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Note: Several Chinese-language works listed in the bibliography were published with both a Chinese title and its English translation. In such cases, the original translated title appears in parentheses. For Chinese-language works published with Chinese titles only, English translations of the titles, provided by the translators of the current volume, are presented in square brackets.
ABBREVIATIONS
DMB | Hucker, A Dictionary of Ming Biography |
NP1 | Ding Wenjiang, Xu Xiake xiansheng nianpu |
NP2 | Chu Shaotang, Zengding Xu Xiake nianpu |
QTS | Quan Tangshi |
YJ | Chu Shaotang and Wu Yingshou, Xu Xiake youji |
YJJZ | Zhu Huirong, Xu Xiake youji jiaozhu |
TRANSLATIONS OF XU XIAKE’S TRAVEL DIARIES
Casacchia, Giorgio, et al., trans. 徐霞客游記Xu Xiake: Diario di viaggio [Xu Xiake: Travel diaries]. 2 vols. Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2019. Unabridged translation into Italian.
Chu Shaotang 褚紹唐 (1912–2004) and Wu Yingshou 吳應壽 (1927–), eds. Xu Xiake youji徐霞客游記 [The travel diaries of Xu Xiake]. 2 vols. Shanghai: Shanghai Guji Chubanshe, 1980; rev. ed., 2007.
Dars, Jacques, trans. Randonnées aux Sites Sublimes. Paris: Gallimard, 1993.
Kim Ŭn-hŭi (金垠希) and Yi Chu-no (李珠鲁), trans. Sŏ Ha-gaek yugi徐霞客游記 [The travel diaries of Xu Xiake]. Seoul: Somyŏng Ch’ulp’an, 2011. 7 vols. Complete translation into Korean.
Li Chi (Li Qi 李祁, 1902–89), trans. The Travel Diaries of Hsű Hsia-k’o. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1974.
Li Weirong 李偉榮, Lu Changhuai 盧長懷, and Jia Xiuhai 賈秀海, trans. Xu Xiake youji (Han-Ying duizhao) 徐霞客游記 (漢英對照) [Travel accounts of Xu Xiake: Chinese-English bilingual edition]. Changsha: Hunan Renmin Chubanshe, 2016.
Lu Changhuai 盧長懷 and Jia Xiuhai 賈秀海, trans. Yingyi Xu Xiake youji英譯徐霞客游記 (The Travels of Xu Xiake). Shanghai: Shanghai Waiyu Jiaoyu Chubanshe, 2010.
Mu Xianfeng, trans. “A Trip to Jiuli Lake.” Chinese Literature 2 (2000): 24–29.
Strassberg, Richard, trans. Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China, 319–34. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Wang Rongpei 汪榕培, Jia Xiuhai 賈秀海, and Lu Changhuai 盧長懷, trans. The Travels of Xu Xiake. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2011.
Zhu Huirong 朱惠榮 (1936–2018), ed. Xu Xiake youji jiaozhu徐霞客游記校注 [The travel diaries of Xia Xiake, with collations and commentary]. 2 vols. Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 1985; rev. ed., 2017.
Zhu Huirong 朱惠榮 and Li Xinghe 李興和, trans. Xu Xiake youji徐霞客游記 [The travel diaries of Xu Xiake]. 4 vols. Guiyang: Guizhou Renmin Chubanshe, 1997. A complete translation into modern Chinese.
MODERN ANTHOLOGIES AND STUDIES OF XU XIAKE AND HIS TRAVEL DIARIES
Chang Chun-shu (Zhang Chunshu 張春樹). “Hsü Hsia-k’o (1586–1641).” In Two Studies in Chinese Literature, edited by Li Chi (Li Qi 李祁) and Dale Johnson, 24–46. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies 3. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1968.
Chen Yangu 陳雁谷. “Tuokou er chu de shici, qinxinpi de zhiqing—Xu Xiake ‘Ku Jingwen Chanlü’ shi de qing he yi’” 脫口而出的詩辭, 沁心脾的摯情—徐霞客《哭靜聞禅侶》詩的情和藝 [Deep feelings that touch the heart in poetic diction suddenly blurted out: The emotion and art in Xu Xiake’s poems “Lamenting Tranquil Hearing, My Buddhist Companion”]. Wuxi jiaoyu xueyuan xuebao 1 (1996): 51–52.
Chu Shaotang 褚紹唐. Zengding Xu Xiake nianpu增訂徐霞客年譜 [Revised and expanded chronological biography of Xu Xiake]. In Xu Xiake yu shanshui wenhua徐霞客與山水文化 [Xu Xiake and landscape culture], edited by Zheng Zu’an and Jiang Minghong, 520–88. Shanghai: Shanghai Wenhua Chubanshe, 1994.
Ding Shixian 丁式賢. “Zailun Xu Xiake yu Chen Hanhui” 再論徐霞客與陳 函輝 [Further discussion of Xu Xiake and Chen Hanhui]. Xu Xiake yanjiu 21 (2010): 83–89.
Ding Wenjiang 丁文江 (1887–1936), comp. Xu Xiake xiansheng nianpu徐霞客先生年譜 [Chronological biography of the Honorable Xu Xiake]. In Xu Xiake youji, edited by Chu Shaotang and Wu Yingshou, 2:520–88. Shanghai: Shanghai Guji Chubanshe, 1980; rev. ed., 2007.
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Fan Yiru 范宜如. “Xu Xiake youji de Xi’nan shuxie: yi yizu xushu wei tanlun hexin 《徐霞客游記》的西南書寫: 以異族許書為談論核心 (On Xu Xiake youji’s Writings of the Southwest: A Discussion Centered on Its Non-Han Description).” Zhongzheng Hanxue yanjiu 37 (June 2021): 249–78.
Fan Zuqi范祖錡 and Wang Shuwu王樹五, eds. Zhongguo Yunnan Xu Xiake yanjiu xueshu taolunhui lunwenji中國雲南徐霞客研究學術討論會論文集 [Collected essays from the academic symposium in Yunnan China on the study of Xu Xiake]. Kunming: Yunnan Renmin Chubanshe, 1995.
Fang Chao-ying (Fang Zhaoying 房兆楹; 1908–85). “Hsü Hung-tsu.” In Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period (1644–1912), edited by Arthur W. Hummel, 314–16. Taipei: Ch’eng Wen Publishing, 1972. Originally published 1943.
He Zhan 何瞻 (James M. Hargett). “Chongxin pinggu Xu Xiake zai Zhongguo gudai wenxue shishang de diwei” 重新評估徐霞客在中國古代文學史上 的地位 [Xu Xiake and his place in the history of traditional Chinese travel literature: A reassessment]. Xu Xiake yanjiu 28 (2014): 23–35.
Hu Haiqin. “Research on Theories of Travel Writing in the Late Ming Dynasty.” Frontiers in Art Research 3, no. 5 (2021): 15–24.
Jiang Minghong 蔣明宏. “Mingdai Jiangnan xiangcun jingji bianqian de ge’an yanjiu—Jiangyin Xu Xiake jiazu jingji xingshuai, fenjia xichan ji Mingmo zhibuzuofang zhu wenti tanxi 明代江南鄉村經濟變遷的個案研究—江陰徐霞客家族經濟興衰 , 分家析產及明末織布作坊諸問題探析[A case study of economic changes at the village level in Jiangnan during the Ming period: The economic rise and decline of Xu Xiake’s family in Jiangyin, and a look into some questions concerning the division of property and managing a weaving workshop at the end of the Ming]. Zhongguo nongshi 4 (2006): 88–97.
Liu Gucheng 劉固城. Xu Xiake pingzhuan徐霞客評傳[A critical biography of Xu Xiake]. Ha’erbin: Dongbei Linye Daxue Chubanshe, 1986.
Liu Jingmao 劉景毛. “Shitan xinban Xu Xiake youji de jiaokan”試談新版《徐霞客游記》的校勘[A tentative discussion with collations of a new edition of The Travel Diaries of Xu Xiake]. Wuxi jiaoyu xueyuan xuebao 1 (1995): 36–39.
Liu Yachao 劉亞朝. “Xu Xiake de Kunming youren” 徐霞客的昆明友人[Xu Xiake’s friends in Kunming]. Yunnan minzu daxue xuebao 23, no. 5 (2006): 159–61.
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Lu Yongkang 盧永康, ed. Xu Xiake sanwen jiaozhu徐霞客散文校注 [Xu Xiake’s prose, with collations and commentary]. Kunming: Yunnan Renmin Chubanshe, 1997.
Lu Yongkang 盧永康 and Qi Ruoyu 祁若渝, eds. Xu Xiake shi jiaozhu徐霞客詩校注[Xu Xiake’s poetry, with collations and commentary]. Kunming: Yunnan Renmin Chubanshe, 1994.
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Nanjing Normal University, Geography Department, ed. Xu Xiake yanjiu wenji— Jinian Xu Xiake danchen sibai zhounian徐霞客研究文集—紀念徐霞客誕辰四百周年[Collected essays on Xu Xiake studies—Commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of Xu Xiake’s birth]. Nanjing: Jiangsu Jiaoyu Chubanshe, 1986.
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Sun Zhongming 孫仲明. “Xu Xiake Sujiang jiyuan zai dili kexue shang de gongxian yu yingxiang” 徐霞客《溯江紀源》在地理科學上的貢獻與影響[The contribution and influence of Xu Xiake’s Tracing the Jiang Upstream to Unravel Its Source in geography and science]. Dili kexue 6, no. 1 (February 1989): 64–69.
Tang Xiren 唐錫仁 and Yang Wenheng 楊文衡. Xu Xiake ji qi youji yanjiu徐霞客及其游記研究 [Studies on Xu Xiake and his travel diaries]. Beijing: Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Chubanshe, 1987.
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Wan Ming 萬明. “Baiyin xingbie, yu Wan Ming shehui bianqian—Yi Xu Xiake jiazu wei ge’an” 白銀性別與晚明社會變遷—以徐霞客家族為個案(“Silver, Gender and Social Changes in the Late Ming Dynasty: Taking Xu Xiake’s Family as an Individual Case”). Beijing daxue xuebao (Zhexue shehui kexue ban) 55, no. 4 (July 2018): 92–105.
Wang Zhaotong 王兆彤, ed. Xu Xiake youji xuanzhu徐霞客遊記選注 [The travel diaries of Xu Xiake, with selected commentary]. Ji’nan: Shandong Jiaoyu Chubanshe, 1986.
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———. Xu Xiake (1587–1641): The Art of Travel Writing. Richmond: Curzon, 2000.
Wu Qiulong 鄔秋龍. “Xu Xiake chuyou kaoshu” 徐霞客出遊考述[An examination of Xu Xiake’s travels].Wuxi jiaoyu xueyuan xuebao 20, no. 1 (March 2000): 26–31.
Xue Zhongliang 薛仲良, ed. Xu Xiake jiaji徐霞客家集 [The Xu Xiake family collection]. Beijing: Xinhua Chubanshe, 1995.
Yan Zhenfei 嚴振非. “Xu Xiake muzhiming yu shiliao shizheng”《徐霞客墓誌銘》與史料實證[Commemorative Tomb Biography for Xu Xiake and concrete historical evidence]. Xu Xiake yanjiu 18 (2009): 97–99.
Yang Yangfan and Chen Meihong. “A New Discovery of Xu Xiake’s Whereabouts in Zhejiang Province from the Perspective of Digital Xu Studies.” Paradigm Academic Press Studies in Social Science & Humanities 2, no. 2 (February 2023): 15–20.
Zhao Botao 趙伯陶, ed. Xu Xiake youji徐霞客遊記 [The travel diaries of Xu Xiake]. Zhengzhou: Zhongzhou Guji Chubanshe, 2018.
Zheng Zu’an 鄭祖安 and Jiang Minghong 蔣明宏, eds. Xu Xiake yu shanshui wenhua徐霞客與山水文化 [Xu Xiake and landscape culture]. Shanghai: Shanghai Wenhua Chubanshe, 1994.
Zhou Ningxia 周寧霞 (1931–2005). “Xu Xiake jiating beiju ji Li Ji shengnian zai tantao—jian da Lü Xisheng Xiansheng de zhiyi” 徐霞客家庭悲 劇及李寄生年再探討—兼答呂錫生先生的質疑 [Further inquiry into Xu Xiake’s family tragedy and Li Ji’s birth year, along with responses to Mr. Lü Xisheng’s challenge questions], paper published in the proceedings of the conference Xu Xiake yu Yue wenhua ji Zhongguo Shaoxing lüyou wenhua yantaohui lunwen huibian [Collection of papers from the symposium on Xu Xiake, Vietnamese Culture, and Chinese Shaoxing Tourism Culture], 223–32. Jiangyin: Zhejiangsheng Xu Xiake Yanjiuhui, 2003.
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