The provincial boundaries of China were changed regularly with each new dynasty. So were the names. And so are the English translations of past and present names, including the maps which scholars today use to chart the regional structure of the country. It can be very confusing for beginners. P, for example, writes about Lingnan in the 18th-19th centuries (as "probably China's second most commercialized and densely populated macro-region" at that time; though North China was the first before the medieval Song revolution which turned the Lower Yangzi into the most advanced).
Yet, while I have located the name of every other region P mentions, I have not seen the name "Lingnan"
"South of the Mountains": Guangzhou plus Guangdong. I don't think that Guizhou or Hunan are included...
Brad "But I Could Be Wrong" DeLong
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