"The Catalogue of the Documents from Dunhuang Stone Chamber and How They Were Discovered" is the first published paper to introduce the cache of historical documents discovered at Dunhuang.During its original publication this treatise was first entitled "Alas, Cultural Relics of the Motherland" and was divided into six parts and serialized in the Minyu Daily News from the 1 st to the 11 th of November in 1909,rather than in volume six of the 10 thissue of Oriental Magazine published on the 25 thof September, 1909 as is generally believed. As this publication date occurred six days before Japanese scholar Tanaka Keitaro published his essay "The Historical Documents from the Dunhuang Stone Chamber" on November 7 of the same year,it can now be determined to have been the first work in the history of Dunhuang Studies, and thus marks the beginning of Dunhuang Studies in China.
