Mapping Knowledge Transmission in Imperial China: Data Development and. Data Integration. in Chinese History. Hilde De Weerdt University of Oxford

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1 Mapping Knowledge Transmission in Imperial China: Data Development and Data Integration in Chinese History Hilde De Weerdt University of Oxford

2 I. Research methods: traditional and digital historical research

3 DIGITAL NUMERIC ANALYSIS Full text TEMPORAL ANALYSIS SPATIAL ANALYSIS TEXT Metadata LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS NETWORK ANALYSIS ANALYSIS

4 SPATIAL ANALYSIS SPATIAL ANALYSIS Metadata Full text Locations of notebook printing in Southern Song Places of origin of interlocutors in Huizhu lu

5 Timeline of notebook printing, Metadata TEMPORAL ANALYSIS Full text Datestamp of entries in Huizhu lu 2

6 NUMERIC ANALYSIS Full text Metadata Huizhu lu 2 quotations by type and subtopic Song printed notebooks by century of completion and century of printing

7 Full text NETWORK ANALYSIS Network of authors and interlocutors by citation frequency in Huizhu lu 1 and 2. Metadata Network of producers of printed Song biji

8 Term Siku freq Zhonghua freq S I S 金人 A N A L Y C 大金 金國 5 5 虜 女真 0 1 契丹 U I S T I Source text type Number of occurrences War announcement 6 1 Number of entries Military institutions survey 7 1 Pro-war memorial 3 1 Full text L I N G Subtotal 16 3 Other (memorial, envoy report, poem, memoir, anecdote, conversation, notebook entry copy) 夷 18 (3) 34 狄 2 12 蠻 4 4 戎 醜 0 4 盟 酋 1 10 敵人 49 2 Comparison of character frequencies in different editions 金 collocates freq score word 人 大 國 寇 賊 使 兵 Text types and 夷 狄 蠻 戎 LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

9 Digital text analysis XML Text analysis software

10 II. Prosopographical data and the analysis of notebook producers DB

11 A. OFFICIAL CAREER

12 The number of court postings of Northern Song printed biji authors by type of posting.

13 The number of court postings of Southern Song printed biji authors by type of posting.

14 B. ENTRY

15 Percentage of methods of entry into officialdom for Song biji authors (46 out of 73 unique authors)

16 Number of biji authors by type of entry into officialdom shown by date of entry. Note: dates of entry available for 40 out of the 46 cases in CBDB

17 Numbers of biji authors printed in Song times for whom no entry data exist in CBDB.

18 C. CBDB RELATIONSHIPS

19 Number and type of associations for all producers of printed Song biji.

20 Network of printed Song biji producers showing tie strength.

21 Network of printed Song biji producers (excluding Yang Wanli) by clusters. Size of nodes marks degree of Eigenvector centrality.

22 Problems coverage of biographical and relationship data Hypotheses author backgrounds network development

23 Wang Mingqing s (1127- post 1214) relationships to the first degree in CBDB (Pajek GBK)

24 Wang Mingqing s relationships to the first degree in CBDB (exported to ARCGIS)

25 II. Text encoding and the analysis of information networks in notebooks

26 A. The Text as Database

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28 Author and Interlocutor Network (Huizhu 1 and 2) Authors in red; interlocutors in green. Outer circle: 1 reference; inner circles: 2 (light green) to 3 (dark green) and so up to 15 references.

29 Author and Interlocutor Network (Huizhu 1 and 2) Pajek

30 Author network (authors to 959) Huizhu 2 Huizhu 1

31 Author network (authors ) Huizhu 2 Huizhu 1

32 Author network (authors ) Huizhu 2 Huizhu 1

33 Author network (authors )

34 Interlocutors residential addresses Dark brown areas mark houlu interlocutors, white areas qianlu interlocutors, striped areas include both qianlu and houlu interlocutors. Numbers indicate number of resident interlocutors (multiple residencies included).

35 Interlocutors office addresses Dark brown areas mark county and prefectural postings; shaded areas mark regional postings. Dot sizes mark number of postings (1-3).

36 Interlocutors: local vs. regional offices (houlu)

37 Secondary interlocutors: office types by jurisdiction (houlu)

38 Problems time place office Some preliminary results size and composition of oral information network composition of citation network of written sources Hypothesis horizontal dimensions of imperial information networks

39 III. Conclusions and Future Prospects

40 Project overview

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42 Advantages of linking large datasets with small-scale projects Focus on spatial, network, numeric analysis rather than digital publishing Benefits of multidimensional and multiperspectival analyses

43 References and Credits Peter Bol et al. Hartwell China History Project GIS ( ); and id., China Historical GIS (2001-). Data available at Peter Bol et al. China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) (2004-). Data available at =icb.page129708