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The text consists of five volumes of the official history, with a particular focus on Ryûkyû-China relations, plus an additional volume focusing on relations between the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] and [[Satsuma han]]. It suppresses discussion of the kingdom's military, or military activities, and presents the history of the kingdom in a mode resembling that of the Chinese dynastic histories - a moral drama, emphasizing the virtue of individual rulers or entire dynasties.<ref name=smits>[[Gregory Smits]], presentation at "[http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/japan/event2013/Index.htm#symposium Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan]" symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 11 Feb 2013.</ref>
The text consists of five volumes of the official history, with a particular focus on Ryûkyû-China relations, plus an additional volume focusing on relations between the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] and [[Satsuma han]]. It suppresses discussion of the kingdom's military, or military activities, and presents the history of the kingdom in a mode resembling that of the Chinese dynastic histories - a moral drama, emphasizing the virtue of individual rulers or entire dynasties.<ref name=smits>[[Gregory Smits]], presentation at "[http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/japan/event2013/Index.htm#symposium Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan]" symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 11 Feb 2013.</ref>
[[Gregory Smits]] has suggested that ''Chûzan seifu'' was not a text compiled separately, but was rather a modified version of the [[1650]] history ''[[Chuzan seikan|Chûzan seikan]]'', altered to present a more pro-China version of events. Such altered versions of Ryukyuan histories were commonly given as gifts to the Chinese Court by [[Ryukyuan students in China]].<ref name=smits/>
[[Gregory Smits]] has suggested that ''Chûzan seifu'' was not a text compiled separately, but was rather a modified version of the [[1650]] history ''[[Chuzan seikan|Chûzan seikan]]'', altered to present a more pro-China version of events. Such altered versions of Ryukyuan histories were commonly given as gifts to the Chinese Court by [[Ryukyuan students in China]],<ref name=smits/> or were presented to [[Chinese investiture envoys]] in Ryûkyû.<ref>Gregory Smits, "Rethinking Ryukyu," ''International Journal of Okinawan Studies'' 6:1 (2015), 1.</ref>
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