Supporting Resources
The CBDB User's Guide, February 28 2015
The latest User Guide. You can find instructions for using the standalone CBDB Access database in this document.
The CBDB User's Guide [Chinese], 2017
Translated by CBDB editors in CBDB.
General Introduction to CBDB 2014
General Introduction to CBDB 2013
Tutorial: Open CBDB Exports in Pajek
This tutorial tells how to open the CBDB exported files in Pajek in order to see social networks.
A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China - Hucker
Searchable OCR version.
A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China - Hucker
Non-searchable photocopy version. Including Introduction and Index.
120314_Intro SHY Taida system.pdf
This presentation introduces the discovery system for the Song huiyao (宋會要輯稿), developed at the Center for Research on Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University, with permission from the Institute of History, Academia Sinica, and the China Biographical Database project.
120314_SHY verification task.pdf
Index year is an arbitrary year that we assign to each person, indicating the peak of his or her life, which is defined as the age 60. If one passes away before the age 60, we would use his or her death year as the index year. This file includes a detailed instruction of how to calculate the index year.