1 Several excellent Yuan gazetteers also exist and provide further reference for the Song. Three of these have been widely reprinted and UCLA owns two or more copies of all of them. Below is a summary of the type of information available from each and information about their compilation. Some recent mainland compilations also include the editions below. Nor are works not available in the UCLA library listed.
Geographical information is generally scanty, and economic and population data are limited.
Not only is it much longer than the previous, it is of wider use as a historical source because of its much greater detail on geography, population and taxation, economic activities, biography, examinees and buildings. The first 11 juan are descriptions of the entire area while its last ten are specific. An original Song manuscript of this work is available is extremely valuable because it contains detailed maps and diagrams absent from the Qing reprint and also bears some notes, perhaps of the same date as the text. The list of examinees, for instance, is not updated. The last few juan of the work are made up entirely of poetry.