Global DH vs. Area Studies: Rethinking “China and the West (Rest)” Beyond Lenticular Logic
In her essay “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation,” Tara McPherson…
Category: Sinology
To Merge or Not to Merge: The Pitfalls of Chinese Tokenization in General-Purpose LLMs
Tokenization, the process of transforming human text into machine-understandable units of meaning (tokens), is a foundational step in language modeling.…
Editor’s Digest January 2025: Chinese Studies
This year’s Editor’s Digest for Chinese Studies falls right after the Chinese New Year, so first of all let me…
Evaluating LLMs for Linked Data Extraction from Chinese Texts: A Comparative Analysis
Background Historical Chinese texts and source notes, preserved in various forms including rare books, special collections, and modern academic databases,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
NLP Tools for Sinology: Introducing the WYD Platform
This entry introduces a platform that utilizes Machine Learning (ML) algorithms from the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to…
The China Biographical Database (CBDB): An Introduction and Conversation with Professor Peter Bol
The China Biographical Database The China Biographical Database (CBDB) is ‘a relational database of biographical information for China before the…