Seven-class genre mix
How the author's own works divide among the seven major classes (poetry, letters, prefaces and postscripts, biographies, memorials, elegies, miscellany), by century.
Of own works: poetry 62.0%, letters 13.4%, miscellany 9.1%, court documents 5.6%, biographies 3.7%, elegies 3.2%, prefaces 3.0%. By characters the order changes: miscellany 25.2%, poetry 18.8%, letters 17.8%, biographies 16.9%. Among minor classes poems (374,153), letters (81,442), 'other' within miscellany (26,505) and memorials (26,386) lead.
- Formula
- Works per major class / own works; characters likewise
- Caveats
- Miscellany (雜著類) is large: essays, records, inscriptions and 'other' all fall there. A separate table gives the minor classes.
- Reliability card
- exactExact count — read straight from the source XML
Classification quality: a stratified sample of 300 own works (major class × century) was blind-coded from titles; 97.3% agree with the ITKC major class (Wilson 95% 94.8%–98.6%; 3 undecided counted as disagreement; a second coder re-coded 30 of them blind with 97% agreement). Known block error: 284 works of 湖陰雜稿 (ITKC_MO_0126A) filed as 冊文類 carry poem titles; they are left as classified and noted here.
| Century | Poetry | Letters | Prefaces and postscripts | Biographies | Court documents | Elegies | Miscellany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| birth year unknown | 88.3% | 2.7% | 1.4% | 0.7% | 2.8% | 1.4% | 2.7% |
| 9th century | 15.4% | 32.9% | 0.3% | 1.0% | 42.2% | 5.1% | 3.1% |
| 12th century | 71.9% | 2.5% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 9.1% | 4.0% | 11.0% |
| 13th century | 73.2% | 1.6% | 3.3% | 3.7% | 8.7% | 1.1% | 8.5% |
| 14th century | 88.0% | 0.3% | 1.9% | 0.9% | 3.9% | 1.0% | 4.0% |
| 15th century | 87.7% | 0.9% | 1.5% | 1.4% | 3.8% | 0.9% | 3.9% |
| 16th century | 74.9% | 5.7% | 1.7% | 2.0% | 5.8% | 2.6% | 7.2% |
| 17th century | 62.1% | 15.0% | 2.2% | 3.4% | 7.7% | 3.2% | 6.4% |
| 18th century | 50.6% | 15.1% | 4.6% | 4.6% | 4.6% | 4.4% | 16.2% |
| 19th century | 42.2% | 30.2% | 5.6% | 7.5% | 2.4% | 2.9% | 9.1% |
Minor classes
| Major | Minor | Works |
|---|---|---|
| 詩類 | 詩類 | 374,153 |
| 書簡類 | 書簡類 | 81,442 |
| 雜著類 | 其他類 | 26,505 |
| 公車類 | 疏箚類 | 26,386 |
| 傳記類 | 碑誌類 | 15,729 |
| 雜著類 | 論說類 | 14,889 |
| 哀祭類 | 祭文類 | 14,296 |
| 序跋類 | 題跋類 | 8,704 |
| 雜著類 | 記類 | 8,455 |
| 序跋類 | 序類 | 7,304 |
| 傳記類 | 行狀類 | 4,060 |
| 哀祭類 | 其他類 | 3,824 |
| 公車類 | 其他類 | 3,502 |
| 公車類 | 敎書類 | 2,955 |
| 雜著類 | 箴銘類 | 2,807 |
| 傳記類 | 其他類 | 2,337 |
| 序跋類 | 贈序類 | 1,795 |
| 詩類 | 其他類 | 1,710 |
| 詩類 | 賦類 | 1,562 |
| 雜著類 | 上樑文類 | 1,199 |
| 雜著類 | 贊頌類 | 1,049 |
| 哀祭類 | 哀辭類 | 969 |
| 公車類 | 對策類 | 892 |
| 序跋類 | 其他類 | 608 |
| 雜著類 | 碑類 | 568 |
| 公車類 | 冊文類 | 515 |
| 詩類 | 辭類 | 433 |
| 書簡類 | 其他類 | 400 |
| 傳記類 | 系譜類 | 238 |
| 哀祭類 | 誄類 | 208 |