Varieties of Cultural History: Scaling in Chinese Digital History

Hilde De Weerdt, University of Leiden

Questions of scale are critical to how we write history. Drawing on her recent and continuing projects, Professor De Weerdt discussed how digital methods can be leveraged to address historical questions on the micro-, meso- and macro-scale.

 

Professor Steven Miles introduced Professor Hilde De Weerdt.
De Weerdt showed mapping and text analysis tools that her project has developed to support research across different levels of scale.