Representing Place in Space

March 5, 2008

Lanxi County 1510

Capital 京

Liang-zhe/Jiang-zhe/Zhe-jiang Province 道 / 路 / 省

Wu zhou, Jinhua fu (1368)Jinhua shi (today)

Lanxi, (Tangxi), Jinhua, Yiwu, Pujiang, Dongyang, (Pan’an),

Wuyi, Yongkang

e.g. Xiaoshun 孝順 in Jinhua

Prefecture 州 / 府(commandery 郡 , municipality 市 )

County 縣 (subrefecture, district)

Township/Town 鄉 / 鎮

Jinhua county in 1911

Jinhua county in 1598

Jinhua county in 1823

county

Township

Sector 都Literally “Guard”

“Plat” 圖Referring to a group of 110 households, from the chart at the front of the register

for a lijia unit in the Ming period

Yiwu1596, township

sector

Jinhua

county 1823