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Historical Atlas of China

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There havenot been a lot of sets of atlas (cartography)|atlas of the history of China|historical placenames of China named The Historical Atlas of China. Among them, two versions published during the 1980s are still used by today's students and scholars alike.
Historical Atlas of China (1973)


Historical Atlas of China (??????????????????), based on The Historical Atlas of Eastern Asian History (??????????????????; 1941) of Japanese historians (?????????) and Wada Sei (?????????; 1890-1963), was published in 1973 in Taipei.
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This single-volume work is out-of-print today and also not very influential.
Historical Atlas of China (1980)

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Historical Atlas of China (??????????????????) is a 2-volume work published in Taiwan in 1980 and 1983.

  • Editors-in-chief: Cheng Kuang-Yu (?????????) and Hsu Sheng-Mo (?????????).

  • Publisher: Chinese Culture University Press


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  • Volume 1: Historical territories.

  • Volume 2: Major cities, economic maps, irrigation and transportation networks, social changes, artifacts, wars.


Unlike many other historical maps that placed emphasis on placenames, this set of maps contained many restorations of historical sites.
The Historical Atlas of China (1982)

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The Historical Atlas of China (?????????????????????), still in print, is an 8-volume work published in Beijing between 1982-1988. It contains 304 maps and 70,000 placenames in total.

  • Editor-in-chief: Tan Qixiang (?????????).

  • Publisher: Map Press (???????????????) http://www.chinamap.com/


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  • Volume 1: Archaelogical findings, Xia Dynasty|Xia, Shang Dynasty|Shang dynasties and Zhou Dynasty (Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period)

  • Volume 2: Qin Dynasty, Western Han Dynasty|Western and Eastern Han Dynasty|Eastern Han dynasties

  • Volume 3: Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasty (265-420)|Western Jin Dynasty

  • Volume 4: Sixteen Kingdoms and Southern and Northern Dynasties

  • Volume 5: Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

  • Volume 6: Song Dynasty, Liao Dynasty and Jin Dynasty (1115-1234)|Jin Empire

  • Volume 7: Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty

  • Volume 8: Qing Dynasty
External links

  • http://ccts.sinica.edu.tw/ Chinese Civilization in Time and Space: A project based on Tan's atlas.


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