Zhao Rukuo

Zhao Rukuo (simplified Chinese: 赵汝适; traditional Chinese: 趙汝适; pinyin: Zhào Rǔkuò; 1170–1231), also romanised as Zhao Rugua, Chau Ju-kua, or as Zhao Rushi, 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; the first volume is a list of foreign places with descriptions of each place and the customs of its local people. The second volume is a catalog of trade goods. Quotes Zhu Fan Zhi Chau Ju-kua: His Work on the Chinese And Arab Trade in the Twelfth And Thirteenth Centuries, Entitled Chu-fan-chï, translated by Friedrich Hirth and William Woodville Rockhill (St. Petersburg: Printing Office of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1911) When sailing from Lan-wu-li to Si-lan, if the wind is not fair, ships maybe driven to a place called Yen-tʿo-man. This is a group of two islands in the middle of the sea, one of them being large, the other small; the latter is quite uninhabited. The large one measures seventy li in circuit. The natives on it are of a colour resembling black lacquer; they eat men alive, so that sailors dare not anchor on this coast. I.38 (Andaman Islands) External links Category:1170s births Category:1231 deaths Category:Authors from China