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The Evolution of Digital Humanities in China

Wang, Xiaoguang; Tan, Xu; Li, Huinan

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Title
The Evolution of Digital Humanities in China
Author(s)
  • Wang, Xiaoguang
  • Tan, Xu
  • Li, Huinan
Issue Date
2020
Keyword(s)
  • digital humanities
  • interdisciplinary research
  • digital technologies
Geographic Coverage
China
Abstract
During the last decade in China, digital humanities (DH) has rapidly developed as a research area, attracting widening circles of inquiry and gaining prominence as an internationally recognized emerging discipline. In order to review the history and current status of DH scholarship in China, the research team conducted historical analysis and bibliometrics to reveal the conception and development of DH in China. The research findings indicate that the history of the evolution of DH in China may best be divided into two stages. In the preliminary period, DH had just been introduced into China, and emphasis was placed on the exploration of its connotation. Once the concept had been explored and research about DH had been widely accepted, DH in China gradually entered into the phase of rapid development, in which China witnessed a wide variety of DH inquiries and applications in the field of library and information science, linguistics, history, literature, art, cultural heritage preservation, and so on. DH in China is facing opportunities as well as challenges with regard to digital practice, such as DH infrastructure, interdisciplinary research, and DH education. As an essential part of DH communities in China, libraries are playing an important role in resource construction, space sharing, and training services, which may provide strong support to deal with opportunities and challenges in the future.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 69 (1). Summer 2020
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/109274
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0029
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Library Trends 69 (1) Summer 2020: Digital Humanities and Libraries in China PRIMARY
Library Trends 69 (1) Summer 2020: Digital Humanities and Libraries in China. Edited by Lian Ruan and Xingye Du