First page of the map with part of the introduction
Mao Kun map, usually referred to in modern Chinese sources as Zheng He's Navigation Map (traditional Chinese: 鄭和航海圖; simplified Chinese: 郑和航海图; pinyin: Zhèng Hé hánghǎi tú), is a set of navigation charts published in the Ming dynasty military treatise Wubei Zhi.[1] The book was compiled by Mao Yuanyi [zh] in 1621 and published in 1628; the name of the map refers to his grandfather Mao Kun (Chinese: 茅坤; pinyin: Máo Kūn) from whose library the map is likely to have originated. The map is often regarded as a surviving document from the expeditions of Zheng He in 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 give an adequate representation of Southern Asia, Persia, Arabia and East Africa.[2]
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MaoKunmap, usually referred to in modern Chinese sources as Zheng He's Navigation Map (traditional Chinese: 鄭和航海圖; simplified Chinese: 郑和航海图; pinyin:...
The MaoKunmap is a set of navigation charts published in the Ming dynasty military treatise Wubei Zhi. It depicts the geography of eastern China, southeast...
mentioned Danmaxi (Chinese: 單馬錫; pinyin: Dānmǎxí, written as 淡馬錫 in the MaoKunmap), which is a transcription of the Malay name Temasek. Wang described...
20R of the MaoKunMap, which cover the Indian Ocean including South India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and East Africa, suggests that the map is a composite...
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example in the MaoKunmap) and it was also used in The Malay Annals, the name Temasek had become obsolete and did not appear in European maps and documents...
sometimes with different names, in the Ming dynasty. For example, in the MaoKunmap dating from Zheng He's voyage of the early 15th century, Shixing Shitang...
Temasek). The name Dan Ma Xi or Temasek is written in Chinese as 淡馬錫 in the MaoKunmap. It was recorded in 1320 that the Mongol sent a mission to obtain elephants...
claimed 15th-century map later confirmed as a 20th-century forgery Virtual Mappa, a project to digitise medieval mappa mundi MaoKunmap, also called Zheng...
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shān in modern Mandarin Chinese) during the voyages of Zheng He in the MaoKunmap of the Wu Bei Zhi. The oldest archaeological evidence for the habitation...
another participants of Zheng He's expeditions who wrote a book The "MaoKunmap" in Wubei Zhi Forbes, A.D.W. (1983), "Ma Huan", in Bosworth, C.E. (ed...
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