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From History Book to Digital Humanities Database: The Basic Annals of the Shiji
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 August 2020
Abstract
The Shiji (史記 Records of the Grand Historian) is of great value for Chinese history before 90 BCE. Many online databases provide character-based search of the Shiji. We go beyond simple search by creating an word-based open-access database of the Basic Annals (本纪) of the Shiji that allows the exploration of relationships between persons and the relationships between persons and named places.
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- Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , Volume 4 , Special Issue 2: Digital Humanities , July 2020 , pp. 528 - 536
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1 The online demo can be found at www.langsphere.com/benji/. It provides full text, person, and place retrieval for the Basic Annals. It is still under construction and not all functions introduced in this paper are available online.
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12 When calculating the travelling distance, only the center point of a river/mountain is used.
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