In his article The Ancient Maritime Culture in China and the Asiatic Mediterranean,phblished in 1954,the present author advanced the hypothesis that the Chinese civilization is polygenetic in derivation and accumulative in formation,and that the lowest stratum of it is an Maritime culture,originally developed in the coastal areas of the Asiatic Mediterranean and represented in historical literature by the names Yih夷,Yueh 越,or Man 蠻 Mo 貊。 |