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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

Bin Li ,
Yaxin Li ,
Qian Yang ,
Yaqi Wang  and
Rui Chen
Bin Li*
Affiliation:
School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University
Yaxin Li
Affiliation:
Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University
Qian Yang
Affiliation:
International Cultural Exchange School, Fudan University
Yaqi Wang
Affiliation:
School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University
Rui Chen
Affiliation:
School of International Chinese Studies, East China Normal University
*
*Corresponding author. Email: libin.njnu@gmail.com
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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.

Keywords

ancient Chinese historysocial relationssocial activitiesShijiBenjidigital humanity

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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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References

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.

2 https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/HESTIA.

3 https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb, as of April 2019.

4 www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/.

5 P. K. Bol., J. Hsiang, and G. Fong. “Prosopographical Databases, Text-Mining, GIS and System Interoperability for Chinese History and Literature,” Paper presented at the International Conference on Digital Humanities, 2012.

6 Bin Li, Lu Wang, Yuan Wen, Xiaohe Chen, and Yanhui Gu, “Discover Social Relations and Activities from Ancient Chinese History Book Zuo Zhuan,” Paper presented at the International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, Socio-cultural Computing (BESC). Krakow, Poland, 16–18 Oct. 2017. The Zuozhuan database is at http://langsphere.com/zzsk/.

7 Shiji 史記(點校修訂本), 《史記》修訂組編 (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2013).

8 http://map.baidu.com/

9 The online demo can be found at http://47.100.116.59/suiyuan/index.php.

10 Min, Shi 石民, Bin, Li 李斌, and Xiaohe, Chen 陈小荷, “CRF Based Research on a Unified Approach to word Segmentation and POS Tagging for Pre-Qin Chinese,” Zhongwen Xinxi Xuebao 中文信息学报 [Journal of Chinese Information Processing] 24.2 (2010), 39–45Google Scholar.

11 The guidelines are in Chapters 3–4 of Chen Xiaohe 陈小荷, Feng Minxuan 冯敏萱, Xu Runhua 徐润华, Xianqin Wenxian Xinxi Chuli 先秦文献信息处理 [Information Processing of Pre-Qin Chinese] (Beijing: Beijing World Publishing Corporation, 2013).

12 When calculating the travelling distance, only the center point of a river/mountain is used.