Chinese Knowledge and Poetry Medieval Library
Chinese Knowledge and Poetry Medieval Library
The Members of the team are presented in alphabetical order. Their status and contribution is followed by a short bio. Most members continue to be involved in the team’s reflections although they are losely associated to the project as of October 2023.
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Marie Bizais-Lillig has been associate professor of Chinese studies in the Faculty of Languages and member of GEO at the University of Strasbourg since 2009. After studying literature and sinology, she specialised in the study of medieval Chinese poetry and poetics. Her doctoral dissertation (Inalco, 2008) analysed the classificatory model of textual space established by Liu Xie 劉勰 (c. 465-521) in the Wenxin diaolong 文心雕龍 [Spirit of Literature in Chiseled Dragons]. Later on, her research shifted to focus on intertextual phenomena in poetry, highlighting the lingering influence of the ancient anthology of the Shijing 詩經 [Classic of Poetry] in the field of poetic composition.
She has devoted several articles to analyzing these ancient poems, their reception over the centuries, the commentaries they have triggered, as well as the translations they have inspired. Ever since she received a Taiwan Fellowship in 2017 to carry out her research at the National Taiwan Library, Marie Bizais-Lillig has been investigating the anthology’s status as a Confucian classic and its implications. During a 12-month delegation at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2019/2020, her exploration of commentaries of an encyclopedic nature – which gather all available information on elements of fauna, flora, objects, or constellations present in the Shijing – led her to form a working group on commentary practice in ancient China and Japan. This research also inspired her to develop a new approach to medieval texts, combining philological analysis and automated text mining, to reveal mechanisms of knowledge transmission.
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Elsa Cuillé is currently a PhD student in Religious History at UMR 7044 ARCHIMEDE at the University of Strasbourg. In 2018, she obtained a double master’s degree in art history and history of religions on the representation of Chinese religions in illustrated European publications of the 17th and 18th centuries.
For her PhD, she is now focusing on the figure of the religious professional in medieval China. At the center of her research is an early Song compilation: the Taiping guangji 太平廣記. She uses this text to develop typologies based on the criteria of religious trends, practices, and geographical origin. Finally, an important part of the treatment of this corpus is devoted to the question of the vocabulary used to designate these professionals.
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Xinmin Hu obtained a master’s degree in digital and computational Humanities at the École nationale des chartes - PSL (Paris) and a master’s degree in Intercultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is interested in cultural analysis with digital tools and creative visualisations of unstructured data.
She joined the CHI-KNOW-PO team in September 2022 to contribute to work on the digital edition of the large corpus of texts that are being studied within the framework of the project, and to develop automated text mining and visualisation tools for the corpus.
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Shueh-Ying Liao obtained his PhD in sinology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris, France. He is currently in charge of developing a Digital Humanities Research Platform at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Saclay (France).
Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher for the consortium Digital Studies — Africa Asia Middle-East (DISTAM) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Under the supervision of Professor François Martin, he defended his thesis (2015) that renewed the incentive process (xing 興), the founding notion of Chinese literature. His recent publications innervate three lines of research: 1) the genetic relationship of Chinese literary and political languages in the pre-imperial era, 2) literary theory and exegetical tradition of classical Chinese literature through the prism of quantitative methodologies, and 3) the contribution of digital humanities to the analysis of textual data in classical and modern Chinese.
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Tilman Schalmey is a sinologist and IT expert based in Munich, Germany. He is presently (2023) a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Trier (Germany). He studied classical and modern sinology, Scandinavian literature and economics in Munich and Hangzhou 杭州. After his master’s thesis, “Thoughts on the conception of a new textbook for Classical Chinese”, he worked for the German pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai 上海 EXPO.
From 2011 to 2022, he has worked as an IT project manager and software developer for a lighting manufacturer, mainly in the fields of b2b eCommerce and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). From 2012 to 2018, he was also a research assistant at Trier University (Germany) and taught classes in Classical Chinese language, Chinese linguistics, as well as Chinese culture and geography.
In his PhD dissertation (2022), he researched methods from computational linguistics for the use in dating of Literary and Classical Chinese texts.
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Mariana Zorkina is a PhD student at the Asien-Orient-Institut, Zurich University (Switzerland). She received her MA in Asian and African Cultures at the St. Petersburg State University (Russian Federation) with a project on reflection of Daoism in literature of Imperial China.
Currently, she studies Tang poetry with a special interest in: 1. the poetic usage of objects in shi poetry and the boundary between ‘poetic’ and ‘profane’ objects, 2. the notion of ‘things’ and its development in Early and Medieval China, its interconnection with compilation of topical encyclopaedias leishu and the genre of ‘poems on things’ yongwushi, 3. computational analysis of language patterns in Tang dynasty Chinese poetry.