A Census of Tun-Huang

The following fragment, No. 922 of the Stein Collection of Chinese MSS. in the British Museum, contains part of an officials census of Tun-huang chun taken in the year 416 A.D. It is thus almost exactly 1500 years old, and would be worth publishing on account of its antiquity alone, apart from the interesting questions relating to Chinese census records in general which are suggested by it. The year 416 was the last but one of the reign, of Li Kao, founder of the 1-* Western Liang State, of which