The Concise Historical Atlas of China (Chinese: 简明中国歷史地图集; pinyin: Jiǎnmíng Zhōngguó lìshǐ dìtú jí) was published in 1991.
All country-wide maps, from Paleolithic onward, include an inset showing the nine-dash line in the South China Sea.
The regimes they established are part of the historical China.This vision has been criticized as anachronistically projecting 20th-century minority policy and border claims into the distant past, resulting in a distorted view of the history of peripheral areas, portraying their incorporation into China as an inevitable organic process, rather than the result of conquest.
[3] Similarly, early states are often given overly precise and extensive outer borders, often based on contentious claims.
[6][7] In his afterword to volume 8, written in 1987, Tan identified the Atlas's indiscriminate inclusion of jimi and tusi areas within imperial territory as a flaw.