Prof. Jinyu Liu Helps Create Groundbreaking Classical Studies Project - DePauw University

"A collaboration involving Jinyu Liu, associate professor and chair of Classical studies at DePauw University, and other scholars of Western classics in China has led to a new digital humanities project. The goal of the new initiative, Dickinson Classics Online (DCO), is to make available significant works from the Greco-Roman classics have never been translated into Chinese.  DCO will create tools for learning Latin and Greek and accurate translations, along with commentaries from a Chinese perspective.  Over the summer, Dr. Liu worked with Christopher Francese and Marc Mastrangelo, both classics professors at Dickinson College, to organize an international seminar in Shanghai on creating open access resources for Chinese speaking scholars and students of Graeco-Roman Classics. That led to the launch of DCO, which now contains Latin-Chinese and Greek-Chinese lexica (the immediate products of the seminar's work over the summer), and interviews of a number of classicists and ancient historians from top Chinese universities.  DCO will be an ever-evolving resource ..."