New Map of Shanghai (Raster Image)

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Shanghai that was published in July 1945. It shows the city with its administrative divisions before the complete integration and redrawing of districts after August 1945. The two foreign settlements no longer appear officially. They are called "special district". In fact, despite the formal take over by the Chinese municipality under Mayor Chen Gongbo, the two areas remained virtually autonomous until the end of the war.
Purpose: 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 subscribe to the idea of sharing scholarship and research tools for the benefit of scholars, students, and citizens at large.

Type of resource	cartographic, software, multimedia
Form	GeoTIFF
Publisher	Virtual Shanghai Project
Publication date	2018
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital
Map data	Scale not given. ; Custom projection E 121°23ʹ41ʺ--E 121°33ʹ41ʺ/N 31°17ʹ--N 31°11ʹ4ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326

Creator	Virtual Shanghai Project

Subject	Administrative and political divisions
Subject	Shanghai (China)
Subject	1945
Subject	Imagery and Base Maps
Genre	Geospatial data
Genre	Cartographic dataset

WGS84 Cartographics	This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/cg169bt4299

Use and reproduction: This work is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
Copyright: This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
License: This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights (Public Domain Mark 1.0).

Preferred citation: Virtual Shanghai Project. (2018). New Map of Shanghai (Raster Image). Virtual Shanghai Project. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/cg169bt4299

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