12 hours of calculation to produce this heatmap of 20 main characters proximity in «Dream of the Red Chamber» : 28000x28000 positions to match

Happy labor day for the humans and their tools !
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«Dream of the Red Chamber» data visualizations of the three main protagonists along the 120 chapters of the novel
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https://pmartinolli.github.io/HongLouMeng/ source and code available
Dream of the Red Chamber Data visualizations – Dream of the Red Chamber

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Chow Tse-Tsung 周策縱 (1916–2007), #historian and scholar of #Redology #紅學 (study of the Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢). Professor @UWMadison, his signature work is The #MayFourthMovement. #五四
#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Chow Tse-Tsung 周策縱 (1916–2007), #historian and scholar of #Redology #紅學 (study of the Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢). Professor @UWMadison, his signature work is The #MayFourth Movement (left image: https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ADOTTRP5RA7IOR8W). #五四
‎Tse-Tsung Chow, East Asian languages and literature - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries

To tie it all together, I also haven't found any discussion anywhere of The Story of the Stone as a trans novel, which is bizarre to me and must mean a) I'm being too forward with my labels; b) East Asian studies/Redology is in a certain place; c) I'm still bad at searching JSTOR; d) any or all.

#litodons #queerlit #redology #infrastructuredisasterasheterosocialparadigm