About this site

Scope

Three entity types: events, places and articles. People are not given entries of their own; they are referenced from the biographical sub-site. Only published entries appear here, and nothing without a traceable source is published.

Sources

Sources are ranked: gazetteers and inscriptions; government pages and heritage lists; archaeological reports and academic papers; and site visits. Where sources disagree they are set side by side with each attributed, and no side is chosen; tradition and record are kept in separate sections, and traditions keep their original wording. Source records are catalogued in the language of the original: the publisher is given in English as well, while the rights note and the citation locator (juan, section, page) stay in the original language, so that a reader can find the passage in the source itself.

Validation

Every entry passes the content repository's validation script before it is stored: required fields, controlled vocabularies, resolvable sources and relations, Chinese-English pairing and consistent proper names. Events must carry a date, and a heritage site that states a protection level must also state its listing.

Licence

The text of the entries is licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse and adaptation, including commercial use, require attribution only. The rights status of each source in the source layer is given in its own rights field and is not transferred by this licence.

Languages and themes

Chinese is served from the root and English from /en/, with page paths matching one to one, so switching language keeps you on the same page. The theme follows your system setting by default and can be switched by hand; the choice is stored in your browser and does not flash on reload.

Corrections

If you find a factual error, a dead link or an inconsistent rendering of a proper name, open an issue in the network's repository, giving the entry ID and your evidence. Once checked, the entry is corrected and its updated field changed to that day.

How it is built

The site is static. Markdown from the content repository is rendered at build time; there is no database and no client-side framework. The timeline, the filters, the search and the list paging all run on the generated pages.