A Social Network Analysis of Shaoxing Book Collector Groups in Qing Dynasty

Abstract

The origins of the ancient Chinese book collection activities were very early and highly developed. Because of the advanced paper-making industry in Shaoxing (the eastern part of Zhejiang in the Qing Dynasty), there were many talented people at book engraving and book collecting in history. We try to generalize and summarize the collecting books and social life of the well-known books collectors in Shaoxing during Qing Dynasty in the article. Even more, we also try to analysis the social relationship of the books collector communities in Shaoxing during Qing Dynasty by digital humanity technology. We can know the background of books collecting by grasp the correlation between the books collectors. At present, few people present their research results in such a way. This paper hopes to take this as a starting point and expand the research scope in the future, so as to provide reference for the future presentation.

Keywords

• qing dynasty
• shaoxing
• private book collectors
• digital humanities
• social network