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Brian Wong

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PhD student @asianstudiesed.bsky.social working on the economic and financial mobilisation of the Japanese Empire | Training Fellow @edcdcs.bsky.social | www.brianthwong.com

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Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net · 12/09/2026
Saturday night additions to interactive map of Japanese empire: Admin boundaries for Dutch East Indies (drawing from @robertcribb.bsky.social Historical Atlas of Indonesia) & Burma divisions/districts from 1931 census w/ pop. data on info cards. froginawell.net/reference/ja...
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Brian Wong @brianthwong.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Thanks so much for sharing the article. I hope you enjoy reading it.
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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
PhD student Brian Wong has been awarded a 30,000 USD Henry Kaufman Financial History Dissertation Fellowship. His thesis examines the economic and financial mobilisation of the Japanese Empire during WWII, looking at the consequences for Japan’s home islands and its wartime colonies ... 1/3
Photo of Tsz Ho Wong standing at a lectern delivering a paper about his PhD thesis. He is looking at the audience, not the camera.
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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
One week to go: Beyond Social Networks: Advanced Gephi. Develop your skills in interpreting and visualising networks in humanities research. 🗓️ 16/03 & 23/03 🔗 edin.ac/3KBMpPZ
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#tbt to Brian Tsz Ho Wong's first DO post about teaching network analysis at @edcdcs.bsky.social - focusing on the challenges of using East Asian historical sources and availability of usable data. 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/10/29/i... #digitalhumanities #networkanalysis #researchtools
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Introducing Network Analysis in the Classroom
In March and May 2024, as a Training Fellow of the Centre of Data, Culture, and Society (CDCS) at the University of Edinburgh, I had the opportunity to teach two courses on network analysis. The fi…
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
This week we welcome Tsz Ho Wong’s first contribution to the DO! 🗃️ 🌏He explores a course he taught using Gephi to perform network analysis focusing on the challenges of using East Asian historical sources and availability of usable data 📜💻 #DH #history 📚 digitalorientalist.com/2024/10/29/i...
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Introducing Network Analysis in the Classroom
In March and May 2024, as a Training Fellow of the Centre of Data, Culture, and Society (CDCS) at the University of Edinburgh, I had the opportunity to teach two courses on network analysis. The fi…
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Today Brian Tsz Ho Wong (@edinburghuni) completes his series on the NDLJP Full-Text Search System using the system to identify different locations visited by politicians in the 1940s. Check out the latest installment, with links to part 1 &2 digitalorientalist.com/2025/09/30/u...
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🗃️ In the first part of three articles, Tsz Ho (Brian) Wong explores how to use NDLJP's digital collections to reconstruct the biographies of little known historical figures 📜 🏺 ⛩️ #digitalhumanities #history #historicalfigures #Japan #coding #academicsky 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/11/u...
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Unearthing Modern Japan’s Subterranean Networks with the National Diet Library’s (NDL) Full-Text Search System (Part 1): Kugimiya Iwao and the Circles of Orthodox Christians
Introduction In 2021, Japan’s NDL launched a project to digitise around 300,000 books (approximately 45 million digital images) in that fiscal year, marking the largest single mass digitisation eff…
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Wong has also written a fantastic three-part series on the possibilities of using the National Diet Library’s full-text search system to research a variety of historical topics 👇 digitalorientalist.com/author/brian...
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
In our new blog post, Brian Tsz Ho Wong showcases how to use the 帝国議会会議録検索システム (Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet) to study modern East Asian history based on his recent article in the Financial History Review. Read more on our blog: 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/02/06/p...
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🗃️ Who really financed #Japan’s wartime expansion?🤔 In the second installment of his series, Brian Wong uses tools like NDL database to develop our understanding of wartime business and capital networks. #digitalhumanities #history #prewar #ww2 #japanese digitalorientalist.com/2025/05/20/u...
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Unearthing Modern Japan’s Subterranean Networks with the National Diet Library’s (NDL) Full-Text Search System (Part 2): Private Capital and the Financing of Historical SMEs
Part 1 can be read here. The Zaibatsu had dominated Japanese business and industry for decades before WWII. They monopolised capital and production, worked closely with the military, had maternal r…
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