Knowledge Commons | Digital Humanities East Asia | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/east-asia-dh/ Activity feed for the group, Digital Humanities East Asia. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:57:48 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4d583d10a511369cb4f5f9bea1b3e799 Johann-Mattis List deposited First Steps Towards the Integration of Resources on Historical Glossing Traditions in the History of Chinese: A Collection of Standardized Fǎnqiè Spellings from the Guǎngyùn in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880428/ Sat, 23 Mar 2024 03:00:25 -0400 Due to the peculiar nature of the Chinese writing system, it is difficult to assess the pronunciation of historical varieties of Chinese. In order to reconstruct ancient pronunciations, historical glossing practices play a crucial role. However, although studied thoroughly by numerous scholars, most research has been carried out in a qualitative…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a5db5b4161ec7e80397139bb795f246 Steve McCarty deposited Discovering Japanese Fusion of Religions on the Pilgrimage Island of Shikoku in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878833/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:00:59 -0500 This chapter traces the eventful biography of Steve McCarty vis-à-vis Japan. The story spans decades from graduate school specializing in Japan to discovering an astonishing syncretism of Asian religions. Along the way, the author gained a Japanese family and became a rare foreign full professor in 1993. Anecdotes vividly portray daily life,…[Read more]

]]> 0 323048337af10d79be1e92db3ab8f458 Johann-Mattis List deposited Finding Language-Internal Cognates in Old Chinese in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876945/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 03:01:18 -0500 The investigation of language-internal cognates and word families in Chinese plays a central role in enhancing our understanding of Old Chinese phonology and morphology, as well as constituting a key element for fostering our knowledge of the history of Sino-Tibetan languages. Here we provide an overview of common challenges encountered when…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf8883a8f42581315ba37fd33140ebf3 Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874111/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:00:12 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 8fbab2a8006bcf25e18aef0aa97e1629 Steve McCarty deposited Translation Issues in the Rapid Transmission of Esoteric Buddhism from India to China to Japan in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851261/ Fri, 07 Jul 2023 02:23:42 -0400 Three consecutive patriarchs of Esoteric Buddhism were Amoghavajra of India, Huiguo of China, and Kūkai of Japan. This paper foregrounds the usually taken-for-granted but vital historical role of language education and translation in the international spread of religion and culture. There had to be sufficiently educated bilingual or multilingual…[Read more]

]]> 0 89d9725f668794812e9f9023a1c4c539 Valiur Rahaman deposited Big Data Analytics in Cognitive Social Media and Literary Texts in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843417/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:32:41 -0400 Highlights recent research on the cognitive-social media and big data analytics Presents transdisciplinary research on big data analytics Provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and praxis of big data analytics

]]> 0 a62c7c0f7059ecf55816fed38a83c18c 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 https://hcommons.org/groups/east-asia-dh/forum/topic/new-dataset-%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e4%bd%9b%e5%ad%b8%e6%9b%b8%e5%b1%80%e4%bd%9b%e5%ad%b8%e5%9c%96%e6%9b%b8%e7%9b%ae%e9%8c%84-1938/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:20:46 -0500 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]

]]> 5173f4c58f5952673a0aa5b67b91bb51 Gwyn McClelland deposited Digitalising Trauma's Fractures: Nagasaki Museums, Objects, Witnesses and Virtuality in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833570/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 02:32:48 -0500 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]

]]> 0 c40a301100542e9dee8d30c87c69251b Johann-Mattis List deposited Computer-Assisted Approaches to Rule-Based Phonological Reconstruction in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831821/ Mon, 30 Jan 2023 02:24:40 -0500 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]

]]> 0 be4a0e23be91b32b9c76a598374a89f7 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783959/ Tue, 14 Jun 2022 02:23:41 -0400 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]

]]> 0 a6dce2bb2cfc426d34379724da7b2ab0 Steve McCarty deposited Podcasting Reconsidered in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775385/ Tue, 22 Mar 2022 02:24:46 -0400 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]

]]> 0 ec29928d7d6bafd5e1ea5f9ee4bb3ca3 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1751731/ Mon, 13 Sep 2021 02:23:40 -0400 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]

]]> 0 1765b00c024ee4c5500db73718e742f5 Joe Yizhou Xu deposited The postmodern aesthetic of Chinese online comment cultures in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1731292/ Sun, 14 Mar 2021 03:23:54 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6fc7036be6ea070032f6587073fa7405 Joe Yizhou Xu deposited Programmatic Dreams: Technographic Inquiry into Censorship of Chinese Chatbots in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1730884/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 02:35:26 -0500 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]

]]> 0 9335361b4f3e7f533111f6164658b500 Geraldine Castel started the topic Inspire DH Video competition : Share your work and maybe win a tablet ! in the discussion East Asia DH https://hcommons.org/groups/east-asia-dh/forum/topic/inspire-dh-video-competition-share-your-work-and-maybe-win-a-tablet/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:10:49 -0500 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]

]]> e8f6a65de9b1fdffdc6346745b4e0489 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725941/ Tue, 02 Feb 2021 02:25:22 -0500 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]

]]> 0 459cf73f739df9df0250d1f4abf3ec93 Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Submissions: Digital Activism In and Outside the Classroom in the discussion East Asia DH https://hcommons.org/groups/east-asia-dh/forum/topic/call-for-submissions-digital-activism-in-and-outside-the-classroom-3/ Wed, 27 Jan 2021 06:12:58 -0500 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]

]]> adacde16fe8082799f47c273edaeb48a Johann-Mattis List deposited Chances and Challenges for Quantitative Approaches in Chinese Historical Phonology in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1724952/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 02:24:07 -0500 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]

]]> 0 4ee408092bb70f5e2444155b183d1156 Johann-Mattis List deposited Benefits of reflex prediction. A case study of Western Kho-Bwa in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717893/ Tue, 24 Nov 2020 02:23:40 -0500 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]

]]> 0 319576628b579cf55a22fff8fadf364f Steve McCarty deposited A Lecture on Japanese Prehistory and Mythology with Professor Steve McCarty in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691088/ Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:25:37 -0400 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]

]]> 0 5b4ed759fa2f5a30b658fe92b78cbd68 Johann-Mattis List deposited The multiple benefits of making predictions in linguistics in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1689389/ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 16:25:43 -0400 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.

]]> 0 8d1af3bbac7a163f06936fbcfd058a00 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683359/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:25:25 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d777f796d245fd95ae3ea3136778884d Marcus Bingenheimer deposited Who was “Central” in the History of Chinese Buddhism? : A Social Network Approach in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683357/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:25:22 -0400 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]

]]> 0 179aeeea582a6d6326841ea5986aa7b5 Johann-Mattis List deposited Towards a sustainable handling of interlinear-glossed text in language documentation in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1681274/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:25:41 -0400 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]

]]> 0 aba2d0dbe6b11303fe1d45ce3d72e81d Johann-Mattis List deposited Improving data handling and analysis in the study of rhyme patterns in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1679407/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:30:57 -0500 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]

]]> 0 2b47c3e30c4eafc67914940abf321c9a 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1675734/ Sun, 19 Jan 2020 03:49:32 -0500 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]

]]> 0 fc268f5ea616824a403b48761f43188d Johann-Mattis List deposited Towards a sustainable handling of inter-linear-glossed text in language documentation in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670913/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:26:59 -0500 Efforts on language documentation have been increasing in the past. While the amount of digital data of the world's languages is increasing, only a small amount of the data is sustainable, since data reuse is often exacerbated by idiosyncratic formats and a negligence of standards that could help to increase the comparability of linguistic data.…[Read more]

]]> 0 cba9eda92c8c268f3452b0a03395384e Johann-Mattis List deposited Annual contributions to the Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks III in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670902/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:25:42 -0500 This is a summary of 12 contributions made by me for the blog "The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks" in 2018. The contributions are shared in form of a PDF document with a table of contents that allows for a quick search of the contributions and offers also the direct links to the blog.

]]> 0 bd021e7f3b938ec13890c8c4e90a23c7 Molly Des Jardin started the topic "Digital Humanities For East Asian Studies" workshop, June 1-4 2020 @ Penn in the discussion East Asia DH https://hcommons.org/groups/east-asia-dh/forum/topic/digital-humanities-for-east-asian-studies-workshop-june-1-4-2020-penn/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:30:45 -0500 I'm pleased to announce that Paul Vierthaler of William & Mary and Molly Des Jardin of the Penn Libraries will be co-teaching a new workshop this year at University of Pennsylvania's Dream Lab event, June 1-4, 2020, in Philadelphia PA: "Digital Humanities for East Asian Studies." While there are always a lot of interesting workshops and events in…[Read more]

]]> 9a7cb2ea1e655db28fc20b1db51b26fc Johann-Mattis List deposited Automated methods for the investigation of language contact, with a focus on lexical borrowing in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1661417/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:27:40 -0400 While language contact has so far been predominantly studied on the basis of detailed case studies, the emergence of methods for phylogenetic reconstruction and automated word comparison – as a result of the recent quantitative turn in historical linguistics – has also resulted in new proposals to study language contact situations by means of aut…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7ec0e45d0479a7b82da6c7aebfcbedf Steve McCarty deposited Humanist series Gleanings from Pacific Asia in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1661223/ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 16:25:21 -0400 Invited contributions to the Humanist Discussion Group, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, a 2019 compilation of the 1997-1998 series, with outdated information omitted: 1) [Introduction to] gleanings from Pacific Asia, 2) Academic Websites subject to Attribution Ethics, 3) Korea-Japan-U.S. Website copying case closed,…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e0af557356f906a45eb438da6811e24 Talichuba Walling deposited The First Major Challenge against the British Colonialism by the Nagas: 1879-1880 in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1661189/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:32:15 -0400 The Nagas since time immemorial were never under any foreign powers. They lived in a state of nature where any principality that ever encompassed them was rudimentary, unscathed and the purest that nature could provide them. Their primordial worlds had endured for generations until the modern century without being bothered and unaware of what was…[Read more]

]]> 0 600291a89611e5078aeb166e6bf5b995 Johann-Mattis List deposited Pragmatics of Language Evolution in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660622/ Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:25:35 -0400 The fact that “all languages evolve, as long as they exist” (Schleicher 1863: 18f) has been long known to linguists and does not surprise us anymore. The reasons why all language change constantly, however, is still not fully understood. What we know, however, is that language usage must be at the core of language evolution. It is the dynamics amo…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a8911101b6a2e727b73cd9de5dc18ab Steve McCarty deposited Cultural identity tweetstorm and cosplay photos from Japan in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660190/ Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:25:21 -0400 A Twitter Moment on August 12, 2017 distilled the author's views on “Bilingualism and Cultural Identity.” Then the tweetstorm was shared on Facebook with the author's photos added, following up on the aspect of tourism and the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, focusing especially on cosplay (costume play).

]]> 0 9e3922f5052b94d37f07a9b479668182 Steve McCarty deposited 『バイリンガルの世界』 [World of the Bilingual] in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659982/ Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:37:30 -0400 Bilingual introduction to a collection of research papers in Japanese on bilingualism in Japan, between Japanese and English, involving children and adults, investigating the bilingual development of native speakers of Japanese as well as of English.

]]> 0 6692d369dfa24ee6c3dcd356ecd82570 Johann-Mattis List deposited Save the trees in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659175/ Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:25:45 -0400 Skepticism regarding the tree model has a long tradition in historical linguistics. Although scholars have emphasized that the tree model and its long-standing counterpart, the wave theory, are not necessarily incompatible, the opinion that family trees are unrealistic and should be completely abandoned in the field of historical linguistics has…[Read more]

]]> 0 76dbe3dfa5acfa567ad4ed93afab20d4 Steve McCarty deposited Shikoku Bilingual Guidebook 『ようこそ四国へ　英和ガイドブック』 in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1658992/ Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:25:28 -0400 This published Japanese-English guidebook to the island of Shikoku, emphasizing its culture and history, has been available by permission on the Web in French, Spanish, and Dutch at European Websites, as well as this English-Japanese version since 1997. Most of the chapters are bilingual, with English and Japanese alternating for those studying…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf65e0c2292470a1cd32ec26c94e7542 Steve McCarty deposited Kagawa: A Guide to Sanuki, Gateway to Shikoku in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1658179/ Sat, 20 Jul 2019 16:25:22 -0400 A cultural, historical, and practical guidebook to Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku across the narrow Seto Inland Sea from the main island of Japan. Formerly the province of Sanuki, a compact area with convenient train lines, it has great potential for tourism. An active region culturally for more than 2,000 years, it was the birthplace…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ff6a94d2b651595161dd786e8f0c196 Johann-Mattis List deposited Annual contributions to the Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks II in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1658010/ Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:26:30 -0400 This is a summary of 12 contributions made by me for the blog "The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks" in 2017. The contributions are shared in form of a PDF document with a table of contents that allows for a quick search of the contributions and offers also the direct links to the blog.

]]> 0 0045c9f364be73162512dc62756765ef Johann-Mattis List deposited Annual contributions to the Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks I in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1658005/ Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:25:46 -0400 This is a summary of 12 contributions made by me for the blog "The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks" in 2016. The contributions are shared in form of a PDF document with a table of contents that allows for a quick search of the contributions and offers also the direct links to the blog.

]]> 0 19406170adcf141c3b8783b9812a73fa Steve McCarty deposited Video Production for Community Outreach in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657293/ Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:25:21 -0400 The presentation suggests how faculty members in the East Asian context can contribute to the local community as well as to their university through online video production. One experiment with the technology of videoblogging, while abroad with students in New Zealand, back to a campus blog in Japan through the Internet, which the presenter termed…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d2495c392421594398f318a35e31d0f Johann-Mattis List deposited Open problems in computational diversity linguistics in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643916/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:27:30 -0400 Despite a period of almost two decades in which quantitative approaches in historical linguistics have been increasingly used, gaining constantly more popularity even among predominantly qualitatively oriented linguists, we find many problems in the field of computational historical linguistics, which have only sporadically been addressed. In the…[Read more]

]]> 0 12671e97cf92de6141b89efacc93e828 Steve McCarty deposited Fatalism and Pathos in a Bunraku Puppet Play in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643548/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 16:32:02 -0400 Short audio to download, introduces Keisei Awa no Naruto, a Bunraku puppet play, followed by discussion questions for educational use. This 18th Century Chikamatsu play plumbs the depths of pathos with Sophoclean fatalism, leaving the listener wondering, among other things, why such a drama of 'mono no aware' is still performed as a puppet play.…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6f4f49e82e9a14925153f416c20bc6f Johann-Mattis List deposited Computer-Assisted Language Comparison. Reconciling classical and computational approaches in computational historical linguistics in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643461/ Sun, 30 Jun 2019 16:25:48 -0400 By comparing the languages of the world, we gain invaluable insights into human prehistory, predating the appearance of written records by thousands of years. The traditional methods for language comparison are based on manual data inspection. With more and more data available, they reach their practical limits. Computer applications, however,…[Read more]

]]> 0 c872dc40aca6ec9af010e614350ef8ec Molly Des Jardin started the topic Help with guide to Japanese Resources for Sinologists! in the discussion East Asia DH https://hcommons.org/groups/east-asia-dh/forum/topic/help-with-guide-to-japanese-resources-for-sinologists/ Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:53:21 -0400 Hi all, I am developing a guide to doing Sinological research in Japanese or in Japan. I hope to include online and offline resources (yes, a lot is still just in print), and also tips and suggestions that are not themselves "resources" (such as personal strategies, methods, blog posts, whatever there is). Can you help? Please contact me directly…[Read more]

]]> faec039486216b23991dd541c62e892a Steve McCarty deposited Falling through the cracks of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643166/ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:25:39 -0400 The author contrasts Japan's unsurpassed cultural preservation with the destruction of irreplaceable treasures of humanity in Afghanistan and Central Asia, showing the limitations of UNESCO and what factors lead to designation or not of World Heritage Sites. This short podcast concludes by theorizing how discrimination against women originated,…[Read more]

]]> 0 29883b54885f469f2a56bf1baac5bed5 Steve McCarty deposited Bilingual Haiku Scroll 和英俳句の掛軸 in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642544/ Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:25:21 -0400 Haiku poems published in Japanese and English periodicals in the 1980s, arranged into the four seasons, now with photos of Kyoto where the author often walks. The bilingual haiku were often composed in Japanese, 5-7-5 syllables, out in nature. Then an English version could either stand alone or complement the Japanese version and provide language…[Read more]

]]> 0 418dd14d1e3f2c747dffa007fbc7e8c0 Steve McCarty deposited Similar Proverbs in English, Japanese, and Chinese in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642332/ Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:28:48 -0400 A multilingual podcast, recorded in August 2005 by native speakers of English, Japanese, and Chinese, found proverbs with a similar meaning in each culture. The author arranged this podcast during a Translation class between Japanese and English with fourth year students at Shinonome University in Matsuyama, on Shikoku island in Western Japan.

]]> 0 288b26e297937eb7228db96cdbdad91c Paula Curtis started the topic Announcing Digital Humanities Japan in the discussion East Asia DH https://hcommons.org/groups/east-asia-dh/forum/topic/announcing-digital-humanities-japan/ Thu, 06 Jun 2019 14:12:15 -0400 Dear all,

The Digital Humanities Japan ( http://dhjapan.org/ ) initiative is pleased to formally announce the launch of our website and its associated content. This includes a mailing list and a resource wiki. Our wiki contains (among other things):

  • Scholars Directory - A submission form where you can list yourself a DH Japan scholar, in…

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]]> 3e9a1d8baa508090d9a14fb06543d6a9 Johann-Mattis List deposited Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan in the group Digital Humanities East Asia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641791/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:41:03 -0400 The Sino-Tibetan language family is one of the world’s largest
and most prominent families, spoken by nearly 1.4 billion people.
Despite the importance of the Sino-Tibetan languages, their pre-history remains controversial, with ongoing debate about when
and where they originated. To shed light on this debate we
develop a database of c…[Read more]

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