Cf. Henri Cordier, Histoire Générale de la Chine, Paris, 1920, vol. i. p. 213.
Outlines of Chinese History (Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1914), p. 61.
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.
Cordier, op. cit. i. p. 281.
Cordier, op. cit. i. p. 237.