Thursday, March 29, 2018

漢代史研究

Author:
永田英正 (Hidemasa Nagata)

Publisher:
汲古書院

Publication Date:
March 2018



Table of Contents:

第Ⅰ部 政治制度篇

第一章 漢代人頭税の崩壊過程――特に算賦を中心として――
漢代の郷里制と人頭税/人頭税の負担と流民の発生/後漢の流民の発生と郷里制の崩壊/貨幣経済の衰退

第二章 後漢の三公にみられる起家と出自について
三公にみられる官吏登用法/孝廉と辟召、徴召について/三公の出自

第三章 漢代の選挙と官僚階級
漢初の官吏登用/武帝以後の前漢の選挙と官僚〔博士弟子員科と孝科の制定/前漢官吏の起家と出自〕/後漢の選挙と官僚〔後漢官吏の起家と出自/孝廉と辟召〕

第四章 漢代の集議について
制詔と集議/集議の諸形態〔朝議/廷議〕/集議の特色

第五章 中国古代における文官優位制について

第Ⅱ部 出土文字資料篇

第一章 新居延漢簡の概観
第二章 新居延漢簡中の若干の册書について
橐他莫当燧守御器簿/労辺使者過界中費/居延令移甲渠吏遷補牒

第三章 甲渠第四燧出土簡の分析
第四燧についての考察/出土簡の分析

第四章 「候史広徳坐罪行罰」檄について―兼ねて候史の職掌を論ず―
簡牘の釈読/候史の職掌 その一/候史の職掌 その二

第五章 礼忠簡と徐宗簡研究の展開――居延新簡の発見を契機として―
従来の諸研究/研究の展開〔累重訾直官簿/吏の任用と資産〕

第六章 江蘇尹湾漢墓出土簡についての考察――とくに「集簿」を中心として――
尹湾六号漢墓の概要〔墓葬の形制と副葬品/出土簡牘の概略/墓主と墓葬の代〕/「集簿」についての考察〔「集簿」の内容/「集簿」の性格と特徴〕/ と官文書木牘

第七章 居延漢簡に見える卒家属廩名籍について
漢代の辺境防備と戍卒〔烽燧の配置と規模/戍卒と勤務内容〕/二種類の卒家属廩名籍/卒家属廩名籍から知られる漢代の家族/卒家属廩名籍から知られる辺境事情

第八章 簡牘の古文書学
従来の簡牘研究/簡牘の古文書学的アプローチ/簿籍簡牘の古文書学/簿籍制度と漢代の文書政治

第九章 図書、文書/書籍〔木簡の書籍/竹簡の書籍/帛の書籍〕/地図/暦/文書の体裁一般〔検、嚢/署/印〕/官文書/〔下行文書/上行文書〕/簿/籍/辞令/
証明書〔伝、棨/符〕私文書〔券/尺牘〕/その他〔謁、刺/楬/遣策〕

第一〇章 漢代の石刻
石刻の年代的分布/石刻の地域的分布/石刻の形状とその内容〔碣/碑/石闕、石表/墳墓の石刻/摩崖/石像/その他の石刻〕/石刻と後漢の風俗――結びにかえて――

付 篇  きれいな木簡 汚い木簡/簡牘研究事始の記/続 簡牘研究事始の記

あとがき・索引

Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China

Author:
Wendy Swartz

Publisher:
Harvard University Press

Publication Date:
March 2018




Abstract:
In a formative period of Chinese culture, early medieval writers made extensive use of a diverse set of resources, in which such major philosophical classics as Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Classic of Changes featured prominently. Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry examines how these writers understood and manipulated a shared intellectual lexicon to produce meaning. Focusing on works by some of the most important and innovative poets of the period, this book explores intertextuality—the transference, adaptation, or rewriting of signs—as a mode of reading and a condition of writing. It illuminates how a text can be seen in its full range of signifying potential within the early medieval constellation of textual connections and cultural signs.

If culture is that which connects its members past, present, and future, then the past becomes an inherited and continually replenished repository of cultural patterns and signs with which the literati maintains an organic and constantly negotiated relationship of give and take. Wendy Swartz explores how early medieval writers in China developed a distinctive mosaic of ways to participate in their cultural heritage by weaving textual strands from a shared and expanding store of literary resources into new patterns and configurations.

Table of Contents:

Reading and writing in early medieval China
Xi Kang 嵇康 and the poetics of bricolage
The poetic repertoire of Sun Chuo 孫綽
The Lanting Excursion and Xuanyan 玄儼 poetry
The "spontaneous" poet Tao Yuanming 陶淵明 as an intertext
Reading and roaming the landscape: the Classic of Changes in Xie Lingyun's 謝靈運 poetry

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

The Continuation of Ancient Mathematics: Wang Xiaotong’s Jigu suanjing, Algebra and Geometry in 7th- Century China

Authors:
Lim, Tina Su-lyn 林淑鈴
Wagner, Donald B

Publication Date:
June 2017

Publisher:
Copenhagen K, Denmark: NIAS Press





Abstract:

After the collapse of Roman civilization, knowledge of mathematics dwindled in Europe. In the Arab world, however, the works of ancient mathematicians like Euclid were preserved and built upon by new thinkers like al-Khwarizmi, who became instrumental in spreading Indian mathematics and numerals to the West. Little known to Western historians, a parallel development of mathematical knowledge was happening in China. A rare glimpse of this world is offered via a translation and elaboration of one of the canons of classical Chinese mathematical education. Wang Xiaotong’s 王孝通 Continuation of ancient mathematics 緝古算經 shows us a stage in the development from the 1st to the 14th century CE of the Chinese traditional algebra of polynomials. Here in the 7th century, columns of numbers used in root-extraction procedures are recognized as equations that can be solved numerically, but these equations cannot yet be manipulated. Wang Xiaotong arrives at numerically solvable polynomials through a variety of ad hoc techniques, including geometric constructions and rhetorical algebra. In the 18th century, it would be shown that all of his problems could be solved by straightforward algebraic manipulation of polynomials using 14th-century Chinese methods. Lim and Wagner’s in-depth study of the Continuation brings this work to an audience unfamiliar with the history and particulars of Chinese mathematical knowledge. Their worked examples also illuminate the text and invite comparison with the work of medieval mathematicians in the Middle East and Europe. The work will appeal to historians of mathematics especially but anyone interested in the evolution of Chinese science and technology will also find this very informative.

Monday, March 26, 2018

馬が語る古代東アジア世界史

Editors:
鶴間和幸 (Kazuyuki Tsuruma) & 村松弘一 (Muramatsu, Koichi)

Publication Date:
February 2018

Publisher:
汲古書院






Table of Contents:

序  村松弘一

第一章  車の起源と発展  林 俊雄

第二章  中国の四輪馬車  濱川 栄

第三章  秦始皇帝陵出土銅車馬に見る馬の制御システム(講演録) 鶴間和幸

第四章  中国古代の馬の管理と漢代墓葬装飾  菅野恵美

第五章  「生きた礼器」としての馬
    ──殷王朝後期における馬利用の本格的開始と「馬の道」──  久慈大介

第六章  秦国の馬匹生産──考古科学からのアプローチ──  菊地大樹・覚張隆史

第七章  秦漢時代関中平原・黄土高原の環境と馬
    ──漢代厩牧システムの形成と崩壊──   村松弘一

第八章  漢代の関所における馬の通行規制とその実態
    ──肩水金関漢簡の分析から──  青木俊介

第九章  新羅の馬と牧場(講演録) 李 相勲

第十章  北朝後期の軍馬供給──洛陽遷都後の北魏から北斉期を中心に──  吉田 愛

第十一章 唐前半期における馬の域外調達──宦官「劉元尚墓誌」を中心に──  福島 恵

第十二章 唐代・日本古代の馬と交通制度──日唐厩牧令の比較から── 河野保博

第十三章 唐代の朝貢品・回賜品に見る馬  河野剛彦

第十四章 南宋臨安における馬の利用  原 瑠美

第十五章 ウマが持つ生物学的な特徴  川嶋 舟

後書き  鶴間和幸

Monday, March 19, 2018

[Dissertation] Study of the Cang Jie pian: Past and Present

Author:
Christopher Foster

Defended:
2017

School:
Harvard

Abstract: 

Lost for nearly a millennium, recent manuscript discoveries are bringing back to light a foundational work of Han period “primary education 小學”: the Cang Jie pian 蒼頡篇. This dissertation looks at the study of the Cang Jie pian from two perspectives, that of the past and of the present. It begins with the latter, addressing fundamental methodological issues for modern scholarship on the Cang Jie pian. Chapter One and Chapter Two ask how, despite the fact that the Cang Jie pian failed to be transmitted to the present, we may still identify manuscript evidence with this title. Textual identity is conceived of as a (potentially shifting) pattern of constitutive characteristics, that then serve as criteria for affiliating new text to the Cang Jie pian title with varying degrees of confidence. Chapter One presents a textual history of the Cang Jie pian via received sources; Chapter Two lists all prospective Cang Jie pian manuscript pieces. Perhaps the most important Cang Jie pian manuscript however was not archaeologically excavated, but purchased for Peking University off the antiquities market. Chapter Three investigates the authenticity of this artifact, and concludes that it is indeed genuine, by identifying novel features first seen on the Peking University Cang Jie pian that have since been confirmed in archaeologically recovered data. The dissertation next turns to the role the Cang Jie pian played in the spread of literacy during the Western Han. The nature of the Cang Jie pian as a primer employed in scribal training is discussed in Chapter Four. A case study of the Cang Jie pian manuscript fragments at Yumen Huahai watchtower shows that even conscripted soldiers were copying this text in study. Yet a survey of the Peking University manuscript’s vocabulary, in Chapter Five, reveals that the Cang Jie pian included sophisticated language that was not purely oriented toward government administration or military duty. Not only were scribes equipped with an erudite written vocabulary, through informal education networks like at Yumen Huahai, a broader range of Han society benefited from “trickle down” literacy.

Table of Contents:

Preface: Why I Chose to Study the Cang Jie pian
Chapter One: The Cang Jie pian According to Received Sources
Chapter Two: Newly Discovered Manuscript Evidence of the Cang Jie pian
Chapter Three: On the Authenticity of the Peking University Cang Jie pian
Chapter Four: Learning with the Cang Jie pian
Chapter Five: Vocabulary of the Cang Jie pian

Sunday, March 18, 2018

[Dissertation] Scribes in Early Imperial China (秦漢帝國的史職官吏)

Author:
Tsang Wing Ma

Advisor:
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low

School:
University of California, Santa Barbara

Defended:
2017

Abstract:

Scribes were the writing specialists of the ancient world. The study of scribes in ancient China appears to be less developed than those in other ancient civilizations due to the scarcity of the evidence. A group of highly educated intellectuals dominated the transmitted textual tradition in ancient China, and they portrayed scribes as corrupt officials manipulating the laws and documents to their own benefit. This situation has changed dramatically in recent years because of the modern excavation of administrative and legal texts from the workplaces and tombs of scribes in mainland China. These excavated texts allow for the recovery of the scribes’ world, which was previously overshadowed by that of intellectuals.

This dissertation presents a social, institutional, and material history of scribes in early imperial China (221 BCE—220 CE). By utilizing both the transmitted and excavated texts, the author argues against the stereotypical descriptions of scribes in current scholarship. Specifically, he examines how scribes evolved from a caste of hereditary specialists to a type of imperial officials during the political and social transitions from the Zhou to the Qin and Han periods; how scribes actually carried out the many administrative tasks under the unified empire and the problems and difficulties they encountered during their official service; and, finally, how the materiality of writing surfaces in early imperial China influenced the administrative work and qualifications of scribes.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Chapter One: Clerical or Ritualistic?
The Origin and Early Development of the Scribal Profession in China

Chapter Two: The Evolution of Scribes in Early China:
Case Study of the Sima Family

Chapter Three: Family Ties or Age?
Scribes and Assistants in Qin and Early Han China

Chapter Four: Between the State and His Superior:
The Anxiety of Being a Scribe in the Qin and Han Bureaucratic Hierarchy

Conclusion

Saturday, March 17, 2018

中國出土資料の多角的研究

Editor:
谷中 信一 (YANAKA Shin-ichi)

Publication Date:
March 2018

Publisher:
汲古書院




Table of Contents:

序 文 谷中信一

第1部 辨僞學の確立
「非發掘簡」を扱うために  大西克也
 考古學研究から見た非發掘簡―商周靑銅器研究との對比を中心に―  丹羽崇史

第2部 非發掘簡の資料價値の確立
上博楚簡『君子爲禮』譯注 ……………………………………………………………… 今田裕志
淸華簡『繫年』抄寫時代の推定―及び文字の形體から見た、戰國楚文字の
   地域的特徴形成の複雜なプロセス ………………………………… 郭 永秉(宮島和也 譯)
從淸華簡《繫年》看兩周之際的史事 …………………………………………………… 劉 國忠
重讀淸華簡《厚父》筆記 ………………………………………………………………… 趙 平安
淸華簡《湯在啻門》譯注 ………………………………………………………………… 曹  峰
淸華簡『鄭武夫人規孺子』の謙虛な君子像について ………………………………… 小寺 敦
淸華簡(六)『管仲』譯注並びに論考 …………………………………………………… 谷中信一
北京大學藏秦牘「泰原有死者」考釋 池澤 優
北大藏秦漢《敎女》釋文再探  朱 鳳瀚
北京大學漢簡「揕輿」と馬王堆帛書『陰陽五行』甲篇「堪輿」の對比研究 名和敏光
北大漢簡所見的堪輿術初探及補説 陳 侃理

第3部 出土資料を通した中国文獻の再評價
楚國世族の邑管領と呉起變法 平㔟隆郎
坊記禮説考 末永高康
老官山漢簡醫書に見える診損至脈論について 廣瀬薫雄
戰國秦漢出土文獻と『孔子家語』成書研究  鄔 可晶(北川 直子譯)
『老子』における「天下」全體の政治秩序の構想
    ―馬王堆帛書甲本に基づいて―  池田知久
見果てぬ三晉簡―後書きに代えて  大西克也

Friday, March 16, 2018

Language As Bodily Practice in Early China: A Chinese Grammatology

Author:
Jane Geaney

Publisher: 
State Univ of New York Press 

Publication Date:
March, 2018


Abstract:
Jane Geaney argues that early Chinese conceptions of speech and naming cannot be properly understood if viewed through the dominant Western philosophical tradition in which language is framed through dualisms that are based on hierarchies of speech and writing, such as reality/appearance and one/many. Instead, early Chinese texts repeatedly create pairings of sounds and various visible things. This aural/visual polarity suggests that texts from early China treat speech as a bodily practice that is not detachable from its use in everyday experience. Firmly grounded in ideas about bodies from the early texts themselves, Geaney’s interpretation offers new insights into three key themes in these texts: the notion of speakers’ intentions (yi), the physical process of emulating exemplary people, and Confucius’s proposal to rectify names (zhengming).

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. Discounting the Language Crisis in Early China

1. The Crisis of Blockage: Accessing and Transmitting Obscure Things

2. The Crisis of Blockage: Why Not “Language and Reality”?

3. The Prescriptive Crisis: Nomenclature, Not System

4. The Prescriptive Crisis: Naming and Distinguishing

5. The Prescriptive Crisis: Correcting Names without “Performing” Rules

Part II. Understanding Early Chinese Conceptions of Speech and Names

6. Successful “Communication”: Getting the Yi 意 and Becoming Tong 通 

7. “Ritual” versus Li 禮 as the Visible Complement of Sound

8. Zhengming and Li 禮 as the Visible Complement of Sound

9. Embodied Zhengming: How We Are Influenced by Seeing versus Hearing

10. Separating Lunyu 12.11 from Zhengming 

Epilogue
Appendix Glossary of Terms with Aural or Visual Associations
Bibliography
Index

Thursday, March 15, 2018

[Dissertation] The Rise of a Manuscript Culture and the Textualization of Discourse in Early China

Author:
Rens Krijgsman

Defended:
2017

School:
Oxford University

Advisor:
Dirk Meyer

Abstract:

This thesis analyses a change in the ways people composed and engaged with texts during the Warring States (481-221 BCE) period in Early China. It examines changes in the textual sphere as a result of an emergent manuscript culture, that is to say, the increased spread and reliance on manuscript texts for the communication of ideas. This shift moved away from the predominantly oral, commemorative, and ritual use of text in earlier periods, and provided key elements that would function in the text based discourse of the early empires. It influenced the way text across a variety of genres of writing was used and understood, structured and composed, and how it was collected and combined to form new arguments.

I focus on texts from the Documents 書, and Odes 詩 genres, in addition to philosophical texts dealing with the past, and collections of sayings and arguments dealing with questions from cosmological to ethical issues. These materials form the mainstay of Warring States intellectual discourse, and exemplify the following textual developments: 1) the rise of collecting materials into compilations; 2) the emergence of genre classification; 3) the development of new authorship functions, 3) an increase in textual structuring and the integration of lore about the past, 4) the development of commentarial traditions, 5) the emergence of an explicit, self-reflexive understanding of writing and transmission, 6) advances in material structuring of manuscript-texts that interrelate form and content.

The analysis is based primarily on excavated materials not edited during the early empires, and engages with comparative and interdisciplinary theory. It argues against models solely based on transmitted sources, which explained Warring States developments as a response to socio-political contexts. Instead, it posits developments in the textual culture itself as a necessary condition to explain the changes in intellectual discourse of the period.

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

漢帝国成立前史:秦末反乱と楚漢戦争

Author:
柴田昇 (しばた のぼる)

Publisher:
白帝社

Publication Date:
March 2018


Abstract:
約四百年にわたって続き、後の中国王朝の原型となった漢帝国は、どのようにして始まったのか?秦末の社会状況と陳勝呉広の乱に代表される民衆反乱の発生から、項羽・劉邦の登場、秦帝国の滅亡、項羽の分封、そして楚漢戦争の終結に至るまでの歴史的過程を再検討し、統一王朝誕生の実像に迫る。

Table of Contents:

序章

第一章 秦末反乱の背景と基盤
はじめに
第一節 秦帝国支配の特質
1 統一の理念
2 統一の実像
3 秦帝国の理念と実態
第二節 反乱の基盤
1 抵抗の場
2 抵抗の主体
おわりに

第二章 陳勝呉広の乱とそのインパクト
はじめに
第一節 陳勝と陳勝集団
1 陳勝の出自と陳勝集団
2 木村正雄の陳勝集団論
3 八〇年代末以降の研究動向と「楚」
第二節 陳勝集団の展開と崩壊
1 陳勝集団の拡大:四方への軍団派遣
2 陳勝集団の展開:集団の分裂と崩壊
第三節 陳勝呉広の乱からみた地域の特質
1 趙・燕の動向
2 魏・韓の動向
3 斉・楚の動向と斉・楚・三晋交界地域
4 東方六国の地域的特質

第三章 『史記』項羽本紀考
はじめに
第一節 『史記』の構成と項羽本紀
第二節 『史記』の中の項羽と劉邦(1)
第三節 『史記』の中の項羽と劉邦(2)
第四節 アウトローとしての項羽
第五節 項羽と古帝王
おわりに

第四章 項羽政権の成立
はじめに
第一節 項梁集団の成立
1 項梁集団の蜂起
2 項梁集団の拡大
第二節 楚王の擁立と項羽集団の成立
1 懐王の擁立
2 項梁の戦死
3 救趙戦争と項羽の楚軍掌握
第三節 項羽政権の成立
1 懐王の約と項羽の分封
2 十八王封建の特徴
3 十八王封建の論理
おわりに

第五章 劉邦集団の成長過程
はじめに
第一節 劉邦集団の成立
1 集団の成立と沛の制圧
2 楚軍への合流
第二節 関中攻略の背景
1 懐王の約の意味
2 第一のクーデター
3 第二のクーデター
第三節 漢王劉邦の誕生
1 戦後処理と懐王の約
2 封建体制の解体
おわりに

第六章 楚漢戦争の展開過程とその帰結
はじめに
第一節 地域の動きと彭城の戦いの情勢
1 斉
2 韓・魏
3 趙・燕
4 旧秦
5 楚の諸王(1)
6 楚の諸王(2)
7 小結:楚漢戦争初期における諸国の特質
第二節 彭城の戦いと漢の東方再進出
1 彭城の戦いと「五諸侯」
2 彭城の戦い前後における諸侯の動向
3 漢の敗走と関中の拠点化
4 漢の東方再進出
5 小結:漢二年末~漢三年初頭における諸国の動向
第三節 楚漢抗争と梁・斉
1 漢三年正月~漢四年九月の楚漢関係
2 趙・斉・梁の動向
3 小結:楚漢の和睦と諸侯の動向
第四節 項羽政権の崩壊
1 最末期の楚漢戦争(1)
2 最末期の楚漢戦争(2)
3 最末期の楚漢戦争(3)
4 楚漢戦争の終結
5 小結:楚漢戦争最末期における諸侯の動向
おわりに

終章

後記
秦末楚漢戦争期月表
研究者名索引

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Winds of Jingjiao: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia

Editors:
Li Tang, Dietmar W. Winkler

Publication Date:
2016

Publisher: 
Wien: Lit Verlag





Abstract:

As early as AD 781, the writer of the Xi'an Fu inscription described the spread of Syriac Christianity (called Jingjiao in Chinese) to China as a wind blowing eastward. The discovery of the Xi'an Fu Stele, the Dunhuang Jingjiao Manuscripts, the numerous Syriac tombstones and fragments in Central Asia and many parts of China has unearthed a buried history of Syriac Christianity from the Tang Dynasty to the time of the Mongol Empire. The papers in this volume cover a wide range of topics from manuscripts and inscription, to the historical, liturgical and theological perspectives of Syriac Christianity in this geographic realm.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: winds of Jingjiao / Li Tang

Manuscripts and inscriptions

The Dunhuang Jingjiao documents in Japan: a report on their reappearance / Matteo Nicolini-Zani

Criciacal remarks on the so-called newly discoverd Jingjiao epitaph from Luoyang with a preliminary English translation / Li Tang

Syriac crosses in Central and Southwest China / Dale Albert Johnson

The geograhical context of the Tangtse Inscriptions / Roderic L. Mullen

Commemorating the saints at Turfan / Erica C D. Hunter

More gravestones in Syriac script from Tashkent, Panjikent and Ashgabat / Mark Dickens

The tale of Ahikar according to a Garshuni Turkish manuscript of the John Rylands University library / Peter Zieme

The exorcism in the newly found Khara-Khoto Syriac document / Shinichi Muto

Hisotrical Perspectives

Al-Bayruni - The twelve apostles and the Twelve months of the Julian year / Francois de Blois

Changing mission at home and abroad: Catholico Timothy I and the Church of the East on the early abbasid period / Andrew Platt

The Westwardness of things: Literary Geography and the Church of the East / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

Byzantine-Rite Christians (Melkites) in Central Asia and China and their contacts with the Church of the East / Ken Parry

On Christianity among Central Asian and Syr Daryan Oghuz and their possible Nestorian Connections / Mehmet Tezcan

An anachronism in the Stele of Xian - why Henanisho? / Max Deeg

Beth Sinaye: a typical East Syrian ecclesiatical province? / David Wilmshurst

'Eunuchs for the Kingdom of God' : rethinking the Christian-Buddhist Imperial translation incident of 787 / R. Todd Godwin

Why did Chinese Nestorians name their religion Jingjiao? / Xiaoping Yin

Priests of Jingjiao in the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom (five dynasties - the early song dynasty) / Yuanyuan Wang

Liturgical Tradition & Theological Reflections

Lost in transcription? - the theological vocabulary of Christian texts in Central Asia and China / Samuel N.C. Lieu

Uber die enkulturation der persisch-syrischen Christen im Tangzeitlichen China - am Beispiel der abgewandelten for derZehn Gebote im buch uber Jesus den Messias / Zhu Li

The sacraments of the Assyrian Church of the East / Mar Awa Royel

Theological transfer: how did monks from China influence East Syriac sacramental theology? / Dietmar W. Windler

Ying/?/Nirmana: a case study on the translatability of Buddhism into Jingjiao / Donghua Zhu

Sunday, March 11, 2018

[Dissertation] First steps to office of the Western Han commandery of Dunhuang (2nd – 1st century BCE)

Author:
Arnaud Bertrand

Defended:
2017

School:
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (CRCAO)

Abstract:

This dissertation centers on the history, archeology and historical geography of Early China. It examines the steps of establishment of the imperial commanderies founded in the vicinity of the Western Han dynasty boundaries (206 BCE– 9 AD). At the turn of the second and the first centuries BCE, the imperial strategical efforts made to stabilize of newly conquered territories passed through a complex system. Starting with the military occupation, it lead to the migration of populations from the center of the empire. Focusing on Dunhuang (Gansu Province)–the westernmost commandery established within the Empire borders–we follow at regional scale those strategies of conquest and occupation. In addition of various fieldwork performed by the author, this research is based on a different approach of the Dynastic Histories, the use of archaeological data and the exploitation of untrodden epigraphic material. By using a new methodology, we have managed to individualize its development within a territory located at the crossroads of commercial and diplomatic highways with the Central-Asian kingdoms and cultures. As a result of its cartography and chronology being put up to date, we have obtained a complete revision of the first steps of organization of the main military and civilian centers of Dunhuang.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION GÉNÉRALE
PARTIE I  LES SOURCES : ENTRE TEXTES ET VESTIGES
PARTIE II  FONDATION DE LA COMMANDERIE DE DUNHUANG
PARTIE III  LE DISTRICT DE YUANQUAN
PARTIE IV  LE DISTRICT DE MINGAN
PARTIE V  LE DISTRICT DE GUANGZHI ET LE DUWEI DE YIHE
PARTIE VI  LE DISTRICT DE XIAOGU 
PARTIE VII  LE DISTRICT DE DUNHUANG
PARTIE VIII  LE DISTRICT DE LONGLE
CONCLUSION GÉNÉRALE

* For more information, see here:
https://www.academia.edu/35970509/First_steps_to_office_of_the_Western_Han_commandery_of_Dunhuang_2nd_1st_century_BCE_

Thursday, March 8, 2018

中国古代貨幣経済の持続と転換

Author:
柿沼陽平 (Kakinuma Yōhei)

Publisher:
汲古書院

Publication Date:
February 2018



Table of Contents:

序 章

第一章 後漢貨幣経済の展開とその特質
第一節 後漢時代の五銖銭制度
一 五銖銭の鋳造再開          二 五銖銭の継続的鋳造
第二節 諸貨幣の民間社会への浸透
一 複数貨幣の並存状況       二 貨幣としての銭      三 貨幣としての金銀
四 貨幣としての布帛        五 貨幣としての穀物・真珠
第三節 銭・黄金・布帛の社会的機能

第二章 後漢時代における金銭至上主義の台頭
第一節 対羌戦争の軍事費
第二節 後漢財政における軍事費の割合
第三節 後漢による財政補填策
一 多様な財政補填策            二 民一人当たりの銭所有量(平均値)の増加
第四節 金銭至上主義とそれに対する反動

第三章 後漢末の群雄の経済基盤と財政補填策
第一節 経済基盤としての州
第二節 州をめぐる群雄の争い
一 群雄割拠期を生き抜いた州長官――益州劉氏と荊州劉氏
二 群雄割拠期に台頭した群雄①――曹操・袁術・袁紹
三 群雄割拠期に台頭した群雄②――劉備と江東孫氏
第三節 群雄の財政補填策

第四章 曹魏の税制改革と貨幣経済の質的変化
第一節 政策としての女織・婦織           第二節 漢代における布帛生産量の拡大
第三節 後漢末の戸調制               第四節 曹魏における五銖銭の流通

第五章 蜀漢の軍事最優先型経済体制
第一節 劉備軍団と軍事最優先型経済体制
一 荊州期         二 入蜀期       三 劉巴の名目貨幣政策
第二節 漢中争奪戦と南征の経済的意義
第三節 北伐の経済的背景
一 蜀漢の人口比率と軍事最優先型経済体制      二 蜀漢の屯田政策と対外遠征
第四節 蜀漢末期の軍事最優先型経済体制とその変化

第六章 三国時代の西南夷社会とその秩序
第一節 夜郎・指・證都の地          第二節 昆明・俶・徙・筰都の地
第三節 瀬蟇・白馬羌の地           第四節 血縁と恩信
第五節 諸葛亮南征期             第六節 諸葛亮南征以降

第七章 孫呉貨幣経済の構造と特質
第一節 孫呉貨幣経済と税制    第二節 銭納人頭税    第三節 曹魏戸調制と孫呉調制
第四節 商業関連税        第五節 孫呉の人口統計と吏卒数

第八章 晉代貨幣経済と地方的物流
第一節 晉代における国家的物流の弱体化
第二節 晉代貨幣経済の存立背景とその浸透度
第三節 晉代における銭と布帛の特定用途化
終 章

あとがき       索引 (日本人研究者名・外国人研究者名・史料名・語彙・年号・図表)
付 表 (巻末横組)
付表1 各種の 『後漢書』 よりみた銭・黄金・布帛の授受
付表2 後漢時代の対羌戦争と自然災害に関する年表
付表3 蜀漢の北伐と軍糧の関連年表
付表4 各種の 『晉書』 よりみた銭・黄金・布帛の授受

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China

Author:
Jinhua Jia

Publisher:
Columbia University Press

Publication Date:
March 2018




Abstract:
During the Tang dynasty (618–907), the adoption of Daoism as the de facto state religion opened the possibility for Chinese women to play an unprecedented role in religious and public life. Women from imperial princesses to the daughters of commoner families could be ordained as Daoist priestesses and become religious leaders, teachers, and practitioners in their own right. Some achieved remarkable accomplishments: one wrote and transmitted influential texts on meditation and inner cultivation; another, a physician, authored a treatise on therapeutic methods, medical theory, and longevity techniques. Priestess-poets composed major works, and talented priestess-artists produced stunning calligraphy.

In Gender, Power, and Talent, Jinhua Jia draws on a wealth of previously untapped sources to explain how Daoist priestesses distinguished themselves as a distinct gendered religious and social group. She describes the life journey of priestesses from palace women to abbesses and ordinary practitioners, touching on their varied reasons for entering the Daoist orders, the role of social and religious institutions, forms of spiritual experience, and the relationships between gendered identities and cultural representations. Jia takes the reader inside convents and cloisters, demonstrating how they functioned both as a female space for self-determination and as a public platform for both religious and social spheres. The first comprehensive study of the lives and roles of Daoist priestesses in Tang China, Gender, Power, and Talent restores women to the landscape of Chinese religion and literature and proposes new methodologies for the growing field of gender and religion.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. The Rise of Daoist Priestesses as a Gendered Religio-Social Group
2. Destiny and Power of the Ordained Royal Women
3. Religious Leadership, Practice, and Ritual Function
4. Liu Moran 柳默然 and the Daoist Theory of Inner Cultivation
5. Longevity Techniques and Medical Theory: The Legacy of Hu Yin 胡愔
6. The Yaochi ji 瑤池集 and Three Daoist Priestess-Poets
7. Unsold Peony: The Life and Poetry of the Priestess-Poet Yu Xuanji 魚玄機
Conclusion
Appendix: Du Guangting and the Hagiographies of Tang Daoist Women

Friday, March 2, 2018

The Wenzi: Creativity and Intertextuality in Early Chinese Philosophy

Author:
Paul van Els

Publisher:
Brill

Publication Date:
March 2018



Abstract:

The Wenzi is a Chinese philosophical text that enjoyed considerable prestige in the centuries following its creation, over two-thousand years ago. When questions regarding its authenticity arose, the text was branded a forgery and consigned to near oblivion. The discovery of an age-old Wenzi manuscript, inked on strips of bamboo, refueled interest in the text. In this combined study of the bamboo manuscript and the received text, Van Els argues that they belong to two distinct text traditions as he studies the date, authorship, and philosophy of each tradition, as well as the reception history of the received text. This study sheds light on text production and reception in Chinese history, with its changing views on authorship, originality, authenticity, and forgery, both past and present.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Conventions

Introduction
1 The Dingzhou 定州 Discovery
2 The Dingzhou Wenzi
3 The Proto-Wenzi: Date, Protagonists, Author
4 The Proto-Wenzi: Philosophy
5 A New Wenzi
6 The Received Wenzi: Date and Editor
7 The Received Wenzi: Philosophy
8 Wenzi Reception
Epilogue

Bibliography
Index