CBDB 20th Anniversary Symposium

Committee members and contributors of the Chinese Biographical Database (CBDB) project gathered at Zhongguan Xinyuan in Beijing on June 24-25 to celebrate the project's 20th anniversary with a two-day symposium:

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The symposium was organized by the Department of History at Peking University, the Peking University Research Center for the History of Ancient China, and the China Biographical Database project

Here is a news report covering the symposium held by the Department of History at Peking University:

Peking University's "CBDB 20-Year Retrospective and International Digital History Symposium" Opens

Peking University's "CBDB 20-Year Retrospective and International Digital History Symposium" Concludes Successfully

 

Conference Agenda: Download

CBDB Project Introduction Video: Watch

 

Open Resources

The History of the China Biographical Database.pdf by Peter Bol

The Development and Contributions of Scripta Sinica Database: Observations Centered on the China Biographical Database(CBDB) by Huang, Kuan-chung

History of Design of CBDB by Michael Fuller

CBDB Peking University Editorial Group and the Development of CBDB Content by Fang, Chengfeng

The CBDB Jinshi Network Analysis Database and Why We Still Need "Traditional" DH by Hsiang, Jieh

CBDB and AI by Wang, Hongsu

Analysis of Interaction Poems by Tang Dynasty Jinshi Groups Based on Linear Models and Bipartite Networks by Han, Yufeng

Digitalizing the Social Networks of Poets: An Analysis Based on the Complete Collection of Song Poems and the CBDB by Wong by Wong, Wai-ho

Revealing Political Change in the Northern Song through Temporal Networks: A New Prosopographical and Social Network Analysis Approach by Shang, Wenyi

Several Reflections on AI-Enabled Historical Research by Shao, Yuxin