The TEXTCOURT project is launching a Talk Series on Digital Tools for Sinology and Beyond. The goal of this virtual talk series is to bring together various Sinologists and other digital researchers to consider how computational methods can be used to generate new research questions. This series is also meant to provide a platform for scholars across various fields to share their own experience, evaluate the effectiveness and limitations of digitally inflected work, as well as to brainstorm how digital tools may support future research.

This talk series will cover a range of topics including:

• Social Network Analysis
• Electronic Scholarly Editing and TEI Markup
• Computational Textual Analysis
• Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies
• Visualization of Datasets

This talk series will be organized around projects adopting various digital tools. Each time a scholar will be invited to share around 25-30 minutes of his or her own experience in designing a digital project, address the technical processes involved in one's work and identify possible future directions. Each talk will be followed by a Q&A session.

We are pleased to have Yuan-Heng Mao, a graduate student at Harvard University, to be our first speaker to give a presentation entitled “Exploring Social Relations in History: A Case of Yuan Literati.”