Innovation within Tradition:On the Aid of Digital Humanities to Traditional Textual Research of Classics and Histories
The traditional methods of textual criticism in classical Chinese studies have developed o-ver a period of thousands of years,covering multiple aspects such as philology and linguistics,and have especially formed profound academic accumulations in fields like terminology,phonology,exegesis,and textual collation.New tools provided by digital humanities,such as digitization of ancient books,text mining,Geographic Information System(GIS)technology,and network analysis techniques,can further improve the efficiency and breadth of traditional research.The contemporary disciplinary direction of dig-ital humanities also lies on the historical extension line of textual research on classics and histories.New technology does not mean discarding tradition.The methods of textual research on classics and histories have always contained the demand for"data-processing"since the earliest sentence-analysis,lexicogra-phy,and bibliography.The application of computer technology can be an iterative upgrade of traditional research methods.To prevent digital humanities from becoming a superficial and"hollow"technology,it is necessary to deepen the understanding of traditional research methods in humanities and make the tech-nology truly serve research.
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