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Asked 28 November 2014

Is there any paper, book, idea about Chinese people travel to Iran in 10-16th century

I want  to study about Chinese people travel to Iran in 10-16th 

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Michael C. Ewers
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Here are a few links:
1. Iran's Relations with China and the West
2. China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World
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A Timurid Embassy from Herat to Beijing, 1419-22, Recorded by Artist Ghiyath al-Din Naqqash: Timurid Art After China
you can contact with this researcher and maybe he can help you.
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Michael Stanley-Baker
Nanyang Technological University
Well, there is Rashi Al-Din's Tansuqnamah, which contains a host of Chinese medical ideas.  Whether there were scribes or doctors who went to Persia as contributors is a question.  Check out the work of Vivienne Lo, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim as a start.
I would also contact Sonja Brentjes and Dagmar Schaefer, who are working on a Sino-Ottoman project, but of course cover materials earlier and beyond.
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The Ming admiral Zheng He's fleets seems to have passed through Hormuz several times within the 1413-1433 time frame. The main reference would be:
Edward L Dreyer, Zheng He: China and the oceans in the early Ming dynasty, 1405-1433. Pearson Longman, 2007.
There is also an interesting critique of this book by Roderich Ptak that is open access. Although he does not agree with Dreyer on several points, the fact that there was some contact between the Chinese and the south of current-day Iran is not questioned:
Hope that helps.
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Michael C. Ewers
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Here are a few links:
1. Iran's Relations with China and the West
2. China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World
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