Category Archives: Digital Humanities

Automated Identification of Parallels and Allusions in Classical Chinese Texts

Posted on February 19, 2016 by dsturgeon

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 →

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CHNSHIS 202: Digital Methods for Chinese Studies

Posted on January 22, 2016 by dsturgeon

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 →

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Automation and Collaboration: Exploiting the Digital Medium

Posted on November 12, 2015 by dsturgeon

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 →

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Towards a Scalable Digital Library of Pre-Modern Chinese: From Static Database to Evolving Platform

Posted on October 3, 2015 by dsturgeon

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 →

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Textual Relationships in the Pre-Qin and Han Corpus: A Digital Approach

Posted on October 3, 2015 by dsturgeon

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 →

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Exploring Text Reuse in the Pre-Qin and Han Corpus

Posted on October 3, 2015 by dsturgeon

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.

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Fairbank Center

Posted on September 1, 2015 by dsturgeon

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 →

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Digitizing Early China

Posted on July 18, 2015 by dsturgeon

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 →

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Chinese Text Project – Support for Unicode 8.0

Posted on July 2, 2015 by dsturgeon

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 →

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Chinese Text Project: over ten million pages of pre-modern Chinese texts now searchable online

Posted on March 24, 2015 by dsturgeon

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 →

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