Partition Revisited: Bridging History and Technology to Trace Refugee Rehabilitation
This is a guest post by Gursimran Kaur Butalia. The Partition of India in 1947 remains a deeply personal and…
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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…
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…
African Tech Inventions, Inclusive AI and Digital Innovation: A Historical Perspective
This is a guest post by Anna Osterlow. See bio at the end of this post. When looking at current scholarly…
Digitized Examples of the 17th-century Georgian-Persian Illuminated Historical Documents from Georgian Repositories
This is a guest post by Helen Giunashvili | George Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies/Ilia State University Introduction In the…
Jingyuan Digital Platform: Font Making and Database Development for Shang Oracle Bones (Part 1)
This is a guest post by Peichao Qin | University of Cambridge. Tired of struggling to find and type out complex oracle…
Introducing The DO 2024/2025 Team
It has been another busy and exciting year for The Digital Orientalist. Our 10th anniversary was a special occasion, marked…
Call for Applications
The Digital Orientalist is happy to announce its annual open call for editors, contributors, and team members. Apply and share this…