A General History of Luanzhou

The Comprehensive History of Luanzhou is a historical and gazetteer work commissioned by the Luanzhou Municipal People's Government, compiled by its Local Chronicles Office, and prepared with the assistance of senior scholars. It is the first comprehensive history since the establishment of Luanzhou's administrative system and an officially published authoritative reference work. The work covers the period from the Paleolithic Age to 2020, striving for full coverage of past and present. Rather than following conventional models of old or new historical and gazetteer writing, it adopts an integrated "history-gazetteer" format that combines the narrative capacity of history with the documentary function of gazetteers, transcending the division between historical narrative of earlier periods and gazetteer records of the present. It is organized by categories including agriculture, industry, commerce and trade, education, military affairs, official conduct, architecture, crafts, food and drink, religion, folk customs, dialect, landscape and tourism, literature, arts, the spirit of YiqI, analytical culture, and historical and contemporary figures. Each section briefly describes one field or category. The overall structure is organized into parts, chapters, sections, and items, with a general introduction at the front, overviews for each part, summaries for each chapter, and direct entries at the section and item levels. It comprises 18 parts, 56 chapters, 237 sections, and more than 1,100 items, with color plates, plus prefaces, notes on usage, appendices, postscripts, and links.