Notes in Answer to Questions about the Lands beyond the (Zhou Qufei (周去非))

A Guangxi official's notes, written twenty years before 1200, on the south-western frontier of the Song and the countries beyond. Its chapters on foreign lands describe Annan (Dai Viet) in detail, with the Ly court, its frontier markets with Guangxi and its wars; Champa; Zhenla; Dali and its horse trade through Guangxi; Pagan; Srivijaya and Java; and more distant lands. It is the source Zhao Rukuo copied for the Zhu fan zhi, and is closer to 1200 and more first hand for Dai Viet and Dali. The original was lost and the text was recovered from the Yongle encyclopedia.

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Title: Lingwai daida (嶺外代答)
Author: Zhou Qufei (周去非)
Author's dates: 1135 to 1189
Written: 1178, after service in Guangxi
Language: Chinese
Covers: Guangxi and the far south of the Song, the non-Chinese chiefs of the south-west, Dai Viet, Champa, Cambodia, Dali, the ports of the southern seas and the countries beyond, as of the 1170s
Kind: Geography

Netolitzky's German translation and Almonte's partial English translation (2020) are under copyright. Hirth and Rockhill's Chau Ju-kua (1911, free) translates the passages Zhao Rukuo borrowed.

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Editions

Yang Wuquan (ed.), Lingwai daida jiaozhu, Zhonghua Shuju (1999) (not freely online)
Lingwai daida, Chinese text (Beijing, Wendiange shuzhuang, 1900 printing)
Yang Wuquan (ed.), Lingwai daida jiaozhu (Beijing, Zhonghua shuju, 1999), the annotated edition; in copyright (not freely online)

Translations

A. Netolitzky, Das Ling-wai tai-ta von Chou Ch'ü-fei (Wiesbaden, 1977), German (not freely online)
A. Netolitzky, Das Ling-wai tai-ta von Chou Ch'u-fei (Wiesbaden, 1977), German; in copyright (not freely online)
Extracts in English in Hirth and Rockhill, Chau Ju-kua (1911), notes

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Wikipedia: Lingwai Daida

Notes in Answer to Questions about the Lands beyond the Passes