Included here are sources for finding the locations of places
within the administrative hierarchy and their geographical
locations, indexes to place names in Sung-period geographies and
other works, and modern geographical studies. Indexes including
but not exclusive to place names will be found in Section VI with
other comprehensive indexes.
The most authoritative maps of Sung China are in:
R3020/447(6)
Ref (C) G2306.S1 C55 1982
LoC: G2306.S1 C55 1982 |
Chung‑kuo li‑shih ti‑t'u chi, vol. 6: Sung Liao Chin
shih-ch'i
中國歷史地圖集：宋遼金時期
(Historical
atlas of China: Sung, Liao, and Chin periods).
T'an Ch'i-hsiang
譚其驤, general editor.
Shanghai: Ti-t'u ch'u-pan, 1982. 115 p.
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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. 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.
1906 edition (also rpt. Taipei: Lien-ching, 1975)
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which is based on the "Treatise on Administrative Geography"
in the Sung History. This work is indexed by:
R3080.8/4234
LoC: G2306.S1 Y3 1906 (Map) Cage |
Li-tai
yü-ti yen-ko-t'u so-yin
歷代輿地沿革圖索引
(Index to the Li-tai yü-ti yen-ko-t'u)
Ch'iao Yen-kuan 喬衍琯 comp.
Taipei: Lien-ching ch'u-pan she, 1982. 1300 p.
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A reliable 32x26" map of Northern Sung, especialy good
for North China border regions, is included with the index to Hu
San-hsing's commentary to the Tzu-chih t'ung-chien:
J2512/1279.2
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Shiji
tsugan Kochū chimei sakuin
資治通鑑胡註地名索引
(Place-name index to Hu [San‑hsing]'s commentary on the
Tzu‑chih t'ung‑chien).
Araki Toshikazu 荒木敏一 and Yoneda Kenjirō 米田賢次郎 comp.
Kyoto: Kyōto daigaku Jinbun kagaku kenkyūjo, 1967. 351 p.
McMullen #93.
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The Sung Project issued a one-page enlargement of the map of
Northern Sung circuits and prefectures, c. 1120, found in
RJ2405/5375
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Tōyō
rekishi daijiten
東洋歷史大辭典
(Encyclopedia of East Asian history).
Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1947, vol. 5, p. 290
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For a map of commercial centers in the eleventh
century, see:
(Wid) EconP 50.5.7
LoC: AP20 .A58 |
"Une carte des
centres commerciaux de la Chine à la fin du XIe siècle."
Etienne Balazs.
Annales- Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations 12 (1957):
587-593.
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For maps of transportation routes, see:
J4488/5234
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Tō
Sō jidai no kōtsū to chishi chizu no kenkyū
唐宋時代の交通と地誌地圖の研究
(Studies of T'ang and Sung transportation routes and
maps).
Aoyama Sadao 青山定雄
Tokyo: Yoshikawa kōbunkan, 1963.
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There is a map of main Northern Sung roads after page 50; of
the Pien waterway after page 256; and of the grain transport
system after page 444. The volume includes a looseleaf
reproduction of a rubbing of a map giving prefectural examination
quotas in the mid-thirteenth century.
Note also various maps pertaining to the regional
distribution of chin-shih 進士 degree holders in:
(W) JQ1512.Z13 E8719 1985
LoC: JQ1512.Z13 E8719 1985 |
The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China: A Social History of the Examinations
John W. Chaffee
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
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For a set of modern and ancient maps of Southern Sung
Hang-chou, locating wards, government offices, commercial
sites, and so on, see:
J2662/4740
LoC: DS750.72 .C48 1984 Japan |
Chūgoku kinsei no toshi to bunka
中國近世の 都市と文化
(Cities and culture in early modern China).
Umehara Kaoru 梅原郁 ed.
Kyoto: Kyōto daigaku Jinbun kagaku kenkyūjo, 1984.
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A number of Sung-period maps exist as engravings and in
local gazetteers. Many of these are reproduced, together with
scholarly studies, in:
(Map Collection)MAP-LC G2305.c93 1990f,
(C) G2305.C93 1990
LoC: G2305 .C93 1990
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Chung-kuo ku-tai ti-t'u chi
中國古代地圖集
(Collection of Chinese historical
maps).
Ts'ao Wan-ju et al. comp.
Peking: Wen-wu, 1990.
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To locate a place within the administrative hierarchy (e.g.,
the prefecture or chou 州and route or lu 路 in which
a particular subprefecture or hsien 縣lies), consult:
(W) DS706.5.W7 1956
LoC: DS706.5 .W7 |
Geographical Names in Sung China: An Alphabetical List.
Hope Wright comp.
Paris: École Pratique des Haute Études, 1956. 192 and 9 p.
McMullen #64.
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Alphabetical, by Wade-Giles romanization; includes a character
index. Gives the coordinates of prefectural seats and the
distance (in li 里) of subprefectural seats from the
prefectural seat. This is based on the "Treatise on Geography" in
the Sung History and the two Sung-period geographies noted
below.
To locate administrative units, bodies of water, mountains,
etc. on maps, see the index to:
R3020/0447(6)
LoC: G2306.S1 C55 1982 |
Chung‑kuo li‑shih ti‑t'u chi, Vol. 6, Sung Liao Chin
shih-ch'I
中國歷史地圖集：宋遼金時期
(Historical atlas of China: the Sung, Liao, and Chin
periods).
T'an Ch'i-hsiang 譚其驤, gen. ed.
Shanghai: Ti-t'u ch'u-pan, 1982. 115 p.
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Two Northern Sung geographies have been indexed. For the
earlier, the 200-chüan T'ai-p'ing huan-yü chi (980),
see:
Ref (C) DS706.5.Y83 1963x Index
LoC: DS706.5.Y832 W36 China |
T'ai‑p'ing
huan‑yü chi so‑yin
太平寰宇記索引
(Index to the Comprehensive
Geography of the T'ai‑p'ing [hsing-kuo]
period).
Wang Hui 王恢comp.
Taipei: Wen-hai ch'u-pan she, 1975. 1022 and 22 p.
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A second geography, the 10-chüan Yuan-feng chiu-yü
chih, was presented in 1080. The 1984 punctuated, critical
edition includes an index.
3025/1144b(1-2)
LoC: DS706.5 .W33 1984 China |
Yuan‑feng chiu‑yü chih
元豐九域記
(Comprehensive geography of the Yuan-feng period).
Wang Ts'un 王存
Wang Wen-ch'u 王文楚 and Wei Sung-shan 魏嵩山 comp.
Peking: Chung-hua shu-chü, 1984. 2 volumes. Index: 281 p.
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This edition supersedes the 1784 edition, reprinted in 1976,
for which the following index should be consulted:
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Genpō kyūikishi, fu sakuin
元豐九域志附索引
[Yuan-feng chiu-yü chih fu so-yin]
(Index to the Comprehensive geography of the Yuan-feng
period).
Shimai Kazuyasu 居一康comp.
Kyoto: Chūbun shuppansha, 1976. Index: 72 p.
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The private cultural geography of Southern Sung China, the
Yü-ti chi-sheng of ca. 1221, was based on earlier
geographies, gazetteers, and personal experience. The reprinted
edition includes indexes to place names, personal names, and
stone inscriptions according to the four-corner system. There is
a stroke-count index.
3025/1173b
LoC: DS706.5 .W28 1991 China |
Yü-ti chi-sheng
輿地紀勝
(Records of famous places).
Wang Hsiang-chih 王象之 comp.
Peking: Chung-hua shu-chü, 1992. 8 volumes.
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There is also an index to a similar but shorter work by Chu
Mu 祝穆
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"Fang-yü sheng-lan ti-ming so-yin"
方輿勝覽地名索引
(Place-name index to the Fang-yü sheng-lan).
In Sung-pen宋本Fang-yü sheng-lan.
Shanghai: Shanghai ku-chi, 1991. Vol. 4, pp. 259-342.
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For converting Sung-period place names into their modern
approximations and equivalents, turn to the historical atlas
Chung-kuo li-shih ti-t'u chi and standard geographical
dictionaries.
For waterways as given in the "Treatise on Rivers and Canals"
of the Sung History, see:
J8731/2230
LoC: DS751 .T64 1979 Suppl. |
Sō shi kakyoshi sakuin
宋史河渠志索引
[Sung-shih ho-ch'ü chih so-yin]
(Index to the Treatise on rivers and canals in the Sung
History).
Saeki Tomi 佐伯富comp.
Tokyo: Shōshin shobō, 1979. 216 p.
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Note the place-name index to Ssu-ma Kuang's Comprehensive
Mirror for Aid in Government (Tzu-chih t'ung-chien),
although this chronological history stops in A.D. 959.
J2512/1279.2
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Shiji tsugan Kochū chimei sakuin
資治通鑑胡註地名索引
[Tzu-chih t'ung-chien Hu-chu ti-ming so-yin]
(Place-name index to Hu [San‑hsing]'s commentary on the
Tzu‑chih t'ung‑chien).
Araki Toshikazu 荒木敏一 and Yoneda Kenjirō 米田賢次郎 comp.
Kyoto: Kyōtodaigaku Jinbun kagaku kenkyūjo, 1967. 351 p.
McMullen #93.
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The following merely lists in sequence the place names in the
text with their Ch'ing equivalents.
2512/1279.23
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Tzu-chih t'ung-chien ti-li chin-shih
資治通鑑地理今釋
(Modern identification of geographical names in the
Tzu-chih t'ung‑chien).
Wu Hsi-tsai 吳熙載comp.
N.p. Chiang-su shu-chü, 1882; rpt. Taipei: Hsin-hsing shu-chü,
1959. 109 p.
McMullen #91.
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The following study of Sung walled cities, from capitals down
to subprefectures, includes a chart showing the dimensions and
other features of the walls and moats of about 150 such cities,
noting their administrative rank.
J2404/5282
LoC: DS511 .N289 |
"Sōdai no toshi jōkaku"
宋代の都市城郭
(The walls of Sung cities).
Shiba Yoshinobu 斯波義信
In Nakashima Satoshi sensei koki kinen
ronshū
中島敏先生古稀記念論集
(Essays in honor of Nakashima Satoshi).
Vol. 2. Tokyo: Kyūko shoin, 1981, pp. 289‑318.
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The following is a study of transportation routes in the T'ang
and Sung periods:
J4488/5234
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Tō Sōō jidai no kōtsū to chishi chizu no
kenkyūū
唐宋時代の交通と地誌地圖の研究
(Studies of local gazetteers, maps, and transportation routes
in T'ang and Sung)
Aoyama Sadao 青山定雄
Tokyo: Yoshikawa kōbunkan, 1963. 617 and 18 p.
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