The Commentary on the Water Classic or Shui Jing Zhu is a work on the ancient geography of China, describing the traditional understanding of its waterways and ancient canals, compiled by Li Daoyuan d ...
Li Daoyuan (Chinese: t 酈道元, s 郦道元, p Lí Dàoyuán; b.?AD 427 or 469 in Zhuo County, Hebei — d.?527) was a Chinese geographer during the Northern Wei Dynasty. He is known as the author of the ...
A native of Wenxi County, in what is now southwest Shanxi Province, Guo studied Daoist occultism and prognostication in his youth, and mainly worked as a prognosticator for various local officials and ...
Sichuan consists of two very geographically distinct parts. The eastern part of the province is mostly within the fertile Sichuan basin (which is shared by Sichuan with Chongqing Municipality). The we ...
He was the grandson of the founder of Han Dynasty (漢朝) emperor Liu Bang (劉邦), and later became the King of Huainan (literally "south of the Huai River"), at the age of 16 after his father, Liu Cha ...
The date of composition for the Huainanzi is more certain than for most early Chinese texts. Both the Book of Han and Records of the Grand Historian record that when Liu An paid a state visit to his n ...
Examples of electronic world gazetteers can be found at:NGA GEOnet Names Serverthe GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board o ...
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the "gazetteer" as a "geographical index or dictionary". It includes as an example a work by the British historian Laurence Echard (d. 1730) in 1693 that bore the ...
The Ban family was one of the most distinguished families of the Eastern Han dynasty. They lived in the state of Chu during the Warring States period, but in the 3rd century BC a man named Ban Yi move ...
Pei is best known for his work in cartography. Although professional map-making and use of the grid had existed in China before him, he was the first to mention a plotted geometrical grid reference an ...
In 247?bc, the 13-year-old Ying Zheng became king of Qin after the sudden death of King Zhuangxiang. However, Ying Zheng did not wield state power fully in his hands until 238?bc, after eliminating ...
According to the 2nd century?bc historical text Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian, the Qin state traced its origin to Zhuanxu, one of the Five Emperors in ancient times. One of his descende ...
Strabo (/?stre?bo?/; Greek: Στρ?βων Strabōn; 64/63 BC – c. AD 24), was a Greek geographer, philosopher and historian.Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus (modern Am ...
Early Chinese literature calls the Yangtze River simply 江 (Old Chinese: *k?ro?), a character that came to mean any river by the Han Dynasty. The character is a phono-semantic compound, combining 氵 ...
The term Nine Provinces (Chinese: 九州; pinyin: Jiǔ Zhōu) is used in ancient Chinese histories to refer to territorial divisions or islands during the Xia and Shang dynasties, and has now come to sy ...
