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Writing City History at the Grassroots Level: Jiedaozhi and Their Research Value |
Zhaohui Xue1(), Haihui Zhang2() |
1. East Asia Library, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; 2. East Asia Library, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, PA 15260, USA |
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Abstract Chinese local gazetteers (difangzhi) have been long recognized as an important primary source for the study of local history. Since the 1990s, in addition to projects to publish provincial, city, and county gazetteers, local gazetteers for villages, city districts, and city neighborhoods and streets (jiedao) have also been compiled. This paper focuses on one particular genre of these newly emerged local gazetteers, the city sub-district gazetteer or street gazetteers (jiedaozhi). We track their development, and discuss their characteristics and their research value for Chinese studies. We show that jiedaozhi open windows into grassroots society in urban areas, which may stimulate new research directions in Chinese studies.
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Keywords
jiedaozhi
contemporary local gazetteers
Chinese studies sources
city studies
Chinese city community
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Corresponding Author(s):
Zhaohui Xue,Email:zhxue@stanford.edu; Haihui Zhang,Email:haihuiz@pitt.edu
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Issue Date: 05 December 2011
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