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Dafang County

county in Bijie, Guizhou, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ1157124 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dafang (Chinese: 大方; pinyin: Dàfāng), called Dading (Chinese: 大定) until 1958, is a county of Guizhou province, China. It is under the administration of Bijie city.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dafang County” is county in Bijie, Guizhou, China. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dafang, County and county, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Dafang, County and county is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “county in Bijie, Guizhou, China” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1157124. VIAF identifies the subject as 158731514. The Library of Congress control number is nr98006412. Authority coordinates are 27.147, 105.605. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Dafang County”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dafang County primary sources, Dafang County archive and Dafang research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Dafang County”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Dafang County” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.