Late-Imperial and Early-Republican Period Chinese Local Gazetteers at the Library of Congress: Improving the Discoverability of Important Historical Sources for Hainan Island

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06/24/2026 10:00 AM EDT

2025 Junior Fellow Ruzhen “Anna” Zhang writes about the collection history and cataloging of local gazetteers for Hainan Island among the Library’s collection of Chinese “old tomes.”

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