One brand, two languages, one data model

What this project is building

A research database of collectors, collection studios 藏室, objects, provenance 递藏, donations, connoisseurial exchanges 鉴藏交游 and public-collection formation in modern Chinese history.

The present release uses 200 collectors as the backbone and develops the top 50 into enhanced profiles with source-linked biographical and collecting data.

Language architecture

English pages retain Chinese names and key terms. Chinese pages link to the exact English counterpart. Cross-domain hreflang and matching structured data tell search and generative systems that the two pages describe the same entity.