Visual Analysis and Presentation of Confucian Academic History Based on the Xue-an Literature
This paper has practiced digital methods in the field of philology through quantitative analyzing and visualizing the relationship among scholars in the ancient Chinese academic history.There exist many kinds of styles in compiling Chinese academic history,but the Scholar Cases,also called Xue-an,are proper to the internal requirements of academic history.By statistics,visualization and classification,we reorganize the content of books(including Song Yuan Xue-an,Ming Ru Xue-an and Qing Ru Xue-an)to picture the general characteristics of academic history.We propose a three-level framework to analyze the academic relationship which were recorded in historical document.At the macro level,we can realize the academic background by the statistics of characters and relationships.At the meso level,the visualization of the evolvement of the academic communities plays an important part.By comparing the different time,we can find the obvious difference.The academic schools interplayed and contended in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.In the Ming Dynasty,most of peoples were influenced by WANG Yangming,except ZHAN Ruoshui and his students.By the Qing Dynasty,academic schools lack relation.At the micro level,we dig into the content of the text,and construct the network of academic inheritance through the relationship like"pioneer→peer→successor".The network verifies the high influence and closeness of scholars in the"central circle".This paper analyzes the relation among scholars from the title and content of the three books by social network analysis and visual analysis.A new practice of studying academic development is constructed to show the various relations among different scholar cases.The conclusions are completely based on the statistical analysis and visual analysis,which provide an objective and accurate basis for the study of ancient academic history.And those conclusions are in line with the prevailing view of existing research,illustrating the usability and reliability of the digital humanities approach.Besides,the framework not only provides a kind of tool to analysis for professional,but also takes convenience for the public to understand the Confucian heritage at-a-glance way.However,statistical results and visual presentation cannot avoid the content deviation of the Xue-an text itself,nor can it avoid the subjective judgment of the Xue-an compiler.Therefore,in order to understand the full face of traditional Confucian scholarship,it still requires in-depth interpretation by humanities scholars.7 figs.2 tabs.32 refs.
Digital humanitiesXue-anConfucian academic historyVisualizationNetwork analysisAcademic inheritance
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