China Comprehensive Gazetteers

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中國綜合方志庫

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http://www.fangzhi.net.cn/

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This China Comprehensive Gazetteers database has been produced in conjunction with the National Library of China. It includes 7,000 Chinese local gazetteers spanning eight centuries 1229-1949. Chinese gazetteers are a very rich resource available for researching China in multiple aspects, including its political history, literature, and religion, as well as the biographies of famous personages, its culture, economic development and, of course, its geography and natural history. Because of its varied content, organized to principles also varying from title to title, full-text search capabilities change the way they can be used. The titles included in this particular database (approximately 7,000 titles, 100,000 volumes) have for a large part been compiled using Optical Character Recognition. Because of this automated process, which occasionally produces errors, the 4,000 titles which overlap with the Zhongguo fang zhi ku database, are probably best used in the latter (with much stricter authority control.) However, the China Comprehensive Gazetteers database includes at least 2,000 additional full-text searchable titles.

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Princeton China Studies Research Guide

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2026-01-16