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Created page with "*''Author: Xu Baoguang'' *''Date: 1721'' *''Chinese/Japanese'': 中山伝信録 ''(Zhongshan chuanxin lu / Chuuzan denshin roku)'' ''Zhongshan chuanxin lu'' (J: ''ch..."
*''Author: [[Xu Baoguang]]''
*''Date: [[1721]]''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 中山伝信録 ''(Zhongshan chuanxin lu / 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.
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>
Xu's volume was published in [[Edo]] and [[Kyoto]] beginning in [[1765]], and was later re-published in a variety of different forms, some more loyal to the original than others. [[Morishima Churyo|Morishima Chûryô's]] ''[[Ryukyu-dan|Ryûkyû-dan]]'', published in [[1790]], draws extensively on the ''Chûzan denshin roku'', as do the ''[[Ryukyu nendaiki|Ryûkyû nendaiki]]'' and ''[[Ryukyu kitan|Ryûkyû kitan]]''<!--琉球奇譚-->, both published in [[1832]].
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==References==
*[[Yokoyama Manabu]], 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.
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[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Historical Documents]]
*''Date: [[1721]]''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 中山伝信録 ''(Zhongshan chuanxin lu / 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.
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>
Xu's volume was published in [[Edo]] and [[Kyoto]] beginning in [[1765]], and was later re-published in a variety of different forms, some more loyal to the original than others. [[Morishima Churyo|Morishima Chûryô's]] ''[[Ryukyu-dan|Ryûkyû-dan]]'', published in [[1790]], draws extensively on the ''Chûzan denshin roku'', as do the ''[[Ryukyu nendaiki|Ryûkyû nendaiki]]'' and ''[[Ryukyu kitan|Ryûkyû kitan]]''<!--琉球奇譚-->, both published in [[1832]].
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==References==
*[[Yokoyama Manabu]], 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.
<references/>
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Historical Documents]]