Western origin of the early Chinese civilisation from 2300 BC to 200 AD

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WESTERN ORIGIN
OF THE
EARLY CHINESE CIVILISATION
Other Works of Prof. Dr. Terrien de Lacouperie on
Oriental Archaeology.
Eakly History of the Chinese Civilisation. A Lecture. London,
1880.
The Languages of China before the Chinese (with Researches on
the Arrival of the Chinese and the Sources of their Civilisation),
8vo., 148 pp., 1887; French edition, 1888, 210 pp., greatly en-
larged, fLaureated hy the French Institute, i
Formosa Notes, on Mss., Languages, and Races, 1887, 82 pp.
The Old Babylonian Characters and their Chinese Derivates, 1888.
Catalogue of Chinese Coins from the Vllth cent. B.C. to A.D. 621,
including the series in the British Museum, 18'.»2, cr. 4to., Ixxi.,
443 pp. (^Laureated by the French Institute.)
The Oldest Book of the Chinese, the Yh King, and its Authors.
Vol. I. History and Method, 1892, 8vo„ xxvii , 121 pp.
Beginnings of Writing in Central and Eastern Asia. Notes on
450 Embryo-writings and scripts. 1894, 8vo., 207 pp.
Asiatic Studies (8 mem.) Svo.
Babylonian and Chinese Researches (10 mem.) iSvo.
Across Ancient Asia (IG mem.) 8vo.
And over 1:^0 papern and arufinal articles on separate subjects (Sinology,
Assyrioloyy, ChaIdea-Chinese, Fthnoloyy, Linyuistics, and Numis-
matics of the East.)
In Preparation.
History of the Civilisation of China. 2 Vols.
Indo-Chinese Philology, and its place in the Science of Language.
WESTERN
ORIGIN
OF THE
;arly Chinese Civilisation-
FROM TO
2,300 B.C. 200 A.D.
R, CHAPTERS ON THE ELEMENTS DERIVED FROM THE OLD
CIVILISATIONS OF WEST ASIA IN THE FORMATION
OF THE ANCIENT CHINESE CULTURE.
BY
TERRIEN DE LACOUPERIE
London
:
ASHER & Co., 13, Bedford Street, Covent Garden,
1894.
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