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  • Harvesting Big Biographical Data for Chinese History: The China Biographical Database (CBDB)

  • Lik Hang Tsui, Hongsu Wang
  • Journal:
    Journal of Chinese History / Volume 4 / Issue 2 / July 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 August 2020, pp. 505-511

  • Biographies constitute the main historical record of China. The China Biographical Database (CBDB) is an important project that tackles this vast biographical material with digital technologies. With both online and offline versions, CBDB is meant to be useful for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis, as well as serving as biographical reference. Through the wide range of data it collects through mining historical texts and reference sources, CBDB offers multiple ways to examine the lives of past groups and individuals in Chinese history. The use of CBDB data for prosopographical and other types of analysis has generated important work that interprets Chinese history in new ways, and has also fostered new forms of digital humanities collaborations. This article introduces the history of the CBDB project and its methods for populating its biographical data. It also presents the ways that historians and other scholars could utilize its data for research and teaching.

  • Chapter 26 - Plath’s Scrapbooks

  • from Part VI - Biographical Contexts
  • Edited by Tracy Brain, Bath Spa University
  • Book:
    Sylvia Plath in Context
    Published online:
    03 August 2019
    Print publication:
    22 August 2019, pp 275-283

  • Summary

    Peter K Steinberg shows us how Plath used scrapbooks as an early means of honing her story telling techniques and narrative skills, combining the linguistic and visual aptitudes that were present throughout her life and developing the art of self-performance and selection that are vital to any artist. Moreover, these relatively overlooked documents are a valuable source of key biographical data that amplify our understanding of the context out of which the work emerged.