Xi yu fan guo zhi
西域番国志 was a report submitted by Ming dynasty envoy Chen Cheng to the Yongle Emperor about the eighteen countries and territories he traveled through during 1414-1415 as a member of an embassy contingency, to the kingdom of Timurid in Central Asia.Contents
Xi Yu Fan Guo Zhi consists of 18 chapters:
- Herat
- Samarkand
- Andkud
- Balkh
- Termez
- Shahrokhia
- Sayram
- Tashkent
- Bukhara
- Kesh
- Yanghikend
- Bishbalik
- Turpan
- Ya Er
- Yamshi
- Khocho
- Lukchun
- Kumul
There is no complete translation of the Xi Yu Fan Guo Zhi, however, there is an English translation of the first chapter:
- Morris Rossabi: "A Translation of Ch'en Ch'eng's Hsi-Yü Fan-Kuo Chih", Ming Studies, 17 : 49-59.
