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.
In the second part of our exploration of the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database 殷墟甲骨文數據庫 (YOD), we’ll continue our … Continue reading Cracking the Oracle Bones: The Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 2)
In 2012, the Smithsonian Institution started its experiment of turning museum collections into 3D models (Terdiman 2022). Ten years later, … Continue reading 3D technology in the Chinese history classroom: Restoring material metadata for primary sources
Introduction: In April, the Zhonghua Book Company (中華書局) launched the (subscription-only) Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database 殷墟甲骨文數據庫 (YOD), containing … Continue reading Cracking the Oracle Bones: the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 1)
Search engine is perhaps one of the most frequently used tools in modern digital life, revealing whatever information that you … Continue reading Refine Your Search Engine Results (for Chinese Language Users)
Shuge 書格 is a free, online database of Chinese rare books, which offers a continuously expanding collection of high-quality scans for … Continue reading Shuge: Visual Materials in a Digitizing World
What is Sinorelic? Sinorelic (华夏古迹图) is a Chinese-language online platform for collecting and sharing data about cultural heritage sites. Developed … Continue reading Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China: An Introduction to “Sinorelic”
Digitizing the Visual Legacies of the North China Transportation Company The North China Railway Archive (華北交通アーカイブ) is an online database … Continue reading Visualizing North China Under Japanese Occupation: Digitized Photos of the North China Railway Archive
The Digital Orientalist 