Proposed Stages

  1. 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.
  2. Familiarize myself with the datasets, especially the China Biographical Database since its structure is quite complex.
  3. Extracting the data that I need for this project from various mentioned datasets and building a dataset for specialized use.
  4. 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.
  5. Write up my finding and present them and my data on Omeka for discussion and critique. 
by Lik Hang Tsui