Overview
From Paula Curtis Collection[1]: This collection of British Colonial office correspondence relates to Hong Kong as a British colony between 1841 and 1951, and provides detailed information on the political, military, social, economic, and external development of Hong Kong. It also sheds light on the British Empire in Asia, China’s transformation from empire to republic, mainland China-Hong Kong relations, and the international politics of East Asia.
The hand-written material included in the collection will have Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) applied, making it one of the first Gale Primary Source archives to do so from scratch. HTR allows handwritten documents to be full-text searchable, just as Optical Character Recognition (OCR) allows printed books, newspapers, and other works to be searched. This enables unexpected discoveries not possible from traditional finding aids. This technology makes the documents in this collection more accessible to those without palaeography skills and enables powerful inclusion in digital humanities/ scholarship projects.
- Institution/Author: Gale Primary Source
- Period: Premodern,Modern
- Geographic Focus: China,Hong Kong
- Access: not Open Access
Digital Humanities Resources on East Asia by Dr. Paula R. Curtis ↩︎