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Commentary on the Water Classic

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scholars gave it a later date (during the Three Kingdoms period) because of the names of the counties and commanderies. Its authorship was then attributed to
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Chinese History and Culture: Sixth Century B.C.E. to Seventeenth Century, Volume 1
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The work is much expanded from its source text, the older (and now lost)
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Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China.
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University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. 1994
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Index


Wei River
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles
Chinese
Chinese geography
ancient times
waterways
ancient canals
Li Daoyuan
Northern Wei dynasty
Eastern Han
scholar
geographer
Three Kingdoms period
Qing dynasty
Jin dynasty
Guo Pu
Tribute of Yu
Min river
Yangtze
Ming dynasty
Xu Xiake
Jinsha
Yang Shoujing
Xiong Huizhen

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