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Xizang tu kao (Atlas of Tibet) is a Qing-dynasty treatise on the geography of Tibet, compiled by Huang Peiqiao and illustrated by Han Xi and others. Huang Peiqiao, courtesy name Shoupu, was born in Shanhua (present-day Changsha), Hunan. He joined the military as a young man and was an official in Sichuan for many years. He studied military and border affairs, and with Tibet adjacent to Sichuan, he remarked in his preface that “to defend Tibet is to strengthen Sichuan.” He began to collect classical literature and records on Tibet ...