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Title: Virtual Shanghai

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2018
  • Coverage: 2018

Publishers

  • Virtual Shanghai Project

Summary

Virtual Shanghai is a research and resource platform on the history of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to nowadays. It incorporates various sets of documents: essays, original documents, photographs, maps, quantitative data, etc. The objective of the project is to write a history of the city through the combined mobilization of these various types of documents. The implementation of this approach relies on the use of digital and GIS technologies. On the research side, the platform offers various ways to step into the history of the city and follow its course at different levels over time. On the resource side, apart from providing original textual and visual documents, it develops a powerful cartographic tool for spatial analysis and real-time mapping. The authors of the present project suscribe to the idea of sharing scholarship and research tools for the benefit of scholars, students, and citizens at large.

Subjects

  • Shanghai (China)
  • Maps
  • Other

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (120.85, 123.33333333333333, 31.866666666666667, 30.65)
  • Geometry: BBOX (120.85, 123.33333333333333, 31.866666666666667, 30.65)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Virtual Shanghai Project. Virtual Shanghai. Virtual Shanghai Project. https://purl.stanford.edu/qs150bm4171