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.
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading Suggesting a Language-Specific Gender Perspective for AI Translation Research
Since November 2025, we have been publishing the proceedings of The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital … Continue reading An Introduction to Conference Proceedings You May Have Missed: Unaccompanied Videos
This post was co-authored with Prof. Du Chunmei (Lingnan University, Department of History). History can feel like a silent discipline, … Continue reading Voices from the Past: Retrieval-Augmented Dialogues with Chinese Historical Figures
In her essay “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation,” Tara McPherson … Continue reading Global DH vs. Area Studies: Rethinking “China and the West (Rest)” Beyond Lenticular Logic
This post was written together with Sai Deng (Metadata Librarian, University of Central Florida) and Lihong Zhu (Head of Library … Continue reading Exploring the Future of Library Cataloging with AI and Multilingual Embeddings
Tokenization, the process of transforming human text into machine-understandable units of meaning (tokens), is a foundational step in language modeling. … Continue reading To Merge or Not to Merge: The Pitfalls of Chinese Tokenization in General-Purpose LLMs
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