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THE TRAVELS OF AN ALCHEMIST

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THE BROADWAY TRAVELLERS

THE BROADWAY TRAVELLERS

In 26 Volumes

I	An Account of Tibet	Desideri
II	Akbar and the Jesuits	du Jarric
III	Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrada	de Andrada
IV	The Diary of Henry Teonge	Teonge
V	The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico	del Castillo
VI	Don Juan of Persia	Juan
VII	Embassy to Tamerlane	Clavijo
VIII	The English-American	Gage
IX	The First Englishmen in India	Locke
X	Five Letters	Corts
XI	Jahangir and the Jesuits	Guerreiro
XII	Jewish Travellers	Adler
XIII	Memoirs of an Eighteenth Century Footman	Macdonald
XIV	Memorable Description of the East Indian Voyage	Bontekoe
XV	Nova Francia	Lescarbot
XVI	Sir Anthony Sherley and His Persian Adventure	Sherley
XVII	Travels and Adventures	Tafur
XVIII	Travels in Asia and Africa	Battta
XIX	Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo	Hall
XX	Travels in Persia	Herbert
XXI	Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China Vol. I	Huc and Gabet
XXII	Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China Vol. II	Huc and Gabet
XXIII	Travels into Spain	DAulnoy
XXIV	The Travels of an Alchemist	Li
XXV	The Travels of Marco Polo	Benedetto
XXVI	The True History of His Captivity	Staden

THE TRAVELS OF AN ALCHEMIST

LI CHIH-CHANG

First published 1931 by Routledge Curzon
Published 2014 by Routledge

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Copyright by permission of the Arthur Waley Estate

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The publishers have made every effort to contact authors/copyright holders of the works reprinted in The Broadway Travellers. This has not been possible in every case, however, and we would welcome correspondence from those individuals/companies we have been unable to trace.

These reprints are taken from original copies of each book. In many cases the condition of these originals is not perfect. The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of these reprints, but wishes to point out that certain characteristics of the original copies will, of necessity, be apparent in reprints thereof.

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The Travels of an Alchemist
ISBN 0-415-34490-5

The Broadway Travellers

ISBN 978-0-415-34490-6 (hbk)

SKETCH MAP SHOWING THE COURSE OF CHANG CHUNS JOURNEY
The dotted line shows the main variation of his route on his return

THE BROADWAY TRAVELLERS

EDITED BY SIR E. DENISON ROSS AND EILEEN POWER

THE TRAVELS OF AN ALCHEMIST

THE JOURNEY OF THE TAOIST CHANG-CHUN FROM CHINA TO THE HINDUKUSH AT THE SUMMONS OF CHINGIZ KHAN

Recorded by His Disciple
LI CHIH-CHANG

Translated with an Introduction by
ARTHUR WALEY

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Published by

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD.
BROADWAY HOUSE, CARTER LANE, LONDON

First published in 1931

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY HEADLEY BROTHERS, LONDON AND ASHFORD, KENT.

LIST OF CONTENTS

THE editors of this series originally intended to publish an English translation of the Russian version of the His Yu Chi made by the Archimandrite Palladius (born 1817; died 1878). But this version appeared over half a century ago, and in the meantime the progress in Chinese studies has been so great that the work of Palladius, admirable considering the date at which it was made, now requires considerable revision. In particular, his annotation is not merely out of date but was designed for a class of reader quite different from that to which the present series is addressed

When, therefore, I was asked to revise the English translation I soon saw that not only a completely new annotation but also a fresh and independent translation from the Chinese text were indispensable if the book was to fit in with the general aims of the series. As regards Mongol history and philology, I have made constant use of M. Pelliots researches. But in dealing with the history of medieval Taoism I have ventured upon completely new ground, the subject having been scarcely touched upon either by European or by modern Chinese writers. The reason for this neglect has been the inaccessibility of the Taoist Canon. But since its re-publication by the Commercial Press of Shanghai in 19231925 this huge corpus, consisting of some fifteen hundred works, has been at the disposition of European scholars, and it is strange that they should hitherto have made so little use of it.

The Hsi Yu Chi, though its main interest is cultural and geographical, is also unique in its importance as a source for early Mongol history, enabling us as it does to fix with absolute certainty the otherwise obscure and much disputed dates of Chingiz Khans movements during his Western campaign.

Following the general tendency of Chinese literature, the Hsi Yu Chi is in the highest degree impersonal. We do not get so much as a glimpse of the narrators own character, nor of his personal relations with the rest of the mission. The physical sufferings of the travellers, their struggles against cold and heat, hunger and fatigue are alluded to in a general way. But the minor difficulties and vexations of the expedition, in which the individualities of the persons concerned would be most likely to be displayed, are passed over in complete silence. The problem of language, for example, must have been an acute one. It is most improbable that Chin

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