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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>

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]].

Xu's volume was published in [[Edo]] and [[Kyoto]] beginning in [[1765]], including a version published in Kyoto in [[1766]] by [[Hattori Somon]] which included ''kundoku'' marks aiding the Japanese reader to read the [[kanbun|classical Chinese]].<ref>William Fleming, “The World Beyond the Walls: Morishima Chūryō (1756-1810) and the Development of Late Edo Fiction,” PhD dissertation, Harvard University (2011), 89.</ref> The text 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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