Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey: Results from 2005-2010 成都平原考古调查: 2005-2010年成果

Editors:
Rowan K. Flad, Joshua Wright, Lin Kuei-chen 林圭偵, Zhou Zhiqing, and Jiang Zhanghua

Publication year: 

2026

Abstract:

The Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey (CPAS), was an international collaborative archaeological project that took place over the course of five field seasons starting in 2005 under the direction of Rowan Flad (Harvard), Pochan Chen (National Taiwan University), Gwen Bennett (Washington University, St. Louis / McGill), Jiang Zhanghua (Chengdu City Institute of Archaeology) and Li Shuicheng (Peking University). The survey involved a multi-faced archaeological investigation of site locations and landscape use in an area of approximately 350 km2 surrounding two Neolithic walled sites (ca. 2600–1700 BCE): Pi Xian Gucheng (30˚ 54’ 15” N, 103˚ 55’ 25” E) and Yufucun (30˚ 45’ 15” N, 103˚ 50’ 05” E).

Using a combination of surface collection, systematic coring, geophysics and test pits, team members conducted five seasons of investigations and collected thousands of data points useful for synthesizing changing land use contemporaneous with the cultural changes that occurred in the region from the Neolithic, through the subsequent Bronze Age and into the period of the Qin and Han Empires.  Settlement patterns attest to a diachronic process that eventually gave rise to the Sanxingdui polity in the second millennium BCE, and subsequent Bronze Age cultures that occupied the region at the time of Qin conquest in 316 BCE. This report brings together the data from this survey and synthetic discussions of the prehistory and environment of the region. The database provides the first comprehensive, systematic, large-scale regional survey of archaeological material in the Sichuan Basin of China.

Free download: https://opencontext.org/projects/968ea7e8-d521-4b4c-951c-01adcac7307f

Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea : Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE

Author:

Petya Andreeva

Publisher:

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Publication year:

2024

Abstract:

Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an alternative ecological reality. The nomadic elite nucleus embraced this elaborate image system to construct collective memory in reluctant, diverse political alliances organised around shared geopolitical goals rather than ethnic ties. Largely known by the term "animal style", this zoomorphic visual rhetoric became so ubiquitous across the Eurasian steppe network that it transcended border regions and reached the heartland of sedentary empires like China and Persia.

This book shows how a shared fluency in animal-style design became a status-defining symbol and a bonding agent in opportunistic nomadic alliances, and was later adopted by their sedentary neighbours to showcase worldliness and control over the "Other". In this study of enormous geographical scope, the author raises broader questions about the place of nomadic societies in the art-historical canon.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: At a Crossroads on the Eurasian Steppe Route
2. Design Idioms in Steppe Metalwork
3. The Tomb Inside Out: Playing (Mortuary) Politics
4. Animal Style in the Xiongnu Era: The Making of a New Elite
5. Waning and Re-emergence
6. Towards a Resolution

Ancient Wisdoms for Modern Crises Learning From Laozi's "Daodejing"

Author: Steve Hallett

Abstract: We live in a time of abundance and comfort for some, scarcity and hardship for others—a period that seems to have all of us teetering on the brink. Certainly, there is no lack of modern crises, but do we possess the wisdom to overcome them, and where might we seek that wisdom? 

Ancient Wisdoms for Modern Crises: Learning From Laozi’s “Daodejing” looks to the Daodejing, a text written during the late Zhou Dynasty (600–400 BCE), for guidance. One of the core treatises of Eastern philosophy, it advocates humility, simplicity, and sustainable living. As both a personal and political philosophy, it is radically gentle, encouraging readers to embrace humility, modesty, compassion, and selflessness while simultaneously resisting the urge to conquer, control, and dominate—teachings that can help each of us navigate contemporary life. 

Finding solutions to such difficult problems requires all the wisdom, ancient and modern, that humans can muster. Replete with the author’s fresh translation of the eighty-one-verse Daodejing, this book touches on topics ranging from environmentalism and human suffering to biodiversity loss and the rise of authoritarianism in an effort to forge a more restrained, sustainable, just, supportive, and compassionate society.

Table of Contents:
Prologue: Wise Ancients?
1. The Ways of Nature
2. Emergence
3. The Ways of People
4. Shape the Path
5. The Ways of the Mind
6. Meetings of the Minds
The Daodejing of Laozi

北魏史：遷都洛陽之前與後

作者: 窪添慶文 (KUBOZOE YOSHIFUMI)

译者: 付晨晨 译 / 徐冲 审订

出版社: 北京科学技术出版社

出版年: 2025-9

Table of Contents:

序 章 001
一、迁都洛阳 003
二、五胡十六国时期—理解北魏史的前提 006

第一章　孝文帝亲政时期的改革 015
一、孝文帝即位与文明太后 017
二、从土德到水德 023
三、礼仪改革 026

第二章　迁都后的改革 031
一、从“代人”到“河南人” 033
二、墓志 036
三、禁胡服胡语 038
四、变胡姓为汉姓 042
五、官制改革（一）—消失的内朝官 043
六、官制改革（二）—九品官制的完善 048
七、定姓族 051
八、官制改革（三）—引入门阀制 054
九、考课改革 058
十、国家意志决策体系 059
十一、进攻南齐 062

第三章　从建国到统一华北—鲜卑色彩浓厚时期 065
一、代国时期 067
二、代国复兴 075
三、统一华北—从道武帝至太武帝时期 080
四、北魏政权下的各族 100
五、北魏政权下的汉族 116
六、皇帝亦可汗 119

第四章　变化之兆 125
一、军镇的变化 127
二、向镇军和州军分派代人 132
三、文成帝和献文帝 135
四、文明太后称制时期 139
五、均田制和三长制 144
六、佛教出现的变化 151
七、迁都洛阳的意义 157

第五章　盛极生变 161
一、改革的传承 163
二、锦绣洛阳 167
三、北魏的文化 175
四、代人与镇民的不满 184
五、从六镇之乱到东西分裂 187
六、东魏—北齐 192
七、西魏—北周 198

终 章 209
一、制度 212
二、统治阶层 221
三、女性的活跃、世界帝国 224
四、北魏的历史地位 227
后 记 233
北魏大事年表 237

壁画墓からみた魏晋十六国時代：中国北部の社会と民族

Author: 三﨑 良章  (Yoshiaki Misaki)

Publisher: 早稻田大学出版部

Publication date: 2026-2-13

Abstract:
墳墓内の壁面等に画像を描いた壁画墓は、中国において前漢前期に築造が始まったものの、後漢末期以降は衰退していった。一方、魏晋十六国時代の間も周縁地域では築造が続いていた。本書ではとくに中国北部の壁画墓群に注目し、その図像の分析から映し出された政治・社会の動向を解き明かす。魏晋十六国時代、中国北部地方では漢族だけではなく、匈奴・羌族・盧水胡・鮮卑等さまざまな非漢族が居住していた。遼寧と河西、遼陽と朝陽など、地域ごとの特徴も検討し、漢族と非漢族をめぐる複雑な居住状況を明らかにする。揺れ動く社会は壁画墓にいかに刻まれたのか。図版多数掲載。

Table of Contents:

序　章
第１部　魏晋十六国時代の壁画墓の実態

第１章　遼陽と朝陽の壁画墓
はじめに
１　遼陽壁画墓
２　朝陽の壁画墓
おわりに

第２章　河西の壁画墓
はじめに
１　河西の壁画墓と壁画の全体像
２　河西の壁画墓の形態の特性
３　河西の壁画の墓主像の特徴
おわりに

第２部　壁画墓画像にみられる魏晋十六国時代の諸民族の動向

第３章　遼東公孫氏政権と非漢族
はじめに
１　公孫氏政権と非漢族との関係
２　遼陽壁画墓における非漢族
おわりに

第４章　朝陽の壁画墓と三燕の民族
はじめに
１　人物像
２　黒犬像
３　三燕における民族
おわりに

第５章　壁画墓画像にみえる魏晋時代酒泉地域の漢族と非漢族
はじめに
１　酒泉地域の壁画墓に描かれた非漢族
２　非漢族が描かれた壁画墓の墓主
３　壁画墓における非漢族の描かれ方
４　酒泉西溝墓群の壁画墓画像における非漢族
おわりに

第６章　魏晋十六国時代における甘粛高台地域の民族状況
はじめに
１　高台出土壁画墓の全体像
２　駱駝城遺址区の壁画墓にみえる人物像
３　地埂坡４号墓にみえる人物像と民族
４　高台の民族状況
おわりに

第３部　壁画墓に現れた魏晋十六国時代の中国北部社会

第７章　遼陽壁画墓にみられる遼東社会の一面
はじめに
１　遼陽における壁画墓の築造
２　遼東公孫氏政権と遼陽壁画墓
３　令支令墓
おわりに

第８章　河西壁画墓に描かれた魏晋十六国時代の「塢」
はじめに
１　河西の壁画墓画像にみられる「塢」の全体像
２　塢の形態と墳墓の関係
３　塢の規模と周囲の画像
４　塢の機能
おわりに

第９章　苦水口１号墓・苦水口２号墓と魏晋時代の高台社会
はじめに
１　苦水口１号墓とその画像
２　苦水口２号墓とその画像
３　苦水口１号墓と苦水口２号墓の関係
４　苦水口１号墓・苦水口２号墓の後室描画塼
おわりに

第10章　甘粛高台出土描画塼にみる五胡十六国時代河西社会の変動
はじめに
１　許三湾西南1999年４月墓とその描画塼
２　前秦の河西進出と河西社会
おわりに

第11章　酒泉小土山墓と魏晋十六国時代の河西
はじめに
１　小土山墓とその画像
２　小土山墓の墓主と築造時期
３　河西魏晋十六国時代壁画墓と小土山墓の関係
おわりに

終　章
補　編　遼陽壁画墓の構造・画像一覧

The Evolving Landscape of Inquiry: Climate’s Growing Importance in Reconstructing Ancient China

Authors:
Yitzchak Jaffe, Andrew Womack, and Anke Hein

Publication date: 2025

Abstract: This paper examines the growth of climate change discussions in narratives concerning the development and evolution of human societies in Ancient China over the past two decades. This shift reflects climate’s ascension from a marginal factor to a central player in reconstructions of past human actions and societies. We provide an overview of the expanding research on ancient human–climate interactions in China’s prehistory and early history, emphasizing the increasing importance attached to climate as a major player in the rise and, significantly, the collapse of these societies. Through a meta-analysis of publication trends in the last two decades, we identify the chronological periods and topics where climate has come to be interpreted as having a notable impact.

Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/8/4/125