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"Unscientific Traditional Chinese Maps - Research on Traditional Chinese Map Drawing" written by Cheng Yinong is a general work on the study of traditional Chinese cartography. The contents of this book include: a re-evaluation of the "Six Cartographies" and "Planning and Drawing Methods", the drawing methods and data sources of national general maps, the drawing history of ancient Chinese city maps, and the drawing methods of other types of maps, etc.

This book introduces the progress and important results of historical geography since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and looks forward to the future development trend of historical geography. Different from many previously published reviews of historical geography, although this book also emphasizes that historical geography has achieved fruitful results since the founding of the People's Republic of China and once had a wide range of influence, it also focuses on analyzing the problems existing in the current historical geography discipline as a whole. That is, because historical geography belongs to geography in terms of subject attributes, it also belongs to history in the subject classification of the Ministry of Education. , This contradictory state of subject affiliation has caused great obstacles to the development of historical geography; and in recent years, the research methods of geography have been increasingly expanded, while history has gradually moved from textual research to explanation, but historical geography has failed to keep up with the development of both, so it has become increasingly marginalized in both. Faced with this dilemma, historical geography must re-examine research methods and subject purposes in the future.