Presentation of the COREL-Collex Persée project (Collège de France-Université de Nice, Institut d'Asie orientale, École française d'Extrême-Orient), Wednesday 29 May 2024 from 9 h 30 to 12 h 30, at the Institut des Civilisations of the Collège de France.
The COREL project aims to reconstitute the legislation of late imperial China, based on different corpuses of texts. The morning session will focus on the description of the digitized corpus of legal works from late imperial China belonging to the Collège de France's Chinese Studies Library. This will be followed by a presentation of the tools used for text editing, and finally by a presentation of the Chinese character ocherization tool that will enable the digitized data to be exploited. The digitization of this unique corpus of over five hundred titles, indispensable for research into the legal, administrative and social history of modern China, will enable the creation of a Nakala database. By linking these documents together, we will be able to create a virtual code tracing the development of law under the Qing dynasty, year by year, and thus provide a detailed analysis of the evolution of Chinese law at the end of the late imperial period. We will also be able to create a structured descriptive collection of Chinese legal and administrative sources, facilitating understanding of the relationships between these different types of source.
