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Maps

Please consult the links provided below for maps relevant to the sites, themes and topics relevant to the course.


Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan)

Contemporary Jiangnan (English only): Insight Guide: China (Maspeth, NY: 1998), 251. (Note that this map, created for contemporary tourists, refers to the Jiangnan region simply as "Outside Shanghai")
Contemporary Jiangnan (English & Chinese): Contemporary Atlas of China (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1988), 29.
Jiangnan during the Qing (1644-1911): Paulo Santangelo, "Urban Society in Late Imperial Suzhou," in Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China, ed. Linda Cooke Johnson (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993), 116.
 
Nanjing

Google Maps default location
Nanjing Subway maps: Wikipedia | TravelChinaGuide.com | Urbanrail.net
Nanjing University neighborhood map
Nanjing 1390: Ming city: F. W. Mote, "The Transformation of Nanjing, 1350-1400," in The City in Late Imperial China, ed. G. William Skinner (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977), 135.
Nanjing 1390: old city: Mote, 140.
Nanjing, 1928: Charles Musgrove, "Building A Dream: Constructing a National Capital in Nanjing, 1927-1937," in Remaking the Chinese City, ed. Joseph Esherick (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000), 141.

Suzhou
Google Maps default location
Suzhou in the Ming: Michael Marme, "Heaven on Earth: The Rise of Suzhou, 1127-1550," in Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993), 37.
 
Shanghai

Google Maps default location
Shanghai Subway maps: Shanghai Metro | Wikipedia | Explore Shanghai.com
Shanghai in the Qing: Linda Cooke Johnson, "Shanghai: An Emerging Jiangnan Port, 1683-1840" in Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993), 169.
Shanghai, 1937: Frederic Wakeman, Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Berkeley: University of California Press), 4-5.

Hangzhou
Goodle Maps default location
Hangzhou, 1274: Arthur Wright, "The Cosmology of the Chinese City," in The City in Late Imperial China, ed. G. William Skinner (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977), 65.
Hangzhou, Qing dynasty: Liping Wang, "Tourism and Spatial Change in Hangzhou, 1911-1927," in Remaking the Chinese City, ed. Joseph Esherick (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000), 109. NOTE: This map is reproduced from a traditional gazetteer, and is therefore oriented to the south.
Hangzhou, 1920s: Wang, 114. NOTE: This map is oriented to the south for ease of comparison to the Qing dynasty map above.

Shaoxing
Shaoxing, 1683: John R. Watt, "The Yamen and Urban Administration," in The City in Late Imperial China, ed. G. William Skinner (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977), 354.

Beijing
Google Maps default location
Beijing subway map: Wikipedia |