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2012-04-29 00:44WUWEI
CHINA TODAY 2012年2期

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Sino-African relations have a historythat goes back millennia. The WesternHan Dynasty (2o6 BC-AD 25) had con-tacts with Africa, and it has been sug-gested that the imperial robes of Egypt'sQueen Cleopatra were made of Chinesesilk. Zhang Qian (195-114 BC) pioneered