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Travels to the West of Qiu Chang Chun

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122: 400: 25: 166:. In June, they reached Dexing (德興; present-day Julu Hebei) and stayed in the Longyang Taoist Temple (龍陽觀) from summer to end of winter. On February 1221, they resumed their journey. When asked by friends and disciples when to expect the master to return, the master answered "In three years, three years". On February 3, they reached Cuiping Pass (翠帡口; west of 328:(Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature, Oxford University Press). Unlike the translations by Bretschneider and Waley, this translation includes all of Qiu Chuji's poems. Yang also produced an illustrated StoryMap supplement to the translation, accessible at 378:
SI YOU KI, TRAVELS TO THE WEST OF KIU CH'ANG CH'UN, by Emil Bretschneider, in Medieval Researches from Eastern Asiatic Sources vol 1 1888 Trubner & Co, London; Reprint by Elibron Classics
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consisted of two parts, the first part described the details of the travel to the west; the second part contains an account of Qiu's meeting with Genghis Khan and his journey back to Beijing.
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The journey to Central Asia and back took three years, from 1220 to 1224. The record was written by a disciple Li Zhichang (李志常), who accompanied Qiu on the journey. The
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In 1220, on the invitation of Genghis Khan with a golden tablet, Qiu Chuji left his hometown in Shandong with nineteen disciples, and traveled north through
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The Travels of an Alchemist - The Journey of the Taoist Ch'ang-Ch'un from China to the Hindukush at the Summons of Chingiz Khan
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A new annotated English translation by Ruth Dunnell, Stephen West, and Shao-yun Yang was published in 2023 as
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was first translated into Russian by the Archimandrite of Russian Orthodox Church Pekin Eccles Mission
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physician posted to the Russian Legation in Beijing, published an English translation of the
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Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West: To the Court of Chinggis Qan and Back
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was published by another disciple Sun Xi (孫錫), with a preface dated 1228. The
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to their south. Travelling north then north east, they arrived at Gailipo
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In 1867, M. Pauthier translated an abridged version of the
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