TY - JOUR AV - public A1 - Staack, Thies 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. TI - Could the Peking University Laozi ?? really be a forgery? Some skeptical remarks UR - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22453/ ID - heidok22453 Y1 - 2017/01/10/ ER -