浙海关创设于康熙二十四年（1685），是中国最早设立的四大海关之一，也是我国最早初具现代海关职能的机构。

The Zhejiang (Ningpo) Customs was established in 1685 and it was one of the earliest four major customs offices founded in China.

后于1861年经清政府衙门批准建立宁波新关，由洋人控制管理直至新中国成立前夕，故又被称百年洋关。其旧址博物馆位于宁波甬江北岸老外滩，是我国现存最早的海关建筑。

Later in 1861, with the approval of the Qing government, a new customs office was established in Ningbo. It was controlled by foreigners until the People's Republic of China, which is why it's also referred to as the “Century Foreign Customs." The old site of the customs office, which is now a museum, is located on the old Bund on the north bank of the Yong River in Ningbo. It is the oldest existing customs building in China.

项目成果

Project Achievement

宁波诺丁汉大学图书馆——宁波浙海关旧址博物馆文献收集项目为全国首个针对近代浙海关相关中英文数字化史料进行系统化寻找、收集并二次整理的历史研究项目。该项目汇集了南京第二历史档案馆、美国国家档案馆等世界多家知名机构的珍贵史料，其信息来源囊括了《新闻报》、《申报》、《字林西报》、《泰晤士报》、《伦敦标准晚报》等中外多家重要报刊，覆盖了新闻、公文、信件、电报、通讯等十余种资料类型，具有极高的历史研究价值。这些原始资料的处理难度极高，其中不仅包含了繁体竖版的古文，还有大量的威氏拼音法地名以及海关专有术语，如机构和职阶名称等。

The Document Collection Project of the Site Museum of the Former Zhejiang Customs was the first research project in China to collect and compile modern Chinese and English digital historical materials for this customs office. The project has collected valuable resources from renowned institutions such as The Second Historical Archives of China and US National Archives. Its information sources include important newspapers and periodicals in China and abroad, such as North China Daily News, Times and The Standard, covering more than ten types of materials such as news, documents, letters, telegrams and communications.

项目团队经过两年的不懈努力，在处理了上千份近2GB的文献资料之后，最终完成了全国首套浙海关中英文史料合辑的编录工作。两册合辑不仅根据年份和资料来源进行了系统整合与介绍，还对原始资料的文字进行了转写和翻译，极大地方便了后续研究者阅读。最终成册总页数为587页，年代跨度超过一个世纪（1833-1948年），编辑字数达10万多字。

Processing these original materials proved challenging due to ancient Chinese formatting, Wade-Giles romanisation, and unique terminology. Nevertheless, after two years of processing thousands of documents totaling nearly 2GB, the project team has successfully compiled the first-ever set of Chinese and English historical materials on Zhejiang Customs. The two final volumes of the project present these materials in a researcher-friendly format. They are categorised by publication date and source, and the original texts are both transcribed and translated, greatly improving readability. The complete collection spans over a century (1833-1948) and comprises more than 100,000 edited words on 587 pages.

项目成员

Project Members

宁波历史数字人文项目——浙海关项目小组在宁波市天一阁博物院的鼎力支持下成立，已有两届宁诺学子参与项目。

The Zhe Customs Team of the Ningbo Historical Digital Humanities Project, was founded with significant support from the Tianyige Museum. Student interns from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China have been involved in the project for two successive cohorts.

指导老师：于琛、谢景、裘璐璐

Teachers: Tiffany Yu, Jing Xie, Lulu Qiu

参与学生：王昱宸、李可心、李昕茗、李文迪、梁舒扬、李若琰、吕珂馨、陈颖、黄晴、王高雅、吴文博（按进组时间先后）。

Students: Yuchen Wang, Kexin Li, Xinming Li, Wendi Li, Shuyang Liang, Ruoyan Li, Kexin Lyv, Ying Chen, Qing Huang, Gaoya Wang, Wenbo Wu (In the order of joining the group).