2018年美国亚洲研究年会 | 数字人文研究专题

Data Past, Data Present: Chinese Narratives Of/as Information History

3/23/2018

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Location: Washington Room 2, Exhibit Level

Sponsored By The Center for Humanities and Information, Penn State University

From the digitization of collections, to the development of computational tools for document markup and statistical analysis, new forms of data-centered research are expanding the ways in which scholars engage with texts. Crucial to the rise of the so-called digital humanities is the task of datafication—the extraction of morselized information from a document and its aggregation into larger sets—a process that underlies empirical analysis and visual summary, producing not only new historical and literary knowledge but even new ways of knowing altogether. This panel seeks to both showcase and historicize data in China studies in order to explore the intersections between the datafication of the past and the past of datafication: What can late imperial bureaucratic conventions of embedding citational data tell us about the formal tensions between linear narrative and nonlinear dataframe (Wang)? When did textual datafication become a historiographic tool, and how did it produce accounts of its own technologies and impulses (Detwyler)? What is the more recent history of computational humanities in China, and what are its connections to—and differences with—the rise of digital humanities in the West (Chen)? How can digitized corpora help us identify patterns in premodern textual practices of citation—itself a latent form of data management in Chinese writing (Sturgeon)? Ranging from the pre-Qin to the present, these diverse case studies collectively provide an opportunity to critically locate data as a subject and method within the study of Chinese history.

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM A Digital Study of Citation Practice in Pre-Modern Chinese Literature

• 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM A Prehistory of Digital Humanities in China

• 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Big Data in Modern China: On Liang Qichao's Invention of "Historical Statistics"

• 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Narrative as Dataframe: A Structural Analysis of State Communication in Late Imperial China

Digital Methods for Traditional Chinese Literary Studies

3/24/2018

8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Location: Delaware Suite B, Lobby Level

Recent advances in the field of digital humanities applied to Chinese literary studies have led to the creation of new methodologies designed to exploit the full potential of digital source materials and computational technologies. The papers to be presented in this panel have been specifically selected to highlight four different digital sinological methodologies, each centered upon a new digital corpus developed by the presenter. Drawn from articles to be included in a forthcoming special edition of the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, this panel will demonstrate the benefits of a variety of computational methods in the analysis of premodern Chinese literary practices. Jeffrey Tharsen’s paper is centered upon comparative linguistic and phonorhetorical analyses and visualizations of parallel passages in the early Chinese works Zuozhuan and Guoyu. Evan Nicoll-Johnson’s paper demonstrates how network analyses can provide a more in-depth picture of reading practices and the circulation of books and documents during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Mariana Zorkina’s paper is focused on a corpus-linguistics analysis of specific clichés and their use throughout Tang literature. Wang Zhaopeng will present his five-year statistical study of the geographical distribution and displacement of Tang-Song poets, based on text mining of commentaries and secondary sources. We are particularly grateful to Cai Zong-Qi, one of the world’s foremost experts in premodern Chinese literary analysis, and Liu Chao-Lin, one of sinology’s most renowned digital humanists, for agreeing to serve as discussants for this panel.

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Comparative Phonorhetorical Analyses of Early Chinese Literary-Historical Texts: Visualizing Parallel Passages in the Zuozhuan and the Guoyu

• 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Discovering the Obvious in Tang Dynasty "Poems on Things": Extraction of Patterns and Clichés

• 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Spatial Distribution and Displacement of the Poetic Landscape in the Tang-Song Period: A Data Analysis Based on "A Chronological Map of Tang-Song Literature"

• 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Supplementing the Records and Anecdotes: Textual Networks in Early Medieval Historiographic Annotations

Bodies and Structures: Deep-Mapping the Spaces of Japanese History

3/24/2018

10:45 AM - 12:45 PM

Location: Thurgood Marshall North, Mezzanine

We propose to present the first modules of our new collaborative digital project, “Bodies and Structures: Deep-Mapping the Spaces of Japanese History.”  Rather than take spatial constructs such as “Japan” for granted, “Bodies and Structures” starts from the premise that space and place are multi-vocal and multi-layered, constructed through relationships across multiple scales, and constantly changing. Focusing on the early to mid-twentieth century, our first modules tell spatial stories about colonial political activists, interethnic intimacies and migration, department stores and empire, the transformative potential of the modern drugstore, and the photographic eye of an American army dentist in occupied Okinawa. Users can explore concepts, events, objects, and people along pathways within the same module and as they intersect across modules. Together, the modules show the historical and contested nature of place, borders, and networks of circulation and consumption in the Asia-Pacific region. Ultimately, users will be able to contribute their own sources and plot their own itineraries across the materials, becoming active creators of spatial narratives. “Bodies and Structures” thus offers a useful pedagogical resource for undergraduate instruction and an environment in which new intellectual connections will be drawn and projects conceived.

We will use an innovative panel format. After the panelists briefly introduce the overall project and their individual contributions, audience members will have 45 minutes for hands-on exploration and to provide feedback to the creators.  We will conclude with a 30-minute open discussion of the project’s potential for reshaping the research and teaching of Japanese history.

Presentations:

• 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM Border Controls, Migrant Networks, and People Out of Place between Japan and China

• 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM Cai Peihuo's Inner Territory

• 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM Placing Mitsukoshi through Its Journals of War and Peace

• 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM The Contested Space of a Japanese Drugstore

• 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM The Gail Project: Okinawan History and Memory through Digital Collaboration

The Future of Digital Japanese Studies: NCC’s Evolving Role as a Catalyst for Collaborative Research

3/24/2018

10:45 AM - 12:45 PM

Location: Hoover, Mezzanine Level

Sponsored By Japan-US Friendship Commission

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC), this interdisciplinary roundtable will explore the opportunities and challenges involved in providing the diverse types of digital resources that are currently becoming available to Japan scholars. Participants will discuss the increasing primacy of digitalscholarship throughout Japanese studies and examine NCC’s future role as a catalyst in collaborative efforts to make Japanese resources and digital scholarship broadly accessible. Since 1991, NCC has worked across institutions and disciplines, developing cooperative collections, advocating for access to digital databases, and forging partnerships among faculty, librarians, and technical specialists to nurture new expertise. This roundtable brings together scholars and librarians who are actively engaged in collaborative digital scholarship and services and who are working with NCC to chart new directions in developing and making digital services available globally in years to come.

Robert Campbell, Director-General at the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) in Tokyo, will present on the digital projects NIJL is currently spearheading in collaboration with domestic and overseas research universities, including “Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts.” Thomas Conlan, Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University, will introduce his website and ongoing multimedia projects, where he is developing a shared knowledge base through digital collaboration. Robin Le Blanc, Professor of Government at Washington and Lee University, will examine NCC’s IUP (Image Use Protocol) and discuss the new challenges involved in developing a protocol for the moving image. Toshie Marra, Japanese Collection Librarian at UC Berkeley, will describe Berkeley’s ongoing collaborative digitization projects with Japanese libraries, and Regan Murphy Kao, Curator of the East Asia Library Special Collections at Stanford University, will discuss the various digital initiatives that Stanford Libraries is pursuing and their possible applications for scholars in Japanese Studies.

This interactive roundtable will be moderated to encourage lively discussion amongst the panelists, as well as active participation from the audience.

Digital Technologies in Asian Studies Working Group

Saturday, March 24

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Location: McKinley, Mezzanine Level

The rise of digital tools as an increasingly important methodology for humanistic scholarship has made it imperative on all generations of scholars to become 1) familiar with the extent and scope of new resources, tools and research directions and 2) to engage in robust critical reflection on how these new lenses change our view. At this year’s AAS in Washington, we will host a roundtable on Digital Humanities to discuss the best forum within the AAS conference for sharing research, training each other in new tools, and reflecting on new directions. We will form a working group to help facilitate these events at future conferences, and a plan for future activities at the conference. Please join us to help shape the direction of DH at AAS.

Digital Humanities and New Directions in Studying East Asian Art and Architecture

3/24/2018

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Roosevelt Room 1, Exhibit Level

This panel presents four original digital humanities projects that enhance learning, researching, and exhibiting Asian art and architecture for the first time. In addition to seeking international and interdisciplinary collaborations with other scholars, each panelist employs digital technologies and methods, including automated computation, 3D scanning and modeling, and virtual reality, to reimagine the built environment.

Li uses a formal tool in architecture and design called “shape grammar” to define portions of the Yingzao fashi, a Song dynasty (960-1279) court architectural manual central to the modern study of traditional Chinese architecture, as algorithms. Zhang will introduce a digital research database of historical buildings in China. His presentation considers new analytical technologies, challenges in terms of scholarly productivity, and ethical and security issues tied to digital databases. Morita will reassess the International Dunhuang Project as a Digital Humanities tool and introduce its potential for reconstructing art and archaeological sites by utilizing recent achievements in North America. Lastly, Harrer will focus on the visual recovery project of the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) and evaluate its potential for advancement in preservation theory against the exclusive appreciation of the “age value”.

The panel is followed by a discussion led by two discussants. Nagakura, an architect and director of computation group with MIT Architecture, will comment on the technology aspects of these projects. Miller will discuss these projects from an art historical perspective and explore new directions in East Asian art and architectural history with the increasing availability of digital tools.

Presentations:

• 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Alois Riegl and the Old Summer Palace in Beijing: Re-Contextualizing Digital Visualization Theory and Practice in the Cult of Age Value

• 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM An Algorithmic Approach to the Yingzao Fashi

• 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM The "Library Cave" in the Era of Digital Humanities: The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) and Its Contributions to Art and Archaeological Reconstruction

• 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Turning Historical Buildings into a Digital Research Database: Technology, Methodology and Challenges

“New” Media Technologies and Literary Worlding in Contemporary China

3/24/2018

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Maryland Suite B, Lobby Level

Sponsored By Internet Literature Colloqium at Peking University, China

This panel investigates the intersection between new media technologies and the making of literary worlds in post-socialist China (1978-present), pivoting on two complementary lines of thinking. Firstly, how do ideas and forms associated with or generated by media technologies impact narratives and styles of literary representation? Secondly, how do technological artefacts and media systems facilitate certain modes of literary creation, circulation, and consumption?

Drawing on theoretical approaches in media and literary studies, this panel explores how digital media technologies empower Chinese netizens’ creativity within popular literary production. While Shao Yanjun and Xiqing Zheng focus on fans’ deployment of digital technologies to create a participatory literary subculture that circumvents state sponsorship and censorship, Jianqing Chen and Renren Yang canvass the power of media gadgets to forge specific styles of reading and writing. Shao’s historicization of the rise of Chinese web-based fiction suggests a grassroots mode of making world literature via transnational and translingual flows of netizen labor. Zheng positions online platforms as an alternative space for fanfic prosumers to reconstruct forgotten revolutionary memories. Chen explores the impact of scrollable digital screens on the physiognomy of the narrative prose delivered therein. Yang examines a type of celebrity authorship that emerges from the structural homology between the operation of China’s online serialization system and the progression of an action/adventure fantasy. Finally, Heather Inwood will lead a discussion on the role of the digital in so-called “new” media and the much-debated “literariness” of online fiction while opening the floor for audience participation.

Presentations:

• 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM "Networkability" Affords the Spread of Chinese Internet Literature across the Global Village: On the Leverage of Online Literary System in Post-Socialist China

• 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Reducing Indeterminacy in a Risk Society via "Concentric Spiral": Pursuing Tangjia Sanshao as an "Immortal" Storyteller Born Digital

• 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Screening Literary Style: Smaller Screen and the New Physiognomy of Web Literature

• 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Variation on the "Revolution Plus Love" Theme in Fandom

Networking, Sustainability, and Impact Assessment of Interactive Digital Resources in Asian Studies

3/25/2018

10:45 AM - 12:45 PM

Location: Washington Room 3, Exhibit Level

Digital archives and collections are playing an increasingly prominent role in the ongoing support of research and teaching within the field of Asian Studies. This roundtable brings together scholars and experts actively involved in the curation of significant digital collections dealing with Japan, China and South Asia to evaluate the benefits and examine the challenges institutions face in developing and maintaining interactive digital resources in Asian Studies. While digital resources are widely recognized for their growing appeal and the role they plan in preserving and disseminating original materials, the challenges of supporting Asia-related digitalcollections are also considerable. Such issues include copyright concerns and ethical frameworks of providing online access to materials, rapidly changing technologies and platforms, and complexities related to language and audience. Drawing from personal experiences related to the management of existing archives, the roundtable panelists will address the topics of networking, sustainability, and impact assessment related to digitalresources and work to tease out both theoretical issues and practical advice for consideration in the advancement of digital resources development in Asian Studies.