Huan K'uan. Debate on Salt and Iron (Yen ti'eh lun). [Хуань Куань. Спор о соли и железе (Янь те лунь)]. Vol. 1. Tr. from Chinese, with introduction and notes by Yu.L.Kroll. St Petersburg, Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie Publishers 1997. 416 p. (Orientala).
Yen t'ieh lun (Debate on Salt and Iron) was composed by the Confucian Huan K'uan approximately in the second or the beginning of the third quarter of the 1st century BCE. It is one of the most important Former Han treatises, an inexhaustible source of information on philosophy, political, economic and social history as well as culture of the period. In spite of this it was studied rather insufficiently. Till now it was translated fully only into Japanes and but partially into English, French and Russian. Its present full translation into Russian is intended to fill the gap...
The 5th International Academic Conference “The Written Heritage of the Orient” dedicated to the 240th Anniversary of P.L. Schilling von Canstadt (1786–1837) will be held at the IOM RAS on April 20–22, 2026.
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