ERC Proof of Concept: HistText
When: September 17, 2024 at 1:30 PMWhere Salle de Colloque 1 We are thrilled to invite you to the kickoff meeting of HistText, a groundbreaking tool that promises to transform the landscape of historical...
Elites, Networks and Power in modern China Blog
Bridging History and Technology: ENP-China in Film
When: 16 September at 3:00 pm Where: Le Cube (Plateau) What: Projection of the ENP-China DocuStory In an era where big data and computational humanities are transforming academic research, the ENP-China project stands out...
Charting the D-SEA in Berlin
The ENP-China team has just returned from the 3-day workshop and 2-day conference, “Charting the European D-SEA (Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies),” organized by the Max Planck Institute and the Berlin State Library....
Reflecting on Rethinking Modern Chinese Elites: A Brief Overview
From June 10 to 12, 2024, scholars and researchers from Europe, United States, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong convened at Aix-Marseille University for an international conference titled “Rethinking Modern Chinese Elites: From Print to...
International conference: Rethinking Modern Chinese Elites
Rethinking Modern Chinese Elites – From Print to Computational Methods: Sources, Languages, and Interdisciplinarity The ERC ENP-China Project [https://www.enpchina.eu/] is hosting a three-day international conference from June 10-12, 2024, bringing together over 30 researchers...
Nineteenth-Century Global Cities and Urban Worlds: An International Symposium
The ENP-China Project (IrAsia) and TELEMME are co-sponsoring the international symposium of the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies is a geographically and disciplinarily diverse network of scholars who...
ENP-China in China
Lu Yijun, a doctoral candidate at Shanghai Normal University, just published a nice presentation of the ENP-China project in China. His paper is based on his experience as a doctoral intern in the project...
The state of Digital Humanities Platforms in Taiwan. The case of DocuSky
Maison de la Recherche – Salle 2.41 – 13h30 Prof. Hu Chi-jui stands out for significant contributions to the field of history and digital humanities, with a deep focus on modern Chinese history and...
ENP-Corpus Creator: From PDFs to Data
Introduction In the digital age, the field of history is undergoing a transformative shift, with an increasing reliance on digital archives and tools to conduct research and analysis. Recognizing the unique needs of historians...
Chinese Historical Databases: Sources, Methods, Prospects
On 11-12 January 2024, the Lee-Campbell Research Group at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) convened an impressive array of scholars from mainland China, Japan, Hong Kong, and Europe to deliberate on...
“Taming the Digital Dragon” at Peking University
On 9 January 2024, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Peking University hosted Christian Henriot for a conference on “Taming the Digital Dragon. Textbases, Datafication, and the Study of Modern China” to present the...
Guest lecture at University of Antwerp, “Pushing Beyond the Numbers: Researching Chinese students in Belgium (1900-1950) with Digital Aided Methods”
At the invitation of Eline Ceulemans, I gave an online lecture to bachelor students of history at the University of Antwerp on November 21, 2023. The presentation introduced the usage of data and digital...
Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China (BDOC)
The Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China (BDOC) seeks to address a significant lacuna in the scholarship surrounding the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945). Remarkably, there exists no dedicated biographical dictionary on this subject in...
Rethinking Study Abroad in Modern China: Final Program (12 October)
The final program of the international workshop “Rethinking the study abroad movement and its impact on modern China” is now available! Presentation From the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, over 200,000 young Chinese went...
Keynote speech @ Digital China
The Asian Dynamics Initiative at the University of Copenhagen is organizing a symposium « Being digital in China » on 25-26 September 2023. Christian HENRIOT will deliver a keynote speech entitled « From Archives to Algorithms: A...
Beyond Digital Humanities
The Digital Humanities, an expression initially coined as a book title in 2006, has evolved into a multidimensional field with broad appeal but with little epistemological foundation. In ‘Beyond Digital Humanities: Thinking Computationally. A...
