CHINESE CLASSICS

Project Origins
The project started in June of 2009.
This project has been in many ways inspired by communication and discussions with E. Bruce Brooks and Chris Beckwith.
 
Project affiliation
Project is collaborating with The Warring States Project.
 
Text Sources
See Text Sources page
Reconstructions of preclassic, classic, and Middle Chinese pronunciations of characters, as well as some English meanings, were kindly provided by George Starostin, who continues developing the database of reconstructions, started by Sergei Starostin (see Tower of Babel website and, specifically, the Chinese database).
 
Project Technology
Python + MySQL + PHP + Eclipse + Wing.
 
Other credits
I am also indebted to the CS Department of the University of Toronto for introduction to the latest computational linguistics approaches that were indispensable for this project.