Debating and Developing Digital Humanities in China: New or Old?

Jing Chen; Lik Hang Tsui

Debating and Developing Digital Humanities in China: New or Old?

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Are the digital humanities singular or plural? Kathleen Fitzpatrick asked this question in an earlier volume in this series (Fitzpatrick, “Humanities, Done Digitally,” 12). We would like to raise a similar question but place it in a global context, especially one that considers the diversity of approaches to humanities worldwide.

To be sure, in a global context, no single unified definition of digital humanities (DH) is possible, even if one should desire it. Within this plurality of concepts and practices, the scholarly context in which DH was defined, debated, and developed in the Greater China region is starkly different from where the digital humanities originated. This implies that DH is not a universal paradigm that can be borrowed and applied to China without difficulty.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Global Debates in the Digital Humanities
Editors	Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Paola Ricaurte
Place of Publication	Minneapolis
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press
Chapter	6
Pages	71-86
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4529-6709-7, 978-1-4529-6710-3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5179-1325-0, 978-1-5179-1326-7
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Debating and Developing Digital Humanities in China: New or Old? / Chen, Jing; Tsui, Lik Hang.
Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. ed. / Domenico Fiormonte; Sukanta Chaudhuri; Paola Ricaurte. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. p. 71-86 (Debates in the Digital Humanities).

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