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*''Chinese'': [[周]]達觀 ''(Zhou Daguan)''
Zhou Daguan was a Chinese scholar-official dispatched by the [[Yuan Dynasty]] Court to accompany an embassy to [[Zhenla]] (Cambodia) in [[1295]]. His record of his journey was published in English translation in 2007 as ''A Record of Cambodia - The Land and its People''.
Very little is known of Zhou's biography.
He records that the Yuan established a province in [[Champa]] (southern Vietnam), and send a general and a senior commander there, who were then seized and never returned. In 1295/6, the Yuan Emperor sent an official ambassador to investigate, and to deliver an imperial edict related to the matter; Zhou Daguan was among those who were to accompany the embassy. They departed from the city of Mingzhou in [[1296]]/2, setting sail on 2/20. The embassy arrived in Champa on 3/15, finally making their way to Cambodia in the seventh month (autumn). After spending roughly eleven months in Cambodia, the embassy departed for home in [[1297]]/6, arriving at Mingzhou by 8/12 of that year.
==References==
*Zhou Daguan, Peter Harris (trans.), ''A Record of Cambodia - The Land and its People'', Silkworm Books (2007), 44-85.
[[Category:Foreigners]]
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
Zhou Daguan was a Chinese scholar-official dispatched by the [[Yuan Dynasty]] Court to accompany an embassy to [[Zhenla]] (Cambodia) in [[1295]]. His record of his journey was published in English translation in 2007 as ''A Record of Cambodia - The Land and its People''.
Very little is known of Zhou's biography.
He records that the Yuan established a province in [[Champa]] (southern Vietnam), and send a general and a senior commander there, who were then seized and never returned. In 1295/6, the Yuan Emperor sent an official ambassador to investigate, and to deliver an imperial edict related to the matter; Zhou Daguan was among those who were to accompany the embassy. They departed from the city of Mingzhou in [[1296]]/2, setting sail on 2/20. The embassy arrived in Champa on 3/15, finally making their way to Cambodia in the seventh month (autumn). After spending roughly eleven months in Cambodia, the embassy departed for home in [[1297]]/6, arriving at Mingzhou by 8/12 of that year.
==References==
*Zhou Daguan, Peter Harris (trans.), ''A Record of Cambodia - The Land and its People'', Silkworm Books (2007), 44-85.
[[Category:Foreigners]]
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]