CHAPTER 1 Communication Lines between East and West as Seen in Mutianzizhuan 5
CHAPTER 2 On the Route of Faxians Pilgrimage to India and the Journeys of Zhimeng and Tanwujie to India 31
CHAPTER 3 Some Problems on the Mission of Song Yun and Huisheng to the Western Regions,and the Routes of Narendrayaśas,Jinagupta and Dharmagupta to China 61
CHAPTER 4 On the "Three Roads" from Dunhuang to the Western Sea as Seen in Pei Juʼs Xiyutuji 101
CHAPTER 5 Records on Land Communication Routes between East and West in the Offi Histories of the Han,Wei,Jin,Southern and Northern Dynasties 121
PART Ⅱ 143
CHAPTER 1 The Steppe Road Recorded in Herodotus History 145
CHAPTER 2 The Record of the Route of Alexander the Greats Eastern Expedition in Arrians Anabasis Alexandri 162
CHAPTER 3 An Introduction to Isidoresʼ Stathmoi Parthikoi 182
CHAPTER 4 The Description of the Silk Road in Ptolemys Geography 198
APPENDIX 219
CHAPTER 1 A Textual Study on the Data of Watercourses in the Western Regions as Seen in the "Heshui" of Shuijingzhu (ch.2) 221
CHAPTER 2 A Concise Commentary on the "Travels of Song Yun" 274
BIBLIOGRAPHY 319
INDEX 341
POSTSCRIPT 354
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