Chinese Historical Geography Project

[1949] .... The second volume collects more than 173 maps of Beijing suburbs and counties, involving regional maps, town maps, architectural plans, etc. ....The third volume collects about 180 maps of foreign languages ... and views of famous scenic spots.... The fourth volume collects more than 250 maps of special subjects, including economic construction, highway, railway, aviation, watercourse, protective patrol, tourism, history, and so on." -- Preface. Notes: Preface, list of plates and caption of plates in Chinese and English.

Tianjin (Tientsin)
Tianjin (

China). Guo tu ju. 天津 (中国). 国土局. Title: Tianjin cheng shi li shi di tu ji / Tianjin Shi gui hua he guo tu zi yuan ju bian zhu. 天津城市历史地图集 / 天津市规划和国土资源局编著. Published: Tianjin Shi: Tianjin guji chubanshe, 2005. 天津市 : 天津古籍出版社,? 2005. ISBN: 7806961836.

Guangzhou (Canton)
Guangzhou lishi ditu jingcui / Zhongguo di yi li shi dang an guan, Guangzhou Shi danganju, Guangzhou Yuexiuqu renmin zhengfu bian zhu. 广州历史地图精粹 / 中国第一历史档案馆, 广州市档案局, 广州市越秀区人民政府编著. Published: Beijing : Zhongguo da bai ke quan shu chu ban she, 2003. 北京 : 中国大百科全书出版社, 2003. Description: Di yi ban. 第1版. 129 p.: col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Wuhan (Wu-han)
Wuhan lishi dituji : the historical atlas of Wuhan / Wuhan lishi dituji bianzong wei yuan hui bian ji. 武汉历史地图集 : the historical atlas of Wuhan / 武汉历史地图集编纂委员会　编辑. Published: Beijing Shi : Zhongguo ditu chubanshe, 1998. 北京市 : 中国地图　出版社, 1998. Description: Di 1 ban. 第1版. 143 p.: chiefly col. maps ; 38 cm.

Shanghai

Other items of older provenance: Ass. person: Herrmann, Albert Title : Historical and Commercial Atlas of China Place : Berlin, Braunschweig, Hamburg Publisher : Westermann Year : 1935 Ser. title : Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series ; 1 Bibl. note : reprinted by Literature Publishing House, Taibei 1965. Ass. person: Henriot, Christian Ass. person: Zheng Zu'an Title : Atlas de Shanghai - Espaces et representations de 1849 a nos jours Place : Paris Publisher : CNRS editions Year : 1999 ISBN : 2-271-05725-6 Bibl. note : Historical Atlas, depicting the development of the districts and concessions of Shanghai in great detail. Ass. person: Yang Shoujing (1839-1915) 楊守敬 [編繪] Title : Lidai yudi yange tu 歷代輿地沿革圖 Publisher : Lianjing chuban shiye gongsi 聯經出版事業公司 Year : 1975 Imprint : 30 冊 Bibl. note : According to Zurndorfer (China Bibliography 1995, p. 182) this compilation of historical maps is by some historians even nowadays still considered to be the best historical atlas of China. This work was also printed in 10 hardbound volumes, with an additional one containing the placename index; cartography going right back to the nine regions of the great Yu, making use of the 隋書地理志， the 水經注 and a large number of related sources; Ass. person: Tan Song [ed.] 譚松 [主編] Title : Zhongguo lishi dituji 中國歷史地圖集 Place : Taibei 台北 Publisher : Tianwei chubanshe 天衛出版社 Year : 1995 ISBN : 957-9216-64-6 Bibl. note : Very simple and basic historical atlas of China, using simplified base maps Ass. person: Tan Qixiang 譚其驤 [主編] Title : Zhongguo lishi dituji 中國歷史地圖集 Place : Beijing 北京 Publisher : Ditu chubanshe 地圖出版社 Year : 1982- Imprint : 8 冊 vol. : v. 1: 原始社會, 夏, 商, 西周, 春秋, 戰國時期; v.2: 秦, 西漢 , 東漢時期; v.3: 三國, 西晉時期; v.4: 東晉十六國, 南北朝十期; v.5: 隋, 唐, 五代十國十期; v.6: 宋, 遼, 金時期; v.7: 元, 明時期; v.8: 清, 民國時期; Ass. person: Guo Moruo 郭沫若 [主編] Title : Zhongguo shigao dituji 中國史稿地圖集 Place : Beijing 北京 Publisher : Ditu chubanshe 地圖出版社 Year : 1979 Imprint : 2 冊 Ass. person: Zhang Qiyun 張其昀 [主編] Corp. body : Guofang yanjiuyuan 國防研究院 Title : Qingdai yitong ditu 清代ㄧ統地圖 Place : Taibei 台北 Publisher : Guofang yanjiuyuan 國防研究院 Year : 1966 Bibl. note : A set of 103 maps capturing China's territorial setting of the middle period of the Qianlong era (around 1760- 61); these maps represent the earliest efforts of applying unified geographical measures to cartography throughout th empire; these maps are excellent material when used alongside the Da Qing yitong zhi 大清ㄧ統志, the "Comprehensive Geography of the Great Qing Empire" which was first in 356 juan in 1744 (a second, larger edition was sent to the press in 1790); Corp. body : Zhongyang xixiangju qixiang kexue yanjiuyuan 中央氣象局氣象科學研究院 [主編] Title : Zhongguo jin wubai nian han-lao fenpei tuji 中國進五百年旱澇分布圖集 Place : Beijing 北京 Publisher : Ditu chubanshe 地圖出版社 Year : 1980 (?) Imprint : 332 p. Bibl. note : Historical overview over drought and flooding in China, spanning the time between 1470 and 1979; over two- thousand gazetteers were used to compile maps to document various measures of (graded) dryness and wetness throughout the Ming and Qing-periods down to the present days. Ass. person: Zhang Qiyun 張其昀 [主編] Corp. body : Zhongguo wenhua daxue Zhongguo lishi ditu bianzuan weiyuanhui 中國文化大學中國歷史地圖編纂會 Title : Zhongguo lishi ditu 中國歷史地圖 Place : Taibei 台北 Publisher : Zhongguo wenhua daxue chubanbu 中國文化大學出版部 Year : 1984 Imprint : 2 冊 Bibl. note : A collection of 257 maps grouped around topics such as transport and irrigation, "society", the arts and culture, cities and capitals and warfare; interesting are the notes on which material was used (especially in the second volume); Corp. body : Chengdu dili yanjiusuo (et al.) 成都地理研究所 Title : Sichuan sheng dituji 四川省地圖集 Place : Chengdu 成都 Publisher : Sichuan sheng cehui chubanshe 四川省測繪出版社 Year : 1981 Imprint : 245 p. Bibl. note : A giant, highly precise and detailed enterprise comprising 155 maps, most of them concentrating on the county level (topographical; scale 1:25000). Work on the atlas began already in 1975. Includes also overall maps of the province level (scale 1:3.000.000) on agriculture, vegetation, irrigation, population etc. Each map is explained to some extent on its verso side. Maps on the western regions of Sichuan are on the scale of 1:500.000. Toponymical detail down to the level of small hamlets and (then still existing) peoples' communes. Originally considered to be treated as "classified" material (內部) Corp. body : Linshi Taiwan tudi diaocha [zu] 臨時臺灣土地調查 Title : Taiwan baotu 臺灣堡圖 Place : Taibei Publisher : Yuanliu chuban gongsi 遠流出版公司 Year : 1996 Imprint : 2 冊 ISBN : 957-32-2812-2 Bibl. note : Reprint of a massive collection of very precise maps of the island of Taiwan. Executed prior to 1904, these 385 maps are claimed to be based on exhaustive fieldtrips and standardized on-the-spot measurements. Corp. body : Shangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館 Title : Zhongguo diyu wenming daxi 中國地域文明大系 Place : Hong Kong 香港 Publisher : Commercial Press 商務印書館 Year : 1995- Imprint : 13 冊 Author : Okada Gyokuzan 岡田由尚 Title : Todo meisho zue 唐圖名勝圖會 Place : Kyoto, Osaka 京都 Year : 1805 Imprint : 2 vols. Bibl. note : Reprints of 1981 (Kyoto 1981) and 1985 (Beijing Guji chubanshe, Chinese explanations appended to each volume); excellent and very exhaustive guidebook to the old Beijing and large parts of Northern China; exhaustive illustrations, meticulously executed, with great attention to minute details; one could call this title a full-fledged survey of the material culture of northern China. Includes numerous regional and city maps, temple plans and other types of geographical knowledge. Corp. body : Shanghai guji chubanshe 上海古籍出版社 Title : Songben lidai dili zhizhangtu 宋本歷代地理指掌圖 Place : Shanghai 上海 Publisher : Shanghai guji chubanshe 上海古籍出版社 Year : 1989 Imprint : 101 p. ISBN : 7-5325-0025-x Bibl. note : According to the editors this is the earliest (extant) version of a historical atlas for China (the earliest known was the Yugong diyu tu 禹貢地域圖 by Pei Xiu 裴秀 of the Western Jin dynasty which has long been lost). The maps date from the transitional paeriod of the Northern to the Southern Song dynasty (roughly 1100- 1150). Tan Qixiang 譚其驤, writer of the preface, briefly hints at the "scholarly value" of the work when he refers to the possibilities inherent to the maps. Thus the attentive reader and interpreter will not miss the patterns and the sign language en vogue in Song times, as well as the representation of the administrative structure of the empire, which differs in respect to earlier dynasties. Altogether we have 45 to 46 maps in this comprehensive and stylistically coherent collection. An analysis and translation of the texts acompanying the maps in a western language still needs to see the light of day.