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Jingxingji, the Glossary

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The Jingxingji (literally "Record of Travels") was a now lost journey book written by Du Huan shortly after he returned to China in 762 from the Abbasid Caliphate.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 15 relations: Abbasid Caliphate, Édouard Chavannes, Bai Shouyi, Byzantine Empire, China, Du Huan, Encyclopedia of China, English language, Friedrich Hirth, Henry Yule, Paul Pelliot, Taiping Yulan, Tongdian, Wang Guowei, Wenxian Tongkao.

  2. 8th-century Chinese books
  3. 8th-century history books
  4. Tang dynasty literature

Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Édouard Chavannes

Émmanuel-Édouard Chavannes (5 October 1865 – 29 January 1918) was a French sinologist and expert on Chinese history and religion, and is best known for his translations of major segments of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, the work's first ever translation into a Western language.

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Bai Shouyi

Bai Shouyi (February 1909 – March 21, 2000), also known as Djamal al-Din Bai Shouyi, was a Chinese ethnologist, historian, social activist, and writer who revolutionized recent Chinese historiography and pioneered in relying heavily on scientific excavations and reports.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Du Huan

Du Huan was a Chinese travel writer born in Chang'an during the Tang dynasty.

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Encyclopedia of China

The Encyclopedia of China is the first large-entry modern encyclopedia in the Chinese language.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Friedrich Hirth

Friedrich Hirth Ph.D. (16 April 1845 in Gräfentonna, Saxe-Gotha – 10 January 1927 in Munich) was a German-American sinologist.

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Henry Yule

Colonel Sir Henry Yule (1 May 1820 – 30 December 1889) was a Scottish Orientalist and geographer.

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Paul Pelliot

Paul Eugène Pelliot (28 May 187826 October 1945) was a French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tibetan Empire-era manuscripts and Chinese texts at the Sachu printing center storage caves (Dunhuang), known as the Dunhuang manuscripts.

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Taiping Yulan

The Taiping Yulan, translated as the Imperial Reader or Readings of the Taiping Era, is a massive Chinese leishu encyclopedia compiled by a team of scholars from 977 to 983.

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Tongdian

The Tongdian is a Chinese institutional history and encyclopedia text. Jingxingji and Tongdian are 8th-century Chinese books, 8th-century history books, Chinese history book stubs, Chinese history texts and Tang dynasty literature.

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Wang Guowei

Wang Guowei (2 December 18772 June 1927) or Wang Kuo-wei, courtesy name Jing'an (靜安) or Boyu (伯隅), was a Chinese historian and poet.

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Wenxian Tongkao

The Wenxian Tongkao or Tongkao was one of the model works of the Tongdian compiled by Ma Duanlin in 1317, during the Yuan Dynasty. Jingxingji and Wenxian Tongkao are Chinese history book stubs and Chinese history texts.

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See also

8th-century Chinese books

8th-century history books

Tang dynasty literature

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingxingji

Also known as Chinghsingchi, Jing Xing Ji, Jingxing Ji, Record of Travels.