Yifan Gu

Cultural sustainability through kinship networks: A quantitative analysis of marriage strategies in Qing China’s literary lineages (1644–1911)

This study examines how marriage-network position was associated with recorded literary visibility among Qing literary families. Using Xu Yanping’s Genealogical Networks of Literary Lineages in the Qing Dynasty (2010), we reconstructed a reproducible surname–location-level marria...