JOURNAL OF

ASIAN HISTORY
Edited by
Dorothee Schaab-Hanke and Achim Mittag

Special Edition Edited by Ralph Kauz:

Chinese and Asian Geographical
and Cartographical Views
on Central Asia
and Its Adjacent Regions

49 (2015) 1/2

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 Contents

Ralph KAUZ, LIU Yingsheng, Nurlan KENZHEAKHMET, and Hyunhee PARK,

Introductory Notes 1
NIU Ruji ,
The Tianshan Mountain Range:
The Pivotal Line of Converging Asian Civilizations 5
Paul D. BUELL,
Early Mongolian Geographical Conceptions 19
Michal BIRAN,
The Mental Maps of Mongol Central Asia
as Seen from the Mamluk Sultanate 31
ONO Hiroshi ,
fi-i Abrs Geographical Work, the So-called Jughrfiy:
Its Significance and Evaluation in Relation to Rashd al-dns Works 53
Daniel C. WAUGH,
The View from the North: Muscovite Cartography of Inner Asia 69
INABA Minoru ,
From Caojuzha to Ghazna/Ghaznn:
Early Medieval Chinese and Muslim Descriptions of Eastern Afghanistan 97
Hyunhee Park ,
Information Synthesis and Space Creation:
The Earliest Chinese Maps of Central Asia and the Silk Road, 12651270 119
Nurlan KENZHEAKHMET,
Central Asian Place Names in the Kangnido 141
RONG Xinjiang ,
Reality or Tale?
Marco Polos Description of Khotan 161
Morris ROSSABI,
Notes on Gazetteers and Officials in Northwest China
and Sixteenth Century Knowledge of Central Asia 175

Journal of Asian History 49 (2015)

IV Contents

LIN Meicun ,
A Study on the Court Cartographers of the Ming Empire 187
LIU Yingsheng ,
Cities and Routes of Ferghana
in the Xiyu tudi renwu le and the Xiyu tudi renwu tu 229
Ralph KAUZ,
Michel Didiers Chen Cheng (13651457), ambassadeur des premiers empereurs Ming:

A Review Article, or Some Considerations of the Geographical Knowledge

on the Silk Road During the Early Ming Dynasty 253