A Study on the Evolution of Classifications in Leishu Yiwenleiju and Taipingyulan through Textual Analysis
| Autor: | Chia-Hsuan Chung, 鍾嘉軒 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 101 Leishu (類書) is a unique form of ancient Chinese reference books that seem to have no counterpart in the western civilization. The original purpose of leishu was to provide quick reference to ancient texts. Therefore a leishu usually contains two parts, a knowledge structure and a large number of quoted texts from older books. Among the most important leishu are Yiwenleiju (藝文類聚) and Taipingyulan (太平御覽), produced, respectively, in 624AD (early Tan Dynasty) and 977AD (early Sung Dynasty). Since many of the sources, more than 1,000 in each book, quoted in the two books no longer exist, Yiwenleiju and Taipingyulan have been used for collecting texts of lost books. The knowledge structure of a leishu reveals how the people of its time view the world. By observing the changes in citations, we can have a glimpse of the evolution of a concept between the two era. In this thesis we have developed a procedure to process the quoted texts in a leishu, and a way to compare similar texts in the two books. We have also built a search and retrieval system with which one can observe the differences both in the knowledge structure and the texts of Yiwenleiju and Taipingyulan. |
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