Wenyi Shang
@wenyishang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at SISLT, University of Missouri. UIUC iSchool PhD. Peking University alumnus. Digital humanities researcher focusing on premodern Chinese history (and occasionally English literature). https://wenyi-shang.github.io
Glad to contribute to the issue on Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies in #ReviewsInDH. I reviewed the China Biographical Database (CBDB).
Thanks to @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social & @jenguiliano.bsky.social for putting this issue together!
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Thanks to @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social & @jenguiliano.bsky.social for putting this issue together!
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Review: China Biographical Database
A review of China Biographical Database, a freely-available relational database on Chinese historical figures from the 7th to 19th centuries, directed by Peter K. Bol and Hongsu Wang
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August 14, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Glad to contribute to the issue on Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies in #ReviewsInDH. I reviewed the China Biographical Database (CBDB).
Thanks to @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social & @jenguiliano.bsky.social for putting this issue together!
reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/china-bi...
Thanks to @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social & @jenguiliano.bsky.social for putting this issue together!
reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/china-bi...
My latest contribution to the DH community: I finally persuaded my partner Jingzhou, an Early Modern English literature scholar, to join the DH community🤣
Please join us tomorrow morning at #DH2026 if you're able!
Please join us tomorrow morning at #DH2026 if you're able!
Join us at #DH2026 (31th July, 11-12:30 PM, Room 204-105 and on Zoom) for our presentation! Presenting with @wenyishang.bsky.social .
We combine paratextual data and network analysis to examine how authors and stationers interacted to shape the genre identities of early modern English playbooks.
We combine paratextual data and network analysis to examine how authors and stationers interacted to shape the genre identities of early modern English playbooks.
July 30, 2026 at 5:53 AM
My latest contribution to the DH community: I finally persuaded my partner Jingzhou, an Early Modern English literature scholar, to join the DH community🤣
Please join us tomorrow morning at #DH2026 if you're able!
Please join us tomorrow morning at #DH2026 if you're able!
Please join us for the "Leveraging Emerging Datasets for Critical Research on Books and Reader Communities" workshop, either in person in Daejeon or online at #DH2026!
We'll introduce approaches to preserving and analyzing digital library metadata, online book reviews, and fanfiction datasets.
We'll introduce approaches to preserving and analyzing digital library metadata, online book reviews, and fanfiction datasets.
July 27, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Please join us for the "Leveraging Emerging Datasets for Critical Research on Books and Reader Communities" workshop, either in person in Daejeon or online at #DH2026!
We'll introduce approaches to preserving and analyzing digital library metadata, online book reviews, and fanfiction datasets.
We'll introduce approaches to preserving and analyzing digital library metadata, online book reviews, and fanfiction datasets.
Presenting two projects on using BERT models to study medieval Chinese texts at Harvard University tomorrow at 10:30 am. Please join us if you're around!
Many thanks to Professor Peter Bol and Profesor Kwok-leong Tang for organizing this event!
sites.harvard.edu/digitalchina...
Many thanks to Professor Peter Bol and Profesor Kwok-leong Tang for organizing this event!
sites.harvard.edu/digitalchina...
May 5, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Presenting two projects on using BERT models to study medieval Chinese texts at Harvard University tomorrow at 10:30 am. Please join us if you're around!
Many thanks to Professor Peter Bol and Profesor Kwok-leong Tang for organizing this event!
sites.harvard.edu/digitalchina...
Many thanks to Professor Peter Bol and Profesor Kwok-leong Tang for organizing this event!
sites.harvard.edu/digitalchina...
Updated my DH syllabus for the upcoming semester! I've made substantial changes to the readings to incorporate exciting new work since the 2024 iteration, while still intentionally keeping 60 readings by 60 different first authors to reflect the diversity of DH: wenyi-shang.github.io/files/Syllab...
wenyi-shang.github.io
January 22, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Updated my DH syllabus for the upcoming semester! I've made substantial changes to the readings to incorporate exciting new work since the 2024 iteration, while still intentionally keeping 60 readings by 60 different first authors to reflect the diversity of DH: wenyi-shang.github.io/files/Syllab...
Glad to see Newcastle United and Mike Tomlin trending on Bluesky. I thought sports talk would be slower to move here, since folks might be less concerned about what's happening on the other platform. So it's nice that I may no longer need to go there to see how people react to breaking sports news.
January 14, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Glad to see Newcastle United and Mike Tomlin trending on Bluesky. I thought sports talk would be slower to move here, since folks might be less concerned about what's happening on the other platform. So it's nice that I may no longer need to go there to see how people react to breaking sports news.
Selfie taken at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. The museum offers fantastic interactive experiences, including a virtual setup that lets you take a photo as if you were in an early modern letterpress workshop. It reminded me of the book lab course taught by @ryancordell.org
December 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Selfie taken at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. The museum offers fantastic interactive experiences, including a virtual setup that lets you take a photo as if you were in an early modern letterpress workshop. It reminded me of the book lab course taught by @ryancordell.org
Excited to present my work with @emilyue.bsky.social at #CHR2025 tomorrow at 3pm! If you're around, please join us. Our full paper is available at: doi.org/10.63744/uNU....
We fine-tuned a BERT model on medieval Chinese poetry to study Shipin, a sixth-century Chinese work of literary criticism. 1/5
We fine-tuned a BERT model on medieval Chinese poetry to study Shipin, a sixth-century Chinese work of literary criticism. 1/5
Was Poetry Graded Validly?: Text Mining <em>Shipin</em>, a
Sixth-Century Chinese Work of Literary Criticism
doi.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Excited to present my work with @emilyue.bsky.social at #CHR2025 tomorrow at 3pm! If you're around, please join us. Our full paper is available at: doi.org/10.63744/uNU....
We fine-tuned a BERT model on medieval Chinese poetry to study Shipin, a sixth-century Chinese work of literary criticism. 1/5
We fine-tuned a BERT model on medieval Chinese poetry to study Shipin, a sixth-century Chinese work of literary criticism. 1/5
Excited to be part of this wonderful event organized by @yrhu.bsky.social! Looking forward to the panel discussion next Monday.
Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Excited to be part of this wonderful event organized by @yrhu.bsky.social! Looking forward to the panel discussion next Monday.
Today at 3:30pm Lisbon Time (busy day for me!) I will also be presenting our work, "A Study of Imagery in Franz Kafka's Novel The Trial Through Illustrated Editions" with my colleague at the University of Missouri, Professor Carsten Strathausen at #DH2025.
July 17, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Today at 3:30pm Lisbon Time (busy day for me!) I will also be presenting our work, "A Study of Imagery in Franz Kafka's Novel The Trial Through Illustrated Editions" with my colleague at the University of Missouri, Professor Carsten Strathausen at #DH2025.
Presenting our work, “Text Mining Gender Depictions in Northern Wei (386–539 C.E.) Epitaph Verses,” with Professor Seiko Ochi (Meijo University, Japan) today at 2 PM Lisbon time at #DH2025! Please join us in person or online if you can!
July 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Presenting our work, “Text Mining Gender Depictions in Northern Wei (386–539 C.E.) Epitaph Verses,” with Professor Seiko Ochi (Meijo University, Japan) today at 2 PM Lisbon time at #DH2025! Please join us in person or online if you can!
Invited by Shiraz University's Digital Humanities Association, I'll be presenting my work with @tedunderwood.me on classifying English poetry tomorrow at 8:30am US Central Time via Google Meet. Excited to be part of the growing global conversation on DH, including students and scholars from Iran!
April 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Invited by Shiraz University's Digital Humanities Association, I'll be presenting my work with @tedunderwood.me on classifying English poetry tomorrow at 8:30am US Central Time via Google Meet. Excited to be part of the growing global conversation on DH, including students and scholars from Iran!
A great opportunity especially for those new to DH! The workshop will include three days of lectures introducing DH methods, taught by @vierth.bsky.social, @tharsen.bsky.social, Michael Fuller, @rmostern.bsky.social, Sunkyu Lee, and myself, followed by two days dedicated to workshopping ideas.
Anna Shields and I have organized the first China-Princeton Digital Humanities workshop! This week-long workshop on the digital humanities for Chinese studies will be held in person at Princeton University, June 16th to 20th!
chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu
chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu
China-Princeton Digital Humanities Workshop 2025
chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu
April 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A great opportunity especially for those new to DH! The workshop will include three days of lectures introducing DH methods, taught by @vierth.bsky.social, @tharsen.bsky.social, Michael Fuller, @rmostern.bsky.social, Sunkyu Lee, and myself, followed by two days dedicated to workshopping ideas.
Presenting our work with @rongqianma.bsky.social and Heather Moulaison-Sandy at iConference #iconf25 tomorrow at 9 AM! We'll share our initial findings on how AI is discussed in digital humanities journals. If you're in Bloomington, we'd love for you to join us! Full paper: doi.org/10.47989/ir3...
March 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Presenting our work with @rongqianma.bsky.social and Heather Moulaison-Sandy at iConference #iconf25 tomorrow at 9 AM! We'll share our initial findings on how AI is discussed in digital humanities journals. If you're in Bloomington, we'd love for you to join us! Full paper: doi.org/10.47989/ir3...
1. Politician – until realizing I would be consumed by the system before being able to make any meaningful change
2. Information science
3. No change – considered history, then discovered something called "digital humanities"
4. Teach information science and digital humanities, feeling fortunate
2. Information science
3. No change – considered history, then discovered something called "digital humanities"
4. Teach information science and digital humanities, feeling fortunate
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. SF author
2. Philosophy
3. Philosophy —> English
4. Teach Information Science, so, basically, SF author
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. SF author
2. Philosophy
3. Philosophy —> English
4. Teach Information Science, so, basically, SF author
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. Neuroscientist
2. Biology
3. Psychology —> Linguistics —> English
4. Legal academic
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. Neuroscientist
2. Biology
3. Psychology —> Linguistics —> English
4. Legal academic
January 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
1. Politician – until realizing I would be consumed by the system before being able to make any meaningful change
2. Information science
3. No change – considered history, then discovered something called "digital humanities"
4. Teach information science and digital humanities, feeling fortunate
2. Information science
3. No change – considered history, then discovered something called "digital humanities"
4. Teach information science and digital humanities, feeling fortunate
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New issue of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 40, Suppl. 1 (2025) | academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/40... @adho-org.bsky.social @phuijnen.bsky.social @wenyishang.bsky.social @tedunderwood.me @rjstapel.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
New issue of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 40, Suppl. 1 (2025) | academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/40... @adho-org.bsky.social @phuijnen.bsky.social @wenyishang.bsky.social @tedunderwood.me @rjstapel.bsky.social
Delivering a talk "Moving Beyond the Streetlight" on the use of computational methods in humanities research at the Humanities Institute at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social on Monday at 12 PM PST. The talk will also be on Zoom. Thanks to Professor Minghui Hu for inviting me! thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-clu...
Events for November 2024 – The Humanities Institute
thi.ucsc.edu
November 16, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Delivering a talk "Moving Beyond the Streetlight" on the use of computational methods in humanities research at the Humanities Institute at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social on Monday at 12 PM PST. The talk will also be on Zoom. Thanks to Professor Minghui Hu for inviting me! thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-clu...
Presenting at the Digital Humanities Salon tomorrow from 4-6 pm! I'll be sharing two case studies on "extracting patterns" from humanities data. If you're local, please join me—I’m excited to connect with others interested in DH from all perspectives at MU! library.missouri.edu/news/lottes-...
Digital Humanities Salon: Extracting Patterns from Humanities Data, Nov. 12
Tuesday, November 12 114A Ellis Library 4 to 6 pm Presentation at 4:15 Please join us in welcoming Assistant Professor Wenyi Shang, who will present “Extracting Patterns from Humanities Data&…
library.missouri.edu
November 11, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Presenting at the Digital Humanities Salon tomorrow from 4-6 pm! I'll be sharing two case studies on "extracting patterns" from humanities data. If you're local, please join me—I’m excited to connect with others interested in DH from all perspectives at MU! library.missouri.edu/news/lottes-...
Excited to announce that I have officially joined the iSchool of the University of Missouri as an assistant professor! Thrilled to work with colleagues on digital humanities and library & information science in general. Learn more about me on my faculty webpage: cehd.missouri.edu/person/wenyi...
Wenyi Shang – College of Education & Human Development
cehd.missouri.edu
August 19, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Excited to announce that I have officially joined the iSchool of the University of Missouri as an assistant professor! Thrilled to work with colleagues on digital humanities and library & information science in general. Learn more about me on my faculty webpage: cehd.missouri.edu/person/wenyi...
Presenting our work, "Interplays Between Materiality and Content in Book History: Evidence from 16th–19th Century Chinese and English Books" (coauthored with Yuqi Chen, Ryan Dubnicek, @ryancordell.bsky.social & Stephen Downie), at #DH2024 tomorrow morning at 8:30 AM. Hope you can join us!
August 9, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Presenting our work, "Interplays Between Materiality and Content in Book History: Evidence from 16th–19th Century Chinese and English Books" (coauthored with Yuqi Chen, Ryan Dubnicek, @ryancordell.bsky.social & Stephen Downie), at #DH2024 tomorrow morning at 8:30 AM. Hope you can join us!
My dissertation acknowledgements.
July 26, 2024 at 2:01 AM
My dissertation acknowledgements.
"Disentangling Semantic and Prosodic Features of English Poetry," authored by @tedunderwood.me and me, is available as an open-access publication in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: doi.org/10.1093/llc/.... We classified 30k+ English poems to study the distinction between genre and form. (1/6)
Disentangling semantic and prosodic features of English poetry
Abstract. The distinction between genre and form is still contested in literary studies. While scholars associated with the New Formalism are criticized for per
doi.org
March 1, 2024 at 4:07 AM
"Disentangling Semantic and Prosodic Features of English Poetry," authored by @tedunderwood.me and me, is available as an open-access publication in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: doi.org/10.1093/llc/.... We classified 30k+ English poems to study the distinction between genre and form. (1/6)
Voting for the @ach.bsky.social Executive Council is now open until March 5. It's truly an honor to be included among so many excellent colleagues for consideration. Your voice and your vote are invaluable to ACH! Bios and candidate statements available at ach.org/blog/2024/02...
ACH 2024 Election Slate | The Association for Computers and the Humanities
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February 27, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Voting for the @ach.bsky.social Executive Council is now open until March 5. It's truly an honor to be included among so many excellent colleagues for consideration. Your voice and your vote are invaluable to ACH! Bios and candidate statements available at ach.org/blog/2024/02...
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OK but: What are generative large language models—"AI," I guess—actually *for*? Trying to figure that out is why @tedunderwood.me's work interests me. He's trying to use these things' facility with language to understand language itself, and literature. It's neat!
Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois
In a world filled with AI skeptics and chatbot alarmists, Ted Underwood is making one of the strongest cases for the value of artificial intelligence.
www.businessinsider.com
December 6, 2023 at 5:26 PM
OK but: What are generative large language models—"AI," I guess—actually *for*? Trying to figure that out is why @tedunderwood.me's work interests me. He's trying to use these things' facility with language to understand language itself, and literature. It's neat!
Presenting “Structural Characteristics in Historical Networks Reveal Changes in Political Culture: An Example From Northern Song China (960–1127 C.E.)” at 11:30am Paris Time at #CHR2023 with Professor Song Chen, Yuqi Chen, and Professor Jana Diesner. Full paper at: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/pap.... 1/5
December 6, 2023 at 1:59 AM
Presenting “Structural Characteristics in Historical Networks Reveal Changes in Political Culture: An Example From Northern Song China (960–1127 C.E.)” at 11:30am Paris Time at #CHR2023 with Professor Song Chen, Yuqi Chen, and Professor Jana Diesner. Full paper at: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/pap.... 1/5