Editor’s Digest November 2024: Northeast Asian Studies
Since my last Editor’s Digest back in February, the Northeast Asian Studies team alongside several guest contributors have published an…
Month: November 2024
Aksharamukha: The Automated Transliteration Tool to Simplify Script Conversion
Aksharamukha, a free and open-source transliteration tool supporting 121 scripts and 21 romanization methods, enhances access to multilingual texts and facilitates cross-cultural communication.
Education and Technology: Understanding History through Anime Productions
This guest post was written by Virgine Borges de Castilho Sacoman (UNISINOS). Learn more about her work here. Since I…
Jingyuan Digital Platform – Font Making and Database Development for Shang Oracle Bones (Part 2)
This is a guest post by Peichao Qin | University of Cambridge. In my earlier post, I introduced my newly launched “Jingyuan Digital…
PR Strategy and Social Media of Japan’s Imperial Household Agency
The Imperial Household Agency is the government administrative body with jurisdiction over the Imperial Family of Japan. It is also…
Cognitive Stylometry as an LLM-Based Methodology in Chinese Literary Studies
Recent years have witnessed a wave of fascinating research findings in both natural and artificial intelligence. While scholars remain cautious…
Using TEI to study Edward Sylvester Morse’s Japan Diaries in the Peabody Essex Museum Collection (Part 1)
TEI (text-encoding initiative) is a digital humanities method that enriches plain text transcriptions using .xml tags. It is most commonly…
An Intertextual Heatmap: Tantra of the Sun’s Reception in 14th century Tibet
How do you map 14th-century Buddhist intertextuality? Stanford scholar Elaine Lai shares how she created a digital heatmap to visualize textual connections between the “Tantra of the Sun” and its commentaries, offering new insights into citation patterns and textual authority.
A Brief Introduction to The Index of Tangut Literature 西夏文獻目錄 Database
This is a guest post by Enfu Zhang. See author bio at the end of the page. As the Tangut…