该书介绍了古希腊罗马与古代中国对彼此历史的镜像化误读,突出了对西方作家笔下的中国从语源、历史地理、文献学等角度的介绍。彼此缺乏直接交往的东西方古文明之间,对对方的记载更多的是绮丽的幻想。从幻想西方文献之镜中的中国形象的历史里,可以看到的不只是对方的映像,也是西方世界自己的形象。 The book introduces the mirrored misunderstanding of the history of each other by ancient Greece and Rome and ancient China, highlighting the introduction of China’s etymology, historical geography, and philology from the perspective of Western writers. Lack of direct contact between each other between the ancient civilizations of the East and the West, on the other side of the record is more beautiful fantasy. From the fantasy history of the Chinese image in the mirror of Western literature, we can see not only the images of each other but also the images of the Western world itself.