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