ChinaW Dataset (1820-1893) Data Archive FGDC Metadata

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production notes: Code Manual Copyright Statement
filename: ChinaW_gbk_pts
formats: Shapefile (GBK), GoogleEarth (KML)
GIS data type: points
number of records: 2403
version note: New with V4

ChinaW Dataset contains point locations for all Cities, County seats, and Yamen-Level units recorded in China from 1820 to 1893, along with more than 150 attribute values for each record. A table of gazetteers consulted for each county is also provided.

Note: ChinaW_gbk_pts contains Placenames in Chinese Characters (GBK Encoding)

The ChinaW Dataset was compiled at the Regional Systems Analysis Project (UC Davis)
by Zumou Yue, G. William Skinner and Mark Henderson.

Please refer to the Copyright statement included with the datasets.

Documentation: "ChinaW Code Manual Jan 2007"