Modernism’s Vector: Dataset for a Chinese-Language Journal in Late 1950s Malaya
Abstract
This paper discusses the creation and reuse potential of the dataset of .txt files of Chao Foon (Jiaofeng), a Chinese-language literary journal that was founded in November 1955 in colonial Malaya. This dataset from a ‘minor’ context of Malayan-Chinese (or Mahua) literature aims to broaden the study of Cold War modernism beyond Euro-American and French contexts. Scholars can use the dataset to generate embeddings and visualizations based on distributional methods.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Digital Humanities and Scholarship
Modernist Literature and Criticism
Literature: history
themes
analysis
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of Open Humanities Data
- Volume
- 12
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN