Synopsis Subtitled The Golden Period of India-China Relations the work contains extremely important data on China, Central Asia and India till the middle of the tenth century AD. Of special interest are the personal relations between Emperor Harsavardhana and the Chinese Monk Xuanzang (Hiuen Tsang), the remark of the Indian emeper of after meeting the Chinese pilgrim, details about some of the accounts given by Wang Xuance, the Chinese envoy to India whose written accounts are lost now, as well as the political relations between the states of Kashmir, Tibet vis-a-vis China, and so on. A must read for scholars and students of ancient and medieval history of Asia.