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*''Author: [[Xu Baoguang]]''

*''Author: [[Xu Baoguang]]''

*''Date: [[1721]]''

*''Date: [[1721]]''

*''Chinese/Japanese'': 中山伝信録 ''(Zhongshan chuanxin lu / Chuuzan denshin roku)''

*''Chinese/Japanese'': 中山伝信録 ''(Zhōngshān chuán xìn lù / Chuuzan denshin roku)''

''Zhongshan chuanxin lu'' (J: ''chûzan denshin roku'') is an account of [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] history, politics, topography, language, and customs written by [[Chinese investiture envoys|Chinese investiture envoy]] [[Xu Baoguang]], based on his journey to Ryûkyû in [[1719]]. The volume was republished numerous times in Japan, and became one of the most widely read, and widely regarded, sources on the Ryûkyû Kingdom; numerous Chinese and Japanese works draw extensively on Xu's book.

''Zhōngshān chuán xìn lù'' (J: ''chûzan denshin roku'') is an account of [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] history, politics, topography, language, and customs written by [[Chinese investiture envoys|Chinese investiture envoy]] [[Xu Baoguang]], based on his journey to Ryûkyû in [[1719]]. The volume was republished numerous times in Japan, and became one of the most widely read, and widely regarded, sources on the Ryûkyû Kingdom; numerous Chinese and Japanese works draw extensively on Xu's book.

Along with the history, topography, governmental structures, customs, and language of Ryûkyû, the text also describes the Chinese envoys' journey to the island kingdom, and a variety of formal receptions and banquets enjoyed by the envoys, along with official rituals and ceremonies, including the investiture ceremony itself. The volume's diagrams of the maritime distances between [[Fuzhou]] and [[Naha]], and between Naha and various other locations in the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryûkyû Islands]], may be the earliest extant such record.<ref>Katrien Hendrick, ''The Origins of Banana-Fibre Cloth in the Ryukyus'', Japan, Leuven University Press (2007), 54.</ref>

Along with the history, topography, governmental structures, customs, and language of Ryûkyû, the text also describes the Chinese envoys' journey to the island kingdom, and a variety of formal receptions and banquets enjoyed by the envoys, along with official rituals and ceremonies, including the investiture ceremony itself. The volume's diagrams of the maritime distances between [[Fuzhou]] and [[Naha]], and between Naha and various other locations in the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryûkyû Islands]], may be the earliest extant such record.<ref>Katrien Hendrick, ''The Origins of Banana-Fibre Cloth in the Ryukyus'', Japan, Leuven University Press (2007), 54.</ref>