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Seminar at Harvard University, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, 26 October 2015 Room S153, CGIS South Building, 12.00 Textual parallels among early Chinese transmitted texts are extensive and widespread, often reflecting complex textual histories involving repeated transcription, compilation, and editing … Continue reading →

Presentation at Harvard University, Computational Methods for Chinese History: A “Digging into Data Challenge” Training Workshop, 17 October 2015. Science Center, Room B09, 3.15pm.

From September 2015 to July 2016 I will be serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center of Chinese Studies, working on (among other things) a project I’ve titled “Big Data and Early China: Corpus-Assisted Interpretation of Classical … Continue reading →

Seminar at Leiden University, 5 August 2015 Since its origins as a database of Warring States philosophical texts, the Chinese Text Project (http://ctext.org) has gradually grown to become one of the largest digital libraries of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence, … Continue reading →

A new version of the Unicode standard has been released, defining thousands of additional rarely used and variant Chinese characters. Support for these has been added to the dictionary section of the site; to view these characters, please install the … Continue reading →

This paper, accepted April 2012, has now appeared in Philosophy East and West 65:3 (July 2015).

Update to the CTP: A major update to the site has been made by applying OCR to over ten million pages of transmitted texts stored in the Library, linking scanned texts where possible to digital editions that follow them. Over … Continue reading →

This is a test of embedding a scripted Text Tools instance inside an IFrame on another site. The same script can be run in a new window via this link. This figure displays a heat-map visualization of similarity based on … Continue reading →

While visiting the Compilation Center of Korean Confucian Classics at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, I had the chance to give a lecture to some graduate students about the Chinese Text Project. Although most of the presentation consisted of a practical … Continue reading →

I was very happy to be given the opportunity to introduce some aspects of the Chinese Text Project at this workshop hosted by the Compilation Center of Korean Confucian Classics at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. I’ve uploaded a handout (Chinese) … Continue reading →