This dissertation is divided into seven section. The first section is the foreword, and simply describes intellectual developments in the study of the Classics from the Sung to the mid-Ming. The author notes that this period witnessed a rapid decline in Han studies (Han-hsueh), but by the mid-Ming, scholars such as Wand Ao, Yand Shen, and Cheng Hsiao had already begun to emphasize the importance of Han-hsueh. The second section covers Chu's life and writings. Chu was a sixth generation descendant of the Chou-ting King Chu Suh. Chu once held the post of chou fan tsong cheng, and advocated research of the Classics. His own most famous work on the Classics is the Shou Jing T'u. The third section discusses the general form of Chu's text and his motivation in writing it. According to Chu's statements, he wrote the book in order to promote Han-hsueh. The work is divided into five parts, covering the Chou I, Shang Shu, Shi Jing, Ch'un-ch'iu, and the Li Jing. Each part contains four chapters, arranged topically as follows: a general outline, a chart detailing the origin and spread of teachings on the Classic under discussion, a biography of the scholars associated with these teachings , and a list of these scholars' writings pertaining to each Classic. The fourth section discusses the selection of materials in Chu's book. Chu relied on Chang Ru-yu's Ch'un Shu K'ao Suo, revising and expanding Chang's charts detailing the origin and spread of teachings on the Classics mentioned above. Biographical materials were drawn from the biographies of the Shi Chi, the Han Shu, and the Later Han Shu. Chu's list of scholarly writings on the Classics generally relied on Cheng Ch'iao's Tong Chih Lue, supplemented by private collections and catalogs. The fifth section looks at the supplement to Chu's text written by Huang Yu-chi and Kong Hsiang-ling. Huang corrected what he believed were mistakes by Chu regarding other books, chapters, and authors. Huang also added biographical material on 255 du-wen and chin-wen authors and 741 notes on the Classics. Finally, Huang rearranged biographical materials in the section on the Shang Shu. The sixth section discusses the significance influence on the general form of Chu Yi-tsun's compilation, the Jing I K'ao. The author also notes that , after the Han Dynasty, scholarly compilations on Han teachers of the Classics all followed the conventions set in Chu's Shou Jing T'u. In the concluding section the author discusses the stimulation effect that the Shou Jing T'u had on Han-hsueh after the middle of the Ming Dynasty.