Chinese Genealogies Catalogue: 50,000 Books from 1005 to 2007

More than 50,000 genealogy books compiled in China over a millennium are catalogued in this collection. Yuhua Wang compiled the Comprehensive Catalogue of Chinese Genealogies, which spans records from 1005 to 2007. The dataset is published by Harvard University Press and listed on the paperswithcode platform.

Use Cases

• Study the evolution of Chinese family naming conventions based on the described genealogy book metadata.
• Analyze the geographic distribution and compilation frequency of genealogical records over the described 1000-year period.
• Train models for historical document classification or topic modeling using the described catalogue of book titles and metadata.

Strengths

• Catalogues over 50,000 distinct genealogy books.
• Covers a long temporal range of approximately 1002 years, from 1005 to 2007.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Harvard University Press

Time Range

1005 to 2007

Geography

China