China and the World – the World and China: Essays in Honor of Rudolf G. Wagner

Volume 1：Transcultural Perspectives on Pre-modern China

Editor: 
Joachim GENTZ

Publication Date:
2019

Publisher:
OSTASIEN Verlag, Gossenberg

Abstract: 
A wide range of topics is covered in this collection of four volumes of essays in honor of Rudolf G. Wagner. The expansive time frame from pre-modern to contemporary China in China and the World – the World and China reflect the breadth of his own scholarship. The essays are also testimony to his ability to connect with scholars across the globe, across disciplines and generations.

The first volume (Transcultural Perspectives on Pre-modern China) brings together a set of contributions relating to the pre-modern period which reveals thematic clusters that correspond to the three main periods of Chinese pre-modern history. While the first six contributions on the early China period focus on conceptual questions of text interpretation and reconstruction, the following five on medieval China all deal with religious topics whereas the last four contributions, covering the late imperial period, address issues of the entangled relationship between the self and the exterior.

Table of Contents:

Foreword: The Joys of Transculturality – or Research and Teaching between China and the World: A Tribute to Rudolf G. Wagner
　　　(Monica JUNEJA and Barbara MITTLER)
 
Editor’s Introduction
　　　(Joachim GENTZ)
 
Zhuangzi’s Twinkle and Methods without Truth
　　　(Joachim GENTZ))
 
Materialität antiker Handschriften: Beispiele aus China
　　　(Enno GIELE)
 
Concepts of “Authenticity” and the Chinese Textual Heritage in Light of Excavated Texts
　　　(Anke HEIN)
 
Biographical Genres and Biography: The Case of Yan Zun 嚴遵
　　　(CHEN Zhi)
 
The Rule of Law in Eastern Han China: Some Cases of Murder, Suicide, Theft, and Private Dispute
　　　(Robin D. S. YATES)
 
Zhao Qi 趙岐 and Late Han Pedantic Conceptual Analysis
　　　(Christoph HARBSMEIER)
 
Antlers? Or Horns? Towards Understanding Gan Bao 干寶, the Historian
　　　(Michael SCHIMMELPFENNIG)
 
Kumārajīva’s “Voice”?
　　　(Michael RADICH)
 
Transcending Boundaries: Afterlife Conceptions in Entombed Epitaphs and Votive Steles of the Six Dynasties’ Period
　　　(Friederike ASSANDRI)
 
Motifs Traveled with Intentions: Mapping Tang China and the World through Pictorial Screens in the Nara Period Japan (710–794)
　　　(WANG Yizhou)
 
Studying Fears of Witchcraft in Traditional China: A Close Reading of Three Examples from Hong Mai’s The Records of a Listener
　　　(Barend TER HAAR)
 
Chi 癡, pi 癖, shi 嗜, hao 好: Genealogies of Obsession in Chinese Literature
　　　(LI Wai-yee)
 
Entangled Histories: Insights Gained from a Hodological Approach to the Blue Beryl’s Thanka on Metaphors of the Body
　　　(Elisabeth HSU)
 
Manchu Sources and the Problem of Translation
　　　(Mark ELLIOTT)
 
Kalmyk Echoes, Torghut Returns: Poet-Exiles in a Time of Shrinking Frontiers
　　　(Haun SAUSSY)