---
language:
- pt
- en
- zh
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- history
- china
- brazil
- small-llm
- pretraining
- fine-tuning
- edge-ai
size_categories:
- n<1K
---

# China-Brazil History Corpus

A curated text corpus for training and fine-tuning small language models on Chinese and Brazilian history.

## What's inside

- **15 entries** (MVP version, expanding to 5,000)
- **Categories:** Dynasties, colonization, immigration, revolutions, contemporary history, philosophy, inventions
- **Regions:** China, Brazil, both
- **Types:** Narratives, timelines, biographies, event analyses, QA pairs
- **Languages:** Portuguese (60%), English (30%), Chinese (10%)

## Topics covered

| China | Brazil |
|-------|--------|
| Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han dynasties | Pre-Cabraline period & indigenous peoples |
| Three Kingdoms, Tang, Song, Yuan | Portuguese colonization (1500-1822) |
| Ming, Qing dynasties | Empire & First Republic |
| Xinhai Revolution, Republic | Vargas Era, Military Dictatorship |
| Mao era, Cultural Revolution | New Republic (1985-present) |
| Contemporary China (1978-present) | Economic & social history |
| Philosophy (Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism) | Social movements |
| Inventions & discoveries | Sino-Brazilian relations |

## Use cases

- **Continual pre-training** of small LLMs (≤1B params)
- **Fine-tuning** for history QA and summarization
- **Edge deployment** on Mac M4 / 16GB RAM

## Format

JSONL with metadata fields:
- `text`: Historical content
- `category`: Thematic category
- `region`: china | brazil | both
- `period`: Historical period or year
- `source_type`: narrative | timeline | biography | event_analysis | qa_pair | comparison

## Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

```bibtex
@dataset{guicybercode_china_brazil_history,
  author = {Guilherme Monteiro},
  title = {China-Brazil History Corpus},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face}
}

License
Apache 2.0