Author Archives: dsturgeon

I’m delighted to be taking part in Stanford’s exciting DHAsia Digital Humanities initiative in the coming year. I will be giving a talk titled “Parallels and Allusions in Early Chinese Texts: A Digital Approach” (April 25), as well as leading … Continue reading →

Paper presented at Digital Humanities Congress 2016, University of Sheffield Since its creation in 2005 as an online search tool for a handful of classical Chinese texts, the Chinese Text Project has gradually grown to become the largest and most … Continue reading →

Paper to be presented at “Digital Research in East Asian Studies: Corpora, Methods, and Challenges“, Leiden University, July 10 2016 Abstract As an increasingly large amount of pre-modern Chinese writing is transcribed into digital form, the resulting digitized corpus comes … Continue reading →

Guest post published on Nottingham University’s China Policy Institute blog. Digital methods have revolutionized many aspects of the study of pre-modern Chinese literature, from the simple but transformative ability to perform full-text searches and automated concordancing, through to the application … Continue reading →

Introducing the first in a series of online tutorials covering basic digital humanities techniques using the Python programming language and the Chinese Text Project API. These tutorials are based in part on material covered in the course CHNSHIS 202: Digital … Continue reading →

Yale University, 22 April 2016 As databases, digital libraries, and digital tools grow in size and scope, they present increasingly valuable opportunities for research using novel methods including text mining, distant reading and other techniques that can be grouped under … Continue reading →

Paper presented at AAS 2016, Seattle, April 1, 2016 The classical Chinese corpus has long been recognized to contain a vast amount of text reuse: closely related textual content that, for a variety of reasons, occurs in multiple works that … Continue reading →

I currently (Spring 2016 and 2017; Fall 2017) teach the course CHNSHIS 202: Digital Methods for Chinese Studies at Harvard’s EALC. Below is the syllabus from the 2016 course. Course Description This course introduces graduate students in Chinese studies to … Continue reading →

6th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities, 30 November 2015, National Taiwan University New Perspectives on Digital Sinology Resources panel The digital medium presents unique opportunities and challenges for the development of new kinds of resources for the … Continue reading →

Presentation at Harvard University, “Advancing Digital Scholarship in Japanese Studies: Innovations and Challenges” Workshop, 7 November 2015 Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS, 9.00 am In the ten years since first going online, the Chinese Text Project has gradually expanded from … Continue reading →