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


Thursday, November 19, 2015

Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600)

Editors: 
Matthias Bley , Nikolas Jaspert andStefan Köck

Publisher: 
Brill

Publication Year:
2015

Abstract:
This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus processes of religious demarcation and transfer.




Table of Contents:
Preface
An Introduction to Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective

Section 1 Material Purity

Chapter 1 Early Medieval Churches as Cultic Space between Material and Ethical Purity

Chapter 2 Some Brief Notes on Purity in Chinese Daoism

Chapter 3 An Almost Tangible Presence: Some Thoughts on Material Purity among Medieval European Jews

Section 2 Ethical and Moral Purity

Chapter 4 From 'Clean' to 'Pure' in Everyday Life in Late Imperial China: A Preliminary Enquiry

Chapter 5 Discourses on Purity in Western Christianity in the Early and High Middle Ages 

Section 3 Purity of Spirit and Thought

Chapter 6 Purity between Semantics and History: Notes on Daoist Soteriology and Interreligious Encounters in Early Medieval China

Chapter 7 Purity of Language: A Short-lived Concept in Medieval Hebrew Poetry

Section 4 Purity of Cult

Chapter 8 Domum immundam a perversis violata mundavit. Viking Defilement in Early Medieval Francia 

Chapter 9 Washing Away the Dirt of the World of Desire-On Origins and Developments of Notions of Ritual Purity in Japanese Mountain Religions 

Chapter 10 Patterns of Intensification of the Laws on Ritual Purity in Medieval Jewish Ashkenaz

Section 5 Concepts of Textual Purity

Chapter 11 Religious Texts and the Islamic Purity Regime

Section 6 Concepts of Genealogical Purity

Chapter 12 Sons of Damnation: Franciscans, Muslims, and Christian Purity

Chapter 13 Purifying the Pure: The Visuddhimagga, Forest-Dwellers and the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Prestige in Theravāda Buddhism

Chapter 14 Registers of Genealogical Purity in Classical Islam

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

ソグド人と東ユーラシアの文化交渉

Editor:
森部豊 (Yutaka Moribe)

Publisher:
勉誠出版

Publication Year:
2014

Abstract:

かつてオアシス都市に住んでいた歴史上の民族、ソグド人。
彼らはいかなる活動を行い、独自の文化を築いたのか。
四世紀から十一世紀にかけて草原世界から中国東端にわたるユーラシア地域を移住しながら交易活動を行ったソグド人の言語・文化・信仰や各地域における様相を、編纂史料のほか新出の石刻史料・出土文書史料・文物を用いた最新の研究成果で明らかにする。
またその東方活動を通して中国史を相対化し、新たな東ユーラシア世界史を構築する。





Table of Contents:

総論 ソグド人と東ユーラシアの文化交渉―ソグド人の東方活動史研究序説 森部豊

[ソグド人の文化と思想(信仰)]

ソグド文字の縦書きは何時始まったか 吉田豊 
中国におけるソグド姓の歴史 斉藤達也
唐代中国におけるソグド人と仏教 中田美絵
ソグド人の墓と葬具―中国とソグディアナ 影山悦子

[唐朝の中のソグド人]

『天聖令』と唐のソグド人 石見清裕
トゥルファンにおけるソグド人 荒川正晴
ソグド人と敦煌 赤木崇敏
長安・洛陽のソグド人 福島恵
北朝末〜唐初におけるソグド人軍府と軍団 山下将司
八世紀半ば〜十世紀の北中国政治史とソグド人 森部豊

[草原世界の中のソグド人]

突厥碑文から見るトルコ人とソグド人 鈴木宏節 
突厥とソグド人―漢文石刻史料を用いて 齊藤茂雄
西突厥におけるソグド人 大澤孝
ソグドからウイグルへ 松井太

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Early Medieval China 21 《中國中古研究》第21期 (2015)




Table of Contents:

Memo From the President:

Memo from the President of the Early Medieval China Group
Keith Knapp
pp. 1–1

Articles:

From Spirited Youth to Loyal Official: Life Writing and Didacticism in the Jin shu Biography of Wang Dao 王導
Matthew V. Wells
pp. 3–20

There's No Place Like Home: Xie Lingyun's Representation of His Estate in “Rhapsody on Dwelling in the Mountains” (山居賦)
Wendy Swartz
pp. 21–37

Mapping Gender and Poetic Role in Early Medieval Poetry
Qiulei Hu
pp. 38–62

Literary Controversy at the Liang Court Revisited
Nicholas Morrow Williams
pp. 63–92

In Memoriam:  

IN MEMORIAM
Richard B. Mather
pp. 93–93

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

周代史の研究―東アジア世界における多様性の統合

Author:
豊田久 (Toyoda Hidashi)

Publisher:
汲古書院

Publication Year:
2015




Table of Contents:

第一章 周王朝における君主権の構造について

            ―「天命の膺受」者を中心に―

 第一節 「天命の膺受」者と「四方の匍有」者(天子と王)について

 第二節 「天命の膺受」者の性格について〔「上下の匍有」者と「四

       方の匍有」者について・徧き「上下」祭祀の主体者・合わ

       せて「万邦」(「民」と「疆土」)を天より受けた者

 第三節 「天命の膺受」者と世襲主義の結合について

 第四節 「天命の膺受」者から「四方の匍有」者へ(天子から王へ)



第二章 周王朝と「成」の構造について
            ―「成周」(「中国」)はなぜ「成」周と呼ばれたのか―

 第一節 「成周」と「四方」について

 第二節 「中国」(「成」周)の内と外について

 第三節 西周青銅器の銘文上に見える「成」の字の用例について

       〔「四方」(「四国」)における、国際的紛争の収束に関係す

       る銘文上に現われる「成」の場合・その他(裁判・契約例

       など)の銘文上に現われる「成」の場合〕


第三章 周王朝と弓彤考 ―「四方の匍有」者(王)の性格について―

 第一節 異族が引き起こす国際的紛争を鎮定した功の場合

 第二節 封建の場合

 第三節 射礼の場合


第四章 周王朝と「上下」考―「上下の匍有」者(天子)の性格について―

 第一節 現天子(共王)が、周王朝の開設者・文王、武王の功績を

       受け継いだことについて

 第二節 「上下の匍有」と「豊年」について

 第三節 「上下の匍有」の目的とその意味について

 第四節 殷王朝と「上下」、そして祈年について

 第五節 「上下を匍有して」と「䢔わせて万邦を受く」との結合について


第五章 周王朝とその儀礼
         ― 王と臣下、又は神との間の意志の伝達方法について―

 第一節 王と臣下の場合

 第二節 王と神の場合


第六章 西周金文に見える、王の出自する「家」について
         ―婦人の婚姻そして祖先神、領地など―

 第一節 王の「家」と婦人の婚姻について

 第二節 王の「家」、臣下側の「家」について


第七章 周王朝の君主とその位相について―豊かさと安寧―

 第一節 「天命の膺受」と「受民、受疆土」について〔「受民」の「民」は

       、もともと多様な異族を皆含んでいることについて・「受疆

       土」の「疆土」と経済的富の生産について〕

 第二節 「四方の匍有」と国際的な安寧秩序〔「四方」(「万邦」)と国

       際的紛争の収束について・「四方」の中心「中国」(洛邑)

       と「帝廷」天宮について

 第三節 周王朝の君位継承儀礼について

後書き/青銅器(金文)索引 
中文要旨 
英文要旨


Saturday, November 7, 2015

Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China: A Brief History of Early Muzhiming

Author:
Timothy M. Davis

Publication Year:
2015

Publisher:
Brill




Abstract:

In Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture Timothy M. Davis presents a history of early muzhiming—the most versatile and persistent commemorative form employed in the elite burials of pre-modern China. 

While previous scholars have largely overlooked the contemporary religious, social, and cultural functions of these epigraphic objects, this study directly addresses these areas of concern, answering such basic questions as: Why were muzhiming buried in tombs? What distinguishes commemorative biography from dynastic history biography? And why did muzhiming develop into an essential commemorative genre esteemed by the upper classes? 

Furthermore, this study reveals how aspiring families used muzhiming to satisfy their obligations to deceased ancestors, establish a multi-generational sense of corporate identity, and strengthen their claims to elite status.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1 The Social Functions of Early Medieval Muzhiming

2 The Religious Functions of Entombed Epigraphy

3 Mortuary Epigraphy Moves Underground

4 Entombed Epigraphy in an Era of Political Instability

5 Historiographical Biography and Commemorative Biography

6 The Rise of Muzhiming as a Literary Genre

Conclusion

Appendix A: Entombed Epitaphs from the Western Jin and Eastern Jin Dynasties 

Appendix B: Northern Wei Entombed Epitaphs Prior to 494 CE



Wednesday, November 4, 2015

秦漢簡牘史料研究

Author:
高村武幸

Publisher:
汲古書屋

Publication Year:
2015



Table of Contents:

序 章

本 編

第一章 漢代文書行政における書信の位置付け

第二章 前漢後半期の書信簡牘の分類と検討―書信簡牘試論―

第三章 後漢代の公文書と書信

第四章 中国古代文書行政における書信利用の濫觴

第五章 秦・漢時代地方行政における意思決定過程


付 編

第一章 簡牘の再利用―居延漢簡を中心に―

第二章 秦・漢時代の牘について

第三章 中国古代簡牘の分類について

結 語

参考文献リスト/後記/英文要旨/出土史料索引/文献史料索引/語句索引

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Eastern Han (AD 25-220) Tombs in Sichuan

Author: 
Xuan Chen 陳軒

Publication Year:
2015

Publisher:
Verlag: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. 




Abstract:

This work explores the many factors underlying the extended popularity of the cliff tomb, a local burial form in the Sichuan Basin in China during the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220). The development of the cliff tomb was linked to a complex set of connections involved with burial forms, and continued through associations with many other contemporary burial practices: brick chamber tombs, stone chamber tombs, and princely rock-cut tombs. These connections and links formed to a large extent through the incorporation of the Sichuan region within the Empire, which began in the fourth century BC. It was as part of this overall context that a series of factors contributed to the formation and popularity of the cliff tombs in Sichuan. The hilly topography and the soft sandstone, easy to cut, provided a natural resource for the development of cliff tombs. The present book, therefore, analyses the decisions behind the exploitation of this natural resource, which were also affected by many complexities rooted in the social background. The inherent nature of the cliff tomb structure is fully explored, followed by an investigation into the corresponding innovations involving pictorial carvings and burial objects. The meanings behind the seemingly continuous ‘family’ associated with the cliff tomb structure are also explored, as the construction of the tomb resulted from the continuous endeavours of many generations, and the physical appearance of the cliff tomb becomes a metaphor for family prosperity.

Table of Contents:

List of figures
Preface 

Chapter 1 Introduction

1. Major Burial Types in Eastern Han
2. Development of Burial Form in the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) 
3. The Social Background 
4. Textual Sources 
5. Archaeological Discoveries 
6. Literature Review 
7. Research Approaches 
8. Chapter Outline 

Chapter 2 Tomb Structure 

1. Archaeological Evidence 
2. Stone as Building Material
3. Wooden Architecture as Framework of Representation
4. Important Structure for Ritual and Sacrifice 
5. Conclusion 

Chapter 3 Pictorial Carvings 

1. Pictorial Carvings in Stone and Brick Chamber Tombs:
Communication between Sichuan and East China
2. Pictorial Carvings in the Shrine 
3. Pictorial Carvings and Memorial in the Cliff Tomb 
4. Pictorial carvings and the Representation of Ritual in the Cliff Tomb 
5. Conclusion 

Chapter 4 Burial Objects

1. Plan of Burial Objects
2. The Money Tree 
3. Stone Coffin
4. Conclusion 

Chapter 5 Conclusion 

Bibliography

Appendix 1 Stories of Filial Sons and Eminent Men and Women Carved
in the Cliff tombs in Sichuan 

Appendix 2 Eastern Han High Officials of the Areas Outside Sichuan
from the Sichuan Area 

Appendix 3 Eastern Han Cliff Tombs Excavated in the Sichuan Area