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The book is divided into five chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the development of ancient Chinese maps according to special topics; the second chapter introduces the basic historical materials for ancient map research; the third chapter reviews the history of ancient Chinese map research; and the fourth chapter, based on the content of the previous chapters, discusses classic research and current cutting-edge and hot issues. In addition, some key words are defined in Chapter 5.

This book attempts to adopt the perspective of "viewing with the times" to analyze important concepts such as "tianxia", "order of the world", "name of the country", "name of the world", "China", "dynasty", "dynasty", "border" and "frontier" that are often used in the study of ancient Chinese history. It is further proposed that in modern times, we have been accustomed to understand and narrate ancient Chinese history from the perspective of "hindsight" and based on Western history and modern concepts. However, because the two are incompatible in terms of historical process and cultural tradition, some historical and practical problems that are difficult to explain have naturally arisen. Based on the above understanding, this book ultimately believes that the narrative of "Chinese history" formed in modern times is not actually "Chinese history" under the traditional Chinese discourse system. In the future, we should take China as the center and think deeply about the narrative method of "Chinese history". This should be the need of China and the world in the current era.

"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.