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.
Introduction Known for his speed of transcribing, Maʿrūf Baghdādī was one of the most prominent calligraphers of 14th– and 15th-century … Continue reading A Digitised Manuscript Associated with Maʿrūf Baghdādī
This is a guest post by Eric H. C. Chow and Ryan Iu. For more information, see at the end … Continue reading Digital Humanities Approaches to Navigating the Early Colonial Hong Kong History
This is a guest post by Anna Batzeli. This post introduces the Archives Portal Europe, an online archival repository which … Continue reading Archives Portal Europe: an invaluable tool for digital archival research
This is a guest post by Wei-chieh Tsai. See information at the end of this post. Between 1928 and 1943, … Continue reading A Glimpse of Ethnic Borderlands of Modern China through the Lens of Early Chinese Ethnologists
In recent years, visual studies have gained significance in digital humanities due to advancements in processing visual materials at scale, … Continue reading Object Detection in Visual Studies: Computer-Asssisted Comparison of Chinese Papercut Patterns
When I joined the Digital Orientalist, I did so motivated by the desire to share with colleagues in Chinese studies … Continue reading Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography. Yes, again!
The Himalayan region has consistently been the subject of various external imaginations. For example, since the publication of James Hilton’s … Continue reading Vlogging as a Multimodal Way of Knowing and Acting: Some Reflections from the Trans-Himalayan Context
This post will take a break from writing about using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room, the topic I covered … Continue reading Using Python to Analyze Greek New Testament Manuscripts
When AI image generator services were opened to the public on the vast web in 2021, they quickly became viral … Continue reading AI, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks: Friends or Foes in the Historical Investigation?
The kingdom of Benin, in what is now central Nigeria, was a powerful African state from the Middle Ages until … Continue reading Digital Benin: bringing together scattered historic Benin objects