Research Goals

  1. To make use of existing prosopographical and textual data on historical Chinese letters and visualize them digitally in order to generate new research questions.
  2. To combine social network and geographical analysis in studying selected aspects of letter writing culture and literati networks in 10-13th century Song China.
  3. To explore the potential of developing a digital project on Chinese epistolary sources, and to develop a workflow for this purpose.
  4. To experiment with data from the China Biographical Database to better understand its capabilities and problems for digital history.
by Lik Hang Tsui