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職方外紀 (Record of Places Outside the Tributaries)
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The work 'Zhifang Waiji' (Record of Places Outside the Tributaries) by Giulio Aleni is a significant 17th-century geographical treatise. Searches in local catalogs and Open Library yielded no records of an English translation. While the provided OCR sample appears to be for a different work ('Jiaohong Ji' by Wu Mei), the target work 'Zhifang Waiji' itself remains untranslated into English in its entirety according to available bibliographic databases.
Verified Mar 23, 2026 via local catalogs, open library, google books · methodology
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