Tsui Lik Hang traces the development of digital history in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, understanding the field primarily as working with historical sources in the form of digital data. While databases were primarily used for information retrieval before 2010, the buzzword “digital humanities” gained prominence in the 2010s and led to the establishment of the first centers. Today, digital methods are increasingly part of education, but are not yet fully integrated. Tsui describes the present as a transitional phase in which the field will normalize in the long term, so that the term “digital history” may become redundant. At the same time, he emphasizes the importance of the global dimension: digital history is not exclusively Euro-American history, but a transcultural and translingual practice.
