Modern Period Local Records Compilation and Transformation Research as Seen in Pucheng County Records Manuscripts
Pucheng County Records Manuscripts compiled during the Republican period form the 29th to the 37th year of the Republic of China are unfinished scattered manuscripts.The compilation work of this sets of local records manuscripts,though with participation of persons who had received modern education,the actual collection and sorting of references were completed by traditional intellectual elites whose knowledges and concepts to a large extent affected the structure and contents of the manuscripts,instead of new elites whose aspirations were not about local records compilation in an age of saving the country from extinction.Meanwhile,differences in the levels of modernization of regional society and emergence of new things,also affected the transformation of contents compilation in specific forms of presentation of the manuscripts.In addition,elements such as participation of certain persons and origins of references,also to a large extent affected the degrees and rhythms of transformation.