| The Han dynasty expanded Central Asian sections of the trade routes around 114 BCE, largely through missions and explorations of the Chinese imperial envoy, Zhang Qian. |
| The inside front cover has an inscription from Qian to my father. |
| Qian must have surely shocked and awed so many people with his photographic memory of so many texts in different languages. |
| The third story in Sima Qian states that Laozi grew weary of the moral decay of life in Chengzhou and noted the kingdom's decline. |
| The student, identified as 22-year-old Eugene resident Qian Xie, was keeping the nonvenomous snake as a pet, McLaughlin said. |
| It is a cynical look at small-time academia, and it was really completely beneath the station of someone like Qian to have written it. |
