Key Features of the TLS

• a corpus of classical Chinese texts with aligned translations of difficult or controversial words and passages.

• links to an analytic dictionary of Chinese.

• special attention to historical keywords.

• focus on contributing to cross-cultural conceptual history.

• detailed synonym dictionary.

• taxonomic hierarchies of synonym groups.

• systematic and detailed categories for syntactic annotation.

• inventory of Chinese rhetorical devices.

• inventory of semantic relations that define the Chinese conceptual space.

• up-to-date databases on historical phonology and the history of Chinese characters.