Description

This rare edition is one of 413 local gazetteers of China acquired for the Library of Congress by American agricultural botanist and explorer Walter T. Swingle (1871–1952). Swingle traveled to Asia in 1918–19 and collected a large number of books on botany. Gazetteers contain detailed descriptions of a locality at a given period and provide in-depth information and sources for the study of Chinese history, geography, local economy, culture, language and dialects, biographies, and the administration of local government. The author of this printed gazetteer is unknown. The ...