• Zhou Daguan (Wade–Giles: Chou Ta-kuan; French: Tcheou Ta-Kouan; c. 1270–?) was a Chinese diplomat of the Yuan dynasty of China, serving under Temür Khan...
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    his entourages created quite a spectacle, as described in Zhou Daguan's accounts. Zhou Daguan's description of a royal procession of Indravarman III is...
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    Angkor (section Zhou Daguan)
    sapping the strength of Angkor at the time of Zhou Daguan toward the end of the 13th century. In his memoirs, Zhou reported that the country had been completely...
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    written by the Yuan dynasty Chinese official Zhou Daguan who stayed in Angkor between 1296 and 1297. Zhou's account is of great historical significance...
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    Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Indonesia. According to Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan's account, onions, mustard, chives, eggplants, watermelons, winter gourds...
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    center till the present day. Historical records show that Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan and traveller Zheng He visited the Angkor Wat in the 13-14th centuries...
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    Indochina. The name was still used in the 13th century by the Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan, author of The Customs of Cambodia. It appears on the Mao Kun map. However...
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    LCCN 72-79318 Zhou, Daguan (2007) The customs of Cambodia, translated into English from the French version by Paul Pelliot of Zhou's Chinese original...
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    Southeast Asia's oldest civilizations. According to Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan, who was sent to Cambodia by Temür Khan, Siamese people were skilled...
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  • Kaundinyavarmandeva (Khmer: កៅណ្ឌិន្យទី១), the first King of the Varman Dynasty. Zhou Daguan, the Chinese diplomat during the reign Emperor Nian Chengzong of the...
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    victims, the Xinhua Charitable Foundation to help the poor, and the Zhou Daguan Foundation to raise funds to help children with cancer. During the Qianlong...
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    Written records, bas-reliefs and the report of the Chinese emissary Zhou Daguan who stayed in Angkor in 1296 show that looms have been used to weave...
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    received envoys from Siam and Cambodia. He dispatched Zhou Daguan to Khmer Cambodia in 1296, and Zhou wrote an account about his journey. In 1299 Athinkaya...
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    the 13th century, during the Angkorian era, when the Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan visited the area. Modern intensive production was initiated under the...
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  • unique among all imperial rulers. In August 1296, the Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan arrived at Angkor and remained at the court of king Srindravarman until...
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    geographers such as Liu An, Pei Xiu, Jia Dan, Shen Kuo, Fan Chengda, Zhou Daguan, and Xu Xiake wrote important treatises, yet by the 17th century advanced...
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    and Neighboring Countries. White Lotus. p. 32. ISBN 978-9744801890. Zhou Daguan (2007). A Record of Cambodia. Translated by Peter Harris. University...
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    Little is known of Vũng Tàu during the Funan and Chenla period. In 1295, Zhou Daguan (Chinese: 周達觀), a Yuan Chinese diplomat serving under Temur Khan, passed...
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    appearance apparently impressed Temür Khan's late 13th century envoy Zhou Daguan during his visit from 1296 to 1297, who said it was 'the Tower of Bronze...
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  • an apsara (female spirit) holding an olla book. The Chinese visitor Zhou Daguan, who toured the Khmer capital in 1292, also relates in his travelogue...
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    Empire) was documented in the book Zhen-La Feng Tu Ji of 1297, written by Zhou Daguan. After the fall of the western Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire...
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    instances. Records from around 1296–1297, by Chinese envoy and diplomat Zhou Daguan show several fabrics of high quality were produced locally in Angkor...
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    was apparently the temple that most impressed the Chinese traveller Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor toward the end of the 13th century. Its unique relief...
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  • with accounts of customs in the thirteenth century by Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan. The first extensive description of the Khmer wedding was published in...
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    700 years. This is mentioned in an account by a Chinese observer named Zhou Daguan who visited the Angkor Wat area of Cambodia in 1296–1297. He observed...
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    Khleangs.: 95  The tower was originally crowned with a golden pinnacle, as Zhou Daguan described it in The Customs of Cambodia, written in 1297 CE. According...
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    LCCN 72-79318 Zhou, Daguan (2007) The customs of Cambodia, translated into English from the French version by Paul Pelliot of Zhou's Chinese original...
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  • weapon, a bat made of ironwood. In August 1296, the Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan arrived in Angkor and recorded, "In the recent war with the Siamese,...
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    the Sea. NUS Press. ISBN 9789971695583. Retrieved January 13, 2018. Zhou Daguan (2007). A Record of Cambodia. Translated by Peter Harris. University...
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    is Jayavarman as he would have wished to have appeared to his people" Zhou Daguan refers to Neak Pean in his visit to Angkor in the late 13th century....
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