Bohai guo zhi 渤海國志 [Treatise on the Bohai Kingdom].
78; 82 folding leaves. Three parts in two vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, orig. stitching. Beijing: Wen hua zhai, Third Preface dated 1935.
Early edition of this notable history of the Bohai Kingdom, written by Weihan Huang (d. 1929-31), government official and historian. The Bohai (or Parhae or Balhae) Kingdom (698-926) occupied the Manchurian plains to the north of the Korean peninsula. Korean and Chinese historians began to take an interest in the Bohai kingdom in the eighteenth century, partially because the Manchus had begun their rise to the dominant political power in East... More