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SUMMARY:Digitally Detecting the Strange: Crime\, Ghosts\, and Other Odd Th
 ings in Late Imperial China
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UID:https://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2025/09/digitally-detecting-the-stran
 ge-crime-ghosts-and-other-odd-things-in-late-imperial-china/
DESCRIPTION:\n\n  \n    \n    Description\n    \n\n  \n\n\n\n  Course page
 This class is an introduction to the unusual and strange in late imperial 
 Chinese literature through digital analysis. We will focus on works that e
 ngage with the nature of evidence and reality: stories about crime and det
 ection\, ghosts\, encounters with foxes\, and other odd narratives. The st
 ories we read\, mostly written in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911
 ) dynasties\, are found across a wide array of textual genres popular in e
 arly modern China. Students will also learn to leverage a variety of digit
 al methods to analyze these stories\, covering approaches from textual ana
 lysis and mapping to network analysis and the public humanities.\n\n\n\n  
 \n    \n    Sample Reading List\n    \n\n  \n\n\n\n  Matthew Sommer\, Writ
 ing and Law in Late Imperial China: IntroductionJudith Zeitlin\, The Phant
 om HeroinePu Songling\, Strange Tales from a Chinese StudioRuth Anhert et 
 al\, The Network TurnChen Song\, Governing a Multicentered Empire: Prefect
 s and their NetworkRania Huntington\, Alien Kind: Foxes and Late Imperial 
 Chinese Narrative\n\n\n\n  \n    \n    Reading/Writing Assignments\n    \n
 \n  \n\n\n\n  The course finishes with a final public facing project (thou
 gh it is up to individual students to decide if they want to make it actua
 lly public). These projects will be websites or multimedia projects contai
 ning roughly 2\,000 words of content (or the equivalent) and will deploy a
 t least two methods learned in the class. There will be six short assignme
 nts throughout the semester that scaffold to the final project.\n\n\n\n  \
 n    \n    Requirements/Grading\n    \n\n  \n\n\n\n  Term Assessments:Pres
 entation or performance - 10%Papers/writing assignments - 50%Participation
  - 10%Final Assessments:Final paper\, problem set\, or project - 30%\n\n\n
 \n  \n    \n    Other Requirements\n    \n\n  \n\n\n\n  Multimedia Student
  Project RequiredStatistical\, design or other software use required\n\n\n
 \n  \n    \n    Prerequisites and Restrictions\n    \n\n  \n\n\n\n  None.\
 n\n\nhttps://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2025/09/digitally-detecting-the-stra
 nge-crime-ghosts-and-other-odd-things-in-late-imperial-china/
LOCATION:Lewis Library 134
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