Welcome to the Ten Thousand Rooms Project!
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
We’re very sorry to announce that The Ten Thousand Rooms Project is shutting down on August 15, 2025.
While we still believe in the vision of The Ten Thousand Rooms Project as a site for scholars to conduct and share collaborative textual research, the practical challenges of maintaining the site have proven too daunting. Updating the site and ensuring its viability would require a massive overhaul, which we do not have the funds for. We sincerely regret not being able to fulfill our commitment to our users keep the site open indefinitely.
Please be advised that you have until August 15th, 2025, to access the site and remove any uploaded content. Happily, we have built an export function into the site so that you can remove any annotations (translations, transcriptions, commentary, etc.) created using the site. The export function doesn’t include images, however, on the assumption that project managers and users uploaded those images in the first place.
Here’s how to export your content:
- From the Ten Thousand Rooms splash page, click on “My Projects” within the “User Menu” on the right.
- Click on the relevant project.
- Under the project title you’ll see a row of tabs (“View,” “Edit,” “Group,” etc.). Click “Export” at the end of the row.
- Next you’ll see an “Exporting to xlsx” page with a “Generating report” countdown. After a few seconds the site will automatically download an Excel spreadsheet file.
The Excel file won’t display information as intuitively as the Ten Thousand Rooms interface but it will reproduce all of your content. Annotations are grouped first by image and then by annotation type. It will also include the internal ID for every annotation and any other annotation it’s attached to.
Our sincerest thanks to our users and supporters of the Ten Thousand Rooms Project!
—Mick and Tina
Tutorials
The Ten Thousand Rooms website
Viewing projects with the Ten Thousand Rooms Text Viewer
Creating a project and editing project settings
Adding project texts and uploading images
Transcribing, translating, commentating, etc. with the Ten Thousand Rooms Text Viewer
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Where can I find a spacious hall with a thousand, ten thousand rooms,
A grand refuge to gladden the miens of all scholars in the cold,
Unmoved by winds and falling rains, secure as a mountain? Oh!
When will I get to see this house before my eyes soaring?
For that I would suffer this broken hut, and die alone and frozen.
安得廣廈千萬間，大庇天下寒士俱歡顏，風雨不動安如山！嗚呼！何時眼前突兀見此屋，吾廬獨破受凍死亦足！
Du Fu, “Song of My Cottage Unroofed by Autumn Gales” 茅屋為秋風所破歌