East Asian canons

This page gathers the great East Asian textual canons and their digital editions: CBETA and SAT's digitized Buddhist canon, the carved Tripitaka Koreana, the historical bibliographic catalogues that tracked what belonged to the canon at different points (the Kaiyuan lu, the Qing dynasty's Siku zongmu), and the complete collected Tang poetry of the Quan Tang shi.

Because these canons come with their own internal catalogues recording what was added, dropped, or reclassified over time, they let conjectures test bureaucratic and economic behaviour as much as literary history. Jinshi quota kinks and The ever-normal fractile both look for the fingerprints of state administration -- civil-service examination quotas, price-stabilizing granary policy -- inside how the canon and its associated records behave statistically. Managed randomness at Anyang and Dating divination by its odds test whether ancient divination practice and oracle-bone inscriptions encode a genuinely random process or a managed one, and whether that randomness itself can be dated.