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Zhu Fan Zhi

1225 · 13th century

The Zhu Fan Zhi ('Records of Foreign Peoples') is a Chinese work completed around 1225 by Zhao Rugua, a Song dynasty superintendent of maritime trade at Quanzhou. Based on interviews with merchants and sailors, it describes the countries, peoples and goods of Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean and beyond, from Srivijaya and Ma-i to Arabia and East Africa. It is a key source for Asian maritime trade in the Song period.

Zhu Fan Zhi
Image: Zhao Ru Kuo (Chinese:趙汝适, 1170-1228) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Zhu Fan Zhi. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/zhu-fan-zhi
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