Proposed Stages
- Collect information on similar digital projects on correspondence and learn about their scope and methods, and decide what I can learn from them when attempting a project on Chinese letters.
- Familiarize myself with the datasets, especially the China Biographical Database since its structure is quite complex.
- Extracting the data that I need for this project from various mentioned datasets and building a dataset for specialized use.
- Mapping epistolary networks of selected cliques or communities that I am interested in on software for analyzing networks. Use of such graphs to generate research questions.
- Write up my finding and present them and my data on Omeka for discussion and critique.
by Lik Hang Tsui