Mu Tianzi Zhuan - Sino-Platonic Papers

YU Taishan, “The Communication Lines between East and West as Seen in the Mu Tianzi Zhuan”
Sino-Platonic Papers, 197 (January, 2010)
15 On the griffins in Inner Eurasia, see Hayashi.
16 See Mori.
17 See Wang Y., pp. 26–27, 183–184.
18 See Wang Y., p. 189.
19 See Huang.
20 See Ogawa.
21 See Wang Y., p. 87.
22 See Yu2003.
23
It is recorded in the “Wanghuijie” chapter of the Yi Zhoushu that “The Daxia produces Zibai
oxen.” Kong’s commentary: “The Daxia were the northwest Rong.” [《逸周書·王會解》:
“大夏茲白牛”。孔注:“大夏,西北戎”。]
24 On the source of the Daxia, see Yu2000, pp. 1–28.
25 On the Jusou, see Yu2000, pp. 111–124.
26 See Mori.
27
In the Hanshu, ch. 96A, it is recorded that “Anxi subjugated it and treated it as an outer state;
the people are expert at conjuring. The elders of Anxi 安息 have learned by hearsay that in
Tiaozhi there is the Weak Water and the Queen Mother of the West; but they have all the
same never seen them. If you travel by water westward from Tiaozhi for more than a hundred
days you draw near the place where the sun sets.” In the “Memoir on the Western Rong” of
the Weilüe, it is recorded that “Former generations erred in considering Tiaozhi as situated
west of Da Qin; the truth as now known is that it is east of it. Former generations likewise
erred in considering it stronger than Anxi; now we know that it is on the contrary subject to it,
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