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Zhenguang Road station

Metro station in Shanghai, 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 revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ60569092 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zhenguang Road (Chinese: 真光路) is a station that is part of Line 14 of the Shanghai Metro. Located at the intersection of Zhenguang Road and Tongchuan Road in the city's Putuo District, the station opened with the rest of Line 14 on December 30, 2021.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Zhenguang Road station” is metro station in Shanghai, China. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Zhenguang, Road and station, 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—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Zhenguang, Road and station is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “metro station in Shanghai, 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 May 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60569092. Authority coordinates are 31.255, 121.380. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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 “Zhenguang Road station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Zhenguang Road station primary sources, Zhenguang Road station archive and Zhenguang 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 “Zhenguang Road station”?
  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 “Zhenguang Road station” 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.