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August Workshop for TSS Members on Using the CBDB
by T'ang Studies Society 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Dear T'ang Studies Society members, I'm writing to let you know of an excellent workshop opportunity for members of TSS planned for Thursday and Friday, August 22-23 , at Harvard University that will be free of charge and run by Michael Fuller with help from others working on the China Biographical Database (CBDB). The workshop is for scholars with any research topic in Tang political, intellectual, religious, literary, or social history that involves networks of people and can use the China Biographical Database dataset. The workshop will begin with the general principles of relational databases as a way of modeling biographical information and then explain the details of how the tables in CBDB represent kinship, social relations, office-holding, etc. for pre-modern China. After an introduction to the querying interface provided by MS Access, the rest of the workshop will focus on how to use CBDB to explore the specific projects of the workshop participants. The final portion will show how to use the query results in social network analysis (SNA) and GIS software. (The workshop will be able to use the by-then -- we hope -- newly added data from Nick Tackett’s and Yao Ping’s research materials.) The workshop itself is free, and TSS is able to offer a travel subvention of $200 to any current TSS member who would like to attend. Lodging will be the responsibility of participants, but TSS will provide lunches and snacks for attendees for both days. Michael is prepared to offer the workshop to anyone who would like to be there, no matter how small a group--so I think it's a great opportunity for anyone who's in a position to take advantage of it. I will plan to be there myself for both days. If you would like to attend, please email Tony DeBlasi at admin(a)tangstudies.org as soon as possible so that we can estimate attendance. I hope to see some of you in Cambridge in August. Best wishes for the remainder of the summer, Anna Anthony DeBlasi Secretary-Treasurer T'ang Studies Society

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poem by John Balaban, head of the Nom foundation
by Victor H. Mair 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

FYI victor -------- Original Message -------- Subject: a clean copy Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 18:29:21 -0400 From: John Balaban <tbalaban(a)earthlink.net> Reply-To: tbalaban(a)earthlink.net To: VictorM <vmair(a)sas.upenn.edu> Here's a clean copy. The poem will appear in _Poet Lore_ in the Fall/Winter, 2013 issue. Victor, I just read again your fine tribute to Elling in the T'ang Studies Society Journal. And that led me onto the internet to see that a charitable foundation has been created with good people on its board to preserve Elling's library. And that yet another foundation was created to preserve his incomparable gardens. Maybe it's not so important to forward my poem. It clear he is remembered well. Best, John

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CBDB Announcement Again
by T'ang Studies Society 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

Hello all, We are continuing to run into problems with the links in the CBDB announcement. Consequently, I have disabled the links in the message. Please cut-and-paste the URLs into your browser's address bar to access the appropriate pages. Best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi Secretary-Treasurer T'ang Studies Society Dear Colleagues: I am pleased to announce that the latest version of the CBDB Access database has been completed. The 20130610 CBDB an .mdb can now be downloaded from the CBDB website at: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k16229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup… . The number of persons included in the database has increased to 128,923 from 116,150 in the previous version. For detailed accounts of the additions, please see the link above. In order to establish a direct channel to our users, we have also set up a Google Form which will enable users to sign up for the CBDB mailing list. If you would like to be notified of future CBDB releases, please fill in your information here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MTnnnWzRiVDqF7ifsXg1wdLJ1GXuKYrNnnZnJrzPFh… . (If you encounter problems in accessing this form, please contact shihpeichen(a)fas.harvard.edu . ) If you encounter problems with the database, it probably (alas) is our mistake rather than yours: please let us know ( mafuller(a)uci.edu ) and we’ll see what we can do. You may have problems using the “tree” used to select offices and social relations: this will require adding a module to your system and then linking it MS Access. See the discussion about CBDBPatch at: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k16229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup… If you have any comments, questions, of suggestions, please let us know. Thanks. Michael Fuller Shih-Pei Chen ( 陳詩沛 ) Project Manager, China Biographical Database Project Fairbank Center, Harvard University Phone number: 1-617-495-0833 Email address: shihpeichen(a)fas.harvard.edu == CBDB 使用者：很高興通知大家：新版本的 CBDB Access 資料庫 ( 單機版 ) 已經公佈，可以從 CBDB 的網站下載了（版次 20130610 CBDB an .mdb ），下載網址為 : http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k35201&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup… 。這次的版本含有 12 萬 8 千 9 百位人物，比上一版次增加了一萬兩千多人，關於詳細增加了哪些信息，請造訪上述網址。此外，為了未來能更直接將 CBDB 相關的消息發佈給使用者，我們準備了一個表格讓大家登記您的電子郵件，若您願意未來持續收到 CBDB 更新的消息，請到此網頁填寫： https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MTnnnWzRiVDqF7ifsXg1wdLJ1GXuKYrNnnZnJrzPFh… . ( 如果您無法連結該表格，請 email 給計畫經理陳詩沛 shihpeichen(a)fas.harvard.edu .) 也請大家幫忙轉發此訊息給你知道的 CBDB 用戶。謝謝！陳詩沛中國歷代人物傳記資料庫 (CBDB) 計畫經理哈佛大學費正清中國研究中心 Email address: shihpeichen(a)fas.harvard.edu

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New Version of CBDB Access Database Released
by T'ang Studies Society 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

Dear Colleagues : I am pleased to announce that the latest version of the CBDB Access database has been completed. The 20130610 CBDB an .mdb can now be downloaded from the CBDB website at http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k16229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup… . The number of persons included in the database has increased to 128,923 from 116,150 in the previous version. For detailed accounts of the additions, please see the link above. In order to establish a direct channel to our users, we have also set up a Google Form which will enable users to sign up for the CBDB mailing list. If you would like to be notified of future CBDB releases, please fill in your information here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MTnnnWzRiVDqF7ifsXg1wdLJ1GXuKYrNnnZnJrzPFh… . (If you encounter problems in accessing this form, please contact shihpeichen(a)fas.harvard.edu . ) If you encounter problems with the database, it probably (alas) is our mistake rather than yours: please let us know ( mafuller(a)uci.edu ) and we’ll see what we can do. You may have problems using the “tree” used to select offices and social relations: this will require adding a module to your system and then linking it MS Access. See the discussion about CBDBPatch at http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k16229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup… If you have any comments, questions, of suggestions, please let us know. Thanks. Michael Fuller Shih-Pei Chen ( 陳詩沛 ) Project Manager, China Biographical Database Project Fairbank Center, Harvard University Phone number: 1-617-495-0833 Email address: shihpeichen(a)fas.harvard.edu == CBDB 使用者：很高興通知大家：新版本的 CBDB Access 資料庫 ( 單機版 ) 已經公佈，可以從 CBDB 的網站下載了（版次 20130610 CBDB an .mdb ），下載網址為 : http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k35201&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup… 。這次的版本含有 12 萬 8 千 9 百位人物，比上一版次增加了一萬兩千多人，關於詳細增加了哪些信息，請造訪上述網址。此外，為了未來能更直接將 CBDB 相關的消息發佈給使用者，我們準備了一個表格讓大家登記您的電子郵件，若您願意未來持續收到 CBDB 更新的消息，請到此網頁填寫： https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MTnnnWzRiVDqF7ifsXg1wdLJ1GXuKYrNnnZnJrzPFh… . ( 如果您無法連結該表格，請 email 給計畫經理陳詩沛 shihpeichen(a)fas.harvard.edu .) 也請大家幫忙轉發此訊息給你知道的 CBDB 用戶。謝謝！陳詩沛中國歷代人物傳記資料庫 (CBDB) 計畫經理哈佛大學費正清中國研究中心 Email address: shihpeichen(a)fas.harvard.edu

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