A Primer on Chinese Beliefs in Thailand: The Case of Bangkok

Time
2025年8月09日 14:30 ~ 15:00
Speaker
林威廷
Room
TR512
Collaborative Notes
https://hackmd.io/SJd9aqWugg
MandarinElementary
Interdisciplinary Practice of Art, Culture, Local Context, and Open Data.

Abstract

At COSCUP 2024, Weiting Lin shared the “Momentum of Civil Cultural Asset Education,” demonstrating how to translate field notes, community collaboration, and GitHub processes into open datasets that can be freely remixed, and how to use the community model of monthly book clubs + outdoor field trips to accumulate solid experience in cultural asset promotion. This year, he extends this “Cultural Asset × Open Data” methodology to Thailand, focusing on the Chinese faith spaces that have taken root in Bangkok’s Yew Wali and Chao Phraya riverside since the 19th century-from the Temple of the Dragon Lotus, the Temple of the Tiger God to the Nine Emperor’s Vegetarian Festivals-combining field research, map annotation, and open data collection. Combining fieldwork, mapping, and open data, the project visualizes a faith network of more than 40 Chinese temples, and invites the open source community to co-create and co-edit. (Notice: The English content is automatically translated and may contain inaccuracies or misinterpretations. Please refer to the original version for the most accurate information.)

About the Speaker

林威廷

林威廷

大家好,我是林威廷,目前就讀於國立臺灣藝術大學藝術管理與文化政策研究所博士班,研究領域涵蓋臺灣傳統工藝、民間信仰與無形文化資產保存政策,特別關注宗教文化在不同地域與時代背景中的轉化與實踐。

過去我曾任職於臺北市政府文化局,參與多項文化館所與與策劃傳統彩繪匠師特展等,同時也致力於將田野調查與研究成果轉化為策展、講座與出版,推動文化知識的公共化。近年來,我開始將視野擴展至東南亞華人社會,特別關注信仰如何在遷徙、融合與在地化過程中展現活力,包含香港、檳城、曼谷之田野研究。