English Chronicle - Igirisu Shoki

...A geography book written by Wei Yuan in the late Qing Dynasty of China, which also introduces overseas conditions. During the First Opium War (1840), Wei Yuan wrote the "Little Record of England" based on the oral dictations of captured British soldiers to introduce the situation in Britain. In the summer of the following year, he began compiling the "Map of the Sea" at the request of Lin Zexu, who had been dismissed as the Imperial Commissioner and Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi. This is a compilation of descriptions of foreign countries from Chinese translations of Western geography books, such as "The Journal of the Four Islands" (a Chinese translation of H. Murray's "Encyclopaedia of Geography" (1834)) and "Macau Monthly Report" translated by Lin Zexu, as well as historical and geography books of the past, and includes maps of each region.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…中国，清末の魏源が著した海外事情紹介をも兼ねた地理書。魏源は第1次アヘン戦争(1840)のとき，捕虜になったイギリス兵の口述をもとに《英吉利小記》をつくってイギリス事情を紹介，翌年夏，欽差大臣両広総督を罷免された林則徐の依頼により《海国図志》の編纂に着手した。これは林則徐訳《四洲志》(H.マーリ《地理学百科Encyclopaedia of Geography》(1834)の漢訳)，林則徐訳《澳門月報》をはじめ漢訳された欧米の地理書や歴代の史書･地理書に載る外国の記述を編集し，各地域の地図を付したものである。…

※「《英吉利小記》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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