It is much to the credit of the late intellectual historian Edward T. Ch'ien that Jiao Hong, a prominent Confucian scholar of Late Ming, was rediscovered. Unfortunately, the criticism by no less an authority than Professor Yu Ying-shih has put the whole rediscovery issue in controversy. This paper attempts to re-confirm Professor Ch'ien's views on Jiao Hong by re-establishing the facts 1) that Ch'ing evidential research has indeed had its root in the scholarships of the Taizhou School of Late Ming, of which Jiao Hong was a leader, and 2) that Jiao Hong has contributed substantially to Neo-Confucian philosophy.