China

General works

Overviews of China’s physical and human geography may be found in Brian Hook (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, 2nd ed. (1991); C.V. James (ed.), Information China, 3 vol. (1989), an encyclopaedic work prepared under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Frank Leeming, The Changing Geography of China (1993); and Lin Chun and Hans Hendrischke, The Territories of the People’s Republic of China, 2nd ed. (2006). General atlases include Nathan Sivin (ed.), The Contemporary Atlas of China (1988), including maps, illustrations, essays, and a chronology; and Liu Bin (ed.), Atlas of China, 3rd ed., English ed. (2001), published by China Cartographic Publishing House, with detailed maps of each province and region.