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Tools
This page provides quick links to various tools and features of the site.
- Ancient text database - full-text pre-Qin and Han dynasty classic texts. [Search]
- Parallel passage database - database of text reuse in early Chinese texts. [Search]
- Resources - lists of published research related to the texts in the ancient text database. [Search]
- Dictionary - classical Chinese usage dictionary, cross-linked to the textual database.
- Rulers of the states - lists of names and approximate reign dates for rulers of the various pre-Qin states and the Han dynasty, cross-linked to their ocurrences in the textual database.
- Phonetic conversion tool - converts between different phonetic representations of (Mandarin) Chinese syllables.
- Concordance and index data - tools for locating passages using standard references, and determining the location of a passage in a standard reference work.
- Wenyanwen Roulette - daily quotes from the Chinese classics.
- Plugins - customizable extensions to the Chinese Text Project website.
- Google site search - if you are unsure where on the site the information that you are looking for may be, you can use Google to search the entire site using the form below:
Digital humanities tools
A range of tools for use in digital humanities research and teaching are available online, and new tools can be created by third parties using the CTP API.
Developer tools
- CTP API - Application Programming Interface (API) and third-party Plugin specification for the Chinese Text Project.
- Structured data in RDF
- Online SPARQL query interface for structured data
- OAI-PMH base URL: https://ctext.org/oai.pl
- OpenSearch descriptions:
- For web browsers: [Text titles] [Dictionary]
- Results in XML: [Text titles]
Contributed tools and resources
The following resources have not been created by the Chinese Text Project, but are made available through the site with the kind permission of their authors. Please note that these resources are provided as-is, and that their copyright and other intellectual property rights belong to their original authors. Please be sure to cite the use of these resources and their authors in your publications according to standard scholarly conventions.
Sarah Schneewind and Joshua Day
This downloadable tool creates interactive visual representations of how texts may have been read by partially literate contemporary readers, whose understanding of the written language was confined mainly to characters contained in certain primer texts.
If you have created or are responsible for a scholarly tool or resource that you think might be useful to readers of the site and would like to make publicly available here, please contact the editor to discuss this.