September 26, 2023

Newcastle University: Chinese Independent Film Archive launched at Newcastle University

Newcastle University: Chinese Independent Film Archive launched at Newcastle University. “CIFA is believed to be the only archive of its kind in the world. It is home to more than 800 films, mostly documentaries, dating back to the beginning of the 1990s when Chinese independent cinema first emerged, their associated material culture, oral-history interviews with a wide range of stakeholders, among other collections. The archive aims not only to safeguard this significant but marginalised film culture for future generations, but also act as an alternative record of social changes, historical traumas, and the lives of ordinary people in modern and contemporary China.”

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June 13, 2023

Leiden University Libraries: Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections

Leiden University Libraries: Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections. “Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is making its unique collection of this material freely accessible online.”

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May 16, 2023

Library of Congress: Library of Congress Completes Digitization of Yongle Encyclopedia, Largest Reference Work of Pre-Modern Era

Library of Congress: Library of Congress Completes Digitization of Yongle Encyclopedia, Largest Reference Work of Pre-Modern Era. “The Library of Congress has completed a yearslong effort to digitize the Yongle Encyclopedia (Yongle dadian 永樂大典), the largest reference work created in pre-modern China, and possibly the world. Digital publication of the 41 volumes held in the Library’s collections provides open access to one of the most extensive attempts in world history to capture the entirety of human knowledge in book form.”

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March 10, 2023

What’s on Weibo: Chinese Tourism Bureau Chiefs Go Viral for Trying Really, Really Hard to Attract More Post-Covid Domestic Tourists

What’s on Weibo: Chinese Tourism Bureau Chiefs Go Viral for Trying Really, Really Hard to Attract More Post-Covid Domestic Tourists. “Hoping to attract more domestic tourists in the post-Covid-era, Chinese local government officials are trying really hard to promote their hometowns. Various tourism bureau chiefs from across China are going viral on Weibo, Douyin, and beyond for dressing up in traditional outfits and creating original videos with low to zero budget.”

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July 26, 2022

South China Morning Post: A stunning 16th-century Chinese ‘magic mirror’ was found in a US art museum after being tucked away in storage

South China Morning Post: A stunning 16th-century Chinese ‘magic mirror’ was found in a US art museum after being tucked away in storage. “Buddhist magic mirrors, also called ‘transparent’ and ‘light-penetrating’ mirrors, were first made in China during the Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE) and were also a notable artefact from Japan’s Edo period (1603–1867)….When the mirror is held to light from the correct angle, the bronze reflects the light to reveal the secret image, a buddha in the case of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s relic.”

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May 31, 2022

South China Morning Post: China forms grand plan to digitalise and connect the country’s cultural resources into a central database by 2025

South China Morning Post: China forms grand plan to digitalise and connect the country’s cultural resources into a central database by 2025. “China has a grand plan to digitalise and connect the country’s cultural resources, from libraries to television channels, into a massive ‘digital culture infrastructure and platform’ by 2025. According to the newly published national strategy on ‘cultural digitalisation’ by the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council, the country will build a “national culture big data system” by 2035 to allow digitalised cultural products to be ‘shared by all people’.”

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May 10, 2022

Artnet Daily: Yu-Wen Wu Asked Google How to Walk From Boston to Taipei. She Spent the Next 10 Years Turning the Directions Into an Incredible Artwork

Artnet Daily: Yu-Wen Wu Asked Google How to Walk From Boston to Taipei. She Spent the Next 10 Years Turning the Directions Into an Incredible Artwork. “It was an impossible trip—the directions included kayaking across the Pacific ocean for some three months, with a stop in Hawaii. It was also the beginning of an epic art project that would take Wu a decade, transforming the outlandish journey into a 20-foot long collage in the tradition of a Chinese landscape scroll, stored in a traditional wooden box.”

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December 14, 2021

Humanities Database Enhanced by Artificial Intelligence: A cross-disciplinary team creates an online platform for analyzing Chinese magazines (Colby College)

Colby College: Humanities Database Enhanced by Artificial Intelligence: A cross-disciplinary team creates an online platform for analyzing Chinese magazines . “This new digital platform, still in development, will make available hundreds of issues of major state magazines published mostly from 1949 to the present. ‘These [magazines] are actually pretty representative if we want to study China,’ said [Hong] Zhang. They also complement one another for examining the country’s culture and politics in different eras. Included is Nationality Pictorial (民族画报), the only state-run magazine on ethnic minorities that has previously not been digitized beyond its cover.”

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December 13, 2021

China Daily: Book restorers bound to saving the past

China Daily: Book restorers bound to saving the past. “For a decade, Xie Jincheng has been immersed in his duties at the National Library of China in Beijing. When asked how old he was, the 37-year-old had to pause for a few seconds to remember. Each working day, he sits at a desk and focuses on handling ragged yet priceless pieces of paper in front of him. As one of 17 restorers of ancient books at the NLC, he shakes off centuries of old dust to renew the works he deals with.” Extensive.

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August 2, 2021

How to Digitise Scrolls: A Step-by-Step Guide from the Lotus Sutra Project (British Library)

British Library: How to Digitise Scrolls: A Step-by-Step Guide from the Lotus Sutra Project. “These scrolls were procured by the British-Hungarian archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), when he travelled to Dunhuang. He was followed by several other foreign explorers who also took away a large number of manuscripts and other items. By digitising this corpus of texts, we can facilitate access to these historic items and bring them together digitally, after they were scattered around the globe.”

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June 15, 2021

Shine (China): A Silk Road journey from antiquity to today

Shine (China): A Silk Road journey from antiquity to today. “The annual Silk Road Week will run from June 19 to 24 at the China National Silk Museum, offering professionals the opportunity to share their Silk Road stories and the latest research…. On June 18, the museum will launch the Silk Road Online Museum, a digital platform partnering with 40 museums from home and abroad. The digital museum will greatly expand the space for exhibits at the brick-and-mortar museum and build a bridge for sharing collections and hosting online exhibitions.”

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May 22, 2021

China .org: Digitization helps to build online library of historical tomes

China .org: Digitization helps to build online library of historical tomes. “For the 26th World Book and Copyright Day last week, 10 Chinese libraries jointly released the digitized editions of over 1,700 volumes of ancient Chinese books. This is the fourth expansion of the national database of ancient Chinese books since it went online in 2016. The database was launched by the National Center for Preservation and Conservation of Ancient Books, headquartered at the National Library of China in Beijing.”

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