People

Shih-Pei Chen

Senior Research Scholar (Since 2014)

PhD

Shih-Pei Chen is a digital humanities specialist with a focus on digital historical research and Digital Sinology. She is a computer scientist by training and has been working with historians to develop digital research applications and methodologies for more than fifteen years. She is currently Senior Research Scholar and IT Researcher at the Institute, and is leading projects that range from research-oriented digital tool development (Local Gazetteers Research Tools; LoGaRT), geospatial and visual analysis (CHMap), to technical research infrastructure development (RISE & SHINE) and new forms of publishing historical datasets (Digital Concordances). She also serves on various editorial, advisory, and reviewing boards for journals, conferences, research projects, and funding agencies in the field of Digital Humanities.

 

 

Projects

Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere, 14th to 20th Centuries

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Fenye in Local Gazetteers

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Source-Based Initiatives

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Local Gazetteers

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LoGaRT: Local Gazetteers Research Tools

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Mapping Drugs across Epistemic and Geographic Domains in Early Medieval China

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Mapping Drugs in Early Medieval China

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Rare Local Gazetteers Collection

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RISE and SHINE: Research Infrastructure for the Study of Eurasia

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Technical Methods, Collaborators and Process

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The WebGIS Platform of Historical Maps of China

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Selected Publications

Che, Qun, Nungyao Lin, Shih-Pei Chen, and Calvin Yeh (2023). “Link Visions Together: Visualizing Geographies of Late Qing and Republican China.” In Digital Humanities 2023: Book of Abstracts. Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria, ed…

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Chen, Shih-Pei, Calvin Yeh, Sean Wang, and Qun Che (2023). “Treating a Genre as a Database: A Digital Research Methodology for Studying Chinese Local Gazetteers.” International Journal of Digital Humanities 4 (1–3): 171–193. https://doi.org/10.1007…

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Stanley-Baker, Michael, Christopher Khoo, Jinju Chen, Shih-Pei Chen, Michael Goodman, William Chong, Qiao Rou Shaun Ang, and Yuchen Feng (2023). “Polyglot Medicine: Knowledge Graph [Drug Name Synonymy].” Polyglot Asian Medicines [Database], 2023…

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Lycas, Alexis, Masato Hasegawa, and Chen Shih-Pei 陳詩沛, eds. (2022). The Production of Geographical Knowledge in Medieval China. Special issue, East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 54 (2). Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/view/journals/east…

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Media

Presentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities

The 6th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities 2015, Taipei, Taiwan

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Conference "Scales of Knowledge: Zooming in and out," Heidelberg, Germany

Digital Humanities Conference 2015, University of Western Sydney, Australia

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"Historical Method and Computerized Data Collection and Analysis"

Workshop, Chinese Local Gazetteers (地方志), MPIWG, Berlin, Germany

Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (AAS 2015), Chicago, USA

Crossover & Transformation: The 5th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities 2014, Taipei, Taiwan

Annual Meeting for the History of Science Society, (HSS), Chicago, USA

International Workshop on Digital Sinology and Taiwan Studies, Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Conference on Quantitative Approaches in the Humanities, Hanover, Germany

Digital Humanities Conference 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland