Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
The Japanese government was able to sustain total war against the Allied Powers for almost half a decade after losing … Continue reading Mapping Prefectural-Level Financial Mobilisation in Wartime Japan
Witnessing Ottoman Studies’ recent integration of AI is exciting for the field’s development in terms of its inclusion of wider, … Continue reading Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies: A Review
2025/6 was my first year as editor for Central Asian Studies at The DO, having previously been a contributing writer for … Continue reading Editor’s Digest – Central Asia 2025/6
My previous work on Sindhi literature in post-Partition involves PG Sindhi Library, Sindhi Halchal Archive, and Sindhi Sanchaya. Posts dealing … Continue reading Oral Histories from Sindhi Libraries in India: Infrastructures around Sindhi Literature
This is our first interview as part of the NIHU DH × The DO Interviews. This series features interviews with … Continue reading On TRAJECTORIA: An Interview with Prof. Kawase Itsushi (NIHU DH × The DO Interviews #1)
In this essay, I explore how we can read Indonesian literature in a way that preserves the highly particular and context-bound character of individual literary works while also accounting for the heterogeneity of Indonesian literature as a whole. Continue reading Texts in Their Right Places: A Situated Reading of a Situated Literature
Welcome back! This post kicks off the 2026/27 year, and we have a lot to share! Before looking forward, we … Continue reading Introducing The DO 2026/27 Team
The Digital Orientalist is pleased to announce its annual open call for contributors and team members for the 2026-2027 academic … Continue reading CFA: Join The DO Team 2026/27
This is a guest post by Damian Mandzunowski. The author bio is below. The premise behind this piece is simple: … Continue reading Digital Curatorship, Handling Special Collections, and Lessons Learned from My Pursuit of Historical Photographs of People Reading in China
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading The Evidence of the Small: Digital Historical Forensics and What Big Data Cannot See in Wartime Chinese Propaganda