Abstract
The new Center for the Study of Local History at Zhejiang Normal University in Jinhua is worth the attention of all scholars interested in local historical studies of this region. Students of the Ming period will know Jinhua as the home of such illustrious Ming figures as Song Lian, Wang Wei, Zhang Mao, Cheng Wende, Hu Yinglin, and Li Yu. John D. Langlois, Jr., John Dardess, Beverly Bossier, Yeh Wen-hsin, Ronald Knapp, Eugene Cooper, and I have written on aspects of Wuzhou/Jinhua's social, intellectual, cultural and political history. The area has been through a recent bout of historical restoration, with the earliest structures going back to the Southern Song. In addition there are villages in traditional style (although they are fast disappearing) which commonly contain Ming period buildings, especially lineage halls, and some Yuan buildings as well. In some cases the sites of historical places have been marked. There are temples and shrines, lineage halls and academies, factories and farms. The landscape consists of flat plains divided by steep mountains, rising to 1000 meters at the border of the prefecture.
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