2021
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Ming Letters Crowdsourcing Platform (Crowdsourcing Platform)
Harvard University, 2021-2022
Principal Investigator(s): Peter Bol, Harvard UniversityThe China Biographical Database project (CBDB) has opened the beta version of its crowdsourcing platform to a project for identifying Ming dynasty social associations, which is currently devoted to Ming dynasty letters. The GHF award will support the hiring of graduate students in China in Ming literature and history to review the more than 4,000 existing identifications writers of Ming dynasty letters and to add new ones.