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Author: Lu Wang

Lu Wang is a Ph.D. candidate affiliated with the Department of History at Western University, Canada. Her dissertation studies Chinese embroidery in the late Qing and Republican period. She is interested in incorporating digital research methods, particularly text analysis, into Chinese studies.
Digitizing Chinese Minority Textiles: An Interview with Sun Xiaolin
DH in General, DH in Practice, Sinology

Digitizing Chinese Minority Textiles: An Interview with Sun Xiaolin

This is an interview with Sun Xiaolin, former M.A. student at Loyola University Chicago and current Ph.D. student at the … Continue reading Digitizing Chinese Minority Textiles: An Interview with Sun Xiaolin

3D technology in the Chinese history classroom: Restoring material metadata for primary sources
DH in Practice, Sinology, Teaching

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, … Continue reading 3D technology in the Chinese history classroom: Restoring material metadata for primary sources

Refine Your Search Engine Results (for Chinese Language Users)
Chinese Language, DH in General, DH in Practice, Sinology, Workflow

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 … Continue reading Refine Your Search Engine Results (for Chinese Language Users)

Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Facet
Chinese Language, DH in Practice, Digitization, Online Resources, Sinology, Software, Textual Analysis

Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Facet

Text filtering helps researchers target selected, specific data for accurate text analysis results. In my last post, I explored the … Continue reading Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Facet

Chinese Language, Sinology, Software, Textual Analysis

Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Sentence Filtering

Following my first post for the Digital Orientalist on the topic of OpenRefine, in this post I would like to share … Continue reading Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Sentence Filtering

The Changing Role of Textile Making: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools (Part II)
Chinese Language, Sinology, Textual Analysis, Visualization

The Changing Role of Textile Making: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools (Part II)

Voyant Tools is a website that allows text analysis in multiple languages with handy, easy-to-learn digital tools. In my earlier … Continue reading The Changing Role of Textile Making: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools (Part II)

The Changing Role of Textile Making: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools (Part I)
Chinese Language, Sinology, Textual Analysis, Visualization

The Changing Role of Textile Making: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools (Part I)

Voyant Tools is a popular website that offers a series of text analysis tools for examining word frequencies, patterns, and … Continue reading The Changing Role of Textile Making: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools (Part I)

Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Punctuation Removal
Chinese Language, Online Resources, Sinology, Textual Analysis, Workflow

Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Punctuation Removal

So you have heard about some cool text analysis tools that identify word frequencies, generate word clouds, and look for … Continue reading Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Punctuation Removal

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