A complete set of 8 copies of the Historical Atlas of China
Bai Shouyi | book
【Introduction】
The Historical Atlas of China (8 volumes in total) (hereinafter referred to as the Atlas) is divided into 8 volumes according to historical periods: Book I: Primitive Society, Xia Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States Period; Book II: Qin, Western Han, Eastern Han Dynasty; Book III: Three Kingdoms, Western Jin Dynasty; Book IV: Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Southern and Northern Dynasties; Book V: Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, and Ten Kingdoms; Book VI: Song, Liao, Jin Dynasty; Book VII: Yuanming Period; Book VIII: Qing Dynasty. Chronologically divided into 20 atlas groups, a total of 304 maps (excluding the illustrations that do not occupy the other space), 549 pages.
The content on the map includes: the distribution of known primitive social sites and other important sites in other periods, the territorial political areas or activity areas and ethnic distributions of the regimes established by various ethnic groups in Chinese history, all the place names that can be examined in the records before the Qin Dynasty, all the place names above the county level, the boundaries of the first and second-level political districts since the Qin Dynasty, the Great Wall, Guanjin, Fortress, Valley Road, Mausoleum, Court Tent, etc., the main rivers, lakes, mountains, coastlines, islands, etc., with a total of more than 70,000 place names. Each volume contains a compilation of examples and a geographical names index in both English and Chinese.
【About the Author】
Tan Qijun (25 February 1911 – 28 August 1992), courtesy name Jilong and pen name Hezi, was a native of Jiashan, Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Chinese historical geographer is one of the main founders and pioneers of the discipline of chinese historical geography. He graduated from the Department of History of Jinan University in 1930 and the Graduate School of Yenching University in 1932. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively taught at Furen, Beijing, Yanjing, Tsinghua, Zhejiang, Jinan and other universities.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as a professor at Fudan University, the director of the Department of History, the director of the Institute of Historical Geography of China, a member of the Department of Geosciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the first disciplinary review group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, a member of the Planning Group for the Collation and Publication of Ancient Books of the State Council, and a deputy director and editor-in-chief of the Editorial Board of the National Historical Atlas. In 1960, he was awarded the title of National Advanced Worker of Culture and Education. He is a member of the Jiusan Society. Deputy to the Third to Fifth National People's Congress. One of the founders of the discipline of modern Chinese historical geography. In 1934, together with Gu Jiegang and others, he initiated the establishment of China's first academic society of historical geography, the Yugong Society, and founded the semi-monthly magazine "Yugong". In his early years, he studied geographical evolution, territorial history and ethnic issues, and became a system of his own. Since 1955, he has presided over the compilation of the "Historical Atlas of China" and devoted himself to the study of the Yellow River system, contributing to the study of the history of the Yellow River.
He is the chief editor of "Physical Geography of China, Historical Physical Geography", etc., and won the Special Prize for Philosophy and Social Sciences in Shanghai (1979-1985) in 1986. The "Historical Atlas of China" presided over by Mr. Tan Qijun is known as one of the two major basic projects in the field of historiography (the other project is the point school of the Twenty-Four Histories), which lasted 30 years from the beginning of design to completion, laying a solid foundation for the development of historical geography: on the one hand, it solved many long-standing problems.
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