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period onward, written vernaculars including modern standard Chinese - produced in China and Sinophone communities and, in practice, organized by language register, genre, and dynasty or modern period.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Chinese literature as a contested literary tradition and corpus, recording how works, language practices, forms, transmission histories and institutions establish membership and shape interpretation without treating language, ethnicity, citizenship or present-day territory as sufficient membership rules.", "in_scope": [ "Explicit criteria for including works in Chinese literature, including disputed and overlapping affiliations", "Literary language, script, genre, form and relationships between written and performed expression", "Textual witnesses, editions, attribution, dating and editorial mediation", "Periodisation, canon formation, circulation and reception across relevant communities", "Interpretive evidence and constraints on translation, comparison, quotation and corpus reuse" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Chinese language grammar and language acquisition as independent subjects", "The general history and governance of China beyond their demonstrated literary relevance", "Author biographies and personal identities beyond relationships needed to interpret or situate works", "Physical conservation and ownership administration of manuscripts and printed objects", "Publishing businesses, platforms and copyright systems beyond their effects on the literary corpus" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A work's Chinese language or script is insufficient by itself: inclusion requires a recorded literary function or reception and a stated corpus rule.", "A work about China is distinguishable from a work affiliated with Chinese literature; subject matter alone does not establish membership.", "Author ancestry, citizenship and residence are recorded separately from literary affiliation, allowing evidence-based decisions about diasporic and multilingual writing.", "A translation of a Chinese literary work is distinguished from its source expression and from a foreign work translated into Chinese; their corpus roles require separate decisions.", "Historical documents with literary reception are distinguished from documents included solely for factual information, while permitting explicitly justified overlap." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Corpus affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Work or subcorpus → named literary tradition or community, with evidence and inclusion rationale", "why_it_matters": "Supports overlapping affiliations without making nationality or ancestry a proxy for literary membership." }, { "name": "Membership decision", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Included | excluded | contested | unassessed, under an identified scope rule", "why_it_matters": "Makes the model's boundaries inspectable and prevents uncertain classifications from becoming settled facts." }, { "name": "Language and script profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Attested language or variety, literary register, script and mixed-language features, distinguished by textual expression", "why_it_matters": "Guides reading and translation without conflating script, linguistic variety and literary register." }, { "name": "Literary form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Evidence-supported labels such as shi, ci, qu, fu, prose, fiction or drama, retaining historical and translated terminology", "why_it_matters": "Allows form-sensitive interpretation while avoiding automatic equivalence with modern English genre labels." }, { "name": "Temporal placement", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Work or expression → supported composition, revision, publication and reception intervals, with named periodisation", "why_it_matters": "Separates different literary events and allows competing historical frameworks." }, { "name": "Textual establishment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed | single-witness basis | compared witnesses | critically edited basis | materially disputed, with supporting explanation", "why_it_matters": "Indicates whether interpretation or quotation depends on unresolved textual choices." }, { "name": "Corpus coverage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Counts and proportions by declared period, region, language, form and circulation medium; denominator and unknowns required", "why_it_matters": "Makes claims of representativeness testable and exposes gaps in the available corpus." }, { "name": "Reception position", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Work → anthology, curriculum, critical debate, readership or adaptation, qualified by community and date", "why_it_matters": "Treats canonical status as situated evidence rather than an intrinsic or universal rank." } ], "affordances": [ "Evaluate a candidate work's membership using explicit criteria and preserve contested affiliations.", "Select a reading or quotation text with traceable edition, witness and editorial choices.", "Build a reading or research corpus and disclose gaps across periods, regions, forms and language practices.", "Compare works using historically situated genre, language and period categories.", "Prepare translations or annotations that expose allusions, textual uncertainty and consequential translation choices.", "Assess whether a proposed excerpt, adaptation or computational reuse is supported by the available text, provenance and applicable permissions." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "cambridge-history-2010", "title": "The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Periodization by dynasty and by the classical-to-vernacular shift; the main genre divisions (poetry, prose, fiction, drama); and the modern/May Fourth break." }, { "id": "columbia-history-2001", "title": "The Columbia History of Chinese Literature", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Genre coverage across shi, ci, fu, fiction, drama, and non-belletristic writing, and the inclusion of Buddhist, Daoist, and other specialist corpora in the literary field." }, { "id": "idema-haft-1997", "title": "A Guide to Chinese Literature", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Practical distinctions among classical poetry and prose, vernacular fiction, drama, and twentieth-century literature as they are taught and catalogued." }, { "id": "wilkinson-new-manual", "title": "Chinese History: A New Manual", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Bibliographic scale of the written record, the fourfold jing-shi-zi-ji classification, Siku Quanshu catalogue practice, and transmission and loss of texts." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "corpus-boundaries-and-affiliations", "name": "Corpus boundaries and affiliations", "description": "Establishes what Chinese literature means for the model and how particular works qualify.", "rationale": "An undefined registry entry cannot safely inherit a single linguistic, national or ethnic boundary.", "layers": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership rules", "description": "Makes the operative definition of the literary corpus explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "literary-and-tradition-membership", "name": "Literary and tradition membership", "description": "Record separate evidence for a candidate's literary standing and its affiliation with Chinese literature.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which combination of language, literary practice, reception and self-positioning establishes inclusion in this corpus?", "kind": "definition", "id": "literary-and-tradition-membership-q01" }, { "text": "When are histories, philosophical writings, letters or other boundary forms included for their literary reception?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "literary-and-tradition-membership-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "overlapping-literary-geographies", "name": "Overlapping literary geographies", "description": "Records regional, diasporic and multilingual affiliations without forcing exclusivity.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-affiliation", "name": "Situated affiliation", "description": "Record how a work relates to relevant literary communities and which classification claims remain contested.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do the selected scope rules handle works associated with mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and diasporic communities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situated-affiliation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports inclusion or exclusion of non-Chinese-language writing and writing affiliated with multiple traditions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-affiliation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-form-and-performance", "name": "Language, form and performance", "description": "Records the linguistic and formal distinctions needed to recognise and interpret literary expression.", "rationale": "Script alone cannot establish language, and broad translated genre labels can conceal distinctions relevant to reading Chinese literature.", "layers": [ { "id": "literary-language-and-script", "name": "Literary language and script", "description": "Distinguishes register, linguistic variety, script and editorial normalisation.", "findings": [ { "id": "expression-language-profile", "name": "Expression language profile", "description": "Record the language practices visible in a particular expression, including classical, vernacular and mixed features where supported.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies the expression's literary register and linguistic variety rather than merely its written characters?", "kind": "definition", "id": "expression-language-profile-q01" }, { "text": "Has an editor changed character forms, punctuation or wording, and which features of the earlier expression remain recoverable?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "expression-language-profile-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-forms-and-performance", "name": "Historical forms and performance", "description": "Connects form labels to observable conventions and relevant performance practices.", "findings": [ { "id": "form-specific-reading-requirements", "name": "Form-specific reading requirements", "description": "Record the formal evidence needed to use labels such as shi, ci, qu or fu and to interpret written or performed versions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which historically appropriate form label applies, and what textual or scholarly evidence supports it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "form-specific-reading-requirements-q01" }, { "text": "Which features must a reading preserve or explain, such as line pattern, rhyme, tonal organisation, tune designation, parallelism or performance context?", "kind": "action", "id": "form-specific-reading-requirements-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "textual-transmission-and-establishment", "name": "Textual transmission and establishment", "description": "Tracks the evidence connecting a work to its surviving, edited and digitised expressions.", "rationale": "The agent must know which text it is interpreting and whether attribution, dating or editorial intervention changes the claim it can make.", "layers": [ { "id": "witnesses-attribution-and-dating", "name": "Witnesses, attribution and dating", "description": "Separates the inferred work history from the dates and claims attached to surviving witnesses.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-textual-lineage", "name": "Evidenced textual lineage", "description": "Record consulted witnesses and the evidence for authorship, compilation, composition and revision.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which manuscripts, printed editions, quotations or other witnesses support the text used here, and which were actually consulted?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidenced-textual-lineage-q01" }, { "text": "What supports the attributed author and date, and are composition, compilation, revision and surviving-copy dates being distinguished?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidenced-textual-lineage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "editorial-and-digital-mediation", "name": "Editorial and digital mediation", "description": "Makes consequential edition choices and digitisation limitations visible.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-text-basis", "name": "Usable text basis", "description": "Record variants, punctuation, commentary boundaries, omissions and transcription issues that affect interpretation or analysis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which variant readings, punctuation decisions or divisions between base text and commentary materially affect the intended interpretation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "usable-text-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What checks on missing passages, character recognition and normalisation are required before quotation, translation or computational analysis?", "kind": "action", "id": "usable-text-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "literary-history-canon-and-circulation", "name": "Literary history, canon and circulation", "description": "Situates works within explicit historical frameworks and documented systems of selection and readership.", "rationale": "A corpus's apparent centre and historical divisions depend on how works were circulated, preserved and selected.", "layers": [ { "id": "periodisation-and-context", "name": "Periodisation and context", "description": "Records the historical framework used without assuming political periods fully determine literary change.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-historical-placement", "name": "Supported historical placement", "description": "Relate a work to named periods, movements and literary environments with evidence for each connection.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the operative periodisation dynastic, linguistic, formal, institutional or another framework, and why does it fit this task?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-historical-placement-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects the work to a claimed movement or historical condition, beyond coincidence of dates?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-historical-placement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "selection-and-readership", "name": "Selection and readership", "description": "Tracks situated canon formation and circulation through relevant institutions and media.", "findings": [ { "id": "reception-and-coverage-evidence", "name": "Reception and coverage evidence", "description": "Record selection through anthologies, commentary, education, publishing, performance or digital platforms and identify the limits of the resulting corpus.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented anthologies, educational practices, commentaries, publishers or platforms establish this work's standing for a specified audience and period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reception-and-coverage-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "How is the selected corpus distributed across declared periods, regions, forms and language practices, and which populations remain unassessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reception-and-coverage-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-translation-and-use", "name": "Interpretation, translation and use", "description": "Connects literary evidence to defensible readings, translations and reuse decisions.", "rationale": "Recognising the corpus is insufficient unless an agent can distinguish supported interpretation from conjecture and choose suitable expressions for its intended action.", "layers": [ { "id": "allusion-and-interpretive-claims", "name": "Allusion and interpretive claims", "description": "Records the basis for intertextual links, commentary traditions and contested readings.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-literary-reading", "name": "Traceable literary reading", "description": "Separate observable wording, proposed allusions, inherited commentary and the agent's own interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which passages and consulted sources support a claimed allusion, quotation or relationship to an earlier work?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-literary-reading-q01" }, { "text": "Which interpretations depend on disputed punctuation, variant readings or a particular commentary, and how should those dependencies be presented?", "kind": "action", "id": "traceable-literary-reading-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "translation-and-reuse-decisions", "name": "Translation and reuse decisions", "description": "Assesses expressions for translation, comparison, adaptation and computational use.", "findings": [ { "id": "fit-for-purpose-expression", "name": "Fit-for-purpose expression", "description": "Record source-edition alignment, translation choices and expression-specific reuse constraints before selecting material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source edition underlies the translation, and how does it handle culturally specific terms, allusions, ambiguity and formal features?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "fit-for-purpose-expression-q01" }, { "text": "For the proposed quotation, adaptation or dataset use, what textual checks, attribution and permissions are required for the particular edition or translation?", "kind": "action", "id": "fit-for-purpose-expression-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Classics and masters prose (jing and zi), read as both doctrine and literary model", "Historiography and biographical prose (shi, including official dynastic histories)", "Poetry in the shi, fu, ci, and sanqu traditions", "Classical belletristic prose (guwen, pianwen, examination prose)", "Vernacular fiction (huaben, zhanghui xiaoshuo, and later novels)", "Drama and prosimetric performance literature (zaju, chuanqi, tanci, and related xiqu texts)", "Modern and contemporary literature from the late Qing and May Fourth vernacular movement onward", "Sinophone literature written outside a PRC-national frame (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mahua, diaspora)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Chinese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Dewey Decimal Classification", "value_or_pattern": "895.1", "note": "Chinese 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normative.", "evidence": [ "Fourfold bibliographic classification (jing, shi, zi, ji), culminating in the Siku Quanshu and its annotated catalogue under the Qianlong court (1773-1782)", "Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China, issued by the National People's Congress Standing Committee (governs living authors, editions, and digital reuse in the PRC)", "Compulsory Education Chinese Language Curriculum Standards (义务教育语文课程标准), Ministry of Education of the PRC (school canon and excerpt selection)", "ISO 7098, Information and documentation - Romanization of Chinese, International Organization for Standardization (bibliographic transcription of titles and names)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Chinese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Core of school 语文 teaching and university 中文系 curricula, including gaokao set texts and close reading of shi, classical prose, and modern short fiction", "Source texts for opera, film, television, and games (especially the four major Ming-Qing novels and selected Tang-Song poems)", "Scholarly editing and full-text databases used in sinology (printed Zhonghua editions; digital corpora such as the Chinese Text Project and Scripta Sinica)", "Translation and world-literature publishing, from missionary and early sinological versions through contemporary prize circuits", "Historical use in the civil-service examination (keju), which made regulated verse and classical prose a credentialed skill rather than only an aesthetic practice" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Chinese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Temporal span of the written literary record in Sinitic languages", "typical_range": "Shijing compilation by about the 6th century BCE through the present; inscriptional writing from the late 2nd millennium BCE is adjacent but not usually counted as literature", "unit": "year (BCE/CE)" }, { "quantity": "Length of a regulated shi poem (jueju or lüshi)", "typical_range": "20, 28, 40, or 56", "unit": "Chinese character" }, { "quantity": "Length of a full-length zhanghui novel", "typical_range": "about 500000-1000000 (Hongloumeng commonly cited near 700000-1000000 depending on recension)", "unit": "Chinese character" }, { "quantity": "Works recorded in the Siku Quanshu enterprise", "typical_range": "3461 works copied into the library; 6793 titles listed as cunmu in the annotated catalogue", "unit": "title" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Chinese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Physical and political loss of texts (war, fire, paper decay, and documented destruction such as Qin biblioclasm and later library disasters)", "Censorship, expurgation, and literary inquisition (Qing Siku omissions and bans; PRC publication control; school-canon cuts)", "Pseudepigraphy, forged attributions, and unstable recensions, especially for pre-Qin and early medieval works", "Copying and print-transmission error, then OCR and encoding error in digital corpora (simplified/traditional conversion, variant characters)", "Canon formation that systematically under-represents women, vernacular, regional, and non-Han voices", "Translation and classroom excerpting that freeze a work as a moral or nationalist emblem rather than a text with a transmission history" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Chinese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "PRC practice uses simplified characters, a Marxist and May Fourth-centered modern canon, and state curriculum and publishing control", "Taiwan uses traditional characters and a modern canon that includes mainland émigré writing, nativist xiangtu fiction, and a different set of living authors", "Hong Kong sits between mainland and overseas markets, with a strong popular and cinematic afterlife of classical and modern texts and a bilingual literary field", "Singapore and Malaysia maintain Mahua (Chinese-Malaysian/Singaporean) literature as a distinct Sinophone line, often excluded from PRC 'national literature' lists", "Historically, Literary Chinese was a written medium in Korea, Japan, and Vietnam (hanmun, kanbun, chữ Hán); those corpora are received as Chinese literature only when the author or textual tradition is treated as Chinese, which practice often does not do" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Chinese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Chinese language", "difference": "Language is the grammatical and lexical system (and its varieties); literature is a selected corpus of texts. A lect can exist with little written literature; a literary corpus can outlive the spoken form it was composed in (as with Literary Chinese)." }, { "name": "Sinophone literature", "difference": "Sinophone, in Shih Shu-mei's sense, names Sinitic writing outside a China-as-nation centre. 'Chinese literature' in library and school practice is still often PRC- or dynasty-centred and may include or exclude Taiwan, Hong Kong, and diaspora work depending on the catalogue." }, { "name": "Chinese philosophy / jing and zi as doctrine", "difference": "The same pre-Qin and medieval texts are philosophy when the unit of analysis is argument and school, and literature when the unit is form, anthology, or style. The test is the research question and the catalogue class (B vs PL/I), not the title list." }, { "name": "Oral and folk performance tradition", "difference": "Oral epic, storytelling, and unscripted xiqu practice are transmitted by performance; they enter Chinese literature only when a written text (libretto, huaben, tanci) is stable enough to be edited and cited." }, { "name": "Literary Chinese writing by Korean, Japanese, or Vietnamese authors", "difference": "Shared written medium (Literary Chinese) does not make the work Chinese literature. Authorship, intended audience, and later national bibliographic assignment separate a Tang poem by a Chinese official from a hanmun or kanbun composition." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Chinese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "With no registry definition recorded, should this entry primarily follow a language-based corpus, a historically constituted literary tradition or an explicitly plural combination?", "How should this registry relate Chinese literature to Sinophone literature, regional traditions, minority-language writing and diasporic writing while preserving overlapping affiliations?", "Which boundary genres and oral or performed traditions should this model include, and which should be linked to neighbouring models?", "Which consulted scholarly resources and editions should anchor terminology, periodisation, attribution and disputed membership decisions?", "What coverage standard would justify describing a selected corpus as representative, particularly where preservation, editorial selection and digital availability are uneven?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "work, medium or creative form", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "one-syllable article", "Chinese folk literature", "Hong Kong literature", "Taiwanese literature", "tongzhi literature", "Chinese erotic and pornographic literature", "Taiwan Indigenous Literature", "Song dynasty literature", "Han dynasty literature", "Literature of classic period of China", "Zhiguai xiaoshuo", "Qing dynasty literature" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 19 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Chinese literature from another, and a Chinese literature from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Chinese literature is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Chinese literature, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Chinese literature, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Chinese literature is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Chinese literature sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Chinese literature, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what 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what distinguishes a Chinese literature, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Chinese literature is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Chinese literature passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", 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{ "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a Chinese literature, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a Chinese literature is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a Chinese literature and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Chinese literature, and in what units or vocabulary?", 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Chinese literature is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }