The Textual Research On The Local Chronicles Of Xinjiang

The local chronicles of Xinjiang were composed by local governments in orderto respond the command of the central authority, they are a kind of special document.Up to now, the extant local chronicles of39places mainly follow the “The Case ofthe Local Chronicels” which promulgated by the central authority in1905.These localchronicles contain the various places’ original circumstances such as history,achievements in one’s official career, the deed of the old people, humanity,number ofhouseholds and total population, clan, religion, industry, geography, mountain, river,road, products and commercial affairs and so on.The local chronicles were taken as the textbook for educating the children tolove their homeland and country. So the local chronicels’ style are consistent, andtheir content simple and clear, their meaning of the words are popular. They have thefunction of textbook and effects of retaining the historical materials.Though the special aim of the local chronicles and the historical materials wereselected, as the regional records of the various places of Xinjiang, their historicalmaterials are worth thinking highly of.In recent years, there are many excellent work on the special subjects orgeneral introductions, but there is only one Master dissertation on systematic andentirely research. The Master paper of Guo Wei inquires into the background,composing, and arrange of the local chronicles of Xinjiang. It inquires into thecharacteristics and the origin of history data and the economic value of the localchronicles of Xinjiang. At present, the local chronicels’ edition, content will berequired into which base on the results of the forefathers, so as to explore the value ofthe various editions. And the value of the document will be come true.Because of the various kinds of editions of the local chronicles, there are someregrettable imperfections in this paper, I hope everyone can put forward your preciousadvice.