Portfolio

Digital Humanities

Ranging in scale, these projects all utilize digital methods to advance our understanding of history:

The ChinaComx Lianhuanhua Publication Dataset, v1.0.0

A comprehensive, open-access digital dataset comprising over 38,000 digitized historical records of Chinese lianhuanhua publications (1949–1994); see it here or via Zenodo here.

Reading in China Photographed

An ongoing repository that I curate collecting historical photographs of reading practices in twentieth-century China; see it here.

Caricatures in the MLD

I oversaw the acquiring, and worked together with the Maoist Legacy team on the digitization curation of the largest collection of Chinese political caricatures from the 1970s; register to access here.

ReadAct

A digital database, developed by the READCHINA team, cataloging reading acts in literature from and set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution; access it here.

Oral History in the MLD

I facilitated the addition and partook in the digitization of the Andrew G. Walder oral history interviews to the Maoist Legacy Database; access here.

Posters

Some of my academic events posters (for talks, workshops, and conferences) designed for clarity and visual impact:

Other

H-PRC redesign

For a set of new coherent icons for the H-PRC network, I repurposed actual graphics from 1950s journals; browse the network here.

NERDYCJA

Co-hosted with Jakub Matysiak, this Polish-language podcast series provided accessible academic analysis of film and pop culture; listen to the episode archive e.g. here.

Nihao

A React web app co-developed with Adam Cassis that uses a 3×4 memory grid to gamify the learning of basic Chinese characters; play it here.