May 15, 2025
To address the challenge of systematically integrating and discovering knowledge from vast volumes of unstructured academic papers in China Studies (CS) within Taiwan, this study proposes a generative AI–driven knowledge graph construction paradigm, replacing traditional ontology engineering. Leveraging 1,367 scholarly papers published between 1996 and 2019, we integrate large language model–based triple extraction, entity normalization and mapping, vector database–enabled semantic retrieval, and D3.js–powered interactive visualization to construct the first dynamic domain-specific knowledge graph for Taiwan’s CS field. The resulting graph supports interactive concept-node querying, semantic relationship tracing, and thematic clustering analysis. It effectively uncovers latent scholarly trajectories, emerging research fronts, and structural knowledge gaps, thereby significantly enhancing cross-disciplinary literature discovery efficiency and analytical insight generation.