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Biographical Databases for the Study of China’s History
The workshop will bring together scholars from Taiwan, China, Japan, Europe, and the US who have been working on biographical databases for China's history.
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Organized by Peter Bol.
The workshop will bring together scholars from Taiwan, China, Japan, Europe, and the US who have been working on biographical databases for China’s history. Scholars working on European prosopography biographical markup methodology and the computational analysis of unstructured text will also participate. The workshop will address both practical issues relating to databases and historical ones relating to the use of biographical data to develop new insights into China’s history.
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