Ancient India, China and Japan

The following accounts owe little more than a related geography and a common paucity of information for their inclusion together in one chapter. As far as I know, there has been no substantial treatment in English of the early Asian literature relating to allelopathy, and doubtless much has been omitted here. Particularly in the case of China, there is a very rich body of literature of which very little has been translated into European languages. Ironically, the survival of some of these ancient documents is due to the fact that copies have found their way into Western libraries where they have been preserved, whereas native copies have perished, as for examples appears to be case with the work of the Indian writer Surapala.