Diving into the cultural past, owing to the use of big data

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KUALA LUMPUR: Prof Dr Huang Yi-Long (pic) stepped into at least 50 libraries in various countries, flipping through tens of thousands of ancient records and reading materials, to conduct his research on Dream of the Red Chamber.

He spent 12 years producing three books and 55 papers, published in journals, on his research on the novel considered one of the four great classics of Chinese literature.