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### Supporting Resources

[Rules for Index Years](/file_url/700)

For computational purposes, we need a single year value to locate a person in time. The index year is an artificial value used in analysis. We define it as the person's birth year or our best estimate thereof. This file includes a detailed instruction of how to calculate the index year.

[CBDB Codebook](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KNX4FPVbFII0HP2FEiQooGpdONobGM9QVdEIQvGz2h8/edit?usp=sharing)

[CBDB Videos](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChgYFvs116M-esBcUfcHKfQ)

[CBDB Users Guide 20260413](/sites/g/files/omnuum3101/files/2026-06/CBDB%20Users%20Guide%2020260413.pdf)

The latest User Guide.

[The CBDB User's Guide \[Chinese\], 20250521](/sites/g/files/omnuum3101/files/2026-06/CBDB%20Users%20Guide%20CH%2020250521.pdf)

The Chinese Version of User Guide

[General Introduction to CBDB 2014](/file_url/279)

[General Introduction to CBDB 2013](/file_url/282)

[Tutorial: Open CBDB Exports in Pajek](/file_url/286)

This tutorial tells how to open the CBDB exported files in Pajek in order to see social networks.

[A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China - Hucker](/file_url/298)

Searchable OCR version.

[A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China - Hucker](/file_url/307)

Non-searchable photocopy version. Including Introduction and Index.

[120314\_Intro SHY Taida system.pdf](/file_url/311)

This presentation introduces the discovery system for the Song huiyao (宋會要輯稿), developed at the Center for Research on Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University, with permission from the Institute of History, Academia Sinica, and the China Biographical Database project.

[120314\_SHY verification task.pdf](/file_url/317)