The Archive · 1880

Chinese Researches, First Part

REVIEW — Chinese Chronology and Cyetes

by Tuostas Fenauscox—Shanghai, China, This is the title of a work by the learned representative of Belgium at Chefoo, the first part of which has just appeared in a shape which will commend it to students and others interested in questions relating to China and ancient history generally.

Having in the course of his reading seen ground for disbelieving the high antiquity assigned by native authors to the history of China, and deprecating the too hasty of Comparative Philology at Oxford on the j ancient nature-worship of the Chinese. acceptance of their subject seems to be explained by the Whatever be his views on the subject, Dr. ' students, Mr. Fergusson devotes the first data by. foreign

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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