Bol, Peter2022-11-01Bol, Peter K. The Reconstruction of Local Identity: Jinhua fu 金華府 1480-1578. 江南工業與地方文化, 2004. (English language version of an essay published in Chinese as "Difang chuantong de chongjian -- yi Jinhuafu wei li (1480-1758) 地方傳統的重建--以金華府為例 (1480-1758)." 江南工業與地方文化. Eds. Li Bozhong 李伯重 and Zhou Shengchun 周生春. Beijing: Qinghua daxue chubanshe, 2004. 247-86.)https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37373470The sharp differences between the Jinhua prefectural gazetteers of 1480 and 1578 are evidence of a change in authorship from government officials to local literati and of changing attitudes. Their contents also show that a a major economic revival had been taking place. Particular attention is given to changes in biography, both in the contents of the gazetteers and in the numerous collections of biographies and literary anthologies published by local officials and scholars. By the end of the Ming dynasty the latter works reveal a split between traditional Neo-Confucianism, the new school of Wang Yangming, and those who had turned away from Neo-Confucianism.en-USConference Paper2016-12-2920042022-11-01