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.
Last spring I wrote a post on why video games should be considered valued tools for teaching non-Western narratives of … Continue reading Video Games and the Humanities: A Call for Scholarly Games
Overview The Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo is an administrative body under the Cabinet Office for affairs relating to the … Continue reading Japan’s Imperial Household Agency: The Archives and Mausolea Department Catalog and Image Disclosure System
This is a guest post by Dotno Dashdorj Pount. Dr. Pount graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, find more about … Continue reading PRC Autonomous Region Local Histories: a repository of rare historical materials
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
Introduction In my last few posts, I explored how Python could be used to do some codicological analysis of manuscripts … Continue reading Criticus: A tool to move from transcription to collation
This is an account based on the articles linked throughout and at the end of the article. I thank Kevin … Continue reading The Shang Dynasty Has An Unexpected Ally: AI
In Part One, we explored how digital technology has transformed Silk Road archaeology through the digitization of archaeological sites and … Continue reading The Age of Digital Technology: Silk Road Archaeological Sites and Artefacts (Part 2)
This is an interview by contributing writer, Emma Donington Kiey, with fashion designer Ana Cordoba Crespo, on her involvement with … Continue reading Ainu Fish Skin Robes and 3D Digital Animation for Sustainable Fashion Production: An Interview with Ana Cordoba Crespo
I want to start with some general questions that many Digital Orientalist contributors will have asked themselves privately or in … Continue reading Low Tech, High Reward? A Report on the Workshop “Making the Most of Digital Humanities for Tibetan Studies”
In my previous post (Part 1: here), I presented some preliminary tests of chatting in Classical Syriac with Google Bard (/Gemini) … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence for Syriac on Google Bard (/Gemini) – Preliminary Tests (Part2)