Category Archives: Digital Humanities

Classical Chinese Literature in a Digital Age

I’m very excited to be visiting Tsukuba University in Japan next week, where I will be giving a talk titled “Classical Chinese Literature in a Digital Age” (December 15), and also presenting a paper on “Optical Character Recognition for pre-modern … Continue reading

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Towards a dynamic, scalable digital library of pre-modern Chinese

Paper to be presented at the 7th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities, December 2016, National Taiwan University This paper contrasts two radically different approaches to full-text digital library design and implementation: firstly, the “static database approach”, in … Continue reading

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Harvard Yenching Library Chinese materials added to ctext.org

Update to the CTP: Thanks to the support of Harvard Yenching Library, over 5 million pages of scanned materials from the Yenching Library collection have been added to the Library section of the site, including high quality images from the … Continue reading

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Digitizing Millions of Pages of Chinese History

A poster presented at the 60th anniversary celebration of Harvard’s Fairbank Center:

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Stanford DHAsia 2017

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

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Chinese Text Project: A Digital Library of Pre-Modern Chinese Literature

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

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Leveraging Corpus Knowledge for Historical Chinese OCR

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

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Crowdsourcing, APIs, and a Digital Library of Chinese

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

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Classical Chinese Digital Humanities

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

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Text, Data, and Digital Humanities: APIs and the Chinese Text Project

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

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