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.
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
2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Civilization (Zhonghua Nongye Wenming Yanjiuyuan 中華農業文明研究院; hereafter, the Academy) … Continue reading Products in Local Chronicles: The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Civilization’s 70-Year Quest for a Treasure Trove
Since its founding in 2013, The Digital Orientalist has grown from a research blog by Cornelis van Lit to an … Continue reading An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for East Asian Studies Reviewed by The Digital Orientalist Members
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
Recent years have witnessed a wave of fascinating research findings in both natural and artificial intelligence. While scholars remain cautious … Continue reading Cognitive Stylometry as an LLM-Based Methodology in Chinese Literary Studies
This entry introduces a platform that utilizes Machine Learning (ML) algorithms from the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to … Continue reading NLP Tools for Sinology: Introducing the WYD Platform
In an earlier post here on The Digital Orientalist, Mariana Zorkina introduced the topic of regular expressions (or in short … Continue reading Some additional thoughts on regular expressions… for text analysis
Part I of this two-part assessment of the Academia Sinica’s bronze inscription research tools examined key features of the ‘Shang … Continue reading Digital Resources for Chinese Bronze Research: The Academia Sinica Collection (Part 2)
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