SOCIAL LIFE UNDER THE TIMURIDS BASED ON CHEN CHENG’S “HSI-YU-HSING-CH’ENG-CHI”
Keywords:
The Timurid period, Shahrukh Mirza, Chen Cheng, Travel Notes on the Western Regions, Herat, Samarkand.Abstract
This article analyzes Travel Notes on the Western Regions by Chen Cheng, a Chinese envoy sent by the Chinese Empire to the eastern and most powerful neighbor of the Timurid state. In particular, the study examines the valuable information recorded by Chen Cheng in 1414 concerning several cities of the Timurid state, such as Herat, Samarkand, and Bukhara. He describes these regions and records his own observations about their inhabitants, which are analyzed on the basis of contemporary historical sources.
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