Supporting Resources
For computational purposes, we need a single year value to locate a person in time. The index year is an artificial value used in analysis. We define it as the person's birth year or our best estimate thereof. This file includes a detailed instruction of how to calculate the index year.
The latest User Guide.
The CBDB User's Guide [Chinese], 2021
The Chinese Version of User Guide
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.