Weaving Onomastic Tapestries: Corpus-Building and Analysis of Non-Chinese Names in Northeastern China, 1368-1948

Dr Kim, Loretta Eumie   (Principal Investigator (PI))

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2018-01-01

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Weaving Onomastic Tapestries: Corpus-Building and Analysis of Non-Chinese Names in Northeastern China, 1368-1948

data curation, Northeast China, onomastics, regional history

History,Area Studies (including Japanese Studies, China Studies, European Studies)

Humanities & Social Sciences (H)

17601317

General Research Fund (GRF)

2017

Completed

1 To harvest data on non-(Han) Chinese given and family names in Northeast China from 1368-1948 from a diverse collection of published and archival sources; 2 To organize the data in digital and print versions that will be searchable and accessible throughout the world; 3 To analyze the data for patterns of how non-Chinese given and family names were used and recorded during the period under study and to establish new paradigms for determining what are ""native"" and ""borrowed"" names for the non-Chinese populations represented in the dataset; 4 To create a dataset that can be both independently useful and a part of a larger corpus of non-Chinese names throughout Chinese history; 5 To train a postgraduate student who will become proficient in the discipline of China Studies and the applied field of data curation.