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MEDI 360: Medieval China

This is a resource guide for the course MEDI 360 Medieval China.

Chinese Local Gazetteers 中国地方志

United Catalogue of Chinese Gazetteers by Provinces中國大陸各省地方志書目查詢系統
This is a starting point for gazetteers research.
Chinese Rare Books Digital Collection (Library of Congress)
Chinese Rare Books (National Central Library of Taiwan)
Chinese Old Gazetteers (Harvard)
Harvard Chinese Historical GIS
Harvard Local Gazetteers Research Tool LoGarT
It is a powerful research tool to allow researchers to do keyword search across over 400 rare gazetteers and download the content in CVS files. A bunch of visualization tools are provided as well. You need to sign up for a free account to use it. Searches need to be done in traditional Chinese characters.
Database of Chinese Rare Books in Japan 日本所藏中文古籍數據庫
Digital Collections of the National Library of China
Some collections need subscription.

WorldCat (OCLC) WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. Search many libraries at once for an item and then locate it in a library nearby. Request items via ILL.

Zhongguo Changcheng zhi = Chronicles of the Great Wall of China
Publication Date: 2016
Zhongguo she hui ke xue yuan di fang zhi lian he mu lu 中國社會科學院地方志聯合目錄
ISBN: 9787516117231
Publication Date: 2013
Zhongguo di fang zhi lian he mu lu 中國地方志聯合目錄 by Beijing : Zhonghua shu ju
Publication Date: 1985
Zhongguo di fang zhi ji cheng. Jiangsu fu xian zhi ji 中囯地方志集成. 江蘇府縣志辑
ISBN: 9787807291695
Publication Date: 2008

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