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Digital Research on the Image of the Periphery During Wei-Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties (Year Three)

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Project identifier AS-ASCDC-111-201
Conducted by Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy
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Overview

This research project is based on the "Database of Foreigner's Names and Ethnicities" and "Database of Periphery Narratives," which we built in the past two years on the basis of biographies of foreign people and areas in eleven standard histories, as well as based on the "Database of Exchanges" and "Database of Communications," which we will continue developing this year. Our goal is to break the common limitation of studies that focus on two countries as their reference points when studying the exchange of envoys, tributes, and frontier markets. We hope to instead view the exchange activities between countries as a symbolic code that we calculate. In doing so, we can mark up political activities and relevant interactions between two countries, observing patterns of international exchanges and interactions from different sides. We also integrate our three years of research results, using dashboard software to visualize analysis tables of the comprehensive national power of China's neighboring countries in the time period under examination. In this way, we can show the representations of these countries at that time through objective data and view the development of their national power through broad temporal and spatial perspectives.

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