This project developed several prototypes of a key Chinese poet's network. AuthorsLili Xia (PhD Candidate in East Asian Studies)Eliot FeibushCarolina S. Roe-RaymondProject SummaryThis ongoing project uses digital tools to reconstruct and visualize social networks of 12th- and 13th-century literati in North China by drawing from the database of classical Chinese corpora. Through network modeling and data analysis of a key poet Li Chunfu, the project proposes potential correlations and discrepancies between social network clustering and affinity of poetic styles. The next step will be visualizing the entire picture of contemporary northern literati networks and georeferencing individual nodes in Google Earth or QGIS. While the literary achievement and historical significance of this literati community remain largely under-acknowledged in current scholarship, this project will ultimately highlight the geographical, socio-political, cultural and conceptual “northernness” in Middle Period China.Technology/Software UsedGephi, and various Linux command line programs, such as circo, dot, fdp, neato, sfdp, and twopi.
