CATEGORY
Biographical Databases
INSTITUTION
URL
https://heurist.huma-num.fr/h6-alpha/?db=ModernChinaBiographicalDatabase&website&id=109237
DESCRIPTION
MCBD is a freely accessible relational database that aims at recording all the historical actors active in China in the Late Qing and Republican periods (1830--1949), regardless of their origin, nationality and the duration of their presence in China. MCBD currently holds data on more than 75,000 individuals, with information on 20,000 positions and 6,000 curricula/degrees, as well as 10,000 institutions and 14,000 companies. A major feature of MCBD is to present individuals under all the forms their name took, both in Chinese and in all sorts of transliterations in Western-language sources.