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work_tpoijndkebb6pn3xvtpj534e2e	Dagmar Schäfer	What is Local Knowledge? Digital Humanities and Yuan Dynasty Disasters in Imperial China's Local Gazetteers	2020	39	.pdf	application/pdf	28581	5772	80	Keywords: local gazetteers; historical disasters; mulberry crop failures; digital humanities; Big Data trees as well as grain seedlings.1 One of thousands of reports in China's historical literature, the disasters listed in Dongming's local gazetteer have contributed to narratives of imperial-disaster politics and produce the thick descriptions that Clifford Geertz introduced to anthropology to "gain access to the conceptual world in which [the participants] live."9 In the study of Chinese history, local gazetteers offered an alternative 12While there was no known top-down fanli issued in Song and Yuan, many local gazetteer editors oriented their compilations based on earlier templates or followed up on orders by the central government to In the History of the Yuan and local gazetteers, most disaster reports refer to regions Yuan Dynasty Disasters in Imperial China's Local Gazetteers. Disasters in Dongming: Yuan Bureaucracy in Ming Local Gazetteers Disasters in Dongming: Yuan Bureaucracy in Ming Local Gazetteers	./cache/work_tpoijndkebb6pn3xvtpj534e2e.pdf	./txt/work_tpoijndkebb6pn3xvtpj534e2e.txt