Brief Introduction of Atlas of Chinese History: An atlas with the historical territory and administrative divisions of China as its main contents. Editor-in-Chief Tan Qixiang.
From primitive society to the late Qing Dynasty, it was divided into 8 volumes and 20 map groups according to historical period, with a total of 304 maps (not counting illustrations). 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! 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 places that can be tested before the Qin Dynasty, the positions or scope of all the important places that can be tested at or above the county level (including the county level) and below the county level after the Qin Dynasty, the Great Wall, Guanjin, Baosai, Gu Dao, tombs, palace accounts, major rivers, lakes, mountains, coastlines, islands, etc. Each volume has a compilation and index of place names, with a total of about 70 thousand place names.
Published by China Map Publishing House. Basemap: The atlas uses today's high-precision map as the base map, and takes the territory of Qing Dynasty before 191940s as the basic scope, which was compiled and drawn by various political regimes in the historical period; 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. Author's brief 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 Dynasty, Western Han Dynasty and Eastern Han Dynasty), Volume III: Atlas of Chinese History of Three Kingdoms and Western Jin Dynasty (hardcover), and Volume VII: Atlas of Chinese History of Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty.
2. Historical Map of China Tan Qixiang's Atlas of Chinese History (hereinafter referred to as Atlas) is divided into 8 volumes according to historical periods: Volume I: Primitive Society, Xia, Shang, Western Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period; Volume 2: Qin, Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties; Volume III: Three Kingdoms Western Jin Dynasty; Volume 4: Sixteen countries in Eastern Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties; Volume 5: Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period; Book VI: Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties; Volume 7: Yuan and Ming Dynasties; Book VIII: Qing Dynasty.
It is divided into 20 map groups by age, with a total of 304 maps (excluding illustrations that do not occupy another space) and 549 pages. The contents of the map include: the distribution of known primitive social sites and important sites in other periods, the territory, political areas or activities and ethnic distribution of political power established by various ethnic groups in China history, all the names that can be verified before Qin Dynasty, all the names above the county level and the boundaries of the first and second administrative regions since Qin Dynasty, the tombs and court accounts of the Great Wall, Guanjin, Baozhai, Gu Dao, and the main rivers, lakes, mountains, coastlines and accounts that can be verified.
Each volume has a compilation in Chinese and English and a place name index. After the book was published, it received attention and praise at home and abroad.