Bai Prefecture

Baizhou or Bai Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern southern Guangxi, China. It existed intermittently from 623 to 1136, and between 742 and 758 it was known as Nanchang Commandery.[3]

Bai Prefecture (白州) Nanchang Commandery (南昌郡)
Population
• 740s or 750s	9,498[1]
• 1070s or 1080s	Unknown, 4,589 households[2]
History
• Preceded by	Nan Prefecture (南州)
• Created	623 (Tang dynasty)
• Abolished	1136 (Song dynasty)
Contained within
• Circuit	Tang dynasty: Lingnan Circuit Song dynasty: Guangnan Circuit Guangnan West Circuit

Bai Prefecture
Chinese	白州
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Bái Zhōu
Nanchang Commandery
Chinese	南昌郡
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Nánchāng Jùn

Counties

Bai Prefecture administered the following counties (縣) through history:

• Bobai (博白), roughly modern Bobai County.[4]
• Nanchang (南昌)[5]
• Jianning (建寧)[6]
• Zhouluo (周羅)[7]

Nanchang, Jianning, and Zhouluo, all abolished by the Song dynasty in 972, are probably all in modern Bobai County.

References

1. Xin Tang Shu, ch. 43.
2. Song Shi, ch. 90.
3. Shi, p. 783.
4. Shi, p. 2494.
5. Shi, p. 1803.
6. Shi, p. 1709.
7. Shi, p. 1623.

• Shi Weile, ed. (2005). Zhongguo Lishi Diming Da Cidian (中国历史地名大词典) [Large Dictionary of Chinese Historical Place Names] (in Chinese). China Social Sciences Press. ISBN 7-5004-4929-1.
• (in Chinese) Ouyang Xiu; et al., eds. (1060). Xin Tang Shu [New Book of Tang].
• (in Chinese) Toqto'a; et al., eds. (1345). Song Shi [History of Song].