Chinese Studies

From Harvard University, CBDB is a freely accessible relational database with biographical information about approximately 491,000 individuals as of May 2021, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries. With both online and offline versions, the data is meant to be useful for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as well as serving as a kind of biographical reference. The image below shows the spatial distribution of a cross dynastic subset of 190,000 people in CBDB by basic affiliations (籍貫).

From The Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica 中央研究院近代史研究所, The database includes personages extending from the Mid-Qing until the Republic of China, covering around 133,000 figures.

From the ENP-China project (ERC), MCBD is a freely accessible relational database that aims at recording all the historical actors active in China in the Late Qing and Republican periods (1830–1949), regardless of their origin, nationality and the duration of their presence in China.

From University of Sydney and Leipzig University, CERD is a database of engineers from the Chinese Republican period (1912–1949). The digital analysis of historical registers has led to a prosopographic catalogue of persons, educational institutions, and companies. T

From Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教學院, it covers religious professionals in China between c. 200 and 1700 CE, contains more than 3200 hagio-biographies.