Elites, Networks and Power in Modern China

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Virtual Shanghai

Virtual Shanghai is a research and resource platform on the history of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to nowadays. It incorporates various sets of documents: essays, original documents, photographs, maps, quantitative data, etc. The objective of the project is to write a history of the city through the combined mobilization of these various types of documents. The implementation of this approach relies on the use of digital and GIS technologies. On the research side, the platform offers various ways to step into the history of the city and follow its course at different levels over time. On the resource side, apart from providing original textual and visual documents, it develops a powerful cartographic tool for spatial analysis and real-time mapping (to be upgraded soon). The authors of the present project subscribe to the idea of sharing scholarship and research tools for the benefit of scholars, students, and citizens at large.

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Virtual Beijing

Virtual Beijing has attracted the interest of historians of modern China only in the last decade. If we set aside the spate of books generated by the Olympic games, few studies have addressed the social history of Beijing and, among them, few have actually devoted much attention to the spatial dimension as part of the historical analysis. Through this digital platform, we plan to explore further the social history of Beijing and to address its historical trajectory through case studies based on textual, visual, and spatial data.

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Virtual Wenzhou

Virtual Wenzhou is a platform for research and resources on the history of Wenzhou from the late imperial period (circa 1300-1911) to the present. It collects and assemblies a wide array of sources, including photographs, old maps, archival documents, and analytical data. The aim of this project is to present a thorough collection of sources pertaining to the history and culture of Wenzhou, and port city in Southeast China that had developed distinct cultures and languages. Aiming to enhance the understanding of Wenzhou

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MadSpace
MADSpace (Mapping Advertising Space) was born in 2016 as a digital companion to a PhD dissertation devoted to a spatial history of advertising in modern China. It was designed to store, organize and connect primary sources or raw data (archives, printed materials, maps, photos), analytical materials or cooked data (graphs, maps, trees, tables, timelines), multimedia narratives (dissertation, published papers, unpublished essays), bibliographical references and other resources. It also includes a relational database of some 2,000 historical actors involved in the advertising industry (companies, branded products). Since then, it has expanded beyond its initial purpose to include over 950 archival documents, 1,500 printed materials, 1,000 images, and more than 700 “cooked data” to date, all related to various interconnected research interests that branch out of the history of advertising, such as market expertise, consumer culture, Americanization, the modern press and public opinion in China. It is regularly updated and enriched.
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Numerica Sinica

Numerica Sinica is a CNRS initiative initially supported by INSHS and operated by TGER Huma-Num in order to create a mutualized instrument of access to digital resources on Chinese worlds for the benefit of CNRS affiliated units. The platform now includes a broad range of resources, including those purchased specifically for ANR projects and the ENP-China project.

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近現代人物資訊整合系統 (Institute of Modern History)

《近現代人物資訊整合系統》收錄近現代中國人名錄、人物傳記、職官表、檔案、口述史等多種人物資料,加以編輯組合,並以主題分類,整理為整合性的人物資訊。資料庫收錄的人物時間涵蓋清中葉至民國時期,現有人物約135,000多人。以主題分類有:近代春秋TIS人物索引、上海地區人物錄、中國人物傳記資料、口述史叢書、近史所檔案館人名權威檢索系統等。

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