Dividing the Realm

This page accompanies Ruth Mostern’s book Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of Song China (960-1276 CE) (Harvard University Press, 2011).  Here you will find high resolution versions of all images appearing in the book.  The table at the bottom of the page includes the reference number, caption, and page number of each image in the book.

Prologue

Map 0.1 Yizhang and Linwu counties 3
Illustration 0.1 The ca. 1180s “Geographical Map” 7
Figure 0.1 A timeline of Song spatial renovation 13

Chapter 1

Figure 1.1 County area and county-to-prefecture ratio 21
Figure 1.2 County and prefecture timeline 22
Map 1.1 Sichuan local administration 28
Map 1.2 Change in the density of state presence 29

Chapter 2

Map 2.1 The distribution of prefecture types 42
Map 2.2 The spatial distribution of the county-to-prefecture ratio 48
Map 2.3 Cantons per county and towns per county 53

Chapter 3

Illustration 3.1 A Qing dynasty copy of the “General Map of the Mountains and Rivers of the Tribute of Yu” 67 
Illustration 3.2 The “Map of Mountains and Rivers in the Nine Provinces of the Tribute of Yu” 68 
Illustration 3.3a The “Map of the Territory of the Prefecture” 77
Illustration 3.3b The “Map of the Territory of the Prefecture” (detail) 78
Illustration 3.4 The “Map of the Tracks of Yu” 80
Illustration 3.5 The “Map of the Territory of Xiangshan County” 86
Illustration 3.6 Two adjacent pages from the Handy Maps of Historical Geography 89

Chapter 4

Figure 4.1 The first phase of Song spatial renovation, 960–1040 108
Map 4.1 The first phase of Song spatial renovation, 960–1040 109
Map 4.2 Pingjin county and vicinity 124
Map 4.3 Yang zhou and its hinterland 125
Map 4.4 Yingyang, Dengfeng, and vicinity 129
Figure 4.2 Spatial change in Sichuan, 965–1040 132
Map 4.5 Spatial change in Sichuan, 965–1040 133
Map 4.6 Gao zhou, Pan zhou, and the Leizhou peninsula 138
Map 4.7 Sites of rebellion in Guangnan 142
Map 4.8 Spatial transformation in former Southern Tang and Wuyue territory 145
Map 4.9 Spatial change in north China, 960–1040 151
Map 4.10 Weisheng jun and vicinity 154
Map 4.11 Spatial change along the Tangut frontier 157
Map 4.12 Hezhong fu, Baoding county, and vicinity 161

Chapter 5

Map 5.1 Spatial change, 1040–1126 168
Map 5.2 Weisheng jun and vicinity 170
Figure 5.1 The fluctuation in the number of subsidiary units in Henan fu, 1035–95 178
Map 5.3 Spatial change, 1040–67 181
Figure 5.2 Timelines of spatial change 1068–1126 by circuit 185
Map 5.4 Spatial change, 1068–73 190
Map 5.5 Hua zhou, Zheng zhou, and vicinity 191
Map 5.6 Qianning jun and vicinity 193
Map 5.7 Cheng zhou (Jing zhou) and vicinity 199
Map 5.8 Spatial change, 1067–1101 203
Map 5.9 Zhaocheng and vicinity 204
Map 5.10 Spatial change in the Huizong era, 1101–26 211

Chapter 6

Figure 6.1 Timeline of spatial change in the Southern Song 223
Map 6.1 Spatial change in the Southern Song 224
Map 6.2 Ding zhou and vicinity 231
Map 6.3 Cheng zhou and vicinity 233
Map 6.4 Spatial change during the 1130s and 1140s 234
Map 6.5 Si zhou, Hao zhou, Zhaoxin county, and vicinity 241
Map 6.6 Zaoyang county, Guanghua jun, and vicinity 245
Map 6.7 Jiangyin jun and vicinity 247
Map 6.8 Suining county and vicinity 252