I am going through Chris Stewart's History of China podcast. When I listen to history podcasts, I often get an accompanying atlas so I can keep track of the political maps. For example, the I listen to a few medieval podcasts and the Penguin Atlas of Medieval History has been incredibly helpful. I am finding Chinese geography particularly hard to keep straight, given my usual European focus, so I was wondering if anybody had book recommendations that contain political maps of China over the various dynasties?
Harvard's six-volume History of Imperial China series is probably going to be one of the more helpful options for this while still not being beyond a reasonable budget as long as you're aware you're getting up to six books. They're broadly up to date historiographically for the mid-late 2000s, and while they have a relatively thematic and analytical focus over narrative, they are intended to have decent readability for the more general reader, so most of the volumes have a good smattering of maps, figures, and illustrations.