Sha Zhi’s “Stein’s Third Central Asian Chinese Literature (Non-buddhist Parts)” (hereinafter referred to as “Stein”) interprets and publishes the Chinese documents obtained by Stein during the Third Western Regions (Central Asia) Expedition from 1913 to 1916 through photocopying of the original text and comparison of pictures and texts. Most of these interpretations are relatively accurate, and they are important results of the interpretation of documents unearthed in the Western Regions. Because most of these documents are handwritten documents and vulgar characters, it is still difficult to completely and accurately identify them. This article further examines the very few interpretations of Stein that are mistranscribed due to unclear terms, unidentified vulgar styles, and similar glyphs, in order to contribute to the study of documents excavated in the Western Regions.

Li Yun is a book written by Liu Qiu in the Song Dynasty. This book contains a collection of inscriptions in Han Dynasty and arranged in order of 206 rhymes. During the period from Small Seal to Official Script, it is of great value for studying changes in fonts and components. However, as far as the current research status of this book is concerned, it is mainly a brief analysis of the shape of the characters, citing individual glyphs to explain the problem, or lack of comprehensive and systematic research. Therefore, this article is based on previous scholars' researches, taking the inscriptions’ glyphs received in Li Yun as the main research object. Based on the ways in which the components evolve, this work compares these inscriptions’ glyphs with the seal scripts’ glyphs of Shuo Wen Jie Zi, and conducts a relatively systematic study of the character shape and organization system of Li Yun. There are five parts in the full text. In addition to the ‘Introduction’ of the first part and the ‘Conclusion’ of the second part, the remaining three parts are the main research contents. The second part is the study of the book, the version and style of Li Yun, and the presentation of research status and research ideas related to the research objects. The third part is to divide the evolution of the forms in the Li Yun into five types, to reclassify each type of glyph evolution for example analysis, and to briefly summarize the characteristics of each evolution type reflected in the book. The fourth part is mainly an overview of the analysis of the causes of the five types’ features and the evolution of the fonts. This article will also be accompanied by a full-text version of Li Yun. To have a clearer understanding and application of the classification description in the article, this article also shows a spreadsheet of all the glyphs of the book in the appendix section.

The study mainly focuses on the non-classical words in Dunhuang manuscripts of Tang Dynasty. We built a visualized database which not only showes the process of evolution and variation in detail of the non-classical words, but also illustrates the causes of formation, the principles of variation, the product of evolution in this period, and other relative issues. This paper is divided into four sections. The first section is to introduce some achievements of Dunhuang non-classical words, then explain what will be demonstrated in this paper. In section two we make a statistics about what had happened to Dunhuang non-classical words in three periods of Tang Dynasty. For the sake of clarifying the principle of evolution and variation in non-classical words of Dunhuang manuscripts, microscopic research and macroscopic analysis are operated in the third section. The final section makes a conclusion about the whole study. The target of this paper tries to set up a modeling with clue of time so as to conduct a systemic research at the macro level.

The study of the non-classical words in Dunhuang Manuscripts mainly focuses on the process of the analysis in the whole words. In the meantime, the component analysis should be another way to describe the influences of their variation to the formation, development and changing of non-classical words. In this paper, there are five sections to demonstrate the statistical study. Section one is elementary information about the study of non-classical words in Dunhuang Manuscripts which provides a brief introduction to the audience. The source of materials, the basis and methods of operation, and some particular issues are mentioned in section two. In the third and fourth section, charts and diagrams are used to illustrate the words sample set in relation to component variants, giving an explicit presentation about what changes had happened in the same component, and the relationship between components and their variants. The last section is a conclusion about what we had done in the study and what we need to pay more attention to in the future. The chiefly task of the study is to establish a visualized statistical database of component variations quantity statistics by means of components decomposing and classifying. The conditions of diachronic change and synchronic variation in components of non-classical words in Dunhuang Manuscripts can be shown distinctly. It also makes preparation for further studies on individual word, its evolvement rule and other relative research.

This paper offers thirteen notes to the incorrect characters in the exp.lanation of Amassing Annotations to the Tombstones Unearthed in Turpan（吐魯番出土磚志集注）from the aspect of writing cognizance.