristics of the great South-school masters and their respective followers or fakers? by Victoria Contag The Application of Modern Critical Analysis to the Study of Chinese Poetry by James J.Y. Liu Conditions et limites de l'objectivité historique by Jean Chesneaux CRITICISM AND SELF-CRITICISM AS A SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL TOOL IN CHINA by Chao Kuo-Chün CLUES FOR IDENTIFICATION; AUTHENTICATION, AND DATING OF OLD CHINESE ART OBJECTS FROM DETAILS IN COSTUME AND INSIGNIA by Schuyler Cammann BEZIEHUNGEN ZWISCHEN PASYRYK ALTAI UND CHINA by Edith Dittrich Köln THE RELATION BETWEEN PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM OF THE WEI AND TSIN DYNASTIES AND MUSIC by Jao Tsung-I EINIGE ERFAHRUNGEN MIT DEN BEIDEN T'ANG-SHU-TEXTEN by Mau-Tsai von Liu LU HSIN'S COLLECTION OF STORIES "NAHAN" AND ITS PLACE IN CHINESE LITERATURE by V. Sorokin Untitled paper by Sybille Van der Sprenkel