"...The Kunxue jiwen contains most of Wang Yinglin's original thinking and observations on the whole corpus of Chinese classics, history, philosophy, and literature ... important because it studies pre-Song classical texts and commentaries as well as those of the Song Neo-Confucians .... measures the accuracy of both...and does not hesitate to cite weaknesses in Neo-Confucian scholarship...(and) preservation of pre-Song texts not available elsewhere.--Cf. Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, p. 882-884.