Chinese Modern Local Gazetteers 新方志 (Wanfang)

This database gives access to more than 25,000 volumes of post-1949 local gazetteers from China. The fulltext of the gazetteers can searched through and the database can also be browsed either by different provinces, districts, counties and cities but also by subject (such as traffic, industry, education and culture). Local gazetteers contain valuable details and accounts on larger and smaller administrative units of the People’s Republic of China and thus provide important source materials for studying modern and contemporary China. More than 3 Mio PDFs of individual chapters are available for reference and download.