Welcome to my Digital Scholarship Garden 私の電子学苑へようこそ. I’m Lin Du (杜琳), an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Chinese Studies and Department of Japanese Studies at National University of Singapore. My work bridges digital humanities, visual culture, and AI methodologies, cultivating innovative insights across East Asian media and historical studies.
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Recent Publications:
Humanities paper: Du, Lin. 2025. “From Information to Metaphor: Tracking Photographic Editing in Chinese Wartime Magazines through Digital Historical Forensics.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, July, 1–45. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2025.2514410
Methodology Paper: Du, Lin, et al. “Probing Historical Image Contexts: Enhancing Visual Archive Retrieval through Computer Vision.” ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 16, no. 4, Jan. 2024, p. 84:1-84:17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3631129.
“The Evidence of the Small: Digital Historical Forensics and What Big Data Cannot See in Wartime Chinese Propaganda.” The Digital Orientalist, May 29, 2026. https://digitalorientalist.com/2026/05/29/the-evidence-of-the-small-digital-historical-forensics-and-what-big-data-cannot-see-in-wartime-chinese-propaganda/.