VII.A. ATLASES AND MAPS
For a bibliography and chronology of Song Dynasty gazetteers and geographical
works, see III.A.
VII.A.1. Historical Atlases and GIS Tools
The most authoritative maps of Sung China are in:
This work includes 44 maps for Sung, Liao, and Chin at different periods.
The introduction explains the choices made. Maps contain both present-day
and Sung-period locations for urban centers, administrative boundaries,
and geographical features. There is a place-name index. Tan's historical
maps are accessible online. The following GIS system is based on his historical
maps:
Chinese Civilization in Time and Space/Zhonghua
wenming zhi shikong jichu jiagou 中華文明之時空基礎架構
http://ccts.sinica.edu.tw/framework.php?lang=en
Academia Sinica/Zhongyang yanjiuyuan 中央研究院
In
accuracy, if not in scale, this work supersedes:
R3080.8/4234
LoC: G2306.S1 Y3 1906 (Map) Cage |
Li‑tai
yü‑ti yen-ko‑t'u, ts'e 30, Sung ti-li chih
t'u
歷代輿地沿革圖，宋地理志圖
(Maps of changes in historical geography: Maps of the Sung
Treatise on geography).
Yang Shou-ching 楊守敬 comp.
N.p.: 1906; rpt. Taipei: Lien-ching, 1975, 1986. |
which is based on the "Treatise on Administrative Geography"
in the Sung History. This work is indexed by:
Historical GIS datasets, originally developed
by Robert Hartwell and edited by Lex Burman of the CHGIS project, are
available at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/
http://yugong.fudan.edu.cn/default.asp
This page provides a link to "Intro to the Hartwell GIS," an
article by Peter K. Bol explaining the limitations and the uses of the
Hartwell datasets. From this site users can also search a place-name index
and an index to Tan Qixiang’s historical atlas.
This is part of Luo Fengzhu’s digital archive, titled 網路展書讀. This system
provides a geographical searching tool for Su Shi’s travels and poetic
work. |
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