Cf. Henri Cordier, Histoire Générale de la Chine, Paris, 1920, vol. i. p. 213.

[6]

Outlines of Chinese History (Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1914), p. 61.

[7]

See Hirth, China and the Roman Orient (Leipzig and Shanghai, 1885), an admirable and fascinating monograph. There are allusions to the Chinese in Virgil and Horace; cf. Cordier, op. cit., i. p. 271.

[8]

Cordier, op. cit. i. p. 281.

[9]

Cordier, op. cit. i. p. 237.

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