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 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).
Working Group
(2018-2023)
"Tu (圖)" in Local Gazetteers
Past Events
Individual Research Projects

Affiliated Scholars (left to right): Gerritsen, Zhang, Wu, and Hammond
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.