Classical Bibliography for Chinese Historiography

Princeton University

Atlases

Cao Wanru, et al., ed. Zhongguo gu dai di tu ji 中 國 古 代 地 圖 集 (An atlas of ancient maps in China). Beijing: Wen wu chu ban she, Xin hua shu dian, 1990-. Multivolume series.
Elvin, Mark, & Caroline Blunden. Cultural Atlas of China. Oxford: Equinox Book, 1983.
Fuchs, Walter. The “Mongol Atlas” of China by Chu Ssu-pen and the Kuang-yu-t’o. Beijing: Fu Jen Catholic University Press, 1946. Contains 48 facsimile maps dating from 1555.
Herrmann, Albert. Historical and Commercial Atlas of China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935. Taiwan Reprint. Poor.
Herrmann, Albert. An Historical Atlas of China. Edingburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1966.
Hu Linyi 胡 林 翼 , et al., compilers. Da Qing yi tong yu tu 大 清 一 統 輿 圖. Completed about 1863. See Teng, Ssu-yu, & Knight Biggerstaff. An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971, pp. 222-223 for a description of this famous Qing atlas. Arranged by sections.
Jin Qingyu 金 擎 於 and others, Zhongguo fen sheng xin di tu 中 國 分 省 新 地 圖. Shanghai: Da Zhongguo tu shu ju, 1947.
Matsuda Toshio 松 田 壽 男. Ajia rekishi chizu 亞 細 亞 歷 史 地 圖. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1966. Excellent historical atlas for Asia.
Shigeno Yasutsugu 重 野 安 繹. Shina kyoiki enkakuzu 支 那 疆 域 沿 革 圖. Tokyo: Fuzanbo, 1906. Very good historical atlas of China usually listed in catalogs under Chinese rendition of title, Zhina jing yu yan ge tu.
Ting, K. (Ding Wenjiang) 丁 文 江, et al. Zhonghua Minguo xin di tu 中 華 民 國 新 地 圖. Shanghai: Shanghai Shen-pao kuan, 1934. The best atlas for Republican China. An abbreviated version of this atlas was published at the same time under the title Zhongguo fen sheng xin tu 中 國 分 省 新 圖. Has romanized table.
Tan Qixiang 譚 其 驤. Zhongguo li shi di tu ji 中 國 歷 史 地 圖 集. 8 vols. Shanghai: Xin hua shu dian, 1975.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. China: Provisional Atlas of Communist Administrative Units. Washington, D. C. : U. S. Department of Commerce, Office of Technical Services, 1959. See Berton, Peter, & Eugene Wu. Contemporary China: A Research Guide. Edited by Howard Koch, Jr. Stanford: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, 1967,p. 182, # 409.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Communist China Administrative Atlas. Washington, D. C. : 1969. The most recent atlas of Communist China available showing the most recent administrative units.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Communist Map Folio. Washington, D. C. : 1967.
Yang Shoujing 楊 守 敬, & Xiong Huizhen 熊 會 貞, compilers. Li dai yu di tu 歷 代 輿 地 圖. Yang shi Guan hai tang edition of 1906-1911. This is the most famous of Chinese historical atlases. The place names for each period are printed in black on a Qing map printed in red. The Ming dynasty volume has been reprinted and mounted as a full map under the title Ming di li zhi tu 明 地 理 志 圖 published by the Chinese Materials and Research Aids Service Center, Inc. of Taibei.
Zhang Qiyun 張 其 昀, ed. Gong fei qie ju xia de Zhongguo da lu fen sheng di tu 共 匪 竊 據 下 的 中 國 大 陸 分 省 地 圖. Originally published in Shanghai and republished by the Guo fang yan jiu yuan, Taibei, 1956. Excellent reproduction of a Communist atlas.
Zhonghua min guo you zheng yu tu 中 華 民 國 郵 政 輿 圖 (The Postal Atlas of China). 4th edition. Compiled by the Chinese Directorate-General of Posts. Nanking: Jiao tong bu you zheng zong ju, 1935.
Zhonghua ren min gong he guo fen sheng di tu ji 中 華 人 民 共 和 國 分 省 地 圖 集. Compiled by Zhongguo di tu chu ban she. Beijing: Zhongguo di tu chu ban she, 1990.

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