In classical Chinese, “Tu (圖)” can mean either images, illustrations, or drawings. This working group intends to look at visual representations in Chinese local gazetteers and find better ways to work with these visual materials, given that one can search and tag texts but not illustrations. A Special Issue: Visual Materials in Local Gazetteers, in the Journal of European Association for Chinese Studies was published in 2022.
“Tu (圖)” in Local Gazetteers
- Anne Gerritsen Kenneth Hammond Shellen Xiao Wu Jiajing Zhang Shih-Pei Chen Calvin Yeh Sean Wang Nung-yao LIN
News & Press
Past Events
Publications
Chen, Shih-Pei, Kenneth Hammond, Anne Gerritsen, Shellen Wu, and Jiajing Zhang (2020). “Local Gazetteers Research Tools: Overview and Research Application.” Journal of Chinese History 4 (2): 544–558. https://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2020.26.
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Lin, Nung-yao, Shih-Pei Chen, Sean Wang, and Calvin Yeh (2020). “Displaying Spatial Epistemologies on Web GIS: Using Visual Materials from the Chinese Local Gazetteers as an Example.” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 14 (1–2): 81–97. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2020.0246.
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Gerritsen, Anne and Kenneth Hammond, eds. (2022). Visual Materials in Local Gazetteers. Special issue, The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies 3. Wien: European Association for Chinese Studies. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/issue/view/594.
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Burton-Rose, Daniel (2022). “Wenchang Buildings in Later Imperial China A Consideration of the Visual Record in Late Imperial Local Gazetteers.” Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies 3: 59–84. https://doi.org/10.25365/jeacs.2022.3.burton-rose.
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Individual Research Projects
Conference Activities
Entire Working Group
- “Visual Materials in Chinese Local Gazetteers” panel session, International Convention of Asia Scholars, July 18, 2019.
Ken Hammond
- “Visual Representations of Urban Space in Ming Local Gazetteers,” Association for Asian Studies annual conference, March 22, 2019.