Xi yu fan guo zhi

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Xi yu fan guo zhi 西域番国志, or Hsi-yü fan-kuo chih (literally "A Record of the Babarian Countries in the Western Region". ) was a report submitted by Ming dynasty envoy Chen Cheng (陈诚) to Emperor Yongle about the eighteen countries and territories he travelled thru during 1414-1415 as a member of an embassy contigence to the kingdom of Timurid in Central Asia (Xi Yu).

Contents 1 Chen Cheng's Travel 2 Content of Xi yu fan guo zhi 3 English Translation 4 See also

[edit] Chen Cheng's Travel

[edit] Content of Xi yu fan guo zhi

Xi yu fan guo zhi consists of 18 chapters

• Herat
• Samarkand
• Andkud
• Balkh
• Termiz
• Shahrokhia
• Sayram
• Tashkand
• Bokhara
• Kesh
• Yanghikend
• Bishbalik
• Turfan
• Ya Er
• Yamshi
• Khocho
• Lukchun
• Kumul

[edit] English Translation

There is no complete translation of the Xi yu fan guo zhi; however there is an English translation of the first chapter : Herat by Morris Rossabi.

• Morris Rossabi: "A Translation of Ch'en Ch'eng's Hsi-Yü Fan-Kuo Chih," Ming Studies, 17 (1983): 49-59.

[edit] 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, Joumal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3rd series p85-91, 1993.
• Emil Bretschneider Mediaeval Researches vol 2, p 147.