Xi yu fan guo zhi
Report by a diplomatic envoy
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Xiyu Fanguo Zhi (Chinese: 西域番國志; lit. "Records of Honourable Countries of the Western Regions") was a report submitted by the Ming dynasty envoy Chen Cheng to the Yongle Emperor about the eighteen countries and territories he traveled through during 1414–1415 as a member of an embassy contingency to the Timurid Empire in Central Asia.
Contents
English translation
There is no complete translation of the Xi Yu Fan Guo Zhi, however, there is an English translation of the first chapter:
- Morris Rossabi: "A Translation of Ch'en Ch'eng's Hsi-Yü Fan-Kuo Chih", Ming Studies, 17 (1983): 49–59.
Further reading
- Morris Rossabi, "Two Ming Envoys to Inner Asia," T'oung Pao, LXII/1-3 1976, 1-34.
- F. J. Hecker, "A fifteenth-century Chinese diplomat in Herat", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3rd series p85-91, 1993.
- Emil Bretschneider Mediaeval Researches vol 2, p 147.