Editor: Kim, Youn-mi Publisher: University of Hawaii Publication Year: 2013
Abstract: This volume, consisting of five chapters and an introduction, includes discussion of a variety of artworks, ranging from gold adornments found in Silla tombs to Koryŏ Buddhist paintings scattered in modern museum and private collections, that provide insight into the religious practices, aesthetics, cross-cultural exchanges, and everyday life of the people who made, used, appreciated, and circulated them. Based on thorough investigations of these artworks, their social context, and related texts, the five chapters in this book elucidate the cross-cultural interactions between the peoples and regions of Korea, China and South and Southeast Asia during the Silla to Koryŏ periods.
Table of Contents: Introduction / Youn-mi Kim -- 1. Iconography, technique, and context in Koryŏ buddhist paintings / Chung Woothak -- 2. Seeing maitreya: aspiration and vision in an image from early eighth-century Silla / Rhi Juhyung -- 3. (Dis)assembling the national canon: seventh-century " Esoteric" buddhist ritual, the Samguk yusa, and Sach'ŏnwang-sa / Youn-mi Kim -- 4. The development of Koryŏ porcelain and the Chinese ceramic industry in the tenth century / Jang Namwon -- 5. The gold jewelry of ancient Silla: syncretism of northern and southern Asian cultures / Joo Kyeongmi.
Editors: Ping Wang & Nicholas Morrow Williams Publisher: Hong Kong University Press Publication Year: 2015
Abstract: From ancient times, China's remote and exotic South—a shifting and expanding region beyond the Yangtze River—has been an enduring theme in Chinese literature. For poets and scholar-officials in medieval China, the South was a barbaric frontier region of alienation and disease. But it was also a place of richness and fascination, and for some a site of cultural triumph over exile. The eight essays in this collection explore how tensions between pride in southern culture and anxiety over the alien qualities of the southern frontier were behind many of the distinctive features of medieval Chinese literature. They examine how prominent writers from this period depicted themselves and the South in poetic form through attitudes that included patriotic attachment and bitter exile. By the Tang dynasty, poetic symbols and clichés about the exotic South had become well established, though many writers were still able to use these in innovative ways. Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry is the first work in English to examine the cultural south in classical Chinese poetry. The book incorporates original research on key poets, such as Lu Ji, Jiang Yan, Wang Bo, and Li Bai. It also offers a broad survey of cultural and historical trends during the medieval period, as depicted in poetry. The book will be of interest to students of Chinese literature and cultural history. Table of Contents: 1. Southland as Symbol —Ping Wang and Nicholas Morrow Williams 2. Southern Metal and Feather Fan: The "Southern Consciousness" of Lu Ji —David R. Knechtges 3. Fan Writing: Lu Ji, Lu Yun and the Cultural Transactions between North and South —Xiaofei Tian 4. Plaint, Lyricism, and the South —Ping Wang 5. Farther South: Jiang Yan in Darkest Fujian —Paul W. Kroll 6. The Pity of Spring: A Southern Topos Reimagined by Wang Bo and Li Bai —Nicholas Morrow Williams 7. The Stele and the Drunkard: Two Poetic Allusions from Xiangyang —Jie Wu 8. Jiangnan from the Ninth Century On: The Routinization of Desire —Stephen Owen
Author: WANG Zhongjiang Translator: Livia Kohn Publication Year: 2015 Publisher: Three Pines Press
Abstract: Daoism Excavated is a first detailed exploration of Daoist cosmology, philosophy, and political vision as found in recently unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts. Presenting a detailed, and often carefully philological, examination of the Taiyi shengshui, Hengxian, Fanwu liuxing, and Huangdi sijing, as well as of various versions of the Laozi, the book provides new insights into ancient Daoist thought and its various schools and lineages. It focuses particularly on different visions of the creation and unfolding of the universe and on the application of these alternative cosmologies in political thought and practice. Revising and expanding our understanding of traditional Chinese thinking, the book makes an essential contribution to Chinese studies, philosophy, and religion. Table of Contents: Preface Introduction Daoist Cosmology in the Light of Excavated Manuscripts 1 1. Hengxian 恆先: Stages of Cosmic Unfolding 30 2. Taiyi shengshui 太一生水: Textual Structure and Conceptual Layers 63 3. Fanwu liuxing 凡物流形: From Oneness to Multiplicity 84 4. Huangdi sijing 黃帝四經: Governing through Oneness 112 5. Laozi 老子: “Dao Models Itself” 130 6. Laozi: “A Great Vessel” 157 7. Han Laozi: Variants and New Readings 173 Laozi Chapters Cited 194 Bibliography 195 Index 207
