Heidelberg Research Architecture Digital Humanities in East Asian Studies

• in German: Digital Humanities Werkzeuge für Daten in nicht-lateinischen Schriften, Campusbibliothek der FU Berlin
• Resources and Projects on East Asia. A collaborative table for English-language digital resources and projects on East Asia, coordinated by Paula R. Curtis.

(This section is just a teaser.) It is quite fortunate that digital researchers increasiongly publish their research data in open repositories, like GitHub (and many others). Publishing not "just" academic papers, but also, for example, raw data, data models, and algoriths to analyse them, thereby following the FAIR principles is becoming more of a feature for projects, than a nerdy gimmick. This trend can also be observed in Asian Studies. At the moment, I'm providing only some pointers, I will revise the section after my sabbatical.

• Kanseki Repository 漢籍リポジトリ. Comprehensive collection of premodern Chinese texts. Texts licensed as CC BY-SA 4.0. Website kanripo.org. Behind the scene you find Christian Wittern, who also maintains other repositories, like cjkinfo.
• Historical Social Network of Chinese Buddhism 漢傳佛教歷史社會網絡. Behind the scene you find Marcus Bingenheimer, who also maintains other repositories, and in 2022 announced the Machine translations of the CBETA corpus (H-Buddhism).
• There is also the more general repository Multilingual Digital Humanities. Behind the scene you find Quinn Dombrowski and Hoyeol Kim, both very active in the field of multilingual DH. The organisation also includes NLP resources for Chinese from Quinn Dombrowski's aggregator. (Thanks to Jeffrey R. Tharsen for this hint!)
• There are - of course - many more repos to name, but at the moment I do not have the time to compile a better list. If you have such a list, please share it with us. Or suggest your own repos!
• Other resources are published at different locations, for example, the Chinese Text Project by Don Sturgeon is hosted on a separate server.

Introductions to Digital Humanities in China

• Tsui, Lik Hang. ‘Charting the Emergence of the Digital Humanities in China’. In Chinese Culture in the 21st Century and Its Global Dimensions : Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Chan, Kelly Kar Yue and Chi Sum Garfield Lau, 203–16. Chinese Culture. Singapore: Springer.
• Tsui Lik Hang 徐力恆. ‘Huawen xuejie de shuwei renwen tansuo: yi zhong 「shiqianshi」 de guancha jiaodu’ 華文學界的數位人文探索：一種「史前史」的觀察角度 (Digital Humanities Exploration in Chinese Studies: A ‘Prehistoric’ Perspective). Taibei. Zhongguo wen zhe yanjiu tongxun 中國文哲研究通訊 (Chinese Literature and Philosophy Research Newsletter) 30, no. 2 (1 June 2020): 107–27.
• A somewhat monopolizing perspective from Mainland China on the Taiwan DH development:
  Qiu Weiyun 邱伟云. ‘Woguo Taiwan shuzi renwen yanjiu jincheng (2009-2017)’ 我国台湾数字人文研究进程(2009-2017) (A Review of the Development of Digital Humanities Study in Taiwan （2009-2017）). Tushuguan luntan 图书馆论坛 (Library Tribune) 40, no. 07 (2020): 9–19.

DH in China discussion groups

There are several online discussion groups around. A large one is Digital Sinology Group - @digitalsinologygroup on Facebook. In Taiwan, there is the 數位人文交流平台 Taiwan Digital Humanities Forum @dhtaiwan Facebook group. In Mainland China, some closed Digital Humanities groups (access by invitation only) exist on WeChat, like "数字人文1群 | DH Group1" and "数字人文2群 | DH Group2".
In 2020, an East Asian DH Working Group was launched at Princeton.
A group of students recently (Spring 2022) started the blog Heidelberg East Asian Digital Humanities to inform Chinese readers about recent developments in "the west".

Digital Sinology

Special issues in academics featuring aspects of Digital Chinese Studies

• Special issue "Digital Humanities" (Volume 4 - Special Issue 2 - July 2020) in Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 with self-introductions of ten important digital "Utilities" for digital scholarship in Chinese studies.
• Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics. Sinica venetiana, vol.6, 2021. 

  http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6

• Special issue “Beyond Guanxi: Chinese Historical Networks” (Volume 5, no. 1, 2021) in Journal of Historical Network Research containing 6 long articles, an introduction, and 5 shorter presentations of projects doing research about Chinese Historical Networks.
• Special issue "Digital Methods and Traditional Chinese Literary Studies" (Volume 5, Issue 2, November 2018) in a Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture. (Thanks to Jeffrey R. Tharsen for this hint!)

Research guides and overviews (mostly not specialised in DH)

• in German: Digitale Tools und Datenbanken für die Sinologie, Basis: Lea Schneider, FDM_OAS-Orient, Campusbibliothek der FU Berlin
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library provides a LibGuide called Introduction to Digital Humanities (DH)
• The University of Toronto Libraries maintain a list of resources about East Asian resources including a section on Chinese Studies Resources. 
• Harvard Library offers the Research Guide for Chinese Studies
• A Guide to Chinese Studies - Digital Humanities, Research Guide by Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries
• Back in 2013, Holger Schneider and Jeffrey Tharsen published Digital Resources for Sinologists 1.0, which is still worth reading.
• Nowadays probably more interesting from a historical perspective is Hanno Lecher's Internet Guide for Chinese Studies.

You should also check the events posted via the International China Studies Events Clearing-house or subscribe to their Weekly Digests 週報. (Posts mostly relate to Chinese studies in general, not specifically to DH).

Selected digital platforms

• DocuSky Collaboration Platform, Taiwan National University
• MARCUS text analysis tool MARKUS. Text Analysis and Reading Platform, Leiden University
• China Biographical Database (CBDB), Harvard University, Academia Sinica, and Peking University
• China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS), Harvard University
• Chinese Text Project (ctext)
• Tools for Buddhist Studies, Marcus Bingenheimer
• Global China Studies - Digital Chinese Humanities, NYU Shanghai Library
• Asian Studies: Digital Humanities and Chinese Studies, UC Irvine
• TLS - Thesaurus Linguae Sericae 漢學文典, An Historical and Comparative Encyclopaedia of Chinese Conceptual Schemes, Founding Editor: Christoph Harbsmeier 何莫邪
• A smaller Heidelberg initiative is Early Chinese Periodicals Online (ECPO)

China DH-related blogs

Don Sturgeon sometimes publishes texts on his Digital Sinology blog. He also runs a Facebook site, all related to his Chinese Text Project

Some DH China journals and institutions

This section has been supported by 谢佳 XIE Jia, a Ph.D. student at the HCTS, Heidelberg University.

• 數位典藏與數位人文 - Journal of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities. 臺灣數位人文學會 (Taiwanese Association for Digital Humanities). Papers are accessible via Airiti.
• 数字人文研究 - Digital Humanities Research. 中国人民大学数字人文研究中心 (Research Center for Digital Humanities of the Renmin University of China). The journal has a website where the papers are published with open access. Also has a public WeChat account 数字人文研究.
• 数字人文 - Digital Humanities. Journal hosted at 清华大学 (Tsinghua University). Has a public WeChat account DH数字人文. Papers can be read at

  https://www.dhlib.cn/site/works/dhjournal

• 中央研究院數位文化中心 - Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures
• 中国人民大学数字人文研究中心 - Research Center for Digital Humanities of RUC. 中国人民大学
• 北京大学数字人文研究中心 - Digital Humanities @PKU. 北京大学
• 武汉大学数字人文研究中心 - Center for Digital Humanities Wuhan University. 武汉大学
• 南京大学数字人文创研中心. 南京大学
• Digital Sinology Group. Private Facebook group (2070+ members)
• 數位人文實驗室 - Digital Humanities Virtual Lab. Facebook group: @DHVirtualLab
• 中研院-數位人文學研究室 - Digital Humanity Research Center. Facebook group: @DigitalHumanitiesResearchCenter
• Society for the Study of Chinese Religions. Facebook group: @chinesereligions.

Conferences, summer schools, workshops, etc.

European Summer School in Chinese Digital Humanities: New Foundations in Digital Chinese Studies, 20-23rd Jun 2022, Aix-en-Provence, France, Deadline: 20th Mar 2022. Call for applications
Organizer: Christian Henriot, Aix-Marseille University, IrAsia, ENP-China (ERC); Co-organizers: Hilde De Weerdt (Leiden University), Dagmar Schäfer (Max Planck Institute, Berlin)

Some tools you might like to use

• 兩千年中西曆轉換 Chinese - Western calendar conversion tool, 中央研究院數位文化中心 Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures
• "音通": 聲韻學數據庫 Yīntōng: Chinese Phonological Database
• 《重編國語辭典修訂本》 Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary, 中華民國教育部, Ministry of Education, R.O.C.
• Digital Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese 古漢語詞源字典（網絡版） (Thanks to Jeffrey R. Tharsen for this hint!)