Early Chinese Periodicals Online (ECPO)
Chinese periodicals present researchers with a number of challenges: they are 1. physically dispersed and often poorly preserved, 2. voluminous, 3. multi-generic and intellectually demanding. Many scholars have therefore used the periodical press as a source, but few scholars have tapped these sources comprehensively and attempted to study the medium as an entity in itself. Our answers to these challenges have been, first, to form a multidisciplinary Research Team which is crucially engaged in, second, building a database prototype, ECPO (Early Chinese Periodicals Online).
ECPO was originally created by the Heidelberg Digital Humanities Unit, the Heidelberg Research Architecture (HRA), in collaboration with Taiwan’s Academia Sinica. It joins together several important digital collections of the early Chinese press and makes them available to scholarly communities around the world. It is distinguished from all other existing databases of Chinese periodicals in that it not only provides image scans, but also preserves materials often excluded in reprint, microfilm or digital (even fulltext) editions, such as advertising inserts and illustrations. In addition, it incorporates a sophisticated body of metadata in both English and Chinese, including keywords and biographical information on editors, authors and individuals represented in illustrations and advertisements. By framing the journals with this body of metadata, ECPO enables researchers to establish interconnections between, for example, given individuals, topics or illustrations, and to chart their relationsships within particular issues of periodicals, over the entire run of a particular periodical, and across different periodicals. These capabilities open new horizons in Chinese studies; using ECPO, the researcher is able to nuance, challenge, and potentially refute existing narratives of history and cultural change.
The project, sustained by an international team of researchers in Canada, Europe, Asia and the United States, builds on six years of interdisciplinary work and provides a model for the collaborative development and scholarly use of the digital humanities. ECPO’s unique inclusion of bilingual metadata makes the database’s rich, research-deduced materials accessible to scholars beyond the field of Chinese studies. Taking Chinese journals as its starting point, the project thus opens up new vistas for research in media studies more generally, and models best practices in digital humanities research.
Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing an Early Republican Period – Main page of the database.
Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing an Early Republican Period – Issue overview (Funü shibao, volume1, issue 1, 1911)
Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing an Early Republican Period – Detail view of a single page. Agents (e.g. authors or depicted persons) are linked to pages providing more information, links on keywords trigger a search for that term within all magazines. (Linglong, volume 1, issue 2, 25.03.2031, p.7)
Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing an Early Republican Period – The database allows searching in Chinese, English or transcription. Results show basic information of the item (e.g. title, magazine, vol/issue number, date,. page), together with a thumbnail of the page. (Search for "運動" – yundong – movement)
Chinese Entertainment Newspapers – Browsing the list of xiaobao newspapers.
Chinese Entertainment Newspapers – Information on the newspapers is split to different contents tabs, this screenshot showing the Basic Data page. (電影日報 – Dian ying ri bao – Movie Daily News)
Early Chinese Periodicals Online (backend) – Detail from the list of publications within the ECPO database.
Early Chinese Periodicals Online (backend) – Editing interface (advertisement, Jingbao, volume 1, issue 254, 21.04.1921)
Projektleiter
Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg)
Prof. Joan Judge (York University, Toronto)
Prof. Christopher Hamm (University of Washington)
Dr. Chien-ming Yu (Academia Sinica)
Projekt Team
Prof. Catherine V. Yeh (Boston University)
Prof. Michel Hockx (SOAS London)
Prof. Julia F. Andrews (Ohio State)
PD Dr. Anne Kerlan (CNRS Paris)
Dr. Ling-ling Lien (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Doris Sung (York University)
Liying Sun (Heidelberg)
Sophy Chen (AAT Taiwan Manager)
Matthias Arnold (HRA Heidelberg)
Institutionelle Anbindung
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), Voßstraße 2, 69117 Heidelberg
Laufzeit
2009–2012, 2012–2015, 2015–ongoing
Förderung
Humboldt Foundation, DFG, SSHRC, CCK Foundation
Kontakt
Barbara Mittler
Institute of ChineseStudies
Akademiestraße 4–8
69117 Heidelberg
Homepage
Early Chinese Periodicals Online
Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Periods
Chinese Entertainment Newspapers
Publikationen
Michel Hockx, Joan Judge Barbara Mittler (eds.): A Space of their Own: Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Long Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, in print 2017) .
SiaochenHu: Voices of Female Educators in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Women’s Magazines, in: Joan Judge, Barbara Mittler and Michel Hockx (eds.): A Space of their Own: Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Long Twentieth Century (in print, 2017).
Joan Judge: Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (Berkeley: University of California Press 2015).
Joan Judge: Foreign Knowledge of Bodies: Japanese Sources, Western Science, and China’s Republican Lady, in: Joan Judge, Barbara Mittler and Michel Hockx (eds.): A Space of their Own: Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Long Twentieth Century (in print, 2017).
Joan Judge: The Republican Lady, the Courtesan, and the Photograph: Visibility and Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century China, in: Luke Gartlan and Roberta Wue (eds.) Facing East Asia: Histories of Studio Portrait Photography (Ashgate, Routledge 2017), 191–208.
Joan Judge: The Fate of the Late Imperial Cainü: Gender and Historical Change in Early 20th Century China, in: Beverly Bossler (ed.): Transformations: Gender And Chinese History (University of Washington Press 2015), 139–60.
Joan Judge: Sinology, Feminist History, and Everydayness in the Early Republican Periodical Press, in: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 40:3 (Spring 2015), 563–87.
Joan Judge: Chinese Women’s History: Global Circuits, Local Meanings, in: Journal of Women’s History 25:4 (2013), 224–44.
Joan Judge: Portraits of Republican Ladies: Materiality and Representation in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Photographs, in: Christian Henriot and Yeh Wen-hsin (eds.) In Visualising China. Moving and Still images in Historical Narratives (Leiden: Brill 2013), 131–70.
Joan Judge (Ji Jiazhen 季家珍): Everydayness as a Critical Category of Gender Analysis: The Case of ›Funü Shibao‹ (The Women’s Eastern Times) 性別分析的關鍵範疇「日常性」：以《婦女時報〉為中心.” Jindai Zhongguo funü shi yanjiu 近代中国婦女史研究 (Research on Women in Modern Chinese History) 20 (December 2012), 1–28.
Joan Judge: Richang de shijie zhuyi: Funü shibao zhong de yiyao guanggao 日常的世界主義：《婦女時報》中的醫藥廣告 (Quotidian Cosmopolitanism: Medical Advertisments in Funü Shibao) (The Women’s Eastern Times). Submitted. Jindai Zhongguo funü shi yanjiu 近代中国婦女史研究 (Research on Women in Modern Chinese History).
Barbara Mittler: Portrait(s) of a Trope: New Women and New Men in Chinese Women’s Magazines, 1898–2008. Book manuscript.
Barbara Mittler: Imagined Communities Divided: Reading Visual Regimes in Shanghai’s Newspaper Advertising (1860s–1910s)), in: Christian Henriot, Yeh Wen-hsin (eds.): Visualising China, 1845–1965. Moving and still images in historical narratives (Leiden: Brill 2013), 267–377.
Barbara Mittler: Von großen Händen und kleinen Füßen – Emanzipation auf Chinesisch, in: Stephan Köhn, Heike Moser (eds.): Frauenbilder / Frauenkörper – Inszenierungen des Weiblichen in den Gesellschaften Süd- und Ostasiens (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2013), 291–312.
Barbara Mittler: Ten Thousand Pucks and Punches: Satirical Themes and Variations seen Transculturally, in: Hans Harder, Barbara Mittler (eds.): Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context (Heidelberg: Springer 2013), 423–444.
Barbara Mittler: Transboundary Bodies: Eunuchs, Humanity, and Historiography in China, in: Markus Hilgert, Michael Wink (eds.): Menschen-Bilder – Darstellungen des Humanen in der Wissenschaft. Heidelberger Jahrbücher, Bd. 54 (2012), 149–179.
Barbara Mittler: Von großen Händen und kleinen Füßen – Emanzipation auf Chinesisch, in: in: Stephan Köhn, Heike Moser (eds.): Frauenbilder / Frauenkörper – Inszenierungen des Weiblichen in den Gesellschaften Süd- und Ostasiens (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2013), 291–312.
Barbara Mittler: The New (Wo)man and Her/His Others: Foreigners on the Pages of China’s Women’s Magazines, in: Michel Hockx, Joan Judge Barbara Mittler (eds.): A Space of their Own: Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Long Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, in print 2017) .
Barbara Mittler: Images, Realities and Powers: Gender Interactions in China’s Vernacular Media, 1909-1939, in: Nic Leonardt et al. (eds.): ›The Way I See It‹ – Transcultural Perspectives on Image, Gaze and Perception (under submission)
Barbara Mittler: Small Feet and Large Hands: (Utopian) Visions of Womanhood in China’s long 20th century, in: Borderlines (web-cssaame) in press.
Liying Sun: Engendering A Journal: Editors and Nudes in Linglong and its Global Context, in:Michel Hockx, Joan Judge Barbara Mittler (eds.): A Space of their Own: Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Long Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, in print 2017) .
Liying Sun, 孫麗瑩: ›Gaoshang yule‹? Linglong zhong de luoti tuxiang, shijue zaixian yu bianji juece” “高尚娛樂”？《玲瓏》中的裸體圖像，視覺再現與編輯決策 (»Sophisticated Entertainment«? Nudes, Visual Representations, and Editorial Agency in Linglong (1931–1937)). In Xingbie yu shiju – bainian Zhongguo yingxiang yanjiu 性別與視覺——百年中國影像研究 (Gender and Visuality: Research on Chinese Images from the Last One-Hundred Years), edited by Wang Zheng, Lü Xinyu (Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe 2016).
Liying Sun: Body Un/Dis-Covered: Luoti, Editorial Agency and Transcultural Production in Chinese Pictorials (1925–1933). PhD dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 2014.
Liying Sun: Cong Sheying huabao dao Linglong: qikan chuban yu Sanhe gongsi de jingying celüe (1920s–1930s) 從《攝影畫報》到《玲瓏》：期刊出版與三和公司的經營策略(1920s–1930s) (From Pictorial Weekly to Linloon Magazine: the Periodical Production and the Publishing Strategies of San Ho Company), in: Research on Women in Modern Chinese History 近代中國婦女史研究 (June 2014).
Liying Sun: 1920 niandai Shanghai de huajia, zhishi fenzi yu luoti shijue wenhua – yi Zhang Jingsheng ›Luoti yanjiu‹ wei zhongxin 1920 年代上海的畫家、知識份子與裸體視覺文化——以張競生〈裸體研究〉為中心 (Artists, Intellectuals, and the Visual Culture of Unclothed Bodies in 1920s Shanghai: Zhang Jingsheng’s »A Study of Unclothed Bodies«). Tsinghua Journal of Chinese Literature 10 (December 2013): 287–340.
Liying Sun and Matthias Arnold: TS Tools: How to design a database of historical periodicals (http://www.tijdschriftstudies.nl/index.php/TS/article/viewFile/268/263). TS: Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies (Periodical for Periodical Studies), (July 2013), 73–78.
Doris Sung, Liying Sun and Matthias Arnold: The Birth of a Database of Historical Periodicals: Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period, in: Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 33, no. 2 (2014), 227–237.
Doris Sung: Redefining Female Talents: Funü shibao, Funü zazhi, and the Development of ›Women’s Art‹ in: China, Michel Hockx, Joan Judge Barbara Mittler (eds.): A Space of their Own: Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Long Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, in print 2017) .
Doris Sung: Naistenlehdet, 1900-Luvun Alun Uudet Ilmaisukanavat (New Channels of Expression: Voices in Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican China), in: Tiina Airaksinen, Elina Sinkkonen, and Minna Valjakka (eds): Enemmän Kuin Puoli Taivasta: Kiinalainen Nainen Historiassa, Yhteiskunnassa Ja Kulttuurissa (More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture) (Helsinki: Art House 2016), 341–46.
Vergangene Veranstaltungen
Dienstag, 14. Juli 2015 - 18:15 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler (Institut für Sinologie, Universität Heidelberg)
Gender, die populären Medien und die Digital Humanities—Von WoMag (Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period) zu ECPO (Early Chinese Periodicals Online) und weiter
Ort: Hörsaal 04 der Neuen Universität