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Re-investigating the authorship attribution of “Chujianqin” and “Cunhan” in the Han Feizi through distant reading

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2022, (84), pp.39-70
  • DOI : 10.31310/HUM.084.02
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : January 8, 2022
  • Accepted : January 25, 2022
  • Published : February 28, 2022

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ABSTRACT

This study is aimed at reexamining the authorship attribution of “Chujianqin” and “Cunhan” in the Han Feizi. Drawing on recent discussions regarding distant reading on literary history, this study presents a case study example of distant reading to build and test a hypothesis on Chinese classics. In the present study, both an unsupervised clustering and a supervised classification algorithm are used to explore patterns among pre-Qin and Han texts and to verify a hypothesis on the authorship attribution of the Han Feizi. More specifically, this study first applies Principal Component Analysis and then applies a BERT-based classification model to pre-Qin and Han texts with much focus on the Han Feizi. Results from this study reveal the existence of a remarkable similarity between the first two chapters of the Han Feizi and the Zhan Guo Ce (Annals of the Warring States). It not only provides a supplement to existing doubts over the authenticity of these two chapters but further suggests strong evidence of their Zhan Guo Ce origins.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.