A group for those interested in East Asia and Digital Humanities.
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Gregory Scott started the topic New Dataset: 北京佛學書局佛學圖書目錄 1938 in the discussion
East Asia DH on Humanities Commons 3 weeks ago
Hello all,
I just received a fulltext digitisation of a Buddhist book catalogue published in Beijing in 1938. It has a few thousand titles in it, as well as lists of Buddhist art and objects then being offered for sale. I will use this data in my next project, but in the meantime I’ve made the raw data freely available on Harvard Dataverse for…[Read more]
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Gwyn McClelland deposited Digitalising Trauma’s Fractures: Nagasaki Museums, Objects, Witnesses and Virtuality in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
Within this chapter I evaluate the still unfolding evolution of digital resources in the case of museum and archive practice related to Nagasaki and their suitability in assisting in the task of teaching the difficult history of the atomic bombing. Memorial museums do exist to convince, and to assist the public in recalling public and collective…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Computer-Assisted Approaches to Rule-Based Phonological Reconstruction in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The formalization of sound changes as finite state transducers is implicit already in the Neogrammarians. For at least six decades scholars have recognized the potential of transducers for improving the speed and rigor of research in historical linguists, but almost no historical linguists actually use them. This article identifies the obstacles…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Of Word Families and Language Trees: New and Old Metaphors in Studies on Language History in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 9 months, 1 week ago
For a long time, metaphors have played an important role in depicting language history. In this study, we contrast early metaphors on language history, such as the family tree or the wave model, with recent metaphors that were popularized after the quantitative turn, such as forests of trees or phylogenetic networks. Speculating about metaphors…[Read more]
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Steve McCarty deposited Podcasting Reconsidered in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
Slideshow for a forthcoming invited presentation. ABSTRACT: Podcasting originated as a new form of audio broadcasting, but by 2006, issues of ease of use, proprietary technology, and finances slowed its momentum. Now podcasting is more popular than ever. This presentation therefore traces the author’s initial and current CALL podcasting p…[Read more]
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Steve McCarty deposited Essence of Womanhood in the Fable ‘Ama’: 「海女」の和英翻訳・歴史的研究・解釈 in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
This paper renders the ancient folktale ‘Ama’ (Woman Diver) into English, investigates its origins, and interprets its timeless significance. From a prehistoric oral tradition, it evolved into a temple chronicle and a Noh play. The paper includes a summary in Japanese, and all the references are in Japanese. With a moving story and vivid…[Read more]
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Joe Yizhou Xu deposited The postmodern aesthetic of Chinese online comment cultures in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
The traditional configuration of content on top and comments on the bottom on most websites often dismiss comments as of secondary importance to content. This article looks at how comment culture(s) in China operate outside of the top-bottom dichotomy where comments are increasingly supplanting content as the main form of consumable media. Through…[Read more]
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Joe Yizhou Xu deposited Programmatic Dreams: Technographic Inquiry into Censorship of Chinese Chatbots in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
This project explores the recent censorship of two Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on Tencent’s popular WeChat messaging platform. Specifically, I am advancing a technographic approach in ways that give agency to bots as not just computing units but as interlocutors and informants. I seek to understand these chatbots through their i…[Read more]
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Geraldine Castel started the topic Inspire DH Video competition : Share your work and maybe win a tablet ! in the discussion
East Asia DH on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
For newcomers to the DH field, figuring out what it’s about and its potential for research so as to start off on this path can prove challenging, all the more so when financial and technical resources are scarce. Conversely, for researchers in this area, getting international visibility for small-scale projects in the profusion of current i…[Read more]
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Marcus Bingenheimer deposited On the Use of Historical Social Network Analysis in the Study of Chinese Buddhism: The Case of Dao’an, Huiyuan, and Kumārajīva in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
This paper is part of a larger research project that attempts to apply historical social network
analysis to the study of Chinese Buddhist history. The underlying research questions are
whether social network analysis (SNA) metrics can be gainfully applied to Buddhist history,
and whether network visualizations can enable us to better…[Read more] -
Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Submissions: Digital Activism In and Outside the Classroom in the discussion
East Asia DH on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Call for Papers The Global Digital Humanities Working Group in the Central New York Humanities Corridor seeks graduate students and recent PhDs to participate in a work-in-progress workshop on the theme “Digital Activism in and Outside the Classroom,” to be hosted virtually by the University of Rochester on April 2, 2021. Selected participants wil…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Chances and Challenges for Quantitative Approaches in Chinese Historical Phonology in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
The field of Chinese Historical Phonology is traditionally dealing with a large number of complex and diverse types of data. While the data diversity can be conveniently dealt with in qualitative approaches, computational possibilities that have arisen during the past two decades offer new possibilities and new challenges for the field. In the…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Benefits of reflex prediction. A case study of Western Kho-Bwa in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
While analysing lexical data of Western Kho-Bwa languages of the Sino-Tibetan or Trans-
Himalayan family with the help of a computer-assisted approach for historical language
comparison, we observed gaps in the data where one or more varieties lacked forms for certain
concepts. We employed a new workflow, combining manual and automated steps,…[Read more] -
Steve McCarty deposited A Lecture on Japanese Prehistory and Mythology with Professor Steve McCarty in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
Entry to a Deep in Japan Podcast, during which Steve McCarty elucidates the origins of Japan, the Imperial line, and how people viewed their environment from 30,000 years ago to the golden age of the Heian Period. He tells moving legends to rival Sophocles, culminating in a fusion of many religions in a mountain range viewed as a maṇḍala that cou…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited The multiple benefits of making predictions in linguistics in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
Through an experiment on a Western Kho-Bwa linguistic dataset, Timotheus A. Bodt and Johann-Mattis List provide evidence for the regularity of sound change.
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Marcus Bingenheimer deposited Stylometric Analysis of Chinese Buddhist texts – Do different Chinese translations of the Gaṇḍavyūha reflect stylistic features that are typical for their age? in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
Below we develop a method to determine whether the use of grammatical particles in Chinese Buddhist scriptures is characteristic for the period of their translation. The corpus consists of three different Chinese translations of an early Indian Mahāyāna text from two different periods. We use the results of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to d…[Read more]
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Marcus Bingenheimer deposited Who was “Central” in the History of Chinese Buddhism? : A Social Network Approach in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
Hidden in the Buddhist biographical literature on eminent monks is a large amount of information about who knew whom. It is especially rich for the time between 300 and 1000 CE, when the four major collections of “Biographies of Eminent Monks” (gaoseng zhuan) allow us to date and locate the relationships of individuals to a degree unimaginable for…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Towards a sustainable handling of interlinear-glossed text in language documentation in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
While the amount of digitally available data on the worlds’ languages is steadily increasing, with more and more languages being documented, only a small proportion of the language resources produced are sustainable. Data reuse is often difficult due to idiosyncratic formats and a negligence of standards that could help to increase the…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Improving data handling and analysis in the study of rhyme patterns in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
By reviewing a recent quantitative study of rhyme patterns in Mandarin Chinese, this study shows how data handling and data analysis in the study of rhyme patterns can be improved. Suggestions for improvement include (a) a consistent annotation of rhyme data, which is exhaustive and facilitates data reuse, and (b) emphasizes the importance of…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi deposited “Re-Envisioning Japan” DH project overview – MLA2020 Collaborative Round Table (DH in Japan & Korea Studies: Approaches and Challenges) in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Powerpoint presentation for the MLA2020 collaborative roundtable “Digital Humanities in Japan and Korea: Approaches and Challenges,” organized by the LLC Korean and LLC Japanese since 1900 Forums. This brief introduction to “Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture” was one of seven presentations by…[Read more]
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