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Read, hot & digitized: Librarians and the digital scholarship they love — In this series, librarians from UTL’s Arts, Humanities and Global Studies Engagement Team briefly present, explore and critique existing examples of digital scholarship. 

The China Biographical Database is a freely accessible relational database with biographical information of approximately 427,000 individuals as of April 2019, primarily from the 7th through early 20th   centuries. Users can query the system in terms of place, time, office, social associations and kinship, and export the results for further analysis with GIS, social networks, and statistical software.

The China Biographical Database (CBDB) originates with the work of Chinese social historian Robert Hartwell. Hartwell’s research employed data as evidence to form and support his arguments. He built a relational database in dBase for MS DOS format to capture biographical data as it relates to five elements: (1) people, (2) places, (3) a bureaucratic system, (4) kinship str

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Dating Aids

  • Chang Qiyun 張 其 昀 , & Yang Jialuo 楊 家 駱, compilers. Qing ren bie ji qian zhong bei zhuan wen yin de ji bei zhuan zhu nian li pu 清 人 別 集 千 種 碑 傳 文 引 得 及 碑 傳 主 年 里 譜. Taibei: Chinese Culture Academy, 1965.
  • Chen Naiqian 陳 乃 乾 , compiler. Qing tai bei zhuan wen tong jian 清 代 碑 傳 文 通 檢. Shanghai: Zhonghua shu ju, 1959. Cites sources of biographical information.
  • Chen Yuan 陳 垣 , 1880-1971. Shi shi yi nian lu 釋 氏 疑 年 錄. Beijing : Zhonghua shu ju, 1964 (1988). For Buddhist biographies.
  • Jiang Liangfu 姜 亮 夫, compiler. Li dai ming ren nian li bei zhuan zong biao 歷 代 名 人 年 里 碑 傳 總 表. Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1937.
  • Yang Jialuo 楊 家 駱, compiler. Li dai ren wu nian li tong pu 歷 代 人 物 年 里 通 譜. Taibei: Shih chieh shu ju, 1963. Cites sources of biographical information.

Electronic Resources

  • Searchable Database for Names Appeared in Ming and Qing Archival Documents 人名權威-人物傳記資料庫 - 中央研究院
    Established by The Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei. It provides biographica
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    Welcome

    Introduction

    The China Biographical Database is a freely accessible relational database with biographical information about approximately 641,568 individuals as of August 2024, currently mainly from the 7th through 19th centuries. With both online and offline versions, the data is meant to be useful for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as well as serving as a kind of biographical reference. The image below shows the spatial distribution of a cross dynastic subset of 190,000 people in CBDB by basic affiliations (籍貫).

    The long term goal of CBDB is systematically to include all significant biographical material from China’s historical record and to make the contents available free of charge, without restriction, for academic use. That data is regularly being enriched and new biographical entries are being created for Tang, Five Dynasties, Liao, Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing figures.

    CBDB originates with the work of Robert M. Hartwell (1932–1996). Professor Hartwell bequeathed his estate, including the first version of this database, to the

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