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Forbes says the book was an "1898 novel" and yet the T'oung Pao article says it was an 1892 novel" - I chose 1982 because the T'oung Pao seems like a more scholarly source and it was serialized so it is possible it ran from 1892 to 1898 WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:57, 25 October 2013 (UTC) reply