Digital humanities approach to analyzing the roles and military power of Supreme Commanders and Grand Coordinators in the Ming Dynasty: a computational analysis of Ming Shilu.

This article represents a digital humanities research endeavor that attempts to explore the roles and military power of Supreme Commanders and Grand Coordinators in the Ming Dynasty, employing computational analysis of the Ming Shilu. By leveraging a semi-supervised text classification framework to...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 910 - 928
Autores principales: Tsai, Richard Tzong-Han, Liu, Yu-Sin, Chen, You-Jun, Hsieh, Hsin Yi, Chan, Ya-Chi
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2025
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          Tsai, Richard Tzong-Han
          Liu, Yu-Sin
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          Chan, Ya-Chi
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          The Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 115201, Taiwan
          National Central University, Computer Science and Information Engineering, Taoyuan, 320317, Taiwan
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        Ming dynasty, China, 1368-1644
        Military administration
        Civil-military relations
        Historical analysis
        Text mining
        Digital humanities
        Data analytics
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          Data analytics
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        CCTS API
        computational analysis
        digital humanities
        Grand Coordinators
        heat maps
        military conflicts
        Ming Dynasty
        Ming Shilu
        seed words
        Supreme Commanders
      ab: This article represents a digital humanities research endeavor that attempts to explore the roles and military power of Supreme Commanders and Grand Coordinators in the Ming Dynasty, employing computational analysis of the Ming Shilu. By leveraging a semi-supervised text classification framework to identify military paragraphs without needing prior annotation and generating heat maps based on location entities identified in the text, we discerned patterns correlating the presence of these officials with the incidence of military conflicts. We acknowledge the study's limitations, including potential misinterpretations due to the complexity of events and language used in the Ming Shilu. Despite these, our research illuminates the value of computational techniques in historical inquiries. The results underscore the complexity of Supreme Commanders' and Grand Coordinators' roles within local administration and military power structures and their impact on the political environment of the Ming Dynasty. This article advocates for future research to integrate diverse textual and data sources and incorporate additional digital methodologies, aiming for a deeper understanding of the Ming Dynasty's political landscape. This research significantly propels the utilization of digital analytical tools in historical research, offering a richer, more nuanced understanding of the past.
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