Prof. David Cheng CHANG Co-directed the Digital Humanities Project “Victory 1945: A Spatio-Documentary History of Japan’s Surrender in Guangzhou
The project tells a spatio-documentary story of an important historical moment. After eight years of resistance, China emerged victorious in its war against Japan as a member of the Allied forces in World War II. In Guangzhou, which had fallen to Japanese occupation in October 1938, residents witnessed the return of Chinese troops for the first time in eight years — smartly dressed, splendidly equipped, proud, and confident. Drawing on two historical maps of Guangzhou from the HKUST Library Special Collections and a wide range of primary sources, including archival documents, newspapers, memoirs, photographs, and moving images, the project employs ArcGIS and its StoryMap tools to reconstruct a vivid digital historical scene.
Project Team
- Prof. David Cheng CHANG (Co-PI, Global China Center and Division of Humanities, HKUST)
- Dr. Shirley ZHANG (Co-PI, HKUST Library)
- Xiaocong YU (Research Assistant, MPhil student in Humanities, HKUST)
- Yifan WANG (HKUST Library)
- Adrian LAI (HKUST Library)
- Winki YUEN (HKUST Library)
- Victoria Caplan (HKUST Library)
- Cherry LI (Video Editor, Year 2 student in Humanities, HKUST)
Reference: https://library.hkust.edu.hk/ds-colab/p005/storymaps
