7) In "The Historical Social Network of Chinese Buddhism", Marcus Bingenheimer collects and analyzes a large dataset (c. 17,5k actors, c. 25k ties) based on biographical literature and the Buddhist Person Authority Database. The dataset spans the late 3rd to early 20th c.
- to showcase its potential for research.
https://t.co/qdwDCyc8An
Network Data in the Early Chinese Periodicals Online Database (ECPO)
| Journal of Historical Network Research
... which can make use of the database.
https://t.co/mX0SnpjuFI
Creating Biographical Networks from Chinese and English Wikipedia
| Journal of Historical Network Research
10) Baptiste Blouin, Pierre Magistry and Nora Van den Bosch turn to Wikipedia and the biographical information contained therein. Using Natural Language Processing methods, they extract data from more than 300k biographies collected from the Chinese and English Wikipedia. -
Historical Networks on Twitter
“And here's the next article from the "Beyond Guanxi: Chinese Historical Networks" special issue of JHNR: In "From Kinship too Collegiality: Changing Literati Networks, 1100-1400" by Peter K. Bol (@harvard) https://t.co/6rvuSxOVlg”
The article explains how and why the data was collected, addresses the problems and limitations of the dataset and sketches out the possibilities for future research. The data is published on GitHub (CC BY-SA 4.0) and ready for use.
https://t.co/kiEJN0kqTm
The Historical Social Network of Chinese Buddhism
| Journal of Historical Network Research
6) Marilyn Levine's article is devoted to "Post-WWI Chinese Revolutionary Leaders in Europe": an exploration of a leadership network of 133 Chinese revolutionary leaders trained in Europe or the USSR during 1920s.
8) Michael Fuller and Hongsu Wang turn to the China Biographical Database (CBD), a relational database of over 450k individual from pre-modern Chinese history, to present an overview of its capacities and potentials for further research.
https://t.co/JShHfMXZZJ
Structuring, Recording, and Analyzing Historical Networks in the China Biographical Database
| Journal of Historical Network Research
The article employs quantitative, geospatial and SNA methods to study these two groups and their interactions.
https://t.co/9ZUDD7rDbd
Post WWI Chinese Revolutionary Leaders in Europe
| Journal of Historical Network Research
In this article, they describe their methodology for building this dataset, first using automatic text classification to detect biographies and then using Named Entity Recognition to generate metadata. They then go on to highlight several avenues of future research ...
