Alternate Title
数字村庄
Category
Statistics and Data
Institution
University of Pittsburgh
Access
open access
URL
https://www.chinesevillagedata.library.pitt.edu/
Description
Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer Data (数字村庄 / Digital Village) is an open dataset developed by the East Asian Library of the University of Pittsburgh that extracts structured data from selected Chinese village gazetteers covering 1949 to the present. As of November 2022, the dataset covers 2,601 administrative villages across China's provinces, with records including demographic, economic, social, and governance data compiled from a customized data-entry platform. The dataset is freely downloadable in CSV format, and an interactive map providing village-level administrative information accompanies the download. This is the first project of its kind to systematically extract quantitative data from village gazetteers at scale, making it particularly valuable for comparative and longitudinal research on Chinese rural development, collectivization, agricultural reform, and village-level change across the PRC period.
Source List
ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
Tags
Early PRC (1949–1966) Economy Dataset Local history Contemporary (post-1978)
Last Modified
5/13/2026 9:27pm