A New Attempt of Combining Historical Time and Geographic Space Image ―The Creative Design of Atlas of Chinese Historical Civilization

摘要

China is an age-old civilized country boasting of a history of 5000 years and splendid culture. Substantive historical materials and recordation such as works and researches made by historians and geographers in past dynasties had been accumulated in this age-old state. The historical research accounts the environmental and social evolvement in the long process of history with study of time as the main way while study of space as subsidiary way. The geographic research analyzes the rales of spatial distribution with study of space as main way and study of time as subsidiary way. The best way to combine the time and space studies is mapping history. The Atlas of Chinese Historical Civilization is no other than one of the best achievements on accounting China's historical culture arising and developing over past several thousands of years by means of mapping. The Atlas of Chinese Historical Civilization is a mapping masterpiece integrating science, knowledge, practibility and artistry. The original maps of many drawings are following the viewpoints and cartographies of authoritative works so as to be greatly benefited. It is to dig out the contents of all the history from various angles and lays. The contents include the nature and humanities of various feudal dynasties of China. Every map in the atlas adopts discreet research results of contemporary China's scholars, and is compiled into this magnum opus by collecting different materials. The aim of compiling this Atlas of Chinese Historical Civilization is to account Chinese history and civilization in the form of concise and vivid maps with writing dissertation, photos and diagrams as complements, to display it to the society to be read and accepted by the general public and transfer it into a social spirit treasure. The atlas is a popular literary and historical reading not only intended for the general Chinese citizen, but intended to introduce Chinese historical and cultural development to people of other nations.