%0 Journal Article
%T A Study of the Mistranslation of the Port Kh¨¡nfou in China in the Tang Dynasty
%A Hai Wang
%A Xiufen Wang
%A Daiming Huang
%J Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
%P 380-398
%@ 2164-2834
%D 2022
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojml.2022.124027
%X In the Tang Dynasty, the Arab writers wrote the first Arabic travel notes <i>Ancient Accounts of India and China, by two Mohammedan travelers who went to those parts in the 9th century, translated from the Arabic by the late learned EUSEBIUS RENAUDOT</i>. Their notes are based on Arab travelers and businessmen¡¯s experiences in China. Arab travelers and businessmen¡¯s experiences in China. There are some mistakes in the travels, among which is the account of Kh¨¡nfou (Kh¨¡nf¨± or Kh¨¡non), the port from which the Arabs entered China. Kh¨¡nfou is taken for Guangzhou or Guangfu in the travels. The French scholar Abb¨¦ Eus¨¨be Renaudot published the French translation of <i>Ancient Accounts of India and China</i> in 1817. Many translators, geographers, and historians had argued whether the trade port Kh¨¡nfou is Guangzhou (Guangfu) or Hangzhou (Ganpu) when they translated or examined the travels, forming two major doctrines as ¡°Kh¨¡nfou is Guangzhou (Guangfu)¡± and ¡°Kh¨¡nfou is Hangzhou¡±. This article aims to find out more facts about and the reasons for the mistranslation of Kh¨¡nfou from three aspects: the Arab travelers and merchants entered China from the ¡°Gates of China¡± located in the port of Ganpu near Hangzhou; the Banshoa Rebellion refers to the Pang Xun Rebellion rather than the Huang Chao Rebellion; Kh¨¡nfou was misread as Canfu.
%K Trades between Arab and China
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%K Ancient Accounts of India and China&lt
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%K Kh¨¡nfou (Ganpu)
%K Canton/Guangfu
%K The Pang Xun Rebellion
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=118403