The Kingdom of Chenla

original: "Zhenla Guo." This was the Chinese name for the Khmer state in present-day Cambodia from the 6th to the 9th centuries CE, though the name continued to be used by Chinese scholars into the Ming dynasty.

The woodcut illustration on this page depicts a representative figure of the Chenla Kingdom:

The man is portrayed with curly hair and a beard. He is dressed in long, flowing, draped robes These garments are characteristic of classical Chinese depictions of "foreigners," emphasizing a sense of exoticism through draped fabrics that differed from the structured, layered tunics of the Ming court..

Chenla original: "Zhenla." A major Southeast Asian power that thrived before the unification of the Angkor Empire.
Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms original: "Sancai Tuhui." A renowned pictorial encyclopedia from the Ming Dynasty, intended to categorize all known knowledge of the world.
Humanity original: "Renwu." The section of the encyclopedia documenting different peoples, historical figures, and foreign cultures.
Cambodia original: "Jianpuzhai." The contemporary name for the land historically referred to by the Chinese as Chenla.
Foreign Nations original: "Yiguo." Literally "different lands," used to categorize people and customs outside the borders of the Chinese Empire.