History of this site
I started building the dynasty page in February 2001 in English only when it was located at my Tripod site at http://stehou.tripod.com/china. Although I had stopped working on it by summer 2001, I was still gathering lots of information. On July 11, 2003, I restarted this project on my MIT site with more details (Big5 Chinese added; decided to include capital cities). Major updates since then include:
- 2003.08.06 - Signed on to Nedstat.
- 2003.07.15 - Reorganized website like my personal website; added this "progress" page.
Short-term goals (summer 2003)
- Read [18] and [19] in detail (now up to Three Kingdoms).
- Finish copying capitals of Sixteen Kingdoms from [13].
- Check out maps of Sixteen Kingdoms from [11].
- Check dates and capitals for ten southern kingdoms during Five Dynasties with [11], [13] and [15].
- Check out the notes in [15a].
Short-term goals (rest of 2003)
- Link notes to references.
- Link info on tables to notes.
- Link dynasties to Wikipedia article.
- Find all the major states of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.
- Get every royal family's surname.
- Check ambiguous dates.
Long-term goals (2004 and beyond)
- Make capitals page.
- Update Wikipedia's "Capitals of China" article.
- Link to maps of various dynasties.
- Include history of changes in subnational organization (provinces, prefectures, etc.).
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