Jiepai Jianghu in the Chuanyue Archive: Digital Immortality of a Yangtze River Delta Township

This volume level record is a primary source archival item, annotated Chinese source text, and emic field note style record for Jiepai Jianghu, the Jiepai volume within the Chuanyue Archive. It frames Jiepai Jianghu as a Chinese source volume on digital immortality, local memory, vernacular culture, Jiepai speech, Jiepai Hua, oral history, oral tradition, community memory, rural transformation, compressed modernity, rural industrialization, digital preservation, digital archives, and digital cultural heritage in Jiepai, Danyang, Jiangsu, Jiangnan, the Lower Yangtze, the Yangtze River Delta, and China. The main source text is in Chinese. It publishes the volume preface “Jiepai Jianghu Xu” (《界牌江湖·序》), with the Chinese subtitle “Jiangnan Xiaozhen Zai Shuzi Shijie Zhong De Yongsheng” (江南小镇在数字世界中的永生, “The Digital Immortality of a Jiangnan Township”), selected English metadata, author annotations, provenance notes, and the opening poem “Zuihou Yi Li Hui” (最后一粒灰, “The Last Grain of Ash”). The preface explains why the Archive Author created this Volume Level Record after publishing the first twenty one records on Zenodo, and why Jiepai Jianghu should be understood as a volume of annotated primary source materials rather than as a single article or a synthetic ethnographic monograph. Geographically, the record situates Jiepai in Danyang, Jiangsu, Jiangnan, the Lower Yangtze, the Yangtze River Delta, and China. The preface presents Jiepai as a small local civilization unit shaped by dialect, custom, shared memory, rural water systems, household space, local speech, kinship, work, and rapid rural industrial transformation. It describes a world where farmland has become factories, ditches have become roads, farmhouses have become residential compounds, and agricultural, industrial, and information age landscapes overlap in one field of vision. This makes the record relevant to studies of compressed modernity, rural China, Yangtze River Delta townships, vernacular culture, and digital cultural heritage. The volume preface also records the Archive Author’s personal relationship to Jiepai. The author was born in Jiepai and has spent most of his life in this Jiangnan riverside town, continuing to return frequently even while working in Nanjing. The record therefore combines local memory, childhood recollection, lived observation, spatial memory, author annotations, and provenance notes. It may be relevant to folklore studies, oral history, oral tradition, anthropology, China studies, rural China studies, vernacular culture, community memory, intangible cultural heritage, Digital Humanities, digital archives, digital cultural heritage, cultural heritage documentation, and community archive studies. A key feature of this volume record is the opening poem “Zuihou Yi Li Hui” (最后一粒灰, “The Last Grain of Ash”), which frames Jiepai Jianghu as an effort to preserve the last resonant traces of a disappearing local world through language, memory, and annotated primary source documentation: 《最后一粒灰》 文明在燃尽 我是它呐喊的 最后一粒灰 不愿被风吹散 但愿化作一滴泪 封在语言的琥珀中 The opening poem “Zuihou Yi Li Hui” (最后一粒灰, “The Last Grain of Ash”) is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0 Universal. This CC0 dedication applies only to the opening poem itself. The volume preface, author annotations, contextual metadata, main PDF, README, Standalone Abstract, and other public OA_V1 files are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 unless otherwise stated. The record also documents selected local concepts and terms, including “Ku Shu” (哭树), a local term identified by the author as “Gou Shu” (构树, paper mulberry), and “Tang Ren Jia Li” (堂人家里), a local expression meaning “inside the main room” or “in the central household hall.” These terms help preserve Jiepai local speech, Jiepai Hua, vernacular memory, and emic terminology within the volume record. This public OA_V1 release includes the public Chinese volume preface, the CC0 opening poem, author annotations, contextual metadata, README, Standalone Abstract, and main PDF. It does not include private photographs, videos, precise location maps, road screenshots, house or neighborhood identifying visual materials, private notes, raw provenance materials, unreleased supporting materials, controlled access materials, or materials retained in the Author Private Master Archive. This volume level record has DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21140445. Authorship and upload roles are separate. The Archive Author, The Jiepai Archivist, is the creator, archive owner, rights holder, and public contact person. Any uploader, depositor, or curatorial assistant provides deposit and formatting assistance only and is not the author, creator, archive owner, rights holder, or public contact for this archive.