CBDB Annual Conference 2026: Research in Chinese Studies in the Age of AI

Date: Friday, October 23, 2026
Time: 1:50–5:00 PM
Venue: Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Hosted by the China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) 中國歷代人物傳記資料庫

Program

Panel 1 (1:55–2:55 PM): Between Print Culture, Literature, and Politics

Mei, Yuting 梅愉婷, Zhejiang University
Beyond Famous Names: The Rise of Compiler and Selector Credits in Ming Imprint Records
Liu, Zaicheng 劉再騁, Fudan University
“The South Wants to Shackle the Officials from the North”: Court Politics, Commercial Print, and Local Society in the Southern Ming, 1644
Li, Xiaobei 李小貝, Beijing Union University
How Did Women in Chinese Opera Enter the Historical Record?
Li, Meifang 李美芳, Xihua University
Recovering Poets from Anthologies: Expanding and Cross-Correcting CBDB with the Wanqing yi shihui 晚晴簃詩匯

Panel 2 (3:05–4:05 PM): From a Local Perspective

Wang, Huimin 王慧敏, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University
Mapping Jiangsu’s Cultural Ecology Based on the Jiangsu yiwen zhi 江蘇藝文志
Li, Anrunze 黎安潤澤, Renmin University of China
A Multidimensional Analysis Based on Zhejiang tongzhi: Renwu zhuan 浙江通志·人物傳
Wang, Rongjing 王榕靖, Zhejiang University
Neo-Confucian Learning in Fujian: Networks and Genealogy in Li Qingfu’s 李清馥 Minzhong lixue yuanyuan kao 閩中理學淵源考
Dang, Qiong 黨瓊, Guangxi University
Beyond the Center: Official Careers and Imperial Governance in Qing Guangxi

Panel 3 (4:15–5:00 PM): Another Look at Historiography

Zhang, Zhongyang 張忠楊, Zhejiang University
The Place of Prestige: The Geography and Social Capital of Choronyms in Tang China
Lin, Litao 林立濤, Nanjing University
Protagonists and Supporting Players: Two-Way Narrative Salience of Persons in the Songshi jishi benmo 宋史紀事本末 and the Standard Histories of the Song, Liao, Jin, and Yuan
Nie, Wanchun 聶琬純, Renmin University of China
The Networks of the Officials under Tang Provincial Governors, and the Relationship between Regional Military Regimes and the Central Government