Monthly Archive: March 2021

31/03/2021

Modern China Biographical Database (MCBD)

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...

digital

21/03/2021

Are you a Digital vs. Traditional Scholar?

This short essay has been inspired by my growing dissatisfaction with, if not irritation towards the commonplace dichotomy “traditional vs. digital” history, and my recent reading of Eun Seo Jo’s groundbreaking Ph.D thesis proposing...

Posts

14/03/2021

New team member: Jeremy Auguste

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,...

ENP-China HistText workshop. Conference on “Datafication in the Historical Humanities: Reconsidering Traditional Sources as Data”, Washington, D.C., 2-4 June 2022.

Advisory Board Meeting (2nd). 5 May 2022 – 14:00-17:00 pm.

ENP-China HistText workshop. Bristol University, Bristol, 27 April 2022.

ENP-China Seminar. 7 April – 9:30 am. Lien Ling-ling (Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History). “Creating a new genre: social investigation in the late Qing periodicals”. Check out the Zoom link

ENP-China Seminar. 8 April – 2:00 pm. Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen). “The Place of East Asia in the Contradictory Worlds of History“. Check out the Zoom link

Pre-conference Workshop. Elite networks in China and Taiwan. 7 & 8 March 2022. 9:00- 17:00. Maison de la Recherche 3.43 & Online meeting.

ENP-China Seminar. 24 February – 9:30 am Sun Huei-min (Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History). “Beyond Digital Archives: The Making of the Shareholder Register Database (1930-1937)“. Check out the Zoom link

ENP-China Seminar. 17 February – 9:30 am Christian Henriot. “How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research (Reading seminar)“. Check out the Zoom link

Pre-conference Workshop II. Digital Chinese Studies. 7 February 2022. Online event.

Pre-conference Workshop I. Digital Chinese Studies. 4 February 2022. Online event.

ENP-China Seminar. 18 November 2021 (14h-15h30) Cécile Armand & Nora Van den Bosch. “The Chinese PressScape: Mapping the periodical press in 1930s China“. Check out the Zoom link

ENP-China Seminar. 14 October 2021 (9h30-10h30) Christian Henriot. “1947 Shanghai industrialists. A connected group?“. Check out the Zoom link

ENP-China Seminar. 7 October 2021 (9h30-10h30) Jeremy August. “The HistText library and public interface“. Check out the Zoom link

ENP-China Seminar. 23 September 2021 (9h30-10h30) Baptiste Blouin. “Event detection in digital corpora“. Check out the Zoom link

ENP-China Webinar. 3 September 2021 (10h00-11h45) Wu Jen-shu. Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. “A Social Network Analysis of Agricultural Technocrats in Modern China“.Check out the Zoom link on our blog.

ICAS 12 Conference. 25 August 2021 (22h45-23h45) Christian Henriot &amp. “East Asian Elites After the Collapse of the Japanese Empire I: The case of Taiwan“. 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars [24-28 August 2021] Online/Life event

ICAS 12 Conference. 26 August 2021 (00h00-1h00) Christian Henriot &amp. “East Asian Elites After the Collapse of the Japanese Empire II: Manchuria, Taiwan, and Japan“. 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars [24-28 August 2021] Online/Life event

HNR + ResHist Conference 2021. 1 July 2021 (14h30-15h15) Christian Henriot & Cécile Armand. Aix-Marseille, ENP-China. “From Textual to Historical Networks:
Reconstructing Social Relations
among Chinese Elites from the
Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (BRDC)“. Conference Historical Networks – Réseaux Historiques – Historische Netzwerke [30 June-2 July 2021] Online event

ENP-China Webinar. 18 June 2021 (9h00-9h45) Christian Henriot & Cécile Armand. Aix-Marseille, ENP-China. “MCBD: A Biographical Database for Modern Chinese History“. Rethinking the Datafication of Culture in the Chinese World: An Online Workshop on the Digital Humanities. Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong.Check out the Zoom link on our blog.

ENP-China Webinar. 21 May 2021 (10h00-12h00) Guo Weiting. Aix-Marseille, ENP-China. “The Zhang Gang Diary (1888-1942) through digital lenses: issues, approach, methods“. Check out the Zoom link on our blog.

Entretien 20 April 2021 (17h00-18h30) Christian Henriot. Aix-Marseille University. Les rendez-vous de la philologie numérique (Bulac). “Big data et sources chinoises. Nouvelles perspectives pour l’histoire de la Chine moderne “.

ESSHC 2021. 26 March 2021 (14h30-15h45) Cécile Armand – Christian Henriot. Aix-Marseille University. “Elites in Republican China: The Boorman Dictionary Revisited “.

ENP-China Webinar. 12 February 2021 (14h00-16h00) Marc Matten. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. “The Art of Imagining the Invisible in Modern China“. Check out the Zoom link on our blog.

ENP-China Webinar. 17 December 2020 (9h30-11h30) David Serfass. Inalco/Ifrae. “A Lifetime Perspective on Wartime Collaboration: Compiling the Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China“. Check out the Zoom link on our blog.

ENP-China Webinar. 22 October 2020 (10h-12h) Cécile Armand. ENP-China/IraAsia. “A foreign cub with Chinese flavor: The Rotary Club and the politics of language“. Check out the Zoom link on our blog.

ENP-China Webinar. 22 September 2020 (9h-11h) Thomas Larkin. Bristol University. “Creating and Maintaining Transnational Networks in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong“. Check out the Zoom link on our blog.

ENP-China Conference. 9 April 2020 (14h-16h) Isabella Jackson. Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. “Elite understandings of non-elite childhood in republican China: Changing discourses of slavery and girlhood“. Maison de la Recherche 3.43.

ENP-China Conference. 7 February 2020 (14h-16h) Elisabeth Kaske. Leipzig University. “The First Congress: The 1913 Conference for the Unification of Reading Pronunciations and its Significance for the May Fourth Movement“. Maison de la Recherche 3.43.

ENP-China. Internal Team Workshop. 19-20 December 2019. Taipei, Academia Sinica. Collaborative work and digital methods.

ENP-China. Internal Team Workshop. 5-6 December 2019. Paris, EHESS. Collaborative work and digital methods.

ENP-China Conference. 28 November 2019 (14h-16h) Barbara Mittler. Heidelberg University. “Déjà Vu? Photography as Metaphor— Repurposing Archival Photographs of Mao“. Maison de la Recherche 3.43.

ENP-China Conference. 24 October 2019 (14h-16h) David Serfass. INALCO. “Acteurs et réseaux en Chine occupée : pour une nouvelle approche biographique de la collaboration (1937-1945)” Maison de la Recherche 3.43.

ENP-China Workshop. Elites, Knowledge, and Power. The formation and transformation of elites in modern China. 7-9 October 2019. Maison de la Recherche.

ENP-China Expert Meeting 1. Biographical databases. 27-28 May 2019. Maison de la Recherche

ENP-China Conference. 11 April 2019 (14h-16h) Lin Yi-tang. University of Geneva. “Agents of Knowledge-transfer? A preliminary sketch of the Chinese Rockefeller fellows, 1910s-1950s” Maison de la Recherche 3.43.

Irasia-DEA Conference. 22 March 2019 (14h-16h). Roberta Zavoretti. University of Cologne. “Rural origins, City lives. Making class and place in contemporary China“. Maison de la Recherche 3.43

Gephi Workshop. 21 March 2019 (9h30-17h30). Formation (analyse de réseau) animée par Laurent Beauguitte, CNRS (IDEES – UMR6266). Maison de la Recherche 3.43 – Ouvert à tous sur inscription (enpmuc@gmail.com)

ENP-China Conference. 14 March 2019. Henrike Rudolph. University of Erlangen. “Layers and Lacunae: Reconstructing Chinese Social Networks in Transition, 1940s-1950s“. Maison de la Recherche 3.43 (14h-16h)

Cytoscape Workshop. 11 March 2019 (9h30-17h30). Formation (analyse de réseau) animée par Guillaume Brysbaert, CNRS (Géographie-cités – UMR8504). Bâtiment Egger D112. Ouvert à tous sur inscription (enpmuc@gmail.com)

Data Visualization Workshop. 14-15 February 2019. With guest speaker Benjamin Bach. University of Edinburgh. Maison de la Recherche. For registration and information: enpmuc@gmail.com

Monthly Archive: March 2021

Modern China Biographical Database (MCBD)

Are you a Digital vs. Traditional Scholar?

New team member: Jeremy Auguste

The Project

Events

Categories

Archives

Meta

Calenda

Monthly Archive: March 2021

Modern China Biographical Database (MCBD)

Are you a Digital vs. Traditional Scholar?

New team member: Jeremy Auguste

The Project

Events

Categories

Tags

Archives

Meta

Calenda