Special collections: local gazetteers 地方志

Local gazetteers 地方志

The East Asian Library has a growing collection of 地方志, local gazetteers (local histories), of the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasties (960-1911) and the Republican period (1911-1949).
These gazetteers are kept in the normal stacks and more than 2000 of them can be found through the online catalogue with the search term 地方志.

The older gazetteers, which have traditional Chinese binding, can not yet be searched online: find them through the card catalogue in the Green Room in de East Asian Library.

Further reading and links:

• the majority of the local gazetteers can be found in the catalogue through the search term 地方志

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The East Asian Library has several special collections. For access to these special collections, please contact the reference desk. Here’s our complete list of special collections on China:

• Van Gulik Collection
• Go Collection
• Gützlaff Collection
• Hulsewé Collection
• KNAG Collection
• Precious and special books (VGK Collectie)
• Old Manchu and Mongolian books
• Local gazetteers 地方志
• Congshu 叢書 (Collected works)
• Journals, dating from before 1949
• Unofficial poetry magazines from PRC
• Chinese films and videos
• Art and material culture
• Kong Koan Archives

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