• Source: Xi yu fan guo zhi

      • 西域番国志 (Pinyin: Xi Yu Fan Guo Zhi or Hsi-yü fan-kuo chih; literally "A Record of the Barbarian Countries in the Western Region.") was a report submitted by Ming dynasty envoy Chen Cheng (陈诚) 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 kingdom of Timurid in Central Asia.


      Contents


      Xi Yu Fan Guo Zhi consists of 18 chapters:

      Herat
      Samarkand
      Andkud
      Balkh
      Termez
      Shahrokhia
      Sayram
      Tashkent
      Bukhara
      Kesh
      Yanghikend
      Bishbalik
      Turpan
      Ya Er
      Yamshi
      Khocho
      Lukchun
      Kumul


      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.


      See also


      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.

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