This work, edited by Henry Rosemount, Jr, is Volume I in the series of
"Critics and Their Critics". Angus C. Graham is the leading translator
and interpreter of Chinese philosophical texts; he has written
philosophical works of his own, he has written at length and in detail
on early Chinese grammar and philology, he has translated Chinese
poetry, and he has published some of his own poetry. Graham's polymathic
achievement explains the polygenous nature of his collection, which has
some essays ranging broadly over aesthetics, ethics, religion, and
epistemology; others providing concentrated discussion of specific
problems in early Chinese syntax, semantics, etymology, and paleography;
and yet others being admixtures, moving by turns through etymology,
epistemology, and problems of the translation, interpretation, and
dating of Chinese texts.