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This article was written by Contributor for Northeast Asian Studies, Brian Tsz Ho Wong, and Guest Contributor, Curtis Sai Hung … Continue reading The Hong Kong Chinese Merchants Collection: An Introduction and its Potential Applications
This is the first entry in a multi-part series on English-Chinese AI chatbot design experience. More to come. Speaking a … Continue reading When the Machine Listens: How an AI Chatbot is Transforming Chinese Language Learning
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
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading AI Bias-Cancelling for the Interpretation of a Late Qing Dynasty Text
This is the second and final part of a contribution based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual … Continue reading Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 2)
This is the first part of a contribution based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 … Continue reading Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 1)
The database Home In Mists – Oversea edition 白雲深處人家海外站 is an edition based outside of China of a database by … Continue reading The Versatility of the Home in Mists – Oversea Edition
Since the last time I covered Dunhuang-related databases to browse online in 2022, a few things have changed. The International … Continue reading The Dunhuang Culture 敦煌文化 Database
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
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