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CBDB & CHGIS: a historical people-and-places explorer

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A bilingual research interface for exploring Chinese historical biographies alongside maps, social networks, and dynasty timelines.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-25 issue.

For: Researchers exploring Chinese biographies and historical geography
Worth noticing: The homepage lists both an SQLite SQL workbench and an ArcadeDB graph interface alongside its biographical and GIS explorations.

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The page organizes its material around connected records rather than a single biography search: it lists kinship and intellectual networks, official postings, GIS exploration, and separate SQL and graph interfaces. Its featured entries pair Chinese names with English spellings, dates, courtesy names, and short biographies; the homepage also supplies a dynasty timeline as another route into the material.

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