AN SHIH-KAO, or An Ch’ing (the latter is said to be his personal name, the former his courtesy name), the…

AN LU-SHAN, frontier general of mixed Sogdian and Turkish ancestry who rose to high rank during the latter part of…

AN-HSI (Middle Chinese an-sik), name by which the Parthian empire was known to the Chinese, a transcription of Aršak-, the…

CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS i. In Pre-Islamic Times Contact between China and Iran was initiated toward the end of the 2nd century…

CH’IEN HAN SHU (Qian Han shu) “History of the Former Han Dynasty,” a historical work which includes information on Iran….