CHGIS: China Historical GIS Project Merrick Lex Berman PNC - ECAI, Hong Kong, Jan 2001

Robert Hartwell’s “China History Project”

Tan Qixiang’s “Historical Atlas of China”

Skinner’s “Macroregional Analysis”

Crissman’s “China GIS Datasets”

Objectives in the CHGIS project design 1. Place-names, variant names 2. Administrative hierarchy 3. Administrative coding system 4. Locations of settlements 5. Identification of capitals and administrative seats 6. Spatial data in GIS 7. Selection of records by spatial or temporal query 8. Layer comparison and import of other datasets

Tables in the relational database Administrative Feature Table Historical Administrative Code Table Variant Name Table Place Geocode Table Capital Feature Table Administrative Seat Table Admin Hierarchy Table Feature Classification Table Temporal Sequence Table Spatial Data Table Version Variant Code Table one to one Administrative Change Table one to one one to many

Historical Administrative Units and Codes

Settlement Points form the base GIS platform

Depicting uncertain boundaries

CHGIS: China Historical GIS Project website: fas.harvard.edu/~chgis