Historical Records Place Name Examination (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Qian Mu
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Publishing Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The book Records of the Grand Historian begins with Xuanyuan and ends with the Heavenly Han, compiling the grand achievements of ancient history, yet there is a lack of geographical studies in this work. The great scholar Qian Mu, during the early years of the War of Resistance, retreated to in Suzhou when it was occupied, and with the twenty or thirty ancient historical and geographical books he had, he wrote this book day and night over a year. The book is organized into volumes by place names, largely following the original chapters of Records of the Grand Historian, and the arrangement of place names can also roughly reflect the chronological order of their times.