Digitizing the Strange

袁枚 Yuan Mei (1716-1796)

Zibuyu 子不語

21 卷二十一

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Topic 5 Money Matters

割竹簽

黎民買賣田土,無文契票約,但用竹籤一片。售價若干,用刀劃數目於籤上,對劈為二,買者賣者各執其半以為信。日久轉賣,則取原主之半籤合而驗之。其稅籤如稅契,請官用印於紙,封其竹籤之尾,春秋納糧,較內地加豐焉。

English

Engraved Bamboo Stick

…coming soon…

Deutsch

Ein gravierter Bambusstock

…in Bearbeitung…

Translation into English and German, unless otherwise indicated, by:
Übersetzungen ins Englische und Deutsche, soweit nicht anders angegeben, von:

Teresa Johnson, Ph.D.

Topics

In a corpus of ca. 3100 stories from the strange tales collections Zibuyu, Xu Zibuyu, Yuewei caotangbiji, Liaozhai zhiyi, Yetan suilu, Ershilu and Xieduo an LDA-based topic modeling algorithm was asked to identify exactly 50 topics. The algorithm calculated the probability of each of the 50 topics to appeaer in each of the stories. Below are given the Top 5 topics in decending order of their probabilities for the story above. Probabilities are indicated with percentage numbers.

33.36%

Topic 5 Money Matters

17.99%

Topic 28 Grammar Particles

12.89%

Topic 50 Mountains, Rocks, Water

11.56%

Topic 3 Urumqi Memories

4.68%

Topic 48 Snakes, Insects, Thunder Strike

Locations

Placenames have been manually extracted from the story content.

黎 Li people (on Hainan island)
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