Webinar – Guo Weiting
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...
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...
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...
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...
The X-Boorman platform presents a digital revival of the Biographical Dictionary of Republican China edited by Howard L. Boorman in 1967-1971 (Columbia University Press). The ENP-China project developed this platform initially as a spin...
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...
We are pleased to announce the release of our collection of Shanghai Municipal Police archives in searchable text format on Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique [Asia Digital Library]. The original collection of microfilms was purchased from...
In 1931, Carl Crow published the first Newspaper Directory of China1. It was the first of a series of four successive editions of what was to become a reference book in professional circles. The...
I recently published a short piece on gongwen 公文 (official documents) in Republican China (1912-1949), as part of a multi-volumes encyclopedia on non-Western historiographies edited by Nathalie Kouamé, Eric P. Meyer and Anne Viguier1....
We are pleased to invite you to the “Habiller la Ville” webinar which will take place on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 from 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. on the theme: “Equiper sans encombrer :...