Digital humanities_China

""Je l'avoue : d'habitude, je ne vais pas au défilé parisien du nouvel an chinois." Danielle Elisseeff s'excuse en souriant poliment de sa curieuse inexpérience. "C'est peut-être un réflexe. Mais pour moi, la Chine, ce n'est pas la Chine à Paris." Chercheuse émérite à l'EHESS sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine et professeure à l'école du Louvre, Danielle Elisseeff aime depuis toujours les pays d'Orient. Cheveux blonds clair bien accrochés sur la nuque, cette dame menue et énergique est une experte du patrimoine chinois. Pour la première fois, dimanche 17 février, elle assistera au défilé du 13e arrondissement de Paris, sur invitation de la mairie. A 75 ans, elle a eu l'occasion d'observer quelques défilés occidentaux. Sur les Champs-Elysées, il y a quelques années, et à Montréal : "C'est très pépère, par rapport à la Chine. Même si la communauté chinoise est très importante, ce n'est pas cette masse humaine qu'on retrouve là-bas." Plus que le défilé, le cœur de la fête est, pour elle, la foule qui descend dans les rues pour "être ensemble. C'est un principe très taoïste. Dans une foule chinoise en fête, on a ce sentiment de ne former qu'un seul corps. Je peux me tromper, mais pour moi, la fête en Chine, c'est ça. On est tous ensemble et on se laisse emporter. On laisse monter en nous le flux de la vie. On boit de l'alcool, on mange, on hurle, on danse...""

"From 1908 to 1932, Sidney Gamble (1890-1968) visited China four times, traveling throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside. A sociologist, renowned China scholar, and avid amateur photographer, Gamble used some of the pictures to illustrate his monographs. The Sidney D. Gamble Photographs digital collection marks the first comprehensive public presentation of this large body of work that includes photographs of Korea, Japan, Hawaii, San Francisco, and Russia. The site currently features photographs dated between 1917 and 1932; the 1908 photographs will be digitized and uploaded as part of future additions to the site."

"Chinese new year celebrations around the world - in pictures Across Asia and in many other parts of the world, dragon and lion dances, fireworks and laughing Buddhas usher in the year of the snake"

" Year Of The Snake 2013: Chinese Celebrate Lunar New Year (PHOTOS) (VIDEO) Reuters | By Ben Blanchard Posted: 02/09/2013 1:45 pm EST | Updated: 02/09/2013 2:08 pm EST Share on Google+ Year Of The Snake 1,616 226 137 331 Get Religion Alerts: Sign Up Follow: China, 2013 Year Of Snake, Chinese New Year, Celebrations Of Year Of The Snake, Chinese New Year Customs, What Is Year Of The Snake?, Year Of The Snake, Religion News Chinese welcomed the arrival of the Year of the Snake with raucous celebrations on Saturday, setting off a cacophony of firecrackers in the streets and sending fireworks blazing into the sky to bring good fortune."

"Conférence de Katiana Le Mentec intitulée «Un corps de divinité morcelé pour penser l'espace bouleversé. Du récit de légendes à Yunyang après l'avènement du barrage des Trois Gorges ». Katiana Le Mentec, docteur en ethnologie, postdoctorante, chargée de cours - Université Paris Ouest Nanterre"

From: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal Volume 6, Number 4, 2013 pp. 569-571 | In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: While the conventional study of modern Chinese history places a big signpost at the divide of 1949, when the Nationalist regime fled to Taiwan and the Communist regime took over the mainland, Jacob Eyferth sets his papermaking story during the latter eight decades of the twentieth century, leading into contemporary China with barely a pause at midcentury. This sort of chronological breakthrough sheds new light on the transition from the traditional division of labor to the maximizing of profits and production of the Maoist years. Despite all the efforts of socialist ideology, the country’s rural-urban gap widened and intensified throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Chinese state capitalists, as Eyferth shows us, were more Chinese than Marxian, determined to increase national production so as to surpass the United Kingdom and the United States within a decade of liberation. As to the historical actors in Jiajiang, Sichuan, where this study is set, Eyferth presents them as a diverse group—or group of groups—whose lives embody the development of one kind of papermaking; he assesses their skills by considering a broad field of relations. Such an approach broadens our view of the sociotechnical network beyond Bruno Latour’s actor network theory (ANT) and confirms that interdisciplinary science and technology studies elicit remarkable insights from historical materials."

" AP PHOTOS: Celebrating Lunar New Year in China, around world"

"Yesterday marked the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year 2013, the Year of the Snake. One of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, the snake signifies cleverness and tenacity and is associated with the element of fire. In the larger Chinese astrological cycle, this year is also associated with the element of water, which makes 2013 the Year of the Water Snake. The combination of the water and fire elements may signify turmoil in the months ahead. But people around the world ushered in the new year with displays of fireworks, family get-togethers, temple visits, and street festivals. Collected here are images from several countries where revelers have been welcoming the arrival of the Water Snake. [29 photos]"