NER and the Invisible in Plain Sight
In this blogpost, we want to share our experience about the application of a digital tool during one of our projects, namely the diary written by the local elite Zhang Gang. Context One of...
In this blogpost, we want to share our experience about the application of a digital tool during one of our projects, namely the diary written by the local elite Zhang Gang. Context One of...
“A journey through desert” is a famed expression in French (traversée du désert) to describe when someone is left alone or cast aside in political or professional life. This is what the ENP-China team...
Following the forced eviction from our offices at the Research Building (Maison de la Recherche), we spent a short week in the premises of a friendly research lab that made available to us an...
This is a fairy tale (gone wrong) from the south of France. It does not take place in a castle, but on the Schuman campus of Aix-Marseille University. The plot does not involve a...
Join us for a presentation of the Introducing the Modern China Biographical Database on Tuesday 29 June (3-4 pm Paris time). This is a free online event. Please register with the link above. Speaker:...
Modern China Geospatial Database: the ENP-China project is developing a major resource — MCGD — to facilitate the use of spatial data for late imperial and republican China. It will include shapefiles for administrative...
We are pleased to announce our upcoming ENP-China Webinar. Dr. Guo Weiting will present his new work on the Zhang Gang diary, a most fascinating document by a Wenzhou local elite who kept a...
By Weiting Guo and Nora Van den Bosch A Diary with Digital Tools On February 5, 2021, we presented “The Elites in China: New Approaches, New Methods” at the IrAsia seminar. In our presentation,...
In the previous blog post, we described how we retrieved Chinese biographies by the use of a machine learning-classifier. Since then, we updated the collection with English biographies that are linked to the Chinese...
We are pleased to announce the public release of the Modern China Biographical Database (MCBD) by the ENP-China project (ERC). MCBD is a freely accessible relational database that aims at recording all the historical...
Jeremy Auguste is joining the ENP-China project as a postdoctoral researcher in Natural Language Processing. He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes (LIS) in 2020. Before his PhD,...
topic: The Art of Imagining the Invisible in Modern China speaker: Marc Matten Prof. Matten is a distinguished scholar who holds the chair of sinological studies at Erlangen-Nuremberg University (Institute of languages and cultures...
In the context of my internship at the end of my master curriculum, my objective was to improve the named entities recognition applied to historical texts written in Chinese. The result of this experiment,...
We are pleased to announce the release of our collection of archives from the Department of State on political relations between China and Japan from 1933 to 1944. The collection is accessible in searchable...
speaker: David Serfass David Serfass is an associate professor in Chinese and East Asian history at Inalco (Paris) and a member of IFRAE (French Research Institute for Eastern Asia). He completed his PhD in...