Welcome to the Sinica.Global DH project
Sinica.Global is a project started by Dr. Florin-Stefan Morar at the City University of Hong Kong. The project takes aim at Chinese books and artefacts in world libraries. The role that some of these objects played in Western and world history have been discussed by scholars, yet we still know very little about both the true scope and the history of the transmission and translation of Chinese writings and material culture. When did it begin? What books and materials were transmitted and translated? When? Who transported them and why? Who wrote or made these materials? What is their range? This project will aim to answer these questions and also to provide researchers an easy way to look for Chinese works outside China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Sinica.Global has two goals:
1. It aspires to build a first-of-its-kind bibliographic database of Chinese books and artifacts in libraries, archives and museums outside China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. We focus on classical culture, what is generally called guji 古籍 generally understood as works produced up to 1912.
2. It will support the creation of new research on the transmission, translation and circulation of Chinese books and materials. Stage 1 of the project is focused on materials found in European libraries with an initial case study of Chinese materials in the Vatican library.
Sinica.Global is a project started by Dr. Florin-Stefan Morar at the City University of Hong Kong. The project takes aim at Chinese books and artefacts in world libraries. The role that some of these objects played in Western and world history have been discussed by scholars, yet we still know very little about both the true scope and the history of the transmission and translation of Chinese writings and material culture. When did it begin? What books and materials were transmitted and translated? When? Who transported them and why? Who wrote or made these materials? What is their range? This project will aim to answer these questions and also to provide researchers an easy way to look for Chinese works outside China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Sinica.Global has two goals:
1. It aspires to build a first-of-its-kind bibliographic database of Chinese books and artifacts in libraries, archives and museums outside China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. We focus on classical culture, what is generally called guji 古籍 generally understood as works produced up to 1912.
2. It will support the creation of new research on the transmission, translation and circulation of Chinese books and materials. Stage 1 of the project is focused on materials found in European libraries with an initial case study of Chinese materials in the Vatican library.