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.
As a Digital Humanities student working with Hindi-language texts, I expected extracting text from a Hindi PDF to be a … Continue reading Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)
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)
In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic … Continue reading Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading AI Ethics and the Humanities: A Perspective from Buddhist Studies
Those of us who use languages written in the Latin alphabet likely don’t think much about how we input text. … Continue reading Chorded Input and the Japanese Language: An Introduction and Invitation
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient
This is a guest post by Aizat Ishembieva. This second installment compares the work of Professor Esther Fihl and her … Continue reading The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 2
I have taught an introductory English-language course to religions in Japan for several years making use of available online resources … Continue reading Online Teaching Resources on Shinto
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
In my first Editor’s Digest, I explored all publications in The Digital Orientalist within Northeast Asian Studies from September 2023 … Continue reading Editor’s Digest October 2025: Northeast Asian Studies