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)

Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives

Editors:
Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Ping Yao, Cong Ellen Zhang

Publisher:
University of Washington Press

Publication date:
January 2020

Abstract:
Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased's biography and exemplary words and deeds, expressing the survivors' longing for the dead. These epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of women, men who did not leave a mark politically, and children―people who are not well documented in more conventional sources such as dynastic histories and local gazetteers.

This anthology of translations makes available funerary biographies covering nearly two thousand years, from the Han dynasty through the nineteenth century, selected for their value as teaching material for courses in Chinese history, literature, and women's studies as well as world history. Because they include revealing details about personal conduct, families, local conditions, and social, cultural, and religious practices, these epitaphs illustrate ways of thinking and the realities of daily life. Most can be read and analyzed on multiple levels, and they stimulate investigation of topics such as the emotional tenor of family relations, rituals associated with death, Confucian values, women's lives as written about by men, and the use of sources assumed to be biased. These biographies will be especially effective when combined with more readily available primary sources such as official documents, religious and intellectual discourses, and anecdotal stories, promising to generate provocative discussion of literary genre, the ways historians use sources, and how writers shape their accounts.

Table of Contents:

Three short eastern Han funerary biographies : epitaphs for Ma Jiang (34-106), Wu Zhongshan (ca. 92-172), and Kong Dan (fl. 182) / translated by Ping Yao and Patricia Ebrey

A Chinese general serving the Northern Wei state : entombed epitaph for the late Wei dynasty overseer of military affairs, Sima Yue 司馬悅 (462-508) / translated by Timothy Davis

A twice-widowed Xianbei princess: epitaph with preface for the Great Enlightenment Temple nun surnamed Yuan (475-529) 元純陀 / translated by Jender Lee 李貞德

Authoring one's own epitaph : self-authored epitaph / by Wang Ji (590-644) ; Inscription dictated while near death / by Wang Xuanzong (633-686) ; translated by Alexei Kamran Ditter

Wives commemorating their husbands : epitaph for Cao Yin (fl. 7th century) / by Madame Zhou (fl. 7th century) ; Epitaph for He Jian (686-742) / by Madame Xin (fl. 742) ; translated by Ping Yao

A married daughter and a grandson : entombed funerary inscription for my daughter the late Madame Dugu (785-815) and entombed record for my grandson (803-815) who died young (Quan Shunsun, 803-815) / by Quan Deyu (759-818) ; translated by Anna Shields

A nun who lived through the Huichang persecution of Buddhism : epitaph for Daoist nun (Zhi Zhijian, 812-861) / by Zhi Mo (fl. 860) ; translated by Ping Yao

An envoy serving the Kitan Liao Son of Heaven : epitaph for Han Chun (d. 1035), court ceremonial commissioner / by Li Wan (fl. 1012-1036) ; translated by Lance Pursey

Epitaphs made widely available : funerary biographies for three men of Luzhou: Liang Jian (d. 1042), Wang Cheng (d. 1042), and Chen Hou (1065-1123) / translated by Man Xu

A friend and political ally : funerary inscription for Mr. Culai (Shi Jie, 1005-1045) / by Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072) ; translated by Cong Ellen Zhang

Preserving a father's memory : funerary inscription for Chao Juncheng (1029-1075) / by Huang

Tingjian (1045-1105) / translated by Cong Ellen Zhang

A gentleman without office : epitaph for the scholar residing at home Wei Xiongfei (1130-1207) / by Wei Liaoweng (1178-1237) ; translated by Mark Halperin

Wives and in-laws : funerary inscription for [my father-in-law] Mr. Zou of Fengcheng (Zou Yilong, 1204-1255) and funerary inscription for [my wife] Madame Plum Mansion (zou Miaozhuang, 1230-1257) / by Yao Mian (1216-1262) ; translated by Beverly Bossler

A clerk promoted to official under the Mongols : funerary inscription for Mr. Su (Su Zhidao, 1261-1320), director of the left and right offices of the branch secretariat for the Lingbei region / by Yu Ji (1271-1348) ; translated by Patricia Buckley Ebrey

A Mongol rising to the defense of the realm : epitaph for grand guardian Sayin Idaqu (1317-1365) / by Zhang Zhu (1287-1368) / translated by Tomoyasu Iiyama 飯山知保

A merchant aspiring to gentlemanly virtue : funerary biography of the gentleman residing at home Cheng Weiqing (1531-1588) / by Wang Shizhen (1526-1590) ; translated by Yongtao Du

A Ming general turned warlord : the General Mao Wenlong (1579-1629) / by Mao Qiling (1623-1716) ; translated by Xing Hang

A brother remembers his sister : the epitaph of my sister Madam Fang (1600-1668) / by Qian Chengzhi (1612- 1698) ; translated by Martin Huang

A Chinese bannerman expert in waterworks : epitaph for Jin Fu (1633-1692), director-general of river conservancy / by Wang Shizhen (1634-1711) ; translated by R. Kent Guy

A woman determined to die : epitaph for the joint burial of Scholar Wu (1666-1687) and his martyred wife Madame Dai (1666-1687) / by Mao Qiling (1623-1716) ; translated by Jolan Yi

A wife's sacrifices : a living epitaph of my wife Madame Sun (1769-1833) / by Fang Dongshu (1772-1851) ; translated by Weijing Lu

A wife's moving tribute : epitaph for Zeng Yong (1813-1862) / by Zuo Xijia (1831-1896) ; translated by Grace S. Fong

磚画・壁画からみた魏晋時代の河西

Editors:
關尾史郎 (Sekio Shiro)、
町田隆吉 (Machida, Takayoshi)

Publication date:
September 2019

Publisher:
汲古書院

Table of Contents:

はしがき/關尾史郎

第一部　総　論

河西各地の魏晋墓出土画像磚について――出土資料の問題点と今後の展望――/北村　永

河西磚画墓とその時代――新城墓群を中心として――/關尾史郎

敦煌祁家湾古墓出土「五胡十六国」時代の磚画をめぐって――敦煌地区における来世観とその周辺――/町田隆吉

魏晋時代河西の壁画墓と壁画の一面――遼陽との比較を通して――/三﨑良章

第二部　各　論

河西出土文物から見た朝服制度の受容と変容――魏晋・五胡期、胡漢混淆地帯における礼制伝播のあり方――/小林　聡

魏晋時代の河西にみられる楽器――琵琶系楽器・琴瑟系楽器・洞簫系楽器を中心に――/荻　美津夫

画像資料に見る魏晋時代の武器――河西地域を中心として――/内田宏美

甘粛省河西地方出土の犂耕関係画像一覧（稿）/渡部　武

引用文献目録

あとがき（町田隆吉）

[Dissertation] Weathering History: Storms, State, and Society in South China since the Fifth Century CE

Author:
Alejandrino, Clark L.

School:
Georgetown University

Defended:
2019

Abstract:

My dissertation looks at typhoons in the history of the richest, most populous, and most typhoon-prone province of China: Guangdong. It considers political, social, cultural, and environmental aspects of typhoons from the fifth to the twentieth century and argues that successive states and generations of Chinese that occupied the province’s littoral regarded it as a "typhoon space." The real and perceived vulnerability of the Guangdong littoral inspired efforts at community- and state-building that had many consequences. In exploring the deep consciousness of storms and the social structures they inspired in a major part of China, I will contribute to both climate history and Chinese history by reimagining the spatial frameworks within which we study human interactions with the environment.

My project takes seriously the constructed nature of the Guangdong littoral as a "typhoon space" and its location in a tropical cyclone basin, arguing that its perceived vulnerability to storms across centuries was as influential in shaping its history as was the destructive force of the storms that so often came ashore. By delineating specific spaces where climatic phenomena have a deep influence on human society and culture, my project facilitates the reimagining of China, and even the world, as consisting of discrete, but at times overlapping, climate spaces. These, crucially, would not be the same as climate regions as understood by climatologists and enshrined in countless maps. Rather, they would be based both on climatic phenomena and social, cultural, and political structures that evolved to cope with climate features. Since climate spaces do not neatly coincide with the nation, province, or other familiar spatial categories, my project invites a rethinking of space in Chinese history and more globally in environmental history. Thinking in terms of climate spaces also eases comparisons by providing a common language for speaking about similar phenomena across the globe. For example, we can think of typhoon spaces in the Western Pacific and hurricane spaces in the Caribbean as comparable "storm spaces" within a transnational history of wind, water, risk, and response. It is my hope that reimagining coastal China as a typhoon space and thinking more broadly in terms of climate spaces may serve as catalysts for advancing both global environmental history and the underdeveloped field of Chinese climate history.

Early Medieval China 25 《中國中古研究》第25期 (2019)

Table of Contents:

Special Issue: Essays in Honor of Albert E. Dien’s Scholarly Contributions to the Study of the Northern Dynasties on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday

Guest Editors: Jonathan K. Skaff and Scott Pearce

Editors’ Note
JONATHAN K. SKAFF AND SCOTT PEARCE

ARTICLES

Albert E. Dien: A Short Biography of a Scholarly Explorer
JONATHAN KARAM SKAFF

Albert Dien’s Contribution to Study of the Northern Dynasties
SCOTT PEARCE

The Nature of the Hu: Wuhuan and Xianbei Ethnography in the San Guo Zhi and Hou Han Shu
NINA DUTHIE

A Preliminary Study of the Lacquerware of the Northern Dynasties, with a Special Focus on the Pingcheng Period (398–493)
SHING MÜLLER

Tribute, Hostages, and Marriage Alliances: A Close Reading of Diplomatic Strategies in the Northern Wei Period
ARMIN SELBITSCHKA

The Use and Understanding of Domestic Animals in Early Medieval Northern China
KEITH N. KNAPP

Priests and Other Xian 祆 Ritual Performers in Medieval China
PÉNÉLOPE RIBOUD

Bibliography of Albert E. Dien Since 2008

(via Michael Farmer)

六朝江南道教の研究: 陸修静の霊宝経観と古霊宝経

Author:
林 佳恵 (Hayashi Kae)

Publisher:
Waseda University Press

Publication date:
March 2019

Table of Contents:

序　論
　第1節　序言（先行研究史）　　
　第2節　問題の所在　　
　第3節　研究の方法　　

第1篇　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」における経典の分類
　第1章　陸修静による霊宝経典の分類
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」の分類と「元始系」・「仙公系」の不一致 　　
　　第3節　陸修静の考える「元始旧経」　　
　　第4節　「元始旧経」と紫微宮秘蔵の経の関係 　　
　　第5節　紫微宮秘蔵の経の条件 　　
　　第6節　『太上洞玄靈寶眞文要解上巻』の分類　　
　　第7節　小　　結　　
　第2章　陸修静の霊宝経観と『太上洞玄靈寶天文五符經序』の分類
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　陸修静が示す霊宝経の二つの系統 　　
　　第3節　「霊宝経目序」に見える陸修静の霊宝経観 　　
　　第4節　『太上洞玄靈寶天文五符經序』の分類 　　
　　第5節　陸修静の霊宝経分類における「太上」の位置付け　　
　　第6節　『太上太極太虚上眞人演太上靈寶威儀洞玄眞一自然經訣』の分類 　　
　　第7節　小　　結　　
　第3章　陸修静の霊宝経観と「舊目」の解釈
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　陸修静の霊宝経典の分類結果と「舊目」の解釈　　
　　第3節　「篇目」の「未出」経典と「未出」の意味 　　
　　第4節　小　　結　　

第2篇　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」の分類カテゴリーの検証
　第4章　霊宝経における新旧の概念の形成
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　霊宝経における陸修静の新旧の概念　　
　　第3節　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」著録経典中の「新経」の概念　　
　　第4節　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」著録経典中の「元始旧経」の概念　　
　　第5節　霊宝経典中の「舊」の語の意味　　
　　第6節　小　　結　　
　第5章　「十部妙經」と「元始旧経」
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　「十部妙經」に言及する「元始旧経」中の経典 　　
　　第3節　「十部妙經」の設定　　
　　第4節　「十部妙經」と「十方」の観念　　
　　第5節　「十部妙經三十六巻」の検証　　
　　第6節　小　　結　　
　第6章 分類の為のカテゴリーとしての「元始旧経」と「仙公新経」
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　「元始旧経」の検証　　
　　第3節 「仙公新経」の検証 　　
　　第4節 「仙公新経」と「元始旧経」で共通する戒 　　
　　第5節　小　　結　　

第3篇　陸修静の霊宝経観
　第7章　霊宝経と天師道
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　霊宝経中の『道德五千文』への言及　　
　　第3節 「靈寶齋」と「三天齋」　　
　　第4節　霊宝経典中の天師張道陵　　
　　第5節 霊宝経典中の天師道の神々　　
　　第6節 「元始旧経」に見える「發爐」　　
　　第7節　小　　結　　
　第8章　陸修静の霊宝経観の形成
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節 「靈寶經目序」中の霊宝経観の形成にかかわる霊宝経典　　
　　第3節 「靈寶經目序」に見える陸修静独自の霊宝経観　　
　　第4節 『太上洞玄靈寶授度儀』の「師告丹水文」中の霊宝経に関する言及の考察　
　　第5節　陸修静の霊宝経観の継承　
　　第6節 小　　結