#  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