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Author: Mariana Zorkina

PhD student at Zurich University. Medieval Chinese literature | Digital Humanities.
Editor’s Digest January 2025: Chinese Studies
Editor's Digest, LLM, Machine Learning, Sinology

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 … Continue reading Editor’s Digest January 2025: Chinese Studies

Introduction to Programming with Chinese
Chinese Language, Coding, DH in Practice, New Post, Sinology, Workflow

Introduction to Programming with Chinese

This post was prepared together with Tilman Schalmey. Find here the tutorial files for this post. As digital technologies develop, … Continue reading Introduction to Programming with Chinese

Editor’s Digest December 2023: Chinese Studies
DH in General, Editor's Digest, Sinology

Editor’s Digest December 2023: Chinese Studies

Starting this academic year, the Digital Orientalist is introducing a new type of post: the editor’s digest, where editors summarize … Continue reading Editor’s Digest December 2023: Chinese Studies

What can you share about your DH project? – Survey Results.
DH in General, DH in Practice, New Post

What can you share about your DH project? – Survey Results.

This post is prepared together with Tilman Schalmey (Trier University). Right before going on summer hiatus, we launched a survey … Continue reading What can you share about your DH project? – Survey Results.

Working in DH projects – a survey.
DH in General, DH in Practice, Workflow

Working in DH projects – a survey.

This post is prepared together with Tilman Schalmey (Trier University). Digital approaches changed a lot in the way we deal … Continue reading Working in DH projects – a survey.

<strong>Taking notes with Notion</strong>
Apps, DH in General, DH in Practice, Workflow

Taking notes with Notion

“Nowadays, each family produces writings, and every person has a collection. <…> The texts of old pile up high, with … Continue reading Taking notes with Notion

Call for Papers: The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2022
Events & Conferences, New Post

Call for Papers: The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2022

Call for Papers: Abstract deadline: 1 MayPaper submission deadline: 11 JuneDate of the conference: 25 June Submission form We are … Continue reading Call for Papers: The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2022

Can we really trust Digital Humanities?
Chinese Language, DH in General, DH in Practice, Sinology, Theory

Can we really trust Digital Humanities?

When I write posts about Digital Humanities, be that here or in my blog in Russian, I tend to talk … Continue reading Can we really trust Digital Humanities?

Defining word boundaries for Modern and Classical Chinese
Chinese Language, Coding, Online Resources, Sinology, Software, Textual Analysis

Defining word boundaries for Modern and Classical Chinese

Basic corpus analysis is an amazing way to start exploring digital humanities. What could be easier? One just needs to … Continue reading Defining word boundaries for Modern and Classical Chinese

Some thoughts on regular expressions
Coding, DH in General, Online Resources, Sinology

Some thoughts on regular expressions

What are regular expressions and why use them? Those who are interested in the digital humanities or corpus linguistics are … Continue reading Some thoughts on regular expressions

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