>>> The Online Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period and the Qing Research Portal (Pamela Crossley)

ECCP for the WEB in Safari: an alphabetical name index at left, the entry for AMIN at right. Caption: the software spins biographies onto the web in Unicode-16.

The ECCP application starting up, showing only its title plaque. Caption: unless the reader works offline, it downloads the latest biography lists and data.

The same start-up plaque with the frame highlighted in yellow, the program still initialising.

The ECCP toolbar with Open Reader, Open Search, Open Notes, Open Tools, Files and Quit. Caption: the toolbar can dock to any of the four sides of the screen.

The Tools palette: create or edit preferences, create a repository folder, mirror files, reset ports, refresh caches, open lifespan toy, each with a why? button

A macOS file chooser over the Tools palette, titled place my ECCP folder here. Caption: ECCP remembers the repository location so that saving is transparent.

The repository map: a checkbox tree under Documents/ECCP with Biographies, Searches, Notes and Images. Caption: directory structures vary by operating system.

A confirmation dialog over the repository map: the new folder ECCP and its subfolders will be created according to the map shown, with okay, start over, cancel.

The Tools palette with a progress bar reading mirroring: CHANG HSIEN-CHUNG. Caption: biography files are mirrored to the reader

The toolbar with an Open Editor button and a tooltip: global search of biographical entries without opening the reader. Caption: top-level searches stand alone.

The Global Search palette: a positives box holding Ming-shih, a negatives box holding Tai, and/or radio buttons, and eight weighted results from CHA CHI-TSO.

A file chooser inside the ECCP repository showing Biographies, Images, Notes and Searches. Caption: files saved while reading return via the Files button.

The same chooser inside the Searches folder, holding Ming-shih_search.rtf. Caption: reading and note files are saved in RTF for portability across systems.

The reading palette: an empty text pane beside a catalogue of all edited biographies, from A-K

The reader showing the entry for Tseng Kuo-fan with the bracketed page number 751. Caption: biographies have page numbers inserted for citation.

The reader showing FANG PAO with underlined cross-references to Han Tan, Li Kuang-ti and others. Caption: clicking the text makes cross-reference links active.

Two reader windows side by side, FANG PAO and a companion for HAN T