Text Mining Twelfth-century Perceptions of Factions Dataset

For a fuller description see the original article and the appendix (Is there a Faction in this List? [Hilde De Weerdt, Brent Ho, Allon Wagner, Qiao Jiyan, and Chu Mingkin], Journal of Chinese History 2020).

It includes 1. the list of names and biographical ids for all those mentioned on the three lists under examination 2. the raw data extracted from the co-occurrence of these names in corpora including all prose texts authored by authors active at the time when the lists may have been compiled 3. a document describing how the raw data was obtained and curated 4. curated co-occurrence network data for the Yuanyou and Qingyuan lists (differentiating between ties reported in total, in texts excluding self-references by the author, and in texts authored by peers who did not appear on the list) 5. network files including a range of metrics for the Yuanyou and Qingyuan networks 6. native place and place of office (posting) data for those on the Yuanyou and Qingyuan lists 7. data calculating the significance of particular prefectures and routes in each of these networks 8. an interactive graph showing the significance of particular prefectures and routes in each of these networks 9. data showing sampling results based on the backgrounds of the QIngyuan list 10. raw co-occurrence network data for the sample group The dataset consists of 34 datafiles and 1 document.