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    Ma Huan (simplified Chinese: 马欢; traditional Chinese: 馬歡; pinyin: Huān, Xiao'erjing: ﻣَﺎ ﺧُﻮًا) (c. 1380–1460), courtesy name Zongdao (Chinese: 宗道;...
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    (1405–1433)—Ma Huan describes the culture, customs, various social and economic aspects of Chao-Wa (Java) during Majapahit period. Ma Huan visited Java...
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  • cloth with a sturdy construction. Chinese translator, voyager and writer Ma Huan noted ''Man - chê - ti'' in addition to other Indian cotton varieties in...
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    Ma Huan and published in 1451, is a book about the countries visited by the Chinese over the course of the Ming treasure voyages led by Zheng He. Ma Huan...
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    relations with Ming China and the Golden Horde, with Chinese diplomats like Ma Huan and Chen Cheng regularly traveling west to Samarkand to buy and sell goods...
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    afterword of the Yingya Shenglan that Ma Huan and Guo Chongli had visited Mecca (Mills 1970, 35–36 & 41–42), (3) Ma Huan wrote in his foreword that he spoke...
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    addition to accounts written by Zheng's officers, such as Yingya Shenglan by Ma Huan and Xingcha Shenglan by Fei Xin. It is the earliest known Chinese map to...
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    third voyage, Zheng also visited Malacca. His companion and translator, Ma Huan, described Malacca in his Yingya Shenglan. Formerly part of Thailand, Malacca...
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    Zheng He (redirect from Ma Sanbao)
    of the Ocean Shores (瀛涯勝覽, Yíngyá Shènglǎn), composed by the translator Ma Huan in 1416, gives very detailed accounts of his observations of people's customs...
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    documented references to Kochi occur in books written by Chinese voyager Ma Huan during his visit to Kochi in the 15th century as part of Admiral Zheng...
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  • ISBN 9787114002298. Ma Huan (1970). J.V.G. Mills (ed.). Ying-Yai Sheng-Lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores'. p. 258. ISBN 9780521010320. Ma Huan (1970)...
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    settlements, together with Tuban, Gresik, and Hujung Galuh (Sidoarjo). Ma Huan documented the early 15th-century visit of Zheng He's treasure ships in...
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    this expedition comes from the book of one of its participants, Ma Huan. In 1451, Ma Huan described Sonargaon as a fortified walled city, with a royal court...
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  • King Huan of Zhou (Chinese: 周桓王; pinyin: Zhōu Huán Wáng; Wade–Giles: Chou Huan Wang; died 697 BC), personal name Ji Lin (姬林), was the fourteenth king...
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    Tang dynasty. Ma He (Mahmud Shams), famous Chinese admiral and explorer. Ma Huan, Chinese explorer, translator, and travel writer. Ma Dong-seok known...
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  • with those of the Chinese writers who were on Zheng He's ships, such as Ma Huan (writing in 1433) and Fei Xin (writing in about 1436). After the return...
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    documented references to Kochi occur in the books written by Chinese voyager Ma Huan, during his visit to Kochi in the 15th century as part of the treasure...
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    (Clusiaceae)". Phytotaxa. 373 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.373.1.1. Ma, Huan; Feng, Chengjun; Mills, John Vivian Gottlieb (2 December 1970). Ying-yai...
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    of the Malacca entrepôt was then recorded by the first Chinese visitor, Ma Huan, who travelled together with Admiral Zheng He. On his descriptions, he...
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    culture. In Yingya Shenglan—a record about Zheng He's expedition (1405–1433)—Ma Huan describes that all men in Majapahit, from the king to commoners, from a...
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    not even qualifying as a polity prior to the voyages according to both Ma Huan and Fei Xin, and was a vassal region of Siam. In 1405, the Ming court dispatched...
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  • Dreyer (2007), Fei Xin's book was strongly influenced by Ma Huan's Yingya Shenglan. Ma Huan was a translator and interpreter on Zheng He's fourth, sixth...
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    shipping links to China, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. In 1406, Ma Huan found Sonargaon as a large metropolis. Other Chinese envoys provided descriptions...
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    was probably done on Arab-style baghlah ships. The Chinese Muslim envoy Ma Huan wrote about a flourishing shipbuilding industry and Bengal's significant...
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    shores' (1433) a written account by Zheng He's chronicler and translator Ma Huan: "the main states of the northern part of Sumatra were already Islamic...
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    finally freedom from British rule in 1947. According to the Chinese traveler Ma Huan, who describes visiting Calicut in the Yingya Shenglan, Calicut was a place...
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    Propyläen Technikgeschichte, Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, ISBN 3-549-05633-8 Ma, Huan (1997) Ying-yai sheng-lan [The overall survey of the ocean's shores (1433)]...
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    whole freightage of such vessels put here and fit out others like them". Ma Huan (1403), the Chinese sailor part of the Imperial Chinese fleet under Cheng...
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    six centuries, with overt and explicit references by the Chinese voyager Ma Huan (1433) and subsequently by European visitors (Van Neck, 1604; Gisbert Heeck...
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    port of Aden. This event was recorded in the book Yingyai Shenglan by Ma Huan who accompanied the imperial envoy. In 1513, the Portuguese, led by Afonso...
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