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Author: (Tang) Huichao
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Publishing Date: 2000-04-01
Features: Huichao traveled to India in the Tang Dynasty to seek Buddhist teachings and wrote The Journey to the Five Continents upon his return. This book records the conditions of the countries he passed through, serving as important material for studying Central Asia and India in the 8th century. The entire book is lost, with only fragments surviving in Dunhuang manuscripts. Scholars from both China and abroad have extensively researched it, and the annotations draw on various insights while adding their own, providing detailed discussions on historical events. The Record of a Journey Along the Silk Road was written by Du Huan, who was captured by the army of the Islamic Caliphate during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty. He traveled through various regions in Central and Western Asia before returning to China and compiling this book to record his observations in the Islamic world. It is one of the earliest Chinese records of the Islamic world. The original book is lost, but it has been reconstructed from The Compendium of All Dynasties with detailed annotations.