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Film News in Early Chinese Newspapers database
Dear friends and colleagues,
This is our labor of love to the history of Chinese language cinema. For your information, research and reference.
Cheers,
Emilie Yeh <yyyeh at hkbu.edu.hk>
Academy of Film and HKBU Library launch database on film news in early Chinese newspapers for free public access
電影學院與大學圖書館共建「早期華文報紙電影史料庫」免費供公眾使用
A launching seminar was held yesterday (18 March) for a collaborative digital humanities project between Professor Emilie Yeh, Director of Academy of Film of the School of Communication, and the Hong Kong Baptist University Library. The resulting database on film-related materials in early Chinese newspapers is now available online for free public access. Among the participants at the launching seminar was Ms Janet Young, Head of Hong Kong Film Archive. 
Professor Emilie Yeh, principal investigator of the project, introduced the background of the database, saying that the research team spent three years to collect over 22,000 records on film advertisements, news and reviews published between 1900 and 1950 in eight selected Chinese newspapers from late Qing to the Republican era in four cities: Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Tianjin. Professor Yeh said that during the research process, new primary historical documents were uncovered which greatly facilitated the reconstruction of the early cinema scene in these regions. She also shared some interesting findings, such as the discovery of various translations of the word “movie” used in different regions in China.
Dr Liu Hui, Associate Professor of the College of Mass Communication of Shenzhen University who served as the project co-investigator, discussed the missing links and inaccurate assumptions in existing Chinese film history due to a lack of primary historical documents. In addition, Ms Rebekah Wong, Senior Assistant Librarian and Head of the Digital and Multimedia Services Section, introduced some of the key features of the database. 
Although there is a vast amount of film-related materials in early Chinese newspapers which carry historical significance, it can be a challenge to locate. This online database, with a keyword index and easy search function goes beyond geographical limitations and will serve as an essential reference for future research on Chinese film history. For details of the Project, please visit
http://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/chinesefilms/. 
This is the second digital humanities project. The first database created through collaboration between the University Library and scholars was “Tribute Data Curation”.
由傳理學院電影學院總監葉月瑜教授與大學圖書館合作的「數位人文」計劃，開發了名為「早期華文報紙電影史料庫」的網上史料庫，免費開放予公眾人士使用，並於昨天舉行成立發佈會，出席者包括香港電影資料館館長楊可欣女士。  
負責研究計劃的葉月瑜教授於會上介紹了史料庫的成立背景與過程。她說，研究團隊耗時三年，廣閱香港、廣州、杭州和天津等四個城市的八份晚清至民國時期的華文報紙 ­─《華字日報》、《公評報》、《越華報》、《廣州民國日報》、《浙江日報》、《東南日報》、《北京時報》和《益世報》，搜集超過兩萬則刊登於1900年至1950年期間的電影廣告、新聞及專欄文章。葉教授說，在研究過程中有不少新史料出土，大大推動了早期華語電影史的重構。她同時分享了不少有趣的發現，例如當時全國各地對「電影」一詞有不同譯名。  
研究計劃協同研究員、深圳大學傳理學院副教授劉輝博士表示，由於早期華語電影史料嚴重匱乏，導致目前中國電影史多有謬誤，概念不清。此外，圖書館高級助理館長兼數碼及多媒體服務組主管王信嫺女士示範了史料庫的具體操作。  
早期華文報紙的電影史料數目龐大且珍貴，「早期華文報紙電影史料庫」的建立，大大降低獲取原始史料的難度，不單把研究視野擴大，更突破搜尋史料的地域限制，對今後早期華語電影史研究有重大貢獻。詳見「早期華文報紙電影史料庫」：http://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/chinesefilms/  
「早期華文報紙電影史料庫」是大學圖書館與學者合作的第二個「數位人文」項目，首個項目是「貢品數據管理」資料庫。  
by denton.2 at osu.edu on March 21, 2015
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