Work

Is There a Faction in This List?

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: This article has two main objectives. First, we aim to revisit debates about the structure of Song Dynasty faction lists and the relationship between eleventh- and twelfth century factional politics on the basis of a large-scale network analysis of co-occurrence ties reported in the prose collections of those contemporary to the events. Second, we aim to innovate methodologically by developing a series of approaches to compare historical networks of different sizes with regard to overall network metrics as well as the significance of particular attributes such as native and workplace in their makeup. The probabilistic and sampling methods developed here should be applicable for various kinds of historical network analysis. The corresponding data can be found here: https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xtf-z3au .

Source: Journal of Chinese History

DOI: 10.1017/jch.2020.16

Authors: Hilde De Weerdt, Brent Ho, Allon Wagner, Jiyan Qiao, Mingkin Chu

Institutions: Leiden University, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Tel Aviv University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Hong Kong

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,160

Funders: University of Cambridge, European Commission, FP7 Ideas: European Research Council