Atlas of Chinese history
Introduction:
Atlas mainly focuses on the historical territory and administrative regions of China. Editor-in-Chief Tan Qixiang. From the primitive society to the late Qing Dynasty, there are 304 maps (not counting illustrations) divided into 8 volumes and 20 map groups according to the historical period. Maps are all ancient and modern comparisons. Since 1982, 1-8 volumes have been published one after another, which is a rare material for studying the administrative divisions of China in past dynasties!
content
The contents include: the published sites of primitive society and major sites in other periods, the territory or scope of political power of various ethnic groups, the distribution of administrative districts and some tribes, the positions or scope of all important place names above the county level (including counties) and below the county level after Qin Dynasty, the Great Wall, Guanjin, Baosai, Gu Dao, tombs, court accounts, major rivers, lakes, mountains, coastlines and islands. Each volume has a compilation and index of place names, and about 70 thousand place names have been collected. Published by China Map Publishing House.
Basemap:
The atlas uses today's high-precision maps as the base map, and takes the territory of the Qing Dynasty before the 1940s of 19 as the basic scope, and all political regimes have compiled and drawn the above maps in historical periods; Both the general outline and the sub-outline determine their standard era or standard period, reflecting the territory and political region of the same era or period as much as possible; Absorb a large number of achievements in history, archaeology and geography at home and abroad. It makes up for the shortage of literature records and corrects many mistakes of predecessors.
Brief introduction of the author
Works: Atlas of Chinese History (8 volumes), Volume IV: Atlas of Chinese History of Sixteen Countries in Eastern Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties (hardcover), Atlas of Chinese History (Volume II: Qin, Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties), Volume III: Atlas of Chinese History of Three Kingdoms and Western Jin Dynasties (hardcover), Volume VII: Yuan and Yuan Dynasties.