By focusing on the relationship between the Ming dynasty Hedong School member Zhang Liangzhi’s career and his selection of materials for the compilation of local gazetteers in three different locales (Xuzhou, Hanzhong, Zhongdu), this article makes a preliminary foray into what members of the Hedong School emphasized in their compilation of local gazetteers. Using Zhang’s stele epitaph, his gazetteers writings, and collected works (wenji), along with other historical documents, I investigate the relationship between his approach to governing local communities and the compiling of local gazetteers. Through an assessment of this relationship, this article reveals that the Hedong School not only focused on matters of editing and the arrangement of historical sources but further favored topics related to imperial decrees and regulations, and governmental affairs.airs.