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演讲题目：The Pre-History of Chinese Digital Humanities

时间：2022年12月5日上午10:00

会议形式：Zoom线上会议

会议号：922 4304 9244

密码：735054

演讲人：Thomas Mullaney (斯坦福大学历史系教授)

主持人：陈 昊（北京大学科学技术与医学史系副教授）

演讲摘要：Long before the term "Digital Humanities" was born, engineers, linguists, educators, and publishers began to carry out intensive statistical analyses of the Chinese language, as well the creation of robust digital Chinese dictionaries. Beginning in the mid-1800s, scholars began meticulous tabulations of Chinese character frequency, working by hand through immense corpora containing millions of of Chinese characters. Beginning in the 1950s, engineers began work on some of the earliest digital dictionaries for Chinese, an essential ingredient in the era's quest for Chinese-English and Chinese-Russian Machine Translation. In this lecture, Stanford historian Tom Mullaney will sketch out a "pre-history" of Chinese digital humanities, examining how early statistical analyses and digital dictionaries fed into, not only present-day computational text analysis, but also China's recent rise as an IT Juggernaut.

演讲者简介：Thomas Mullaney is a professor of Chinese history of Stanford University, a Guggenheim fellow, and the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress.He received his Ph.D. of History in Columbia University. He is the author or lead editor of six books, includingThe Chinese Typewriter,Your Computer is on Fire, andComing to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China.The Chinese Typewriter: A Historyhas won the Fairbank Prize for East Asian Studies (2018) and the Levenson Prize for Writings in Chinese Studies (2019). The forthcomingThe Chinese Computer—the First Comprehensive History of Chinese-language Computingwill be the first comprehensive study of the history of computing in China. He also leads Stanford University's Digital Humanities Asia Program (DHAsia), a program focused on East, South, Southeast and Inner/Central Asia.