Late Imperial Chinese Texts: The Corpus for Fiction and History: Polarity and Stylistic Gradience in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

This corpus consists of texts written in Chinese during the Ming and Qing dynasties, spanning roughly 1368 to the early 20th century (the newest text was written in 1916). They were used for the stylometric analysis in "Fiction and History: Polarity and Stylistic Gradience in late Imperial Chinese Literature" in the journal Cultural Analytics. The texts have been mostly pre-cleaned. The only English found in most of the files are indications of chapter or scroll breaks in the format ~~~START| Title of Chapter/Scroll |START~~~ This was done to ease breaking the texts into organic sections. Most of the corpus consists of texts found on wenxian.fanren8.com, a website that provides free access to Imperial Chinese literature. A number of texts were also found at projectgutenberg.org.