“Southern Department Sent an Official Letter to Request the Creation of a ‘Map of Faraway Lands’ and a Comprehensive Study of the Local Customs and Histories, The”, 92

“Thinking of the Past on the Southern Tower in Front of the Changsha Post House (Here I Parted with the Venerable De)”, 204

“To the Little Rock Pond West of the Little Hill”, 24, 62, 239

Liuzhou, 92–97, 108, 125, 204, 236

Liyang, 22, 147, 152–153, 157–160, 162, 164, 191, 304

local deities, 23, 131, 133, 136, 167, 173–174, 176–177, 179

local sphere, 6, 22, 25–26, 129–134, 140, 143, 146–147, 153–155, 164, 166–167, 174, 176–177, 179, 195, 234, 311–312

Lord Huang, 98–100, 106–108, 173

Lu Qiu, 184

Lü Wen, 64, 85–86, 88–90, 189

“Preface to the Map of the Territorial Record”, 46

Luoyang, 35, 58, 96, 221, 264–265, 267

Ma Zong, 147

magistrate, 127, 147–148, 150–152, 167, 188, 213–216

Maid Ma, 135–139, 141, 143–145, 188

malaria, 94–95

map

early maps, 34

“Enlarged Terrestrial Atlas, The”, 116

grand map (datu), 20–21, 25, 38, 40, 43–44, 46, 49–51, 57, 60, 65, 72–74, 79, 83, 85–86, 88–89, 92, 94–95, 100–101, 103–104, 106–107, 109, 113, 116–117, 119–120, 130, 195, 310–311

history in maps, 16–17, 20, 44–46, 49, 51, 54, 56, 60, 64–65, 85–87, 94, 100, 107, 116, 140, 146–147, 150–151, 156, 158, 160, 169–170, 184, 263

imaginary imperial map, 97

imperial maps (guotu), 5, 46

“Map of Chinese and Foreign Lands”, 20, 31, 40, 43–44, 46–48, 60, 72, 79, 83, 86, 93, 116–117, 310

“Map of Faraway Lands”, 92

“Map of the Territorial Record”, 46, 86

“Map of the Western Edge of the Great Tang”, 41, 64

Maps and Treaties of the Prefects and Counties of the Yuanhe Reign, 57, 60, 95–96, 225

map-viewing eye, 73

measurements of distance, 95

notes, 104, 106

as political incentive for imperial revival, 42

precision, 21, 34, 44, 119

significance of maps to imperial governance, 45

“Territorial Map of the Han Dynasty”, 88