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CHinese ANcient Texts (CHANT) update

The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s subscription-based CHinese ANcient Texts (CHANT) website has recently undergone some renovation. The new interface appears to largely follow the layout and functionality of the previous version, although there seem to be a few puzzling … Continue reading

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Reviews of Digital Resources for Sinologists

Titled “Digital Resources for Sinologists 1.0“, this post by Holger Schneider and Jeffrey Tharsen gives a useful overview of digital dictionaries and other online tools for Chinese, many of which will be of interest to Sinologists, as well as offering … Continue reading

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Classical Chinese Wordles

The ever-popular Wordle, like many tools designed to work with digital corpora, can be used on Chinese text with minor tweaking. Wordle takes a text and ranks the words in it in order of frequency, then produces a tag cloud … Continue reading

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Classical Chinese internet resources

A huge though largely unsorted list of Chinese language web sites and resources related to the study of early China has been assembled here: http://ctext.org/discuss.pl?if=en&thread=3223065

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Yīntōng: Chinese Phonological Database

Yintong is an online database of characters in the Guǎngyùn 廣韻, a dictionary dating from 1008 C.E., created by David Prager Branner. The database has the following main functions: Lookup by character, returning information about the fǎnqiè associated with the … Continue reading

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