This paper is entitled “The Philological Study on Ma Duan-Lin and His Wenxian Tongkao – Jingji Kao” and is composed of seven chapters which contain three major parts. The first part is about Ma Duan-Lin; it expounds Ma
Duan-Lin’s family background, his family profession, his teachers and friends. The second part is about Wenxian Tongkao; it includes the investigation on the compositional purport of Wenxian Tongkao, the explaination of the book’s title, the character of the category, the juncture of the book’s appearance, the structure, layout and version of the book, the conclusion of the version system and the good-and-bad comparison between different versions. The third part is about “Jinji Kao”; this part discusses the offprint of “Jinji Kao,” its style, layout, compositional purport, bibliography and studies on notes, the perspectives of “Shi Xu,” the discoursive implication of “Lidai Zongxu,” the bibliographical thoughts, the citations of literature, and the relatiohship among
“Jinji Kao,” Chongwen Zongmu and Zhizhai Shulu Jieti. The previous scholarship does not have a thorough research into the contents mentioned above, nor has it paid attention to them. With the wide bibliographies I search and collect and my explicit texual research, I discuss and analyse all the
contents above to explore the academic achivements of Ma Duan-lin and Wenxian Tongkao – Jingji Kao.