Gazetteer of Xin'an County

Gazetteer of Xin'an County
Traditional Chinese新安縣志
Simplified Chinese新安县志
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXīn'ān Xiànzhì
Wade–GilesHsin-an hsien chih
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationsānōn yuhn ji
Jyutpingsan1 on1 jyn6 zi3

Xin'an Xianzhi (Chinese: 新安縣志; literally Gazetteers of Xin'an County) were the chorography of the historical Xin'an County (San-On or Sun-On County; literally New Peace County; known at times as the Po-On County (spelt Bao'an in pinyin)) of Guangdong (then Kwangtung) in southern China.

Six editions were published, the first one in 1587 and the last one in 1819.[1] The last editions were Qing's Kangxi Years (K'ang-hsi; 1661–1722) edition and Jiaqing Years (Chia-ch'ing; 1796–1820) edition.

See also

  • Gazetteer

References

  1. ^ Barnett, K. M. A. (1964). "Hong Kong Before the Chinese: the Frame, The Puzzle and the Missing Pieces" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 4: 66–67. ISSN 1991-7295.

Further reading

  • Ng, Peter Y. L. (1983). New Peace County. A Chinese Gazetteer of the Hong Kong Region. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789622090439. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.


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