The Books in China Database
This is a guest post by Prof. Joseph Dennis. Introduction The Books in China Database (BIC) is designed to address…
Category: Sinology
Convincing DH: Jing Hu, “Mining networks in MARKUS: A study of Chosŏn interpreters’ trade networks in Qing China”
With the proliferation of digital tools and databases meant to engage a wide range of users from the serious scholar…
Cracking the Oracle Bones: The Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 2)
In the second part of our exploration of the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database 殷墟甲骨文數據庫 (YOD), we’ll continue our…
3D technology in the Chinese history classroom: Restoring material metadata for primary sources
In 2012, the Smithsonian Institution started its experiment of turning museum collections into 3D models (Terdiman 2022). Ten years later,…
Cracking the Oracle Bones: the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 1)
Introduction: In April, the Zhonghua Book Company (中華書局) launched the (subscription-only) Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database 殷墟甲骨文數據庫 (YOD), containing…
Digital Humanities and Buddhist Studies in Japan: An Interview with Kiyonori Nagasaki (2/2)
This is the second part of our interview with Professor Kiyonori Nagasaki (twitter @knagasaki), Senior Fellow at the International Institute…
Of fonts and men. A few thoughts
In my most recent post, I overviewed how fonts operate, and the steps involved in transforming unknown orthographic structures in…
Refine Your Search Engine Results (for Chinese Language Users)
Search engine is perhaps one of the most frequently used tools in modern digital life, revealing whatever information that you…
Fluid Matter(s): An Interview with Shigehisa Kuriyama and Natalie Köhle on Image-Based Storytelling, Part 1
This is the first of two posts about the innovative academic publication Fluid Matter(s), which was created with the storytelling platform…
Just give me a font!
The headache of working with archaic Chinese orthographies Technologically, we scholars of the 21st century are spoiled. We sit at…