Inner Asia in the Kangnido:Contexts for Early Chinese Knowledge of Inner Asia

• 作 者: Nurlan Kenzheakhmet
• 机 构: (Bonn University, Germany) Kazakhstan
• 出 处: 国际儒学联合会,中国社科院
• 发表日期: 2016年7期

　　TheHonil kangni y(o)ktae kukto chito混(一)疆理歷代國都之圖(Comprehensive Map of Integrated Lands and Regions of Historical Countries and Capitals, hereafter the 1402 Kangnido), the oldest Korean world map, was compiled in 1402.The section of the Kangnido which covers Inner Asia depicts the Turkic Khaganate of the Tang period, for example.More than a hundred toponyms and ethnonyms for Inner Asia from the period of the Second Turkic Khaganate (680-744) and the Uighulr Khaganate (745-844) appear on this map.The toponyms of the Kangnido were written on cartouches containing Chinese characters;they were not used to transliterate tribal names and place names relevant to the Turkic period, possibly because a copyist had doubts concerning their location and omitted them, The Inner Asia section of the Kangnido describes the general form of an Northern Asian continent, stretching from Gobi in the east to Suyab in the West;it reaches from the Qirghiz (in modern Khakassia) in the north to Xinjiang in the south.Chinese derived their information about this vast region from three sources: first, Jia Dans work entitled Huctnghua sida ji 皇華四逹記 (The Routes Leading from China in the Four Directions);besides.Jia Dan completed a map called Hainei thayi tu海内華夷圖 (Map of Chinese and Foreign Lands Within the Seas);second.Chinese annals including Jiu Tangshu舊唐書.Xin Tangshu新唐書.Tang Huiyao唐會要(Institutional History of the Tang,submitted to the court in 961)、Tong dian 通典、Tonhzhi 通志.and Cefu yuau gui冊府无题;third, other Chinese sources, such as Hanshu漢書.Yi Hoe worked primarily from a Chinese map when compiling the 1402 Kangnido.Hainci Hua yu tu compiled by Jia Dan.