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Brevity and Breadth: A Linguistic, Aesthetic, and DH-Assisted Study of the Book of Poetry and “Nineteen Old Poems”
Zong-qi Cai & Maciej Kurzynski, Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 2024 (2), forthcoming. Integrating traditional Chinese poetics, modern linguistic methods, and computational analysis, this article explores how the pre-Qin Book of Poetry and the Han “Nineteen Old Poems” realized the[…]
Perplexity Games: Maoism vs. Literature through the Lens of Cognitive Stylometry
Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, April 29, 2024, NLP4DH The arrival of large language models (LLMs) has provoked an urgent search for stylistic markers that could differentiate machine text from human text, but while the human-like appearance[…]
On the Technology of the Sublime in Modern Chinese Narratives
Journal of Digital Humanities 《数字人文》, 2022 (1), pp. 87-115. Words transmit not only semantic meaning but also affective energy. The growing scholarship on the sublime in non-Western contexts makes it necessary to reconsider the possibility of this peculiar experience[…]
Vectors of Violence: Legitimation and Distribution of State Power in the People’s Liberation Army Daily (Jiefangjun Bao), 1956-1989
Aaron Gilkison & Maciej Kurzynski, Journal of Cultural Analytics 9 (1), 2024. From personal memoirs and cooking recipes to revolutionary agitation and war coverage, the People’s Liberation Army Daily offers a wealth of insights into the sociopolitical and affective realities of[…]
Words Close to Heart
A Techno-Cognitive Approach to Interiority in Modern Chinese Literature. Talk at the Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJEUOw-5kB8