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0070 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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attacks from across the T'ien-shan. But the first Chinese
effort failed, and it was not until thirteen years later that
Hami was reoccupied by the Chinese.

But meanwhile the Tarim basin had become the scene of
events which in the end placed the Empire once again in
undisputed possession of that great passage land. By a series
of remarkable exploits the famous Pan Ch'ao, the greatest
of the soldier statesmen who ever served China's Central-
Asian policy, succeeded in re-establishing effective imperial
authority throughout the Tarim basin. Starting by the old
desert route from the side of Lop, he gradually gained mastery
over the chiefs of Khotan, Yarkand and Kashgar, not so
much by the force of arms as by bold bluff and skilful
diplomacy. Pan Ch'ao's maxim, as stated by him in a very
interesting memorial to the Emperor, "was to use the bar-
barians for attacking the barbarians".

Chinese political influence was, in consequence of Pan
Ch'ao's triumphs, extended westwards even beyond the
Pamirs. Diplomatic relations were established with the Par-
thians and direct contact sought with distant Ta-ts'in or
Syria by means of a mission which A.D. 97 appears to have
reached the sea in the Persian Gulf. By A.D. 102, when Pan
Ch'ao, grown old and laden with imperial honours, re-
turned to the distant capital soon to end his days there,
Chinese prestige and power in Central Asia may be said to
have reached its culminating point. It is just about this time
that we may assume *Scythia extra Imaon*, or the Tarim basin,
to have been traversed by the trade agents of that Mace-
donian merchant, Maës Titianus, whose reports enabled
Marinus of Tyre and through him Ptolemy, the Alex-
andrian geographer, to furnish us with information on the