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Aligning the Odes: A Character-Level Parallel Dataset for the Anhui University and Fùyáng Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts Cover

Aligning the Odes: A Character-Level Parallel Dataset for the Anhui University and Fùyáng Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts

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|Oct 2026

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Witnesses and source works used in the corpus.

WITNESSPERIODUNITSPHYSICAL SOURCEREFERENCE TRANSCRIPTION
MáoshīReceived305Received textMáo Shī Zhèngyì (2000)
ĀndàFourth century BCE58Huáng and Xú (2019)Loh (2022)
FùyángEarly Western Han113Hú and Hán (1988)Chén (2019)
Figure 1

The third character Āndà’s Guānjū 關雎 Ode: ⿰鳥叴.

Figure 2

Opening extract of the Āndà transcription.json file. The ordered unit, paragraph, and line structure supplies stable coordinates for individual graph positions; ellipses abbreviate later lines and units.

Figure 3

Image segmentation for the first strip of Āndà Guānjū 關雎. Red traces the source page selection to the reconstructed strip; blue traces selected strip locations to individual graph crops. The two mapping files preserve the geometry required to repeat both steps.

Figure 4

From physical graph crops to the Āndà Guānjū 關雎 transcription. Each source-mapping record connects a cropped graph to one position in the transcription: red identifies its physical location and blue its textual position. Colours are explained below in paragraph Visual inspection.

Figure 5

Cross-witness alignment in Chún zhī bēnbēn 鶉之奔奔. The purple correspondence relates Āndà競 and Fùyáng 強 to the two graphs 彊彊 in the received text. The blue and orange correspondences identify the first two graph positions of the received reading 我以爲兄 and its manuscript variants. Each array records the graph positions treated as corresponding. Manuscript images are hidden in this figure for legibility reasons.

Figure 6

Āndà strip view with physical item overlays and crop metadata.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.644 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Page range: 138 - 138
Submitted on: Aug 28, 2026
Accepted on: Sep 23, 2026
Published on: Oct 19, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2026 Julien Baley, Jīnqí Yīng, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.