Group member Songyan Zhao, Yixing Song, Zhihan Yang Introduction Su Shi (1037-1101) is arguably the most famous poet in China. He had an adventurous life; he dwelled in several cities with very different humanistic and geographical characteristics. These factors had strong influences on his work, hence the importance to understand them. We believe that an interactive […]
Progress I have written all the descriptive content for our blog with some paired images and poems’ translations. Problems (and proposed solutions) Some poems do not have clear English translations. So we would find other kinds of visual content to enrich our blog Tools and techniques I basically searched through both English and Chinese Wikipedia […]
I an enthusiast of Chinese history. Since I’m haven’t taken any history lessons in Carleton, I see this final project as an opportunity to re-explore my high school interest. I hope I can use the tools I’ve learnt in this course to display poet Su Shi’s life stories in a much more vivid way than […]
My job is to find appropriate images of buildings that are 1) relevant to Su Shi’s life and/or poems 2) high-quality and model-able. At this moment, I am almost done with modeling Huxin Pavilion of West Lake, Hangzhou, China. Huxin Pavilion is a small pavilion in the middle of West Lake, one of the most […]
Group name: from Chinese Architecture Group to Poet Su Shi Life Group Group members: Zhihan Yang, Yixin Song, Songyan Zhao Links to our own blog posts: Zhihan: http://medhieval.com/classes/hh2020/week-9-project-preparation/w8-zhihans-contribution/ Songyan: http://medhieval.com/classes/hh2020/uncategorized/the-life-of-chinese-poet-sushi-silas-zhaos-contribution/ Yixin: http://medhieval.com/classes/hh2020/week-9-project-preparation/w8-progress-updates/ Project details Important note: After talking to Austin, we felt like our project was missing “a strong narrative, storytelling element” as mentioned by […]
For this final project, my biggest interest is on discovering Su Shi’s exact life journey by reading a lot of materials. I would need to search some original Song dynasty records and Su Shi’s own diary to make myself clear about those important locations in his life. This would be a good chance for me […]
Members of the group: Zhihan Yang, Yixin Song, and Songyan Zhao. We want to map the famous Song dynasty poet Su Shi’s life and post an interactive post to introduce Su Shi in a new DH way. The proposed methodology: We will collect poems, records, and specific location’s architecture data online. We will also use […]
