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Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Doing Digital History of the
People’s Republic of China
Puck Engman – [email protected] Schuman – [email protected]: The Maoist Legacy – Party Dictatorship, Transitional Justice and the Politics of Truthhttp://www.maoistlegacy.uni-freiburg.de/
The Maoist Legacy Project Database and Its Discontents
Daniel Leese. “Revising Political Verdicts in Post-Mao China: The Case of Beijing’s FengtaiDistrict.” In Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism, edited by Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson, 102–28. Harvard University Press, 2015.
� Privacy issues
� Already accessible (open/closed access)
� Ideal candidate
After the death of Mao in 1976
Continuation of Communist Party rule…
… but political redirection and efforts to redress past injustice
Database Construction in Three Steps:
① Collection
① CataloguingDigitization
① Presentation
Collection
Research Archiveand Library
Cataloguingand
Digitization
Second roundcharacter simplification
Mixed traditional andsimplified characters
Handwritten andmimeographed sources
Presentation
DCMI and Tags
Exhibitions,Scholarly Introductions,
Provincial Data…
Zhongfa Directory 1.0
ERC: The Maoist Legacy | http://www.maoistlegacy.uni-freiburg.de/
Long-term preservation?
Amanda [email protected]
Maoist Legacy [email protected]