What information can we derive from historical Far Eastern guest stars for modern research on novae and cataclysmic variables?

Discovery of an old nova remnant in the Galactic globular cluster M 22

(2019) Fabian Göttgens et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

(2018) et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Life after eruption – VII. A search for stunted outbursts in 13 post-novae

(2018) N Vogt et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

(2018) et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Proper-motion age dating of the progeny of Nova Scorpii AD 1437

(2017) M. M. Shara et al.   NATURE

When does an old nova become a dwarf nova? Kinematics and age of the nova shell of the dwarf nova AT Cancri

(2016) Michael M. Shara et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Discovery of an eclipsing dwarf nova in the ancient nova shell Te 11

(2015) Brent Miszalski et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The evolution of planetary nebulae

(2013) R. Jacob et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

BK Lyncis: the oldest old nova and a Bellwether for cataclysmic variable evolution

(2013) Joseph Patterson et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

THE INTER-ERUPTION TIMESCALE OF CLASSICAL NOVAE FROM EXPANSION OF THE Z CAMELOPARDALIS SHELL

(2012) Michael M. Shara et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE DWARF NOVA OUTBURSTS OF NOVA HER 1960 (=V446 HER)

(2011) R. K. Honeycutt et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL