>>> Discussion: Modeling Ming and Qing Lives and Resources for Ming and Qing Biography and Prosopography (Mark Elliott, Martin Heijdra, Michael Szonyi)

Created on : July 29, 2015

Discussion: Modeling Ming and Qing Lives and Resources for Ming and Qing Biography and Prosopography

Title slide: Discussion - Modeling Ming and Qing Lives and Resources for Ming and Qing Biography and Prosopography, by Elliott, Heijdra and Szonyi.

Slide of the two discussion parts: what is new about Ming-Qing, quantitatively and qualitatively; and how the CBDB project might address those changes.

Table from the 1754 Fuzhou gazetteer: four juan by subject and dynasty - notable officials 9 Tang to 117 Ming, and 236 exemplary women in the Qing.

Slide on the Ming shilu: about 3,000 juan; one juan holds 25 names, of which 5 appear in an index of 89 Ming collections, implying some 75,000 people.

Table of Ming biographical indexes with entry counts: a name-and-style index 29,400, a jinshi stele index 24,100, a Ming shi name index 23,750, and nine more.

Slide on Nancy Tomasko's study of the poet Zhong Xing: networks built from poem dedications, plus lives found in diaries, anthologies and gazetteers.

Slide on Lucille Chia and Kathryn Lowry: printers and journeyman-editors are central people without a central biography, known mainly from their own imprints.

Slide on Jennifer Eichman: printed letters in collected works reveal a network of some 70 scholars, officials and monks around the monk Zhuhong.

Slide on Barbara Volkmar's study of the physician Wan Quan: secondary biographies put his dates 200 years apart, resolved from prefaces and case studies.

Two photographed pages of the Ming-Qing jinshi timing beilu, the stele record of examination graduates, in dense columns of names.

Two photographed pages of the index to the Ming-Qing jinshi stele record, listing given names with reign-era and volume references.

The cover and first page of the Shandong tongguan lu, a list of Shandong provincial officials of 1859.

A sample entry from the Shandong tongguan lu: a printed record giving one official's native place, degree, kin and career in ruled columns.

A second sample entry from the Shandong tongguan lu, its columns listing forebears, brothers, wives and offices.

Slide 'Priorities': Ming reference works by entry count, highlighting a gazetteer biographical series at 11,000 and two name indexes at 33,300 and 23,750.

Slide 'Priorities (Qing)': the same table of eighteen potential Qing sources with counts and notes on what is already digitized or online.

Slide on what Ming biographies need beyond standard sources: encoding book relationships, new societal networks, extended scholarly relations, new fields.