Maps
(overlaps somewhat with the categories Atlas and Cartography)
Ass. person: Wallacker, Benjamin E
Title : Chinese Walled Cities
Subtitle : a collection of maps from Shina Jokaku no Gaiyo
Place : Hong Kong
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Year : 1979
Imprint : 266 p., ill., maps
ISBN : 962-201-174-8
Corp. body : Beijing tushuguan shanben tezangbu yutu zu bian
Title : Yutu yaolu - Beijing tushuguan zang 6827 zhong waiwen gu jiu ditu mulu
Place : Beijing
Publisher : Beijing tushuguan chubanshe
Year : 1997
Imprint : 644 p.
Bibl. note : A bibliography of map holdings in the Rare Book Department of China's National
Library. Note that the holdings refer to Chinese and western historical maps.
Divided by province, with index. Names and authors of western maps are in Chinese
only, making it difficult to identify the items or search for a particular map
(say, for example, the Ricci world map) in the index. Historical maps here means
everything printed or published before 1949.
Author : Williams, Jack F.
Title : China in Maps, 1890-1960
Subtitle : a selective and annotated cartobibliography
Place : Ann Arbor
Publisher : Michigan State University, Asian Studies Center
Year : 1974
Imprint : 365 p., num. ill., maps
Ser. title : East Asia Series Occasional Paper ; 4
Ass. person: Herrmann, Albert
Title : Historical and Commercial Atlas of China
Place : Berlin, Braunschweig, Hamburg
Publisher : Westermann
Ser. title : Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series ; 1
Bibl. note : reprinted by Literature Publishing House, Taibei 1965
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 coompilation 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);
Ass. person: Nishimura Ko [ed.] 西村庚 [編]
Title : Chugoku hondo chizu mokuroku 中國本土地圖目錄
Subtitle : Toyo Bunko ... 國立國會圖書館及東洋文庫所藏資料
Place : Tokyo 東京
Publisher : Kyokuto Shoten 極東書店
Year : 1967
Imprint : 104 p., num. tables
Bibl. note : useful catalog of about 3200 maps concerning China (up
to 1945) held in two very important academic
institutions in Japan;
Ass. person: Yan Gengwang [ed.] 嚴耕望 [編]
Title : Tangdai jiaotong tukao 唐代交通圖考
Place : Nangang 南港
Publisher : Zhangyang yanjiuyuan 中央研究院
Year : 1986
Imprint : 5 冊
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.
Ass. person: Qiao Yanguan 喬衍琯
Title : Lidai yudi yange tu suoyin 歷代輿地沿革圖索引
Place : Taibei
Publisher : Lianjing chuban shiye gongsi 聯經出版事業公司
Year : 1981
Imprint : 300 p.
Ass. person: Li Xiaocong
Title : A Descriptive Catalogue of pre-1900 Chinese maps seen
in Europe
Place : Beijing
Publisher : Guoji wenhua chuban gongsi
Year : 1996
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.