Tuesday, January 31, 2017

「孝」の研究―孝経注釈と孝行譚との分析

Author:
佐野大介 (Daisuke Sano)

Publisher:
研文出版

Publication Date:
November, 2016



Abstract:

『古文孝経孔安国伝』の思想の解析からはじめ、孝の構造を考究する。また孝思想の漢土と本朝との特定側面を比較検討し、さらに「孝とは何か」の著者見解を提示する。

Table of Contents:

第一部 『孝経』注釈に関する研究
第一章 『古文孝経孔安国伝』偽作説について
第二章 『孔伝』における「孝」と「忠」との関係
第三章 『孔伝』における「孝治」と「法治」との関係
第四章 司馬光における『古文孝経指解』の位置

第二部 「孝」と「不孝」との間
第一章 「孝」における「愛」と「敬」との関係
第二章 「孝」と「不服従」との関係
第三章 後漢孝批判の系譜と孝の規範性
第四章 墨家の孝説とその批判
第五章 本朝における親殺しの不孝の容認

第三部 「孝」と血縁性との関係
第一章 孝行譚における血縁性の意味
第二章 本朝近世孝行譚における養子の孝

第四部 和漢における孝観念の異同
第一章 和漢における孝観念の異同
第二章 和漢の孝行譚における割股

結語/あとがき/初出一覧/索引

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Zhuangzi’s Critique of the Confucians: Blinded by the Human

Author:
Kim-chong Chong

Publisher:
SUNY Press

Publication Date:
2016




Abstract:

The Daoist Zhuangzi has often been read as a mystical philosopher. But there is another tradition, beginning with the Han dynasty historian Sima Qian, which sees him as a critic of the Confucians. Kim-chong Chong analyzes the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi, demonstrating how Zhuangzi criticized the pre-Qin Confucians through metaphorical inversion and parody. This is indicated by the subtitle, “Blinded by the Human,” which is an inversion of the Confucian philosopher Xunzi’s remark that Zhuangzi was “blinded by heaven and did not know the human.” Chong compares Zhuangzi’s Daoist thought to Confucianism, as exemplified by Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi. By analyzing and comparing the different implications of concepts such as “heaven,” “heart-mind,” and “transformation,” Chong shows how Zhuangzi can be said to provide the resources for a more pluralistic and liberal philosophy than the Confucians.

Table of Contents:


Blinded by heaven
The pre-established heart-mind
The transformation of things
Zhen, some normative concerns
The facts of human construction
Metaphor in the Zhuangzi and theories of metaphor
Self, virtue (de) and values in the Zhuangzi


Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Silk: Trade and Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity

Editor:
Berit Hildebrandt

Publisher:
Oxbow Books

Publication Date:
2017


Abstract:

Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinent, along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice versa were glass, wine spices, metals and precious stones as well as textile raw materials and fabrics of wool and silk, a precious fibre that was highly appreciated in many of the cultures along the roads that were named after it by modern scholars.

These collected papers bring together current historical, philological and archaeological research from different areas and disciplines in order highlight the use, circulation and meaning of silk as a commodity, gift, tribute , booty, and status symbol in varying cultural and chronological contexts between East and West, including technological aspects of silk production. Rome and China in antiquity provide the geographical and chronological frame for this volume (c. from the third century BCE to the fifth century CE), but also earlier and later epochs and cultures in between these empires are considered in order to build and intercultural and diachronic understanding of long-distance relations that involved silk.


Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: Silk on the Silk Roads. Exchange between East and West in Antiquity.
Berit Hildebrandt

1. Looking towards the West – how the Chinese viewed the Romans
Liu Xinru

2. Textiles and Trade in South Asia during the Proto-Historic and Early Historic Period
J. Mark Kenoyer

3. Word migration on the Silk Road: the etymology of English silk and its congeners
Adam Hyllested

4. Silk production and trade in the Roman Empire
Berit Hildebrandt

5. Perspectives on the wide world of luxury in later Antiquity: silk and other exotic textiles found in Syria and Egypt
Thelma K. Thomas

6. Decoration, astrology and empire: inscribed silk from Niya in the Taklamakan Desert
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng

7. Domestic, wild or unravelled? A study on tabby, taqueté and jin with spun silk from Yingpan, Xinjiand, thierd-fourth centuries
Zhao Feng

8. Chinese silks that circulated among people north and west: implications for technological exchanges in early times?
Angela Sheng

Dr. Irene Lee Good (April 24 1958 – February 3 2013). An appreciation

Robert E. Murowchick, Angela Sheng and Kaoru Ueda

Thursday, January 19, 2017

A Companion to Chinese History

Editor: 
Michael Szonyi

Publisher: 
Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 
January 2017



Abstract:

A Companion to Chinese History presents a collection of essays offering a comprehensive overview of the latest intellectual developments in the study of China’s history from the ancient past up until the present day.

Table of Contents:

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
Michael Szonyi

Section I: States of the Field

2. How Do We Know What We Know About Chinese History?
Endymion Wilkinson

3. Chinese History in China: The State of the Field (1980s-2010s)
May-bo Ching

4. Chinese History in Japan: The State of the Field
Shiba Yoshinobu

5. Chinese History in Europe: The State of the Field
Harriet Zurndorfer

6. Chinese History in the Era of the China Dream
Geremie R Barmé and Michael Szonyi

7. Chinese History in World History
Gregory Blue

Section II Chronology

8. Early China in Eurasian History
Michael Puett

9. Was Medieval China Medieval? (Post-Han to Mid-Tang)
Charles Holcombe

10. A Tang-Song Turning Point
Nicolas Tacket

11. Periods of Non-Chinese (or Non-Han) Rule
Michal Biran

12. Song to Qing: Late Imperial or Early Modern?
R. Kent Guy

13. Nineteenth-Century China: The Evolution of American Historical Approaches
Paul A. Cohen

14. Republican History
Janet Y. Chen

15. Rethinking the History of Maoist China
S.A. Smith

16. The Reform Era as History
Timothy Cheek

Section III Themes and Approaches

17. Women, Gender, the Family and Sexuality
Weijing Lu

18. History of Premodern Chinese Literature
Graham Sanders

19. Modern Chinese Literature
David Der-wei Wang

20. The Environmental History of China: Past, Present, and Future
Peter C. Perdue

21. Science, Technology, and Medicine
Carla Nappi

22. Legal History
William P. Alford and Eric T. Schluessel

23. Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Identity in the Study of Modern China
Thomas S. Mullaney

24. The Religious Core of Local Social Organization
Barend ter Haar

25. Beyond the Great Divergence: Current Scholarship on the Economic History of Premodern China
Richard von Glahn

26. Taiwan: Margin, Center, Node
Shelley Rigger

27. Chinese Migrations
Henry S.N. Yu

28. China in the World: Beyond the Tribute System
John E. Wills, Jr.

Glossary
Index

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

復元白沢図:古代中国の妖怪と辟邪文化

Author:
佐々木聡 (Satoshi Sasaki)

Publisher:
白澤社

Publication Date: 
2017.1.16



Abstract:

中国の伝説上の帝王・黄帝は、神獣・白沢の言葉を記録して、あらゆる鬼神を撃退する知識が書かれた書物『白沢図』を編んだと伝えられる。この書物は、禍を避け福を招く辟邪(へきじゃ)呪術を伝承する書として珍重されたが、今から約一千年前の北宋時代に散佚したと考えられる。本書では、この幻の奇書を最新の研究成果をもとに復元し、平易な訳文と解説を付した。現代の妖怪文化の源流の一つである辟邪文化の原像がここによみがえる。

Table of Contents:

第一章 『白沢図』とはなにか──その伝説と成立

一、白沢伝説

二、『白沢図』の成立と鬼の名前を呼ぶ辟邪方法

三、『白沢図』と『山海経』

四、『白沢図』以降の白沢文物

第二章 『白沢図』輯校

・白沢図の分類と配列について

・五行(木火土金水)の性格を持つ精魅

・山谷の精魅

・場所の精魅

・建物・宅中の精魅

・器物の精魅

・動物の精魅

・気象の精魅

・その他の精魅

・龍の化身

・怪異占として引かれる例

第三章 神獣白沢の姿──辟邪絵としての白沢の図

一、辟邪絵としての「白沢の図」

二、日本の「白沢の図」「白沢避怪図」

三、白沢の姿

補章 「白沢」研究の軌跡

一、神獣白沢とその図像研究

二、『白沢図』の資料研究

附録 『礼緯含文嘉』精魅篇

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

中國傳統社會における術數と思想

Editors:
池田知久 (Ikeda Tomohisa)、水口拓寿 (Minakuchi Takuju)

Publisher:
汲古書院

Publication Date:
December, 2016



Abstract:

旧中国(殷周〜明清時代)の伝統文化の一つである術數の重要な論題7つを選び、それぞれの社会状況を背景に捉えながら、各論題を時代思想との関わりにおいて検討した論文集。2015年5月開催のシンポジウムを書籍化。

Table of Contents:

始めに(池田知久)

説数術革命――従亀卜筮占到式法選択(李零)

数術革命を語る――亀卜・筮占から式法・選択へ(李零 著,久保田知敏 翻譯)

郡県少吏と術数――「日書」からみえてきたもの(工藤元男)

王莽「奏群神為五部兆」の構造――劉歆三統理論との類似について(平澤歩)

六不治と四難――中国医学パラダイムの術数学的考察(武田時昌)

術数三論――朱子学は術数学か(川原秀城)

明清時代の風水文献に現れる「水質」論について(水口拓寿)

周縁文化より考える占卜の技術と文化(近藤浩之)

終わりに(水口拓寿)

Monday, January 9, 2017

The Philosophy of the Mòzi: The First Consequentialists

Author:
Chris Fraser

Publisher:
Columbia University Press

Publication Date:
September 13, 2016




Abstract:

Mohism was an ancient Chinese philosophical movement founded in the fifth century BCE by the charismatic artisan Mòzi, or "Master Mo." Its practitioners advanced a consequentialist ethics, along with fascinating political, logical, and epistemological theories, that set the terms of philosophical argumentation and reflection in China for generations to come. Mohism faded away in the imperial era, leaving the impression that it was not as vital as other Chinese philosophical traditions, yet a complete understanding of Confucianism or Daoism is impossible without appreciating the seminal contribution of Mohist thought.

The Philosophy of the Mòzi is an extensive study of Mohism, situating the movement's rise and decline within Chinese history. The book also emphasizes Mohism's relevance to modern systems of thought. Mohism anticipated Western utilitarianism by more than two thousand years. Its political theory is the earliest to outline a just war doctrine and locate the origins of government in a state of nature. Its epistemology, logic, and psychology provide compelling alternatives to contemporary Western mentalism. More than a straightforward account of Mohist principles and practice, this volume immerses readers in the Mohist mindset and clarifies its underpinning of Chinese philosophical discourse.

Table of Contents:

Order, Objectivity, and Efficacy

Epistemology and Logic: Drawing Distinctions Political Theory: Order Through Shared Norms

Heaven: The Highest Ethical Model

Ethics: The Benefit of All

Inclusive Care: For Others as for Oneself

Motivation: Changing People within a Generation

War and Economics

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Ancient Central China: Centers and Peripheries along the Yangzi River

Author:
Rowan K Flad; Pochan Chen

Publisher:
Cambridge University Press

Publication Year:
2013




Abstract:

Ancient Central China provides an up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone. It focuses on the Late Neolithic (late third millennium BC) through the end of the Bronze Age (late first millennium BC) and considers regional and interregional cultural relationships in light of anthropological models of landscape. Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen show that centers and peripheries of political, economic and ritual activities were not coincident, and that politically peripheral regions such as the Three Gorges were crucial hubs in interregional economic networks, particularly related to prehistoric salt production. The book provides detailed discussions of recent archaeological discoveries and data from the Chengdu Plain, Three Gorges and Hubei to illustrate how these various components of regional landscape were configured across Central China.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: centers and peripheries in the ancient Yangzi River Valley

Part I. Setting the Stage:
2. The environment of Central China
3. Historiography and the topography of research: a history of archaeology in Central China

Part II. Political and Cultural Topographies:
4. The Sichuan Basin: Shu and its predecessors
5. The Middle Yangzi: the archaeology and history of Chu and its predecessors
6. Periphery at the center: the Ba and archaeological cultures in the Three Gorges

Part III. Topographies of Economic Activity and Ritual:
7. Economic topographies: production, exchange, and the integrating role of salt
8. Ritual topographies: sacrifice and divination
9. Ritual topographies: burials and social identity; 10. Conclusion: landscapes of interaction and the interaction of landscapes

The Ruins of Kocho: Traces of Wooden Architecture on the Ancient Silk Road

Editors:
Lilla Russel-Smith; Ines Konczak-Nagel

Publisher:
Berlin Museum für Asiatische Kunst

Publication Year:
2016

Abstract:

The ancient city of Kocho (Goachang 高昌) surrounded by desert sand, was an important oasis on the Ancient Silk Road. Situated near Turfan in Xinjiang, China the region is becoming an important tourist destination with a newly built high-speed rail link to central China. One hundred years ago expeditions competed to explore this area. A large number of early medieval wooden objects were brought to Berlin by the so-called German Turfan Expeditions (1902-1914) saving them from locals looking for fuel in the cold winters. An international project (2014-2015) researched these uniquely preserved architectural elements which lay undisturbed in the sand for hundreds of years. Beautiful carved wooden capitals and panels reminding us of Roman and Byzantine architecture are exhibited for the first time. Lavishly painted beams could be reassembled illustrating exactly traditional Chinese technologies described in 11th century building manuals. The ruins where they were found were also documented using historical and modern photographs. This volume presents the results of the research project and accompanies the exhibition.




Where to order:
https://www.smb-webshop.de/en/subjects/art/3662/the-ruins-of-kocho

You can download the TOC of the book here:
https://www.academia.edu/30407227/The_Ruins_of_Kocho_TOC