This catalog aims to provide easy access by searching and browsing the extant Ming gazetteers with indications of their locations and availability for scholars and students in Chinese studies.

The catalog covers over a thousand of extant Ming gazetteers compiled and published between 1368 and 1644 found in these reference works. All entries are in both Chinese characters and pinyin with searchable fields of title, author, publication date, keyword, reign period, Ming and modern administrative divisions. At this point, however, the search can only be performed by using pinyin not Chinese characters.