Comparison of the Impressions of Chinese on Japanese, Chinese and Korean Dance Found by Text Mining

Abstract

Understanding the psychological effects of performing arts and dances in each respective country and clarifying their similarities and differences is considered to have great significance from the perspective of cross-cultural exchange. Since factors such as participants’ nationality and culture have a large influence on the psychological effects it is necessary to collect and compare the data of each participant from each country. Thus, this study focuses on the traditional performing arts and dances in Japan, China, and Korea using Chinese people as participants, and examines the impressions that these performing arts and dances present. Quantitative text analysis was conducted on the open-ended questions from the questionnaire in Chinese to analyze the impressions presented after viewing each entertainment and dance presentation. The analysis combined various analytical methods such as the co-occurrence network diagram, multidimensional scaling method, correspondence analysis, and self-organizing diagram. By interpreting the visualized results while confirming the original data, the relationship between the characteristics of performing arts and dances in each country and the psychological effects on the viewers was clarified. As a result, it can be considered that the traditional dances of each country have unique characteristics that can be perceived differently depending on nationality and culture.