Zhu Fan Zhi

A page from Zhu fan zhi, with description of Jiaozhi.

Zhu Fan Zhi (simplified Chinese: 诸蕃志; traditional Chinese: 諸蕃志; pinyin: Zhū Fān Zhì; Wade–Giles: Chu-fan-chi), variously translated as A Description of Barbarian Nations, Records of Foreign People,[1] or other similar titles,[2][3][4] is a 13th-century Song Dynasty work by Zhao Rukuo. The work is a collection of descriptions of countries and various products from outside China, and it is considered an important source of information on the people, customs and in particular the traded commodities of many countries in South East Asia and around the Indian Ocean during the Song Dynasty.[5]

  1. ^ Peter Francis (30 June 2002). Asia's Maritime Bead Trade: 300 B.C. to the Present. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0824823320.
  2. ^ Shirley Fish (18 May 2011). The Manila-Acapulco Galleons : The Treasure Ships of the Pacific. AuthorHouse. p. 103. ISBN 9781456775438.
  3. ^ Laura Hostetler (2008). Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China. Brill. p. 233. ISBN 978-9004165076.
  4. ^ Yongxiang Lu, ed. (2014). A History of Chinese Science and Technology, Volume 2. Springer. p. 289. ISBN 9783662441664.
  5. ^ Derek Heng Thiam Soon (June 2001). "The Trade in Lakawood Products between South China and the Malay World from the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries AD". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 32 (2): 133–149. doi:10.1017/s0022463401000066. JSTOR 20072321.

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