Zhao Rukuo

Zhao Rukuo[1][2] (simplified Chinese: 赵汝适; traditional Chinese: 趙汝适; pinyin: Zhào Rǔkuò; 1170–1231), also romanised as Zhao Rugua,[3] Chau Ju-kua,[4] or misread as Zhao Rushi,[5] was a Chinese government official and writer during the Song dynasty. He wrote a two-volume book titled Zhu Fan Zhi. The book deals with the world known to the Chinese in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries;[6] the first volume is a list of foreign places with descriptions of each place and the customs of its local people.[7] The second volume is a catalog of trade goods.

  1. ^ Fan & Hargett 2011
  2. ^ "Zhao Rukuo". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  3. ^ Park 2012, pp. 50–52
  4. ^ Hirth & Rockhill 1911, p. V
  5. ^ Zheng 2011, p. 209
  6. ^ "Old Chinese Book Tells of the World 800 Years Ago; Chau-Ju-Kua's Chronicles of the Twelfth Century, Now First Translated, Give a "Description of Barbarous Peoples Picked Up by This Noted Inspector of Foreign Trade and Descendant of Emperors". New York Times. December 29, 2012.
  7. ^ Cœdès 1968, p. 186