daguan

After visiting Angkor Wat in the late 13th century, Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan wrote A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People, the remnants of which constitute the only surviving first-hand account of Angkor at the height of its glory. Harris (Victoria U., New Zealand) here presents a new translation of Zhou's work that is the first English version to be translated directly from the Chinese (earlier translations were based on a French translation from over a century ago). Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)