Journal of Scientific Information Research
Keywords
digital humanities; historical social network analysis; text mining; the literati's social activities; The Complete Collection of Song
Abstract
[Purpose/significance] The Song dynasty ranks among the most flourishing periods for literati culture in ancient China. This paper aims to observe the interaction between the literati's friendship network, social culture, and changes in the political system in the Song dynasty from the perspective of digital humanities. [Method/process] This paper uses the China Biographical Database (CBDB) to create a high-quality dataset of cleansed historical elite group in the Song dynasty for social network analysis and network topology statistics. By connecting CBDB with The Complete Collection of Song Poems, we build a dataset and a corpus of Song literati's friendship poem. The paper then uses word vector algorithms to establish a semantic network of feature words in the poems, and identifies the topics of the friendship poems with community detection algorithm. [Result/conclusion] The results show that the literati group formed various social activities through all kinds of social relations and opportunities, and the network exhibits the so_x0002_called small world property of current social media networks. 9 top communities identified from the corpus reflect the fact that social activities were highly encouraged among the literati during the Song dynasty.
First Page
66
Last Page
75
Submission Date
June 2025
Revision Date
July 2025
Acceptance Date
August 2025
Publication Date
January 2026
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
ꎺ 10.19809/j.cnki.kjqbyj.2026.01.007
Recommended Citation
PAN, Jun and LIU, Ning
(2026)
"Using Network Analysis and Text Mining to Study the Social Networks of Song Dynasty Literati:
An Analysis Based on CBDB and The Collection of Song Poems,"
Journal of Scientific Information Research: Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
DOI: ꎺ 10.19809/j.cnki.kjqbyj.2026.01.007
Available at:
https://eng.kjqbyj.com/journal/vol8/iss1/7
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