Lu Yang Presentation

Title slide on ink-splattered paper: Prosopography in Medieval Chinese Studies - database-friendly information and otherwise, by Yang Lu, University of Kansas.
Slide 'Literacracy as a Distinctive Class': CBDB identifies it by career pattern (examinations, pure offices, provincial posts, patronage) and burial pattern.
Slide 'Literacracy and their family': careers zigzagged between capital and province, marital networks spanned the realm, and all of them travelled.
Slide 'Tang Burial Practice': multiple burials followed primogeniture, preferably at the ancestral home, else provisional burial until relocation was possible.
Slide continued: one person could be buried in several ways and more than once; the epitaph was amended each time to record arrangements and locations.
Slide 'Harvestable Information': graveyard location, burial method (tomb, pagoda, cremation, water, forest), number of burials and cause of provisional burial.
Slide 'Example 1: The Boling Anping Cui Family': a five-generation genealogical chart with death dates and marriages, from Ai (d. 705) down to Shu.