Prospective Datasets
This database is a relational database containing information of over 360,000 historical figures from 7-19th century China. I will focus on information of those from the Song dynasty. This database is in MS Access format and is open to all users.This database contains a dataset with information about more than 8,800 epistolary connections between Song persons. This dataset is based on 17,957 letters by 611 authors in Quan Song wen (see below).
- Epistolary sources from Quan Song wen (Complete Song Prose)
This is a collection that appeared in print form in 2006. It contains (almost) all epistolary writings by Song writers. A digital collection has been completed in Shanghai in 2013 but has to be purchased. I will have to explore how I can get access to those digital texts. Most of the texts are available on other electronic databases so there may be a way to obtain certain texts even if I cannot access this collection digitally.
- Data from my previous research on middle period Chinese letters
This includes writer/recipient, dating, geographical, and topical information for letters by a small group of letter writers in the 12th century. This exists in the form of notes from my own reading and needs to be converted into structured data as spreadsheets.