SHAN HAI JING GUANG ZHU [An Expanded and Illustrated Edition of the Guideways through Mountains and Seas with Extensive Commentaries].

1786.

Jinchang: Shuyetang, by Wu Renchen, woodblock printed, fragmentary book, one volume only, 26 x 18cm.

Provenance: formerly in the collection of SOAS library.

一七八六 《山海經廣註》

來源：前亞非學院圖書館藏。

It is generally believed that Shan Hai Jing originated from geographical files as documented by Zhou Dynasty officials. It combines fantasies of imagined worlds with true-to-life descriptions of peoples, animals and plants, and has been regularly annotated and amended across the Dynasties. This version of Wu Renchen’s 1667 edition was recut in 1786 and is the version most widely reproduced in succeeding editions through the present.