Title: A misleading book for western readers
Product review: Dr. Anne Birrell does not understand the Chinese text called "Shan Hai Jing". She was misled by the Chinese scholars, both ancient and modern and made wrong interpretations of the records in the text. She merely scratched the surface of it and immediately rushed into her own conclusion as stated in the Introduction. The translations of the names of places are wrong and unacceptable. She cannot make use of the figures regarding the distances of the mountains to do calculations, and says that the lands are all imaginery. In fact the landscape described in "Shan Hai Jing" is that of Asia during the Cretaceous Period which is 67million years ago but Dr Birrell does not know about it. This translation has no value at all and it will mislead the western readers who cannot read Chinese.Written by C. C. Teng (cryogenic physicist)December 7, 2010, in Kuala Lumpur.
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