TY - JOUR TI - Could the Peking University Laozi ?? really be a forgery? Some skeptical remarks Y1 - 2017/01/10/ AV - public ID - heidok22453 A1 - Staack, Thies UR - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22453/ N2 - In an article that was recently published in Guangming ribao ????, Professor Xing Wen ?? of Dartmouth College argues that the Laozi ?? from the Peking University collection of Han bamboo slips is without doubt a forgery. To prove this, Xing forwards several arguments relating to the two main areas ?outer appearance/material design? (xingzhi ??) and ?calligraphy? (shufa ??). Although the article indeed uncovers certain problems of the Peking University Laozi edition, the forwarded arguments are insufficient to support the claim for a forgery, as will be shown in the following. ER -