Academic Research
Yan Cheng. Toward Public Writing: Political Selection of Poems by Banner Ladies in the Mid-to-Late Qing Dynasty. Modern Chinese Literary Review, Issue 1, 2022.
Yan Cheng. Does Literary and Artistic Research Need “Digital”? Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art, Issue 2, 2020.
Yan Cheng. New Liberal Arts General Education in the Digital Age. Chinese Social Sciences Today, July 6, 2020. Reprinted in Annual Development Report on New Liberal Arts Construction 2020, edited by the National Research Center for New Liberal Arts Education, pp. 145–149. Jinan: Shandong University Press, April 2021.
Yan Cheng. A Preliminary Discussion on ‘Digital Humanities’ Methods in Modern Literary Studies. Journal of Modern Chinese Literature, Issue 1, 2019.
Yan Cheng. A Critical Study of the Block-Printed Edition “Suwen Nüzi Yigao Fu Yuanjia Sanmei Hegao” from Suiyuan. Jianghai Academic Journal, July 2018.
Yan Cheng. A Study of the Transformation of the “Qiuhong Yinshe” Poetry Society Through a Social Network Analysis of Gu Taiqing’s Interactions. Shandong Social Sciences, July 2018.
Yan Cheng. An Exploration of Zhang Qieying’s Guochao Lienü Shilu. Chinese Poetics, Vol. 24.
Yan Cheng. The Northern Stele Fashion in Calligraphy During the Daoguang Period of the Qing Dynasty. Arts Criticism, February 2018.
Yan Cheng. Lu Xun’s Perspective on Intellectual Women. Lu Xun Research Monthly, December 2017.
Yan Cheng. The Creation Process of the Mongolian Female Poet Naxun Lanbao in the Qing Dynasty. Ethnic Literature Studies, September 2017.
Yan Cheng. The Calligraphy Fashion of Ladies in Qing Dynasty. Chinese Calligraphy, September 2016.
Yan Cheng. The Narrative Strategy of WeiQi WuAnHou Liezhuan. Journal of PLA Academy of Art, March 2016.
Conference Papers and Presentations
Yan Cheng. “The Pluralistic Symbiosis of Digital Methods and Traditional Humanities.” The 3rd Internet + Religious Opinion Forum, Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, November 17, 2021.
Yan Cheng. “New Explorations in New Liberal Arts and General Education Based on Digital Humanities.” Symposium on Digital Humanities and New Liberal Arts Development Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, October 30, 2020.
Yan Cheng. “Rediscovering Classical Literatures Through Digital Humanities Methods.” The 9th National Conference on Social Media Processing – Computational History Forum, Zhejiang University (Online), September 6, 2020.
Yan Cheng (with Qiu Weiyun). “Crisis and Turning Point: The Development and Alterity of Literariness from the Perspective of Digital Humanities.” The 1st International Symposium on Science, Technology and Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, October 10–13, 2019.
Yan Cheng. “Visualizing Narrative Structure.” International Symposium on Digital Humanities: Frontiers and Explorations in Humanities Research in the Age of Big Data, Nanjing University, July 1–2, 2017.
Yan Cheng. “Women’s Friendship and Poetry.” International Workshop on Digital Humanities and Literary Studies, Tsinghua University, June 10, 2017.
Yan Cheng. “Study on the Phenomena of Burning Poems by Poetesses in Qing Dynasty.” 2016 Annual Meeting of the ACLA, Harvard University, March 26–27, 2016.
Yan Cheng. “The Columbia Literary History: A Belated Return.” Literary Gazette, August 18, 2016.
Research Projects
Principal Investigator: Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project – “Research on Process Writing in Writing Instruction” (2021).
Principal Investigator: TCWC, Tsinghua University – “AI Automated Grading” Project (2020).
Sub-project Principal Investigator: Sub-project “Classical Poetry Word Segmentation and Knowledge Graph” in“Research on Classical Poetry Style Based on Statistical Learning and Deep Learning,” Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Field, Guoqiang Research Institute, Tsinghua University – (2019).
Core Participant: Major Project of the National Social Science Fund – “Analysis and Research of Classical Literary Texts Based on Big Data Technology” (18ZDA238), led by Professor Liu Shi, Tsinghua University (2018).
Participant: Major Project of the National Social Science Fund – “Complete Compilation of Qing Dynasty Poetry Talks,” led by Professor Zhang Yinpeng, Shanghai University. Responsible for collation and annotation of Xiangxielang Shihua, Liutang Shihua, Shitan Suilu, Shifa Chujin (published) (2013).
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