Bohai guo zhi chang bian 渤海國志長編 [The Long Compilation of the Bohai Kingdom].
Two folding maps (one in color), laid-in orig. printed envelope. 20 juan in ten vols. & addendum. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, orig. stitching. Liaoyang: Jin shi qian hua shan guan, 1934.
First edition of this important history of the Bohai Kingdom, written by Jin Yufu (1887-1962), the influential historian and historiographer.
The Bohai (or Parhae or Balhae) Kingdom (698-926) occupied the Manchurian plains to the north of the Korean peninsula. A peripheral state contemporaneous with the Tang empire in China, Bohai had also been on the periphery of the East Asian historiographical tradition. It had no obvious immediate... More