>The provincial boundaries of China were changed regularly with
>each new dynasty. So were the names. And so are the English
>translations of past and present names, including the maps which
>scholars today use to chart the regional structure of the country. It
>can be very confusing for beginners. P, for example, writes about
>Lingnan in the 18th-19th centuries (as "probably China's second
>most commercialized and densely populated macro-region" at that
>time; though North China was the first before the medieval Song
>revolution which turned the Lower Yangzi into the most advanced).
>
>Yet, while I have located the name of every other region P
>mentions, I have not seen the name "Lingnan"
"South of the Mountains": Guangzhou plus Guangdong. I don't think
that Guizhou or Hunan are included...
Brad "But I Could Be Wrong" DeLong
