Global China Studies

Digital Humanities spans a broad variety of organizations, approaches, tools, methodologies, and of course disciplines. Here are some helpful guides and articles to get you started.

For the most part, Digital Chinese Humanities is rather new and emerging. DCH examples include the following:

• Classical Historiography for Chinese History from Princeton, the site pulls together materials of interest to anyone doing research in Chinese history (broadly defined) but with a focus on the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing dynasty (1644–1911).

• Digitizing ‘Chinese Englishmen, a digital project that focuses on the creation of “Asian Victorians” in Southeast Asia under British colonialism. It concentrates on the digitization and annotation of the Straits Chinese Magazine, a journal produced by the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• Chinese Civilization Time and Space, "in response of the demands of interdisciplinary research applications, this system aims to construct an integrated GIS-based application infrastructure within the spatial extent of China, in the timeframe of Chinese history, and with the contents of Chinese civilization." (Changes of Names, Borders, Places, etc.)

• The Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty, a DH project from the University of California-Merced, this database displays changing names, cities, administrative history during the Song Dynasy from Sinologist Hope Wright's An Alphabetical List of Geographical Names in Sung China (1958). 

These repositories are open source; you can store, preserve, and manage your digital resources.