Tuesday, July 28, 2015

New Perspectives on Early Korean Art: From Silla to Koryŏ

Editor:
Kim, Youn-mi

Publisher:
University of Hawaii

Publication Year:
2013




Abstract:
This volume, consisting of five chapters and an introduction, includes discussion of a variety of artworks, ranging from gold adornments found in Silla tombs to Koryŏ Buddhist paintings scattered in modern museum and private collections, that provide insight into the religious practices, aesthetics, cross-cultural exchanges, and everyday life of the people who made, used, appreciated, and circulated them. Based on thorough investigations of these artworks, their social context, and related texts, the five chapters in this book elucidate the cross-cultural interactions between the peoples and regions of Korea, China and South and Southeast Asia during the Silla to Koryŏ periods.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Youn-mi Kim --

1. Iconography, technique, and context in Koryŏ buddhist paintings / Chung Woothak --

2. Seeing maitreya: aspiration and vision in an image from early eighth-century Silla / Rhi Juhyung --

3. (Dis)assembling the national canon: seventh-century " Esoteric" buddhist ritual, the Samguk yusa, and Sach'ŏnwang-sa / Youn-mi Kim --

4. The development of Koryŏ porcelain and the Chinese ceramic industry in the tenth century / Jang Namwon --

5. The gold jewelry of ancient Silla: syncretism of northern and southern Asian cultures / Joo Kyeongmi.


Monday, July 20, 2015

Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry

Editors:
Ping Wang & Nicholas Morrow Williams

Publisher:
Hong Kong University Press

Publication Year:
2015




Abstract:

From ancient times, China's remote and exotic South—a shifting and expanding region beyond the Yangtze River—has been an enduring theme in Chinese literature. For poets and scholar-officials in medieval China, the South was a barbaric frontier region of alienation and disease. But it was also a place of richness and fascination, and for some a site of cultural triumph over exile. The eight essays in this collection explore how tensions between pride in southern culture and anxiety over the alien qualities of the southern frontier were behind many of the distinctive features of medieval Chinese literature. They examine how prominent writers from this period depicted themselves and the South in poetic form through attitudes that included patriotic attachment and bitter exile. By the Tang dynasty, poetic symbols and clichés about the exotic South had become well established, though many writers were still able to use these in innovative ways. 

Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry is the first work in English to examine the cultural south in classical Chinese poetry. The book incorporates original research on key poets, such as Lu Ji, Jiang Yan, Wang Bo, and Li Bai. It also offers a broad survey of cultural and historical trends during the medieval period, as depicted in poetry. The book will be of interest to students of Chinese literature and cultural history.

Table of Contents:

1.  Southland as Symbol
 —Ping Wang and Nicholas Morrow Williams

2.  Southern Metal and Feather Fan: The "Southern Consciousness" of Lu Ji
—David R. Knechtges

3.  Fan Writing: Lu Ji, Lu Yun and the Cultural Transactions between North and South
—Xiaofei Tian

4.  Plaint, Lyricism, and the South
—Ping Wang

5.  Farther South: Jiang Yan in Darkest Fujian
—Paul W. Kroll

6.  The Pity of Spring: A Southern Topos Reimagined by Wang Bo and Li Bai
—Nicholas Morrow Williams

7.  The Stele and the Drunkard: Two Poetic Allusions from Xiangyang
—Jie Wu 

8.  Jiangnan from the Ninth Century On: The Routinization of Desire
—Stephen Owen

Thursday, July 9, 2015

湖南出土簡牘とその社会

Edtiors:
伊藤敏雄・窪添慶文・關尾史郎

Publisher:
汲古書院

Publication Year:
2015



Table of Contents:

まえがき(窪添慶文)

凡例                                

総 説(關尾史郎)

第一部 簡 牘

 長沙東牌楼漢簡中の公文書と書信…………… 髙村武幸

 長沙呉簡中の「叩頭死罪白」文書木牘 ……… 伊藤敏雄

 長沙呉簡書法研究序説 ………………………… 王 素・宋少華/石原遼平訳

第二部 社 会

 簿籍の作成と管理からみた臨湘侯国

 ―名籍類を中心として― ………………………… 關尾史郎

 典田掾・勧農掾の職掌と郷

 ―長沙呉簡中所見「戸品出銭」簡よりみる―… 安部聡一郎

長沙呉簡にみえる佃客と限米 ……………………… 谷口建速

分異の時期と家族構成の変化について―長沙呉簡による検討―

                      …………………… 鷲尾祐子

長沙呉簡の傷病表記の特徴 ………………………… 福原啓郎

文献リスト/あとがき(伊藤敏雄)/執筆者一覧



Monday, July 6, 2015

Daoism Excavated: Cosmos and Humanity in Early Manuscripts

Author: 
WANG Zhongjiang

Translator:
Livia Kohn

Publication Year:
2015

Publisher:
Three Pines Press




Abstract:
Daoism Excavated is a first detailed exploration of Daoist cosmology, philosophy, and political vision as found in recently unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts. Presenting a detailed, and often carefully philological, examination of the Taiyi shengshui, Hengxian, Fanwu liuxing, and Huangdi sijing, as well as of various versions of the Laozi, the book provides new insights into ancient Daoist thought and its various schools and lineages. It focuses particularly on different visions of the creation and unfolding of the universe and on the application of these alternative cosmologies in political thought and practice. Revising and expanding our understanding of traditional Chinese thinking, the book makes an essential contribution to Chinese studies, philosophy, and religion.

Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Daoist Cosmology in the Light of Excavated Manuscripts 1
1. Hengxian 恆先: Stages of Cosmic Unfolding 30
2. Taiyi shengshui 太一生水: Textual Structure and Conceptual Layers 63
3. Fanwu liuxing 凡物流形: From Oneness to Multiplicity 84
4. Huangdi sijing 黃帝四經: Governing through Oneness 112
5. Laozi 老子: “Dao Models Itself” 130
6. Laozi: “A Great Vessel” 157
7. Han Laozi: Variants and New Readings 173
Laozi Chapters Cited 194
Bibliography 195
Index 207


Friday, July 3, 2015

中国古代の水利と地域開発

Author:
大川裕子 (Ohkawa Yuko)

Publisher:
汲古書院

Publication Year:
2015




Table of Contents: 

序論

第一編 古代巴蜀地域の開発

第一章 古代巴の歴史―巴人の分布に関する一考察―
第二章 秦の蜀開発と都江堰―川西平原扇状地と都市・水利―  
第三章 鄭国渠と都江堰―戦国秦の水利開発―
第四章 漢代四川盆地丘陵地の開発


第二編 漢代北方辺境地域の開発

第一章 漢代北方辺境と晋北地域―文献史料を手がかりに―
第二章 漢代晋北地域の地域開発―現地視察をふまえて―

第三編 古代江南の開発 

第一章 范蠡三徙説話の形成―水上交通路との関係を中心に―
第二章 銭塘江逆流と秦漢時代の江南―鑑湖創設をめぐって―


第四編 植物からみる地域開発の多様性

第一章 イモからみた秦漢時代の巴蜀
第二章 中国史における芋類の地域性
           ―四川と江南の比較を通して―
第三章 黄河下流域における沙地利用の歴史的変遷
           ―祭祀の場から落花生導入まで―

終論

あとがき

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中文概要

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