Fig. 2: An example of a chengtu inordinately heavy on extra-mural detail compared to intra-mural detail. 1774 Xixia xian zhi.

A Chinese Map of the Xing An Region, included in the Japanese "translation" of the reclamation report by the Chinese military, from Yutaka Kurimoto, Kōan tonkonku jijō (Dairen: Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1929). Harvard Yenching Library https://nrs.lib.harvard.edu/urn-3:fhcl:12855654?n=34

A Chinese Map of the Xing An Region, included in the Japanese "translation" of the reclamation report by the Chinese military. Yutaka Kurimoto, Kōan tonkonku jijō (Dairen: Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1929).

A chengtu that is inordinately heavy on extra-mural detail compared to intra-mural detail. 1774 Xixia xian zhi. Image credit: Zhongguo Fangzhi Ku

 

 

LoGaRT Preview

A short paper series on using LoGaRT to study Chinese local history

Local Gazetteers Research Tools Working Group

A chengtu that is inordinately heavy on extra-mural detail compared to intra-mural detail. 1774 Xixia xian zhi. Image credit: Zhongguo Fangzhi Ku

 

 

LoGaRT (Local Gazetteers Research Tools) is developed under the Local Gazetteers Working Group at Department III of MPIWG to enable new ways of approaching this genre. It allows historians to search, collect data, and analyse from digital editions of Chinese local gazetteers across time and space, and provides them with a bird’s-eye view (including statistical and visual analytics) of the genre at a scale beyond close-reading. 

The LoGaRT Preview series gives readers a glimpse into some of the early research results achieved by our working group members. The first selections are focused on the use of images in local gazetteers.