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Prosopography of Middle Period China: Using the Database

Warwick University, Department of History
December 14-15, 2007

Schedule of Papers

 

Friday December 14, 2007

Workshop day 1:

9.30-10.10

Chang Woei Ong, National University of Singapore
“The Zhe Military Family in the Northern Song” (379 KB)
 

10.15-10.55

Anthony DeBlasi, State University of New York, Albany
“Military Commissioners and Grand Counselors: Testing Tang Era Data Capture in the Chinese Biographical Database” (144 KB)
 

11.15-11.30

Brief comments by Alex Burghart, King’s College London on Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
 

11.30-12.10

Hilde de Weerdt, Oxford University
“Mapping Communication from Mingzhou: Networks of Correspondence” (3347 KB)
 

13.30-14.10

Song Chen, Harvard University
“Bureaucratic Hierarchy and Social Network Structure in Song Dynasty Sichuan” (318 KB)
(Additional Images, 714 KB)
 

14.10-14.50

Naomi Standen, University of Newcastle
“Networks and institutions in the CBDB: adding the non-kin network of Liu Zhiyuan of the Five Dynasties” (93 KB)
 

14.50-15.00

Brief comments by Grace Fong (McGill University) about MQWW database
 

15.30-16.10

Mark Strange, Oxford University
“Factionalism and the formation of eleventh-century military policy: a study of Sima Guang's political network” (451 KB)
 

16.30-17.00

overview of the day

 

Saturday December 15, 2007

Workshop day 2:

9.30-10.10

Chen Wenyi, Academia Sinica
“Social Writings and Social Relationships: A Preliminary Investigation of the Group Characteristics of Preface Recipients in Southern Song Jizhou” (128 KB)
 

10.10-10.50

Fang Chengfeng, Peking University
“The Migration of Zhou Bida’s Family during 1120s and 1150s” (784 KB)
 

10.50-11.00

Dagmar Shaefer, Max Planck Institut, Berlin
‘Some comments about CHGIS and developments at the Max Planck Institut’
 

11.15-12.00

Anne Gerritsen, Warwick University
“Can we use the CBDB for the study of women and gender?” (228 KB)
 

13.30-14.15

Chang Wook Lee,
“The use of the Hartwell database in studying the Tang-Song Hanlin Academicians, 780-1082” (283 KB)
(Additional charts, 60 KB)
 

14.15-15.00

Robert Foster, Berea College
“Comparing sources for Lu Jiuyuan's social network” (431 KB)