(By Jeff Fan) On October 1, 2026, United Digital Publications (UDP) visited the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCKF), where we met with Executive Director Chen Chun-i and several senior staff members to exchange ideas on the digitization, accessibility, and promotion of resources for international Sinological research. More Than Three Decades of Support [...]
Several topics on this year’s EASL programme caught our attention. Before heading to Heidelberg, we decided to try a small experiment: asking UDP’s Lumen follow-up questions in natural language — in Chinese, English, and German. The results brought some unexpected surprises. “What role have the Uyghurs played in China’s historical and cultural development?” Meeting a [...]
How Did Calligraphy Evolve from Literati Culture into Modern Art? When asked the same question, Lumen, UDP's AI-powered discovery platform, reveals remarkably different knowledge pathways in Chinese and English. The difference is not simply linguistic; it reflects distinct academic traditions, knowledge structures, and research perspectives embedded within different languages. Historical Narrative vs. Global Framework The [...]
"How Did the Cold War Shape Democracy and Media in Asia?" When we asked Lumen, UDP's AI-powered discovery platform, the question in Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean, the most surprising discovery was the distinct research perspectives, scholarly traditions, and historical depth each language revealed. 4 Languages, 4 Historical Frameworks The conclusions generated by Lumen varied [...]
How Can Generative AI Improve Scholarly Search and Recommendation? When asking Lumen this question, the most surprising part is often not the answer itself, but how it connects ideas across disciplines, decades, and languages to form an unexpected “knowledge diffusion map.” In a single search, Lumen may move from AI papers to philosophy, communication studies, [...]
As AI evolves beyond a purely engineering discipline and begins to shape knowledge production across diverse fields, new research perspectives are emerging throughout academia. The AI × Digital Humanities Database (AIDH) brings together 2,000 significant studies from 16 countries across Asia, Europe, and North America, offering interdisciplinary researchers a more comprehensive gateway to AI scholarship. [...]
AI is no longer reshaping technology alone—it is also transforming research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) The AIDH Database (AI x Digital Humanities) serves as a research gateway within the Taiwan Academic Classics (TAC) platform, integrating AI-assisted translation, search, and Lumen’s extended discovery functions. Curated from journals across 16 countries in Asia, Europe, [...]
LUMEN: https://ai.udpweb.com/ LUMEN User Guide When every AI can generate answers,the real question is──Can you trust them? In an era where AI tools are rapidly proliferating, the key is no longer whether answers can be generated, but: • Are they reliable? • Do they demonstrate scholarly depth? • Can they support further research? Lumen, the academic AI [...]
From the state-building experiments in the Chinese Communist revolutionary base areas of the 1930s, to the mass mobilization portrayed in political cartoons of the 1950s, and further to media observations during the integration of East and West Germany—these three rare archives on the Chinese Communist movement and socialism take you back to the critical historical [...]
Shaping the Academic Landscape of the Asian Century! UDP launches Taiwan and Asia’s Select HSS Journals—a curated collection of 400 rare and distinctive titles from 15 Asian and 5 Western countries—resources often absent from major international content platforms and otherwise scattered across OA or institutional sites, sometimes available only through local or limited circulation, making [...]
