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Google n-grams and pre-modern Chinese

Posted on April 14, 2015 by dsturgeon

The Google n-gram viewer allows real-time searching of the frequencies of words and word sequences over time across a large corpus of texts digitized as part of the Google Books project. Without getting into the debate as to whether things … Continue reading →

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China Biographical Database

Posted on April 12, 2015 by dsturgeon

The China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) describes itself as “an online relational database with biographical information about approximately 328,000 individuals as of May 2014, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries”. A joint project of Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese … Continue reading →

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Beijing Airport Wifi hacked: DNS attack pushes adverts to sites via Google Analytics

Posted on April 4, 2015 by dsturgeon

While at Beijing Airport recently, I connected to the official airport wifi service, and noticed something strange when visiting ctext.org: A large floating advert had appeared at the bottom right of every page of the site, obscuring much of the … Continue reading →

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HK Visa Online Application Status Enquiry – Invalid Reference Number

Posted on February 3, 2015 by dsturgeon

This post is a little off-topic, but perhaps will help people Googling with the same problem. A trivial issue nearly prevented me from being able to determine the status of my Hong Kong visa application online. The reference number I’d … Continue reading →

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Ming Qing Women’s Writings

Posted on January 10, 2015 by dsturgeon

The Ming Qing Women’s Writings (明清婦女著作) site provides a carefully curated database of women’s writing from the Ming, Qing, and Republican periods of Chinese history. The database contains a wealth of information about authors and individual texts (and poems) within … Continue reading →

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