A STUDY OF THE EARLY LITERATURES ON THE SILK ROAD是同作者《早期絲綢之路文獻研究》一書的英文版,是作者對早期絲綢之路考證研究的專著。 《早期絲綢之路文獻研究》對東方和西方的有關絲綢之路的古代文獻資料進行了細致的考證、研究,求得不同語種文獻的相互印證,從而確認古代東西交流的史實。全書分上卷、下卷、附卷三部分,對于《穆天子傳》、《西域圖記》、《歷史》、《地理志》等中外古籍均有詳實的考證和獨到的比較研究。
PREFACE ...... 1 PART Ⅰ ...... 3 CHAPTER 1 Communication Lines between East and West as Seen in Mutianzizhuan ...... 5 CHAPTER 2 On the Route of Faxian’s 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 Narendraya??as, Jinagupta and Dharmagupta to China ...... 61 CHAPTER 4 On the “Three Roads” from Dunhuang to the Western Sea as Seen in Pei Ju??s Xiyutuji ...... 101 CHAPTER 5 Records on Land Communication Routes between East and West in the Official 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 Great’s Eastern Expedition in Arrian’s Anabasis Alexandri ...... 162 CHAPTER 3 An Introduction to Isidores?? Stathmoi Parthikoi ...... 182 CHAPTER 4 The Description of the Silk Road in Ptolemy’s 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