Daoyi Zhilüe

{{Short description|Book by Wang Dayuan}}

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Daoyi Zhilüe ({{lang-zh|t=島夷誌略|s=岛夷志略|p=Dǎo Yí Zhì Lüè|w=Tao i chih lio}}) or Daoyi Zhi ({{lang-zh|t=島夷誌|s=岛夷志|p=Dǎo Yí Zhì|w=Tao i chih}})Wang Dayuan, Yuan Dynasty. Dao Yi Zhi Lue. Explanation by Su Jiqing. Zhonghua Book Company 1981, 2000, {{ISBN|7-101-02026-7}}, In Chinese.（元）汪大渊著《岛夷志略》，苏继庼校释 1981年, 2000年 中华书局，{{ISBN|7-101-02026-7}} which may be translated as A Brief Account of Island Barbarians or other similar titles,{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4MtAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 |title= Eurasian Influences on Yuan China|editor= Morris Rossabi |page=51 |publisher=Institute for Southeast Asian Studies |date=30 August 2013 |isbn=978-9814459723 }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4QzpJtddFxEC&pg=PA233 |title=The Colonial 'civilizing Process' in Dutch Formosa: 1624 - 1662|author= Chiu Hsin-Hui |publisher=Brill |year=2008 |page=233|isbn= 978-9004165076 }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HTMyAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA320 |title=Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Construction |page=320 |publisher=Brill |year=2014|isbn=9789004237414 }}{{cite web |url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/history/events/61d49d33-d5cd-48fc-b91b-652ca64e87c4 |title=Wang Dayuan |publisher=National Library Board Singapore }} is a book written c. 1339 (completed c. 1349)Rockhill (1915). Notes on the Relations and Trade of China with the Eastern Archipelago and the Coast of the Indian Ocean During the Fourteenth Century, Part II - Introductory Note. p. 62. by Yuan dynasty Chinese traveller Wang Dayuan recounting his travels to over a hundred places in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa. The book was written in present-day Sri Lanka. It described the weather, products, people, and customs of the places that Wang Dayuan visited.

The timeline for Wang Dayuan's life and travels is:{{cite book|last1=Wang|first1=Dayuan|last2=Su|first2=Jiqing|title=Dao Yi Zhi Lue Explanatory Notes 島夷誌略校釋|date=2009|publisher=Zhong Hua Shu Ju|location=Beijing|isbn=9787101020267|page=Intro 10}}

• 1311 - born
• 1330 - sailed for the first time from Quanzhou
• 1334 - returned to Yuan dynasty
• 1337 - sailed for the second time from Quanzhou
• 1339 - returned to Yuan dynasty

The content of the book (known as Dao Yi Zhu) was originally an appendix in a local gazetteer Qing Yuan Xu Zhi ( 清源续志, A Continuation of the History and Topography of Quanzhou) composed by Wu Jian in 1349. According to the Yuan poet Zhang Zhu, Daoyi Zhilüe was re-published in 1350 as an individual travel account.{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Meiyu |date=2014 |title=Tales of the Dragon’s Tooth Strait |url=https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-10/issue-3/oct-dec-2014/dragons-tooth-strait |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=BiblioAsia |language=en}}

Andaya and Andaya write that Dao Yi Zhi Lue provides more information on areas east of the Malay Peninsula than any other Yuan dynasty source.{{cite book|last1=Andaya|first1=Barbara|last2=Andaya|first2=Leonard|title=A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1800|date=2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge; New York|isbn=9780521889926|page=20}} According to the postscript Wang Dayuan visited all the places described. However, Park notes that 90% of the text is devoted to Southeast Asia and that Wang does not give details of his route and itinerary to West Asia.{{cite book|last1=Park|first1=Hyunhee|title=Mapping the Chinese and Islamic worlds: cross-cultural exchange in pre-modern Asia|date=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge; New York|isbn=9781107018686|page=116}} However, Deng states that Wang Dayuan's account is consistent with later Ming dynasty accounts of Zheng He's travels.{{cite book|last1=Deng|first1=Geng|title=Maritime sector, institutions, and sea power of premodern China|date=1999|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Conn|isbn=0313307121|page=144}} There is currently no full English translation of the book but the Chinese version is available online.{{cite web|title=Dao Yi Zhi Lue 島夷誌略|url=http://ntireader.org/corpus_entry.php?uri=gloss/daoyizhilue-gloss.html|website=NTI Reader|publisher=NTI Buddhist Text Reader project|accessdate=17 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208145541/http://ntireader.org/corpus_entry.php?uri=gloss/daoyizhilue-gloss.html |archive-date=8 December 2015 }}{{cite web|title=《島夷志略》|url=https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&chapter=232328 |work=Chinese Text Project }} Partial translations however are available.{{cite book|author=Paul Wheatley|authorlink=w:Paul Wheatley (geographer)|title=The Golden Khersonese: Studies in the Historical Geography of the Malay Peninsula before A.D. 1500|location=Kuala Lumpur|publisher=University of Malaya Press|year=1961|oclc=504030596 |pages= 77–83}}