Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Complexity of Interaction along the Eurasian Steppe Zone in the first Millennium CE

Editors:
Jan Bemmann & Michael Schmauder

Publisher:
Bonn : Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität

Publication Year:
2015




Table of Contents:

PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

NOMADIC EMPIRES – MODES OF ANALYSIS

NIKOLAI N. KRADIN
Nomadic Empires in Inner Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

NICOLA DI COSMO
China-Steppe Relations in Historical Perspective. . . . .. . . . . . . . 49

J. DANIEL ROGERS
Empire Dynamics and Inner Asia. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .73

CLAUDIO CIOFFI-REVILLA, WILLIAM HONEYCHURCH, J. DANIEL ROGERS
MASON 
Hierarchies: A Long-range Agent Model of Power, Conflict, and
Environment in Inner Asia . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

PAVEL E. TARASOV, MAYKE WAGNER
Environmental Aspects of Chinese Antiquity: Problems of
Interpretation and Chronological Correlation . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

XIONGNU, THE HAN EMPIRE, AND THE ORIENTAL KOINE

BRYAN K. MILLER
The Southern Xiongnu in Northern China: Navigating and Negotiating
the Middle Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

URSULA B. BROSSEDER
A Study on the Complexity and Dynamics of Interaction and Exchange in
Late Iron Age Eurasia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

MAREK JAN OLBRYCHT
Arsacid Iran and the Nomads of Central Asia – Ways of Cultural Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

INNER AND CENTRAL ASIA FROM THE TÜRKS TO THE MONGOLS

SERGEY A. VASYUTIN
The Model of the Political Transformation of the Da Liao as an Alternative
to the Evolution of the Structures of Authority in the Early Medieval Pastoral Empires of Mongolia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

MICHAEL R. DROMPP
Strategies of Cohesion and Control in the Türk and Uyghur Empires. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

ÉTIENNE DE LA VAISSIÈRE
Away from the Ötüken: A Geopolitical Approach to the seventh Century
Eastern Türks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

SÖREN STARK
Luxurious Necessities: Some Observations on Foreign Commodities and Nomadic Polities in Central Asia in the sixth to ninth Centuries . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

PETER B. GOLDEN
The Turkic World in Maḥmûd al-Kâshgharî . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

THOMAS O. HÖLLMANN
On the Road again – Diplomacy and Trade from a Chinese Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

MICHAL BIRAN
The Qarakhanids’ Eastern Exchange: Preliminary Notes on the Silk Roads
in the eleventh and twelfth Centuries. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

JÜRGEN PAUL
Forces and Resources. Remarks on the Failing Regional State of
Sulṭānšāh b. Il Arslan Ḫwārazmšāh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .597

TATIANA SKRYNNIKOVA
Old-Turkish Roots of Chinggis Khan’s “Golden Clan”. Continuity of
Genesis. Typology of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

NOMADIC INTERACTION WITH THE ROMAN AND BYZANTINE WEST

MISCHA MEIER
Dealing with Non-State Societies: The failed Assassination Attempt against
Attila (449 CE) and Eastern Roman Hunnic Policy . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

TIMO STICKLER
The Gupta Empire in the Face of the Hunnic Threat. Parallels to the
Late Roman Empire? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

MICHAEL SCHMAUDER
Huns, Avars, Hungarians – Reflections on the Interaction between Steppe Empires in Southeast Europe and the Late Roman to Early Byzantine Empires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

WALTER POHL
Huns, Avars, Hungarians – Comparative Perspectives based on Written Evidence . . . . . . . . . 693

INDEX OF AUTHORS. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 703



Monday, December 28, 2015

The Good Life and Conceptions of Life in Early China and Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Editor:
King, R.A.H.

Publication Year:
2015

Publisher:
Berlin: De Gruyter





Abstract:

Chinese and Greek ethics remain influential in modern philosophy, yet it is unclear how they can be compared to one another. This volume, following its predecssor 'How should one live?' (DeGruyter 2011), is a contribution to comparative ethics, loosely centered on the concepts of life and the good life. Methods of comparing ethics are treated in three introductory chapters (R.A.H.King, Ralph Weber, G.E.R. Lloyd), followed by chapters on core issues in each of the traditions: human nature (David Wong, Guo Yi), ghosts (Paul Goldin), happiness (Christoph Harbsmeier), pleasure (Michael Nylan), qi (Elisabeth Hsu & Zhang Ruqing), cosmic life and individual life (Dennis Schilling), the concept of mind (William Charlton), knowledge and happiness (Jörg Hardy), filial piety (Richard Stalley), the soul (Hua-kuei Ho), anddeliberation (Thomas Buchheim). The volume closes with three essays in comparison - Mencius and the Stoics (R.A.H. King), equanimity (Lee Yearley), autonomy and the good life (Lisa Raphals). An index locorum each for Chinese and Greco-Roman authors, and a general index complete the volume.

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Pages I-IV

Acknowledgements
Pages V-VI

Table of Contents
Pages VII-VIII

I. Methods

Introduction
King, R.A.H.
Pages 3-20

Models for living in ancient Greece and China
Lloyd, G.E.R.
Pages 21-28

On Comparing Ancient Chinese and Greek Ethics: The tertium comparationis as Tool of Analysis and Evaluation
Weber, Ralph
Pages 29-56


II. China

The Consciousness of the Dead as a Philosophical Problem in Ancient China
Goldin, Paul R.
Pages 59-92

The Ideas of Human Nature in Early China
Yi, Guo
Pages 93-116

Cosmic Life and Human Life in the “Book of Changes”
Schilling, Dennis
Pages 117-144

Good Fortune and Bliss in Early China
Harbsmeier, Christoph
Pages 145-156

Bing-distress in the Zuo zhuan: the not-so-good-life, the social self and moral sentiment among persons of rank in Warring States China
Hsu, Elisabeth
Pages 157-180

Pleasures and Delights, Sustaining and Consuming
Nylan, Michael
Pages 181-210

III. Greece and Rome

Is the Concept of the Mind Parochial?
Charlton, William
Pages 213-226

Taking Thoughts about Life seriously
Hardy, Jörg
Pages 227-246

Filial Piety in Plato
Stalley, Richard
Pages 247-264

The Good Life for Plato’s Tripartite Soul
Ho, Hua-kuei
Pages 265-280

Good counsel and the role of logos for human excellence
Buchheim, Thomas
Pages 281-302

Hedonê in the Poets and Epicurus
Erler, Michael
Pages 303-318

IV. Comparisons

Autonomy, Fate, Divination and the Good Life
Raphals, Lisa
Pages 321-340

Mencius and the Stoics – tui and oikeiôsis
King, R.A.H.
Pages 341-362

The Role and Pursuit of the Virtue of Equanimity in Ancient China and Greece
Yearley, Lee H.
Pages 363-386

Sunday, December 27, 2015

Art and Archaeology of the Erligang Civilization 二里崗文明的藝術與考古

Editors:
Kyle Steinke & Dora C.Y. Ching.

Publisher:
Princeton University Press

Publication Year:
2014




Abstract:

Named after an archaeological site discovered in 1951 in Zhengzhou, China, the Erligang civilization arose in the Yellow River valley around the middle of the second millennium BCE. Shortly thereafter, its distinctive elite material culture spread to a large part of China's Central Plain, in the south reaching as far as the banks of the Yangzi River. The Erligang culture is best known for the remains of an immense walled city at Zhengzhou, a smaller site at Panlongcheng in Hubei, and a large-scale bronze industry of remarkable artistic and technological sophistication.

This richly illustrated book is the first in a western language devoted to the Erligang culture. It brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, including art history and archaeology, to explore what is known about the culture and its spectacular bronze industry. The opening chapters introduce the history of the discovery of the culture and its most important archaeological sites. Subsequent essays address a variety of important methodological issues related to the study of Erligang, including how to define the culture, the usefulness of cross-cultural comparative study, and the difficulty of reconciling traditional Chinese historiography with archaeological discoveries. The book closes by examining the role the Erligang civilization played in the emergence of the first bronze-using societies in south China and the importance of bronze studies in the training of Chinese art historians.

Table of Contents:

Contributors 7
Foreword and Acknowledgments 9
Preface 11

INTRODUCTION

1. Erligang Bronzes and the Discovery of the Erligang Culture 19
Robert Bagley

2. Erligang: A Perspective from Panlongcheng
Zhang Changping 51

DEFINING THE ERLIGANG CIVILIZATION

3. China's First Empire? Interpreting the Material Record of the Erligang Expansion 67
Wang Haicheng

4. Civilizations and Empires: A Perspective on Erligang from Early Egypt 99
John Baines

5. Erligang: A Tale of Two "Civilizations" 121
Roderick Campbell

6. The Politics of Maps, Pottery, and Archaeology: Hidden Assumptions in Chinese Bronze Age Archaeology 137
Yung-ti Li

ERLIGANG AND THE SOUTH

7. Erligang and the Southern Bronze Industries 151
Kyle Steinke

8. Erligang Contacts South of the Yangzi River: The Expansion of Interaction Networks in Early Bronze Age Hunan 173
Robin McNeal

PARTING THOUGHTS

9. Bronzes and the History of Chinese Art 191
Maggie Bickford

References 213
Index 226
Image Credits 235



Monday, December 21, 2015

A Little Primer of Chinese Oracle-Bone Inscriptions with Some Exercises

Author:
TAKASHIMA, Ken-ichi 髙嶋謙一

Publisher:
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz

Publication Year:
2015




Abstract:

Indispensable to the study of the history of Chinese religion, politics, agriculture, the calendar system, hunting, warfare, medicine, sacrificial and ritual practices, and other matters of life in China’s first historical dynasty, these more than 130,000 pieces of inscribed turtle plastrons and bovine scapulas, though mostly fragmented ones, comprise more text in terms of number of characters than the combined transmitted traditional pre-Qín classical Chinese texts.

The material will be presented in three forms: normalized transcriptions of the texts into modern standard Chinese script, translations into English, and ink-squeezes or rubbings of the original texts. There is also a detailed linguistic and philological explanation of the text, plus an annotation, and commentary on the cultural and historical background of the material. No special background in analyzing grammar and syntax will be required to understand most, if not all, of the materials presented in this Little Primer.

Table of Contents:

Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Chinese Oracle-Bone Inscriptions
  Piece 1-38
  Zhōuyuán jiǎgǔ kècí 周原甲骨刻辭
  Map of Yīnxū 殷墟
Appendix: A Short Annotated Bibliography*

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Early Medieval Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide

Editors:
Cynthia L. Chennault (Author), Keith N. Knapp (Author), Alan J. Berkowitz (Author), Albert E. Dien (Author)

Publisher:
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Publication Year:
2015






Abstract:

A guide to primary sources that date from China's early medieval period (late third through sixth centuries) and to later anthologies or reference works concerning them. Ninety-eight essays, arranged alphabetically by title, discuss authorship, contents, history of editions, traditional commentaries and assessments, modern scholarship, and translations; subject index included. 


Table of Contents:











怪異を媒介するもの

Editor:
東アジア恠異学会

Publisher:
勉誠出版

Publication Year:
2015




Abstract:

「怪異」は中国の災異思想をはじめ、日本の神仏による霊験や物の怪、西洋の驚異、また民間説話や芸能、文学作品に見える妖怪など、様々なものを指すが、いずれも不思議な現象を読み解き、説明する情報の発信者と受容者のコミュニケーションによって成立する。そこには、神霊と人、人と人を「媒介」する〈知〉と〈技〉が重要な役割を果たしてきた。卜占や託宣を操る宗教者、怪異を知識で解釈する儒者や国学者、怪異をエンターテイメントに昇華させる作家や芸能者等「媒介者」は多様である。
その諸相を検討し、「怪異」をめぐる社会や人々の心性のダイナミズムを明らかにする。

Table of Contents:

はじめに 大江篤

Ⅰ 記す・伝える
霊験寺院の造仏伝承―怪異・霊験譚の伝播・伝承 大江 篤
『風土記』と『儀式帳』―恠異と神話の媒介者たち 榎村寛之
【コラム】境界を越えるもの―『出雲国風土記』の鬼と神 久禮旦雄
奈良時代・仏典注釈と霊異―善珠『本願薬師経鈔』と「起屍鬼」 山口敦史
【コラム】古文辞学から見る「怪」―荻生徂徠『訳文筌蹄』『論語徴』などから 木場貴俊
「妖怪名彙」ができるまで  化野燐

Ⅱ 語る・あらわす
メディアとしての能と怪異  久留島元
江戸の知識人と〈怪異〉への態度―〝幽冥の談〞を軸に 今井秀和
【コラム】怪異が現れる場所としての軒・屋根・天井 山本陽子
クダンと見世物 笹方政紀
【コラム】霊を捉える―心霊学と近代の作家たち 一柳廣孝
「静坐」する柳田国男 村上紀夫

Ⅲ 読み解く・鎮める
遣唐使の慰霊 山田雄司
安倍吉平が送った「七十二星鎮」 水口幹記
【コラム】戸隠御師と白澤  熊澤美弓
天変を読み解く―天保十四年白気出現一件 杉岳志
【コラム】陰陽頭土御門晴親と「怪異」 梅田千尋
吉備の陰陽師 上原大夫  木下浩

Ⅳ 辿る・比べる
王充『論衡』の世界観を読む―災異と怪異、鬼神をめぐって 佐々木聡
中国の仏教者と予言・讖詩―仏教流入期から南北朝時代まで  佐野誠子
【コラム】中国の怪夢と占夢  清水洋子
中国中世における陰陽家の第一人者―蕭吉の学と術 余欣(翻訳:佐々木聡・大野裕司)
台湾道教の異常死者救済儀礼   山田明広
【コラム】琉球の占術文献と占者 山里純一
【コラム】韓国の暦書の暦注  全勇勳
アラブ地域における夢の伝承 近藤久美子
【コラム】〈驚異〉を媒介する旅人 山中由里子

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

The Sinitic Encounter in Southeast China through the First Millennium CE

Author: 
Clark, Hugh R

Publisher:
University Of Hawai'i Press

Publication Year:
2015



Abstract: 
This work engages two of the most neglected themes in China’s long history: the integration of lands south of the Yangtze River into China and its impact on Chinese culture. The roots of Chinese civilization are commonly traced to the North. For millennia after the foundations of the northern culture had been laid, the South was not part of its mandate, and long after the imperial center had claimed political control in the late first millennium BCE, it remained culturally distinct. Yet for the past one thousand years the South has been the cultural, demographic, economic—and, on occasion, political—center of China. The process whereby this was accomplished has long been overlooked in Chinese historiography.

Hugh Clark offers a new perspective on the process of assimilation and accommodation that led to the new alignment. He begins by focusing on the stages of encounter between the sinitic north and the culturally diverse and alien south. Initially northerners and southerners looked on each other with antipathy: To the former, the non-sinitic inhabitants of the South were “barbarians.” To these “barbarians,” northerners were arrogantly hegemonic. Such attitudes led to patterns of resistance and alienation across the South that endured for many centuries until, as Clark suggests, the South grew in importance within the empire—a development that was finally recognized under the Song.

Clark’s approach to the second theme poses a fundamental challenge to what is meant by “Chinese culture.” Drawing on his long familiarity with southern Fujian, he closely examines the pre-sinitic cultural and religious heritage as well as later cults on the southeast coast to argue that an enduring legacy of pre-sinitic indigenous southern culture contributed significantly to late imperial and modern China, effectively challenging the paradigm of northern cultural hegemony that has dominated Chinese history for centuries.

The Sinitic Encounter in Southeast China is a path-breaking book that puts long-neglected issues back on the historian’s table for further investigation.

Table of Contents:

"The civilizing mission" and the historiographical context
Northern perceptions of the pre-Sinitic south
The Sinitic accommodation with the south
Social innovation in the eleventh century and the debates on civilization
The central coast through the eighth century
The Sinitic encounter
Cults of the Sinitic era: a narrative of appropriation and civilization
Civilizing the god of Baidu: a case study in civilizing strategy
Conclusions

Sunday, December 13, 2015

『老子』經典化過程の研究

Author:
谷中信一 YANAKA Shin-ichi

Publisher:
汲古書院






Publication Year:
2015

Abstract:
傳世文獻研究の蓄積と、出土資料から得られた新知見を活用し、「經典」として確立される過程を解明する

Table of Contents:

口絵 巻頭カラー4頁

       郭店楚墓竹簡 『老子』

       馬王堆漢墓帛書『老子』甲乙本

北京大學藏西漢竹書 『老子』



第一章 郭店楚簡『老子』考

第二章 郭店楚簡『太一生水』 考

第三章 上博楚簡(七)『凡物流形』考

第四章 上博楚簡(三)『恆先』考

第五章 『莊子』天下篇考

第六章 いわゆる黄帝言考

第七章 『淮南子』道應訓所引『老子』考

第八章 『史記』老子傳に隱された眞實

第九章 北大漢簡『老子』の學術價値―「執一」概念を中心に

終 章

注・あとがき・索引(人名 書名 事項・國名)


Thursday, December 10, 2015

Daoism, Meditation, and the Wonders of Serenity: From the Latter Han Dynasty (25-220) to the Tang Dynasty (618-907)

Author:
Stephen Eskildsen

Publisher:
SUNY Press

Publication Year:
2015




Abstract:

Stephen Eskildsen offers an overview of Daoist religious texts from the Latter Han (25–220) through Tang (618–907) periods, exploring passive meditation methods and their anticipated effects. These methods entailed observing the processes that unfold spontaneously within mind and body, rather than actively manipulating them by means common in medieval Daoist religion such as visualization, invocations, and the swallowing of breath or saliva. Through the resulting deep serenity, it was claimed, one could attain profound insights, experience visions, feel surges of vital force, overcome thirst and hunger, be cured of ailments, ascend the heavens, and gain eternal life.

While the texts discussed follow the legacy of Warring States period Daoism such as the Laozi to a significant degree, they also draw upon medieval immortality methods and Buddhism. An understanding of the passive meditation literature provides important insights into the subsequent development of Neidan, or Internal Alchemy, meditation that emerged from the Song period onward.

Table of Content:

1 Introduction   1

2 The Earliest-Known Daoist Religious Movements   29

3 Dramatic Physical and Sensory Effects   75

4 Integrating Buddhism: Earlier Phase   143

5 Integrating Buddhism: Emptiness and the Twofold Mystery   181

6 Serenity and the Reaffirmation of Physical Transformation   211

7 Serenity Primal Qi and Embryonic Breathing   241

8 Conclusion   277

Notes   305

Bibliography   353

Index   373


Monday, December 7, 2015

[Dissertation] Environmental Change and the Rise of the Qin Empire: A Political Ecology of Ancient North China

Author:
Lander, Brian G.

School:

Columbia University

Advisor: 
Feng Li

Defended:
2015

Abstract:


This thesis examines the long-term ecological transformation of the Guanzhong plain, capital region of China's ancient empires, from the origins of agriculture to the fall of the Qin Empire in 208 BCE. It employs textual, archaeological and paleoecological evidence to reconstruct the natural environment of the region and examine how it was transformed by the centralization of political power.

Following the introduction, the second chapter reconstructs the geology, climate and ecology of the region before it was converted to farming. After discussing potential reasons why the region was not forested, it describes the many wild animals that once lived there in order to help the reader imagine an ecosystem that has long since disappeared.

Chapter Three explores the environmental impacts of Neolithic and early Bronze Age societies, examining the formation of the North Chinese agricultural system through indigenous domestication and the arrival of already domesticated plants and animals from Central Asia. It also discusses the environmental impacts of these small-scale farming communities.

Chapter Four employs the Book of Odes and other evidence to analyze the human ecology of the Western Zhou period (1045-771 BC). It then considers the political ecology of the Western Zhou state, arguing that because it remained an alliance of independent economic units, it was far less aggressive towards the environment than later states despite its formidable military reach. 

Chapter Five begins by arguing that the constantly increasing scale of warfare in the subsequent Eastern Zhou period (771-221) prompted states to extend their control over resources and people, leading to the development of centralized bureaucracies. It also discusses the evidence for the origins and spread of iron tools and ox-drawn ploughs in early China.

Chapter Six focuses on the political history of Qin, beginning with its origins, occupation of the Guanzhong and consolidation up to the fourth century. The second half of the chapter discusses the reforms of Shang Yang, which greatly increased the power of the state over the environment, and the Zheng Guo canal project, which transformed the northeast of the plain.


Chapter Seven employs archaeologically excavated documents to analyze the political ecology of Qin during the reign of the First Emperor, who reigned from 246 to 210. Qin's power was based on its rank-based land grant system, state ownership of forests and wetlands, and the large-scale use of convict and slave labor. Because it was so centralized, the Qin state had a remarkable amount of control over how land was exploited in its domain. Although the empire did not last long, its centralized bureaucracy became the standard model of political organization in China, playing an important role in the spread of agricultural societies across the subcontinent.

Saturday, November 28, 2015

A Companion to Chinese Art

Editors:
Martin J. Powers & Katherine R. Tsiang

Publisher:
Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell 

Publication Year:
2015




Abstract:
Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes two dozen newly-commissioned essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures xi
Notes on Contributors xv

Introduction 1
Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang

Part I Production and Distribution 27

1 Court Painting 29
Patricia Ebrey

2 The Culture of Art Collecting in Imperial China 47
Scarlett Jang

3 Art, Print, and Cultural Discourse in Early Modern China 73
J. P. Park

4 Art and Early Chinese Archaeological Materials 91
Xiaoneng Yang

Part II Representation and Reality 113

5 Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror 115
Shane McCausland

6 The Language of Portraiture in China 136
Dora C. Y. Ching

7 Visualizing the Divine in Medieval China 158
Katherine R. Tsiang

8 Landscape 177
Peter C. Sturman

9 Concepts of Architectural Space in Historical Chinese Thought 195
Cary Y. Liu

10 Time in Early Chinese Art 212
Eugene Y. Wang

Part III Theories and Terms 233

11 The Art of “Ritual Artifacts” (Liqi 禮器): Discourse and Practice 235
Wu Hung

12 Classification, Canon, and Genre 254
Richard Vinograd

13 Conceptual and Qualitative Terms in Historical Perspective 277
Ronald Egan

14 Imitation and Originality, Theory and Practice 293
Ginger Cheng-chi Hs¨u

15 Calligraphy 312
Qianshen Bai

16 Emptiness-Substance: Xushi 329
Jason C. Kuo

Part IV Objects and Persons 349

17 Artistic Status and Social Agency 351
Martin J. Powers

18 Ornament in China 371
Jessica Rawson

19 Folding Fans and Early Modern Mirrors 392
Antonia Finnane

20 Garden Art 410
Xin Wu

21 Commercial Advertising Art in 1840–1940s “China” 431
Tani E. Barlow

Part V Word and Image 455

22 Words in Chinese Painting 457
Alfreda Murck

23 On the Origins of Literati Painting in the Song Dynasty 474
Jerome Silbergeld

24 Poetry and Pictorial Expression in Chinese Painting 499
Susan Bush

25 Popular Literature and Visual Culture in Early Modern China 517
Jianhua Chen

Index 535

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

ジェンダーの中国史

Editor:
小浜正子

Publisher:
勉誠出版

Publication Year:
2015





Abtract:
ジェンダーとは性別をどのように社会が意味づけてきたかという文化構築的なものであるが、ジェンダーから中国史を論じてきたものは、これまであまりなかった。
中国社会におけるジェンダーのあり方――社会の基礎とされてきた家族や法の構造から、男性や女性の日々の服装やふるまい方のあるべき姿と実態、さらには同性愛者や宦官などのセクシャル・マイノリティーがどのように存在していたのかに至るまで――を理解することは、中国の文化そのものを理解する上で欠かせない視点である。
中国とその「周縁」社会におけるジェンダーの理念と表象、規範と現実の多様で流動的な情況を、様々な分野から論じる。(出版社紹介文)

Table of Contents:
はじめに――ジェンダーの中国史 小浜正子
[1]中国的家族の変遷
むすめの墓・母の墓:墓から見た伝統中国の家族 佐々木愛
異父同母という関係:中国父系社会史研究序説 下倉渉
孝と貞節:中国近世における女性の規範 仙石知子
現代中国の家族の変容:少子化と母系ネットワークの顕現 小浜正子

[2]「悪女」の作られ方
呂后:〝悪女”にされた前漢初代の皇后 角谷常子
南朝の公主:貴族社会のなかの皇帝の娘たち 川合安
則天武后:女帝と祭祀 金子修一
江青:女優から毛沢東夫人、文革の旗手へ 秋山洋子

[3]「武」の表象とエスニシティの表象
木蘭故事とジェンダー「越境」:五胡北朝期の社会からみる 板橋暁子
辮髪と軍服:清末の軍人と男性性の再構築 高嶋航
「鉄の娘」と女性民兵:文化大革命における性別役割への挑戦 江上幸子
中国大陸の国民統合の表象とポリティクス:エスニシティとジェンダーからみた近代 松本ますみ
[コラム]纏足 小川快之

[4]規範の内外、変容する規範
貞節と淫蕩のあいだ:清代中国の寡婦をめぐって 五味知子
ジェンダーの越劇史:中国の女性演劇 中山文
中国における代理出産と「母性」:現代の「借り腹」 姚毅
セクシャリティのディスコース:同性愛をめぐる言説を中心に 白水紀子
[コラム]宦官 猪原達生

[5]「周縁」への伝播:儒教的家族秩序の虚実
日本古代・中世における家族秩序:婚姻形態と妻の役割などから 伴瀬明美
彝族「女土官」考:明王朝の公認を受けた西南少数民族の女性首長たち 武内房司
『黙斎日記』にみる十六世紀朝鮮士大夫家の祖先祭祀と信仰 豊島悠果
十九世紀前半ベトナムにおける家族形態に関する一考察:花板張功族の嘱書の分析から 上田新也

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn 《春秋繁露》英譯本

Editors and Translators:
Sarah A. Queen and John S. Major

Publication Year:
2015

Publisher:
Columbia University Press






Abstract:

A major resource expanding the study of early Chinese philosophy, religion, literature, and politics, this book features the first complete English-language translation of the Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu fanlu), one of the key texts of early Confucianism. The work is often ascribed to the Han scholar and court official Dong Zhongshu, but, as this study reveals, the text is in fact a compendium of writings by a variety of authors working within an interpretive tradition that spanned several generations, depicting a utopian vision of a flourishing humanity that they believed to be Confucius's legacy to the world.

The Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) is a chronicle kept by the dukes of the state of Lu from 722 to 481 B.C.E. The Luxuriant Gems follows the interpretations of the Gongyang Commentary, whose transmitters belonged to a tradition that sought to explicate the special language of the Spring and Autumn. The Gongyang masters believed that the Spring and Autumn had been written by Confucius himself, employing subtle and esoteric phrasing to indicate approval or disapproval of important events and personages. The Luxuriant Gems augments Confucian ethical and philosophical teachings with chapters on cosmology, statecraft, and other topics drawn from contemporary non-Confucian traditions, reflecting the brilliance of intellectual life in the Han dynasty during the formative decades of the Chinese imperial state. 

To elucidate the text, Sarah A. Queen and John S. Major divide their translation into eight thematic sections with extensive introductions that address dating, authorship, authenticity, and the relationship between the original text and the evolving Gongyang approach.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Group 1: Exegetical Principles
1. King Zhuang of Chu
2. Jade Cup
3. Bamboo Grove
4. Jade Brilliance
5. The Quintessential and the Ornamental
6. The Kingly Way
7. Annihilated States, Part A
8. Annihilated States, Part B
9. Waxing and Waning in Accord with the Root
10. The Essentials of Covenants and Meetings
11. The Rectifying Thread
12. Ten Directives
13. Emphasize Governance
14. Images for the Regulation of Dress
15. Two Starting Points
16. Signs and Omens
17. Yu's Postface

Group 2: Monarchical Principles
18. Departing from and Conforming to the Fundamental
19. Establishing the Originating Spirit
20. Preserving Position and Authority
21. Investigating Achievement and Reputation
22. Comprehending the State as the Body

Group 3: Regulatory Principles
23. The Three Dynasties' Alternating Regulations of Simplicity and Refinement
24. Regulations on Officialdom Reflect Heaven
25. Yao and Shun Did Not Presumptuously Transfer [the Throne]; Tang and Wu Did Not Rebelliously Murder [Their Rulers]
26. Regulations on Dress
27. Regulating Limits
28. Ranking States

Group 4: Ethical Principles
29. Standards of Humaneness and Righteousness
30. The Necessity of [Being] Humane and Wise
31. For Nurturing the Self, Nothing Is More Important Than Righteous Principles
32. An Official Response to the King of Jiangdu: The Great Officers of Yue Cannot Be Considered Humane
33. Observing Virtue
34. Serving the Root
35. Deeply Examine Names and Designations
36. Substantiating Human Nature
37. The Lords of the Land
38. An Official Response Regarding the Five Phases
39. [Title and text are no longer extant]
40. [Title and text are no longer extant]
41. Heaven, the Maker of Humankind
42. The Meaning of the Five Phases

Group 5: Yin-Yang Principles
43. Yang Is Lofty, Yin Is Lowly
44. The Kingly Way Penetrates Three
45. Heaven's Prosperity
46. The Heavenly Distinctions Lie in Humans
47. The Positions of Yin and Yang
48. Yin and Yang End and Begin the Year
49. The Meaning of Yin and Yang
50. Yin and Yang Emerge, Withdraw, Ascend, and Descend
51. Heaven's Way Is Not Dualistic
52. Heat or Cold, Which Predominates?
53. Laying the Foundation of Righteousness
54. [Title and text are no longer extant]
55. The Correlates of the Four Seasons
56. Human Correlates of Heaven's Regularities
57. Things of the Same Kind Activate One Another

Group 6: Five-Phase Principles
58. The Mutual Engendering of the Five Phases
59. The Mutual Conquest of the Five Phases
60. Complying with and Deviating from the Five Phases
61. Controlling Water by Means of the Five Phases
62. Controlling Disorders by Means of the Five Phases
63. Aberrations of the Five Phases and Their Remedies
64. The Five Phases and Five Affairs

Group 7: Ritual Principles
65. Sayings Pertaining to the Suburban Sacrifice
66. The Principles of the Suburban Sacrifice
67. Sacrificial Rites of the Suburban Sacrifice
68. The Four [Seasonal] Sacrificial Rites
69. The Suburban Sacrifice
70. Following Orders
71. An Official Response Regarding the Suburban Sacrifice
72. Presenting Gifts to Superiors
73. Hymn to the Mountains and Rivers
74. Seeking Rain
75. Stopping Rain
76. The Principles of Sacrificial Rites

Group 8: Heavenly Principles
77. Conform to Heaven's Way
78. The Conduct of Heaven and Earth (Lau version)
78A. The Conduct of Heaven and Earth (Su Yu version)
79. The Origins of Severity and Beneficence
80. In Imitation of Heaven's Activities (Lau version)
80A. In Imitation of Heaven's Activities (Su Yu version)
81. Heaven, Earth, Yin, and Yang (Lau version)
81A. Heaven, Earth, Yin, and Yang (Su Yu version)
82. The Way of Heaven Bestows (Lau version)
82A. The Way of Heaven Bestows (Su Yu version)

Appendix A. Biographies of the Confucian Scholars
Appendix B. The Biography of Dong Zhongshu
Selected Bibliography
Index