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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Writing and Local Identity: Literary Women of the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong in the 18th and 19th Centuries

The Library is pleased to organise the following public talk by Prof. Grace S. Fong of McGill University. All are welcome to join! Writin... thumbnail 1 summary
    • The Library is pleased to organise the following public talk by Prof. Grace S. Fong of McGill University. All are welcome to join!

    Writing and Local Identity: Literary Women of the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong in the 18th and 19th Centuries

    Speaker
    Prof. Grace Fong
    Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University
    Visiting Professor, School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong
    Abstract of the talk
    On the southern margins of the Qing empire, Guangdong has been seen as an evolving site of regional culture, education, and commerce, particularly in the Pearl River Delta counties surrounding the provincial capital Guangzhou in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While anthropologists have uncovered a working-class women’s culture in this region, educated women from the counties of Panyu, Shunde, Xinhui, and Zhongshan were a significant but as yet understudied part of the elite culture.
    Using data on Guangdong women in the Ming Qing Women’s Writings database and digital archive (http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing/) as primary sources for comparison, this paper aims to explore the relationship of these women’s writing to the construction of regional culture and identity before the Western powers had a significant impact through trade and missionary efforts beyond the Canton trading zone. To what extent were literary women part of a regional culture in Guangdong in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Using both biographical and textual data and examining the paratexts, poetic themes and topics, and regional and social networks contained in fifteen individual works by Qing women writers from Guangdong, I will examine how a regional or local culture might have been constructed in these textual productions, and to ask how the components of this regional women’s culture – the hopes and desires, social and cultural activities, reflections and ambitions of these women in the Pearl River Delta show differences from or similarities to their contemporaries, the well-known elite educated women in the cultured Yangzi River Delta. 
    Date: 10 Jan, 2018 (Wed)
    Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
    Venue: Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library

    Thursday, May 18, 2017

    The first CUHK Library Digital Scholarship Symposium “Exploring Digital Scholarship Research at CUHK and Beyond” held successfully

    On 31 March 2017, the CUHK Library organized the first Digital Scholarship Symposium with the theme “ Exploring Digital Scholarship Re... thumbnail 1 summary

    • On 31 March 2017, the CUHK Library organized the first Digital Scholarship Symposium with the theme “Exploring Digital Scholarship Research at CUHK and Beyond” that was held at the Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F of University Library.  Six speakers from different disciplines presented their latest digital scholarship projects, attracting over 60 researchers, research students and librarians.

     As a 1st anniversary event of the Digital Scholarship Lab, the Symposium aims at providing an avenue for all scholars interested in and conducting research in digital scholarship to get together to share their research, to further spark off more research in this area, and to enhance the partnership between the CUHK Library and the Faculty in conducting and supporting digital scholarship research.

    The Symposium was officiated by Prof. Fanny M.C. CHEUNG, Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice-President and Ms. Louise JONES, University Librarian of CUHK. There were six presentations on network analysis, data visualization, GIS and big data analysis. They were:
    1. Prof. HUANG Bo from Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK: GIS and Big Data for Urban Applications
    2. Prof. LAI Chi-Tim from Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK: Guangzhou Daoist and Popular Temples Studies and the Development of Daoist Digital Museum
    3. Ms. Kitty Siu from Library, CUHK: A Collaborative Project in Opening Research Data: Archaeological Sites Mapping in China with GIS
    4. Dr. TSUI Lik-hang from China Biographical Database Project (CBDB), Harvard University: A Cyberinfrastructure for Studying Chinese History: A Proposal Based on the Experience of the China Biographical Database Project
    5. Prof. Angela WU from School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK: Re-presenting Web Use as Networks
    6. Prof. Michelle YE from Department of Translation, CUHK: The Social Network of an Early Republican Literary Magazine: a Visualization with Gephi


    The post-symposium workshop in the afternoon by Dr. Tsui introduced the use of China Biographical Database (CBDB) and incorporation in other tools such as MARKUS for China studies.  The digital tools presented in the workshop sparked very lively discussion among participants.  More photos about the symposium can be found here.

    The Library is very grateful for the enthusiastic support from the Faculty and the participants. The Library will continue to support research activities across the entire research life cycle by leveraging the latest digital technologies.
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