The chapters on Western countries in the Chinese dynastic chronicles, especially: chapter 96 of the Ch'ien Han shu, chapter 118 of the Hou Han shu; chapter 97 of Peishe (Beishi); chapter 221 of the T'ang shu.
3.
The many notes in the work by Ali Mazahéri, La Route de la soie ( Paris, 1983).
4.
Aeginata, Paulus, The Seven Books of Paulus Aeginata (London, 1844-1847).
5.
T.F. Carter, rev. by L.C. Goodrich , The Invention of Printing in China and its Spread Westward (New York, 1955).
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Chau Ju-kua, Chau Jua: his work on the Chinese and Arab trade in the XIIth and XIII the centuries, entitled Chu-fan chi; translated from the Chinese and annotated by F. Hirth and W.W. Rockhill (St Petersburg, 1911).
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Chen Lang, Silu shihua (On the silk route) (Lanzhu, 1983).
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Dioscorides, Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbaei opera... ex nova interpretatione Jani-Antoni Saraceni... (Francofurti, 1598).
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J.P. Drège, "Les débuts du papier en Chine..." Accounts of the 1987 sessions at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, July-October, 642-650.
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B. Laufer, Sino-Iranica. Chinese Contributions to the History of Civilization in Ancient Iran, with Special References to the History of Cultivated Plants and Products (Chicago, 1919).
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Lin Tianwai, Sung dai xiang yao maoyi shi gao (History of the Perfume Trade in the SungEra) (Hong Kong, 1960).
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Needham, J.Science and Civilization in China (Cambridge, 1954-1990).
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Schafer, E.H.The Golden Peaches of Samarkand. A Study of T'ang Exotics, ( Berkeley, 1963).
