The Chinese travelers of the Ming period
By: Gabriele Foccardi.
Publisher: O. Harrassowitz; Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Subjects: Travlers -- China.; Southeast Asia -- Description and travel.; China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
English and Chinese.
"Excerpts from the Yung-lo encyclopaedia, Ma Huan's Triumphant visions of the boundless ocean, Fei Hsin's Marvellous visions from the starry raft, Chang Hsieh's Researches into the eastern and western oceans."