[1101] To my friend Dr. Lionel Giles of the British Museum, and to his father, Prof. H. A. Giles of Cambridge, my thanks are due for leading and kindly lights.
[1102] See L. C. Hopkins in New China Review, 1917, 1918, 1919.
[1103] If the Chinese were behind the Egyptians in inscriptions on material such as papyrus, they anticipated Gutenberg and printing by some 600 years, as is proved by the recent discovery of the first specimen of block printing in the roll containing the Diamond Sutra, with woodcut of 868 a.d., which deprives Fêng Tao (of the tenth century) of the fame of being the inventor of printing.
[1104] Cf. Introduction, p. 60. I shih chi shih, or The Origin of Things, although of modern date, gives an account of the introduction of the various Things among the Chinese.
[1105] Apud Werner, op. cit., p. 277.
[1106] Mr. Wei-Ching W. Yen, Address before the fourth International Fishery Congress, Washington, 1908.
[1107] See H. A. Giles, Chinese Biographical Dict., 1898, p. 135, No. 343.
[1108] See Ibid., No. 34.
[1109] Legge, Chinese Classics, I. p. 67.
[1110] Op. cit., p. 250.