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0059 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000214
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CHAPTER II

CHINESE EXPANSION INTO CENTRAL ASIA AND THE
CONTACT OF CIVILIZATIONS

With the passage land north of the Nan-shan to which
the preceding chapter has brought us, we have completed
our survey of the vast region which for close on a thousand
years served as the principal scene for that important his-
torical process, the early interpenetration of Far Eastern,
Indian and Western civilizations. It is from this side of the
area surveyed that we may start the rapid review of the
chief phases in the political history of the whole region which
is needed for the proper appreciation of that great process.
Fortunately we can gather our knowledge of the earliest of
these phases from a very reliable and precise source, the
Chinese dynastic Annals.
Efforts continued for centuries to protect the Empire from
those ever threatening neighbours, the Huns, on the side
of Mongolia, led to the conquest, under the great Emperor
Wu-ti (140–87 b.c.) of the Han dynasty, of the northern
slopes of the Nan-shan. The story may be said to start with
the adventurous Central-Asian mission of Chang Ch'ien.
About 138 b.c. the Emperor Wu-ti dispatched that young
officer to the tribe of the Great Yüeh-chih who later became
the Indo-Scythian rulers of north-western India. The object
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