Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Early China 41 (2018) 《古代中國》第41期



Table of Contents:

Letter from the Editor
SARAH ALLAN

OBITUARIES

Jao Tsung-I (Rao Zongyi) 饒宗頤 (1917–2018)
CHEN ZHI and ADAM SCHWARTZ

Gerhard Schmitt (1933–2017)
WOLFGANG BEHR

Zhang Zhongpei 張忠培 (1934–2017)
KATHERYN LINDUFF

ARTICLES

History as Future—Time, Prediction, and Historical Narrative
in the Zuo zhuan
PIOTR GIBAS

Poetry, “The Metal-bound Coffer,” and the Duke of Zhou
KUAN-YUN HUANG

The Zhou xun 周訓 and “Elevating the Worthy” (shang xian 尚賢)
ANDREJ FECH

Sacrifice vs. Sustenance: Food as a Burial Good in Late
Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial Chinese Tombs
and Its Relation to Funerary Rites
ARMIN SELBITSCHKA

Single- and Multi-Piece Manuscripts in Early Imperial China:
On the Background and Significance of a
Terminological Distinction
THIES STAACK

Overgrown Courtyards and Tilled Fields: Image-Based Debates on Governance and Body Politics in the Mengzi, Zhuangzi, and Huainanzi
TOBIAS BENEDIKT ZÜRN

Wanton Goddesses to Unspoken Worthies: Gendered Hermeneutics in the Chu ci zhangju
MONICA E. M. ZIKPI

Identifying the Textual Sources of Shi ji: Reviewing Past
Research for a More Encompassing Methodology
TREVER MCKAY


Sunday, November 25, 2018

中国ジェンダー史研究入門 (Introduction to gender history in China)

Editors:
小浜 正子・下倉 渉・佐々木 愛・高嶋 航・江上 幸子

Publication date:
2018

Publisher:
京都大学学術出版会 Kyoto University Press




Abstract:

中国の長い歴史とともに変化したジェンダー秩序の変遷過程をダイナミックに描く。社会の父系化、ジェンダー規範の強化、そして社会主義をへて改革開放の大変動まで。家族、労働、ナショナリズム、身体、LGBTなど今日的な研究視点を網羅し、中国ジェンダー史研究の全体像を初めて伝える。初学者から隣接分野まで必携の研究入門。

Table of Contents:

遺跡地図

はじめに―中国史におけるジェンダー秩序 (小浜正子)
1.ジェンダー史とジェンダー主流化
2.中国女性史から中国ジェンダー史へ
3.中国ジェンダー史共同研究と中国ジェンダー史のいくつかの論点
4.残された課題
5.本書の構成

第一編 通時的パースペクティブ

Ⅰ期 先秦~隋唐 古典中国―父系社会の形成

はじめに (下倉 渉)

第1章 考古学からみた先秦時代のジェンダー構造 (内田純子)
はじめに
1.墓葬資料の扱い
2.副葬工具にみられる性差―新石器時代の男耕女織の起源
3.初期王朝時代(商代)の文字資料と女性
4.考古学からみた商王とその妻―王陵区大墓と婦好墓の比較
5.殷墟の族墓地の男女墓の分析
6.西周から春秋・戦国期にかけての変化
7.青銅器と装身具にみられる女性の役割
―西周から春秋・戦国期にかけての変化
8.女性の寿命、生涯と身分
9.男耕女織と絹生産
10.先秦時代のジェンダー構造の変化過程

第2章 父系化する社会 (下倉 渉)
はじめに
1.異父の兄弟姉妹と舅甥の関係
2.「公主」の歴史
(1)六朝から明清まで
(2)漢代の公主について
おわりに

第3章 中国の文学と女性 (佐竹保子)
はじめに
1.先秦(紀元前)
2.漢代
3.魏晋南北朝
4.唐代
5.宋代の李清照
おわりに

第4章 唐代の家族 (翁育瑄、三田辰彦訳)
はじめに
1.門閥貴族研究と唐代の家族・親族
2.女性史研究と唐代の家族・親族
3.礼制・法制研究と唐代の家族・親族
おわりに

コラム1 史料紹介―敦煌文書にみる妻の離婚、娘の財産相続
(荒川正晴)

コラム2 則天武后とその後 (金子修一)


Monday, November 19, 2018

Dao and Sign in History: Daoist Arche-Semiotics in Ancient and Medieval China

Author: 
Daniel Fried

Publisher:
SUNY

Publication date:
November 2018




Abstract:

From its earliest origins in the Dao De Jing, Daoism has been known as a movement that is skeptical of the ability of language to fully express the truth. While many scholars have compared the earliest works of Daoism to language-skeptical movements in twentieth-century European philosophy and have debated to what degree early Daoism does or does not resemble these recent movements, Daniel Fried breaks new ground by examining a much broader array of Daoist materials from ancient and medieval China and showing how these works influenced ideas about language in medieval religion, literature, and politics. Through an extended comparison with a broad sample of European philosophical works, the book explores how ideas about language grow out of a given historical moment and advances a larger argument about how philosophical and religious ideas cannot be divided into “content” and “context.”


Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Reading Sima Qian from Han to Song: The Father of History in Pre-Modern China

Author: 
Esther S. Klein

Publication Date: 
November 2018

Publisher:
Brill



Abstract:

In Father of Chinese History, Esther Klein explores the life and work of the great Han dynasty historian Sima Qian as seen by readers from the Han to the Song dynasties. Today Sima Qian is viewed as both a tragic hero and a literary genius. Premodern responses to him were more equivocal: the complex personal emotions he expressed prompted readers to worry about whether his work as a historian was morally or politically acceptable. Klein demonstrates how controversies over the value and meaning of Sima Qian’s work are intimately bound up with larger questions: How should history be written? What role does individual experience and self-expression play within that process? By what standards can the historian’s choices be judged?

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Structure of the Book
Historians, Lineages, and Confucian Scholars: Good Problems in Translation

Part 1: Contextualization

1 A Record of Doubts and Difficulties
Overview
Sources and Attribution
Who is the Honorable Senior Historian?
Autobiography and Authenticity
Chu Shaosun: A Third Author?
Extreme Textual Damage and Loss
A Conclusion Leading Onward
2 Sima Qian’s Place in the Textual World
Aspects of Self-Description
Early Views of the Shiji
The New Historical Tradition
Sima Qian in the Realm of Literary Prose


Saturday, November 10, 2018

[Dissertation] Mining, Trade and State Formation in Early China

Author:
SHI, Tao 石濤

Defended:
2018

School:
University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract:

This dissertation aims at exploring the trade strategy and center-periphery relations in the process of state formation in early China. The focus is the Longshan and Erlitou periods (ca. 2300–1520 BCE). Instead of a center-based perspective, this research focuses on peripheries and discusses the impact of peripheral societies on the formation of the political-economic landscape of early states. By taking resource extraction and distribution as a departure point, I discuss the production modes, economic forms and social contexts in three resource-rich regions, which were significant sources of key resources in early China. Based on my estimation on scales of mining and mining landscapes, I argue that turquoise and copper mining and mining-related productions were all local, small-scale and village-based activities during the two periods. The current evidence shows that early states did not place direct control over resource extraction and distribution in these peripheral regions. Moreover, based on the arguments and comparative cases in other regions of the world, I further argue that the strategy of resource procurement of early states was never monopolistic. Rather, the Longshan and Erlitou-period states adopted a decentralized strategy to procure key resources. By considering Erlitou as a phenomenon of regeneration after Longshan collapses, I argue that the center-periphery relations maintained a strong continuity in this transitional period.

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction
2 Geographical background
3 Setting the stage: the transition to Chinese Bronze Age
4 Towards a comparative perspective
5 Mining and archaeology in the western Shangluo Corridor
6 Mining and archaeology in the eastern Shangluo Corridor
7 Metallurgical industries in the Jinnan and Middle Yangzi regions: a comparison
8 Discussion

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship

Editors:
Michael Hunter and Martin Kern

Publication date:
October 2018 

Publisher:
Brill


Abstract:

Edited by Michael Hunter and Martin Kern and featuring contributions by preeminent scholars of early China, Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship critically examines the long-standing debates surrounding the history of the Analects, for two millennia considered the most authoritative source of the teachings of Confucius (551–479 BCE). Unlike most previous scholarship, it does not take the traditional view of the Analects’ origins as given. Instead, it explores the validity and the implications of recent revisionist critiques from historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives, and further draws on recently discovered ancient manuscripts and new technological advances in the Digital Humanities. As such, it opens up new ways for productive engagement with the text. 

Table of Contents:

Introduction
 Michael Hunter and Martin Kern

1 A Critical Overview of Some Contemporary Chinese Perspectives on the Composition and Date of Lunyu
 John Makeham

2 The Lunyu as an Accretion Text
 Robert Eno

3 The Lunyu as Western Han Text
 Michael Hunter

4 Confucius and His Disciples in the Lunyu: The Basis for the Traditional View
 Paul R. Goldin

5 The Lunyu, a Homeless Dog in Intellectual History: On the Dating of Discourses on Confucius’s Success and Failure
 Joachim Gentz

6 Confucius’s Sayings Entombed: On Two Han Dynasty Bamboo Lunyu Manuscripts
 Paul van Els

7 Manuscript Formats and Textual Structure in Early China
 Matthias L. Richter

8 Interlocutor Collections, the Lunyu, and Proto-Lunyu Texts
 Mark Csikszentmihalyi

9 Sima Qian’s Kongzi and the Western Han Lunyu
 Esther Klein

10 Kongzi as Author in the Han
 Martin Kern