An Introduction to Digital Humanities for East Asian Studies
When and Where
Speakers
Description
This is a hybrid event.
In-person attendance: EAS Lounge
Zoom Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/YxfmPjPQGF
Workshop host:
Rose Ting-Yi Liu, East Asian Studies, UofT
Bio: Rose is a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on gender archaeology of Early China, women in antiquity, proto-historical material cultural networks, and applications of digital humanities methods in art historical analysis. Her PhD dissertation investigates gender ideology and gender roles of the Shang period through epigraphical and archaeological remains of Queen Fu Hao (c.1200 BCE), as well as elite women’s agency in art production and connoisseurship, and the material cultural network of Late Shang China and beyond. Rose also develops tech tools for her academic community, hosts art therapy sessions at her department, and
her current initiative is bringing DH tools to her EAS peers. Her most recent DH project is a quantitative investigation of recognized women painters in premodern China.
Guest Speakers:
Peichao Qin, East Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University
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Title of Talk: “From Image to Text: Automatic Information Extraction and Processing for 2D Artifact Images via Computer Vision”
Bio: Peichao Qin is a fourth-year PhD student at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES) at University of Cambridge. He holds a B.A. degree at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and M.A. at The University of Edinburgh. His PhD dissertation, supervised by Prof. Roel Sterckx, focuses on the Shang oracle bone collection currently stored on site at Cambridge University Library, which was donated by Lionel Charles Hopkins (1854-1952) in the 50s and includes over 600 unique items. As part of his research to facilitate the study of the archive, Peichao has developed a comprehensive computer font that allows users to type out complex oracle bone characters and a website called "Jingyuan Digital Platform" for searching the glyphs and visualizing the geo and temporal distribution of the oracle bone artifacts. Peichao also has other DH research projects that are related to various tasks such as automatic artifact restoration, image upscale, handwritten OCR using image processing algorithms and Machine Learning models, some of which are launched or in active development.
Dr. Paul A. Vierthaler, East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Title of Talk: “Machine learning and uncovering source material in the late Ming novel Jinpingmei”
Bio: Paul Vierthaler is an assistant professor of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University. He has previously taught Chinese literature at William & Mary and the digital humanities at Leiden University (where he helped establish the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities). His first monograph project tracks how historical information in late imperial China was transmitted and deformed through fiction and unofficial histories (“quasi-histories”) using traditional critical analysis and computational analytics (natural language processing, corpus
linguistics, machine learning, and other data analyses). He is also working on a variety of projects at the intersection of the humanities and machine learning. This includes a second monograph project focused on the late Ming novel Plum in the Golden Vase, and a set of interconnected projects studying Ming/Qing dynasty censorship, editorial practices, and their impact on the creation of large language models.