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Секция XV 46 XXX Международный Конгресс по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки Pei’s conclusion that the Library Cave was sealed in the early Song was made before Pelliot, and may now be regarded, after a century of research, closer to the truth 1 . After the expedition, Pelliot’s team proceeded to Nanjing, Shanghai and Wuxi. Meantime, Pelliot contacted Duanfang, the Governor-general of Jiangsu, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces through the French ambassador Edmond Bapst and requested the permission to take photographs of Duanfang collection of antiquities. On November the 3rd, 1908, Duanfang accepted this request in his letter to Bapst, and later met Pelliot in Nanjing. Pelliot visited (on November the 18th, 1908) the Library of Jiangnan, still under construction at that time, and discussed his Dunhuang findings with Miao Quansun, the administrator of the library, Chen Qingnian, the vice- administrator, and other Chinese scholars. Pelliot photographed Duanfang collection in Shanghai, and Pei Jingfu’s collection in Wuxi. In June 1909, Pelliot stopped at Nanjing in his northward travel and once again met Miao Quansun, Liu Shipei, Chen Qingnian and other scholars, and showed them some Dunhuang manuscripts that he was carrying with him. In the fall of 1909, Pelliot brought to Beijing several dozen manuscripts of Chinese classics, historical and geographical books and documents, as well as paintings, rubbings, sutra wrappers, some of which he was then studying. Therefore, some leading Chinese scholars in Beijing, such as Dong Kang, Luo Zhenyu, Wang Renjun, Jiang Fu, and Cao Yuanzhong, were able to observe these Dunhuang manuscripts first hand and were astounded by them. Their bittersweet feelings represented the general sentiment of Chinese scholars of the time. It was certainly bitter that Pelliot, a French man, had taken away the Dunhuang manuscripts by bundles. Yet, through photocopy or hand copy, they gained a nice opportunity of accessing these rare treasures from Pelliot. On September the 4th, the Beijing scholars lead byYunYuding arranged a banquet in honor of Pelliot at the Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits, they had raised a big sum of money which they trusted to Pelliot for photocopying manuscripts and sending them back to China. Such noble attitude of ‘return good for ill’ (a phrase from the Chinese translation of Pelliot’s speech at the banquet) impressed Pelliot greatly, so he consented to the request of the Chinese scholars, and subsequently sent back many photographs of manuscripts which were mostly Chinese classics. Luo Zhenyu’s publications of photographs and transcriptions of many manuscripts, which started roughly from the end of 1909, were based on the photos sent by Pelliot. But his studies were confined by his restricted resources to the traditional Chinese classics. The interactions between Pelliot and Chinese scholars resolved previous mixed sentiments of “hatred, joy and sorrow” of many Chinese scholars, and removed the worries of Pelliot. The cooperative relations thus built up between them had 1 See: Rong Xinjiang, The Nature of the Dunhuang Library Cave and the Reasons of Its Sealing (tr. ByValerie Hansen) // Cahiers d’Extr è me-Asie , 11 (Nouvelles études de Dunhuang), ed. J.-P. Drège. Paris/Kyoto, 1999–2000. P. 247–275.