Abstract: In 21 Beiträgen ehren Schüler und Weggefährten aus München, Münster, Göttingen, Heidelberg, Cambridge und Oxford (GB), Los Angeles (CA), Tempe (AZ), Beijing und Shanghai den international renommierten Sinologen und nunmehr Präsidenten der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Thomas O. Höllmann anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags. Höllmanns vielseitigen Forschungsinteressen Rechnung tragend vereint die Festschrift Untersuchungen aus den Bereichen Archäologie, Geschichte, Kunst, Philosophie und Ethnologie. Sie beleuchten verschiedenste Aspekte des täglichen Lebens vor allem in China vom Altertum bis in die Gegenwart. Dazu zählen ebenso die Aufnahme fremder Technologien in der Bronzeverarbeitung wie die Untersuchung von Ritualen und Wohnformen in der chinesischen Frühgeschichte, die Neubewertung zweier grundlegender Inschriftentexte aus der frühen Kaiserzeit wie die moderne Reinterpretation klassisch konfuzianischer Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten. Ergänzt werden die Studien zur chinesischen Geschichte durch Beiträge zum Stadtleben der gebildeten Oberschicht im alten Indien und zum Leben mit Ruinen im antiken Rom. Auf diese Weise bietet dieser vielseitige Band nicht nur Sinologen, sondern auch archäologisch, geschichtswissenschaftlich, kunsthistorisch, philosophisch und ethnologisch interessierten Lesern zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, Neues zu entdecken. Table of Contents: Vorwort Tabula gratulatoria Schriftenverzeichnis Hans van Ess, München Mit Thomas Höllmann Tür an Tür ALLTAG UND MEHR IM ALTEN CHINA Jessica Rawson, Oxford Bronze Vessels in Early China Lothar von Falkenhausen, Los Angeles Communication with the Divine Sphere in Ancient China Maria Khayutina, München Western Zhou Living Ambience: Earth-Sheltered Dwellings in the Feng River Valley Reinhard Emmerich, Münster Chinas Zweiter Kaiser in neuem Lichte? Armin Selbitschka, Shanghai Quotidian Afterlife: Grain, Granary Models, and the Notion of Continuing Nourishment in Late Pre-imperial and Early Imperial Tombs Michael Loewe, Cambridge Displaced Persons in Han China and the So-called “Mausoleum Towns” Bai Yunxiang 白雲翔, Beijing
論漢代人生活中的魚和觀念中的魚
(Fish in Han China: Aesthetic, Symbolic, and Culinary Aspects) Catrin Kost, München Von Schmutzfinken, Saubermännern und Barbaren: Überlegungen zur Stellung der Körperpflege im China der Han-Dynastie Annette Kieser, Münster Von Duftsäckchen und Schweinekoben: Toilettenmodelle aus Gräbern der Sechs Dynastien in Südchina Shing Müller, München Zelte der Tuoba-Xianbei im 5. Jh.: Eine vorläufige Untersuchung Lin Meicun 林梅村, Beijing 唐代文人的追求與夢想—唐代文人庭院建築遺跡調查 (Pursuit and Dreams of Chinese Scholars in the Tang Dynasty: A Survey on Scholars’ Courtyards of Tang Times based on Archaeological Finds and Written Sources) JENSEITS DER CHINESISCHEN KULTUR Roderich Ptak, München Vom „Hundestaat“ nach Liuqiu und zu den „Ziegen-Inseln“: Anmerkungen zu einer Meerfahrt im Lingbiao lu yi Erhard Rosner, Göttingen Marginalien zur Geschichte des Betelkauens in China Hans van Ess, München Der Name der Uiguren Bruno J. Richtsfeld, München Ursprungsmythen der Lhopa (Bangni-Bokar) in Südost-Tibet Jens-Uwe Hartmann, München Das Leben des kultivierten Städters im frühen Indien: Alltag oder Ideal? Martin Zimmermann, München Lost cities, urban explorers und antike Landschaften: Vom Leben mit Ruinen PHILOSOPHISCHE ASPEKTE Guje Kroh, München Überlegungen zu Begriffen des Erkennens bzw. Wissens bei Xi Kang Marc Nürnberger, München Meister des Alltags Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, Tempe Reflections on Chinese Student Opinions on the Modernized Zhu Confucian Wedding KOLOPHON Lothar Ledderose, Heidelberg Kolophone in China und Europa
Editor: Chih-yu Shih Publication Date: March, 2016 Publisher: The Chinese University Press
Abstract: Drawing on extensive historical studies of the lives and works of distinctive yet understudied sinologists in the Czech Republic, Mongolia, Poland, and Russia, this volume takes readers on a journey of exploration and rediscovery of post-communist sinology—an important topic that we know surprisingly little about. After the end of the Cold War, the China Studies research agenda in these four countries has evolved divergently without any apparent shared orientation, despite the previously shared socialist and Communist legacies. Contributors draw on case studies to illustrate how sinologists in these countries actively use diverse approaches to map China’s modern evolution and deconstruct stereotypical notions of China’s rise in the twenty-first century. These hallmark studies also reveal sinologists’ deep engagement with the Chinese humanities. The conclusions in this volume have major implications for the evolution of intellectual history and its analysis, by emphasizing the importance of individualized agency to the practice of post-Communist sinology as both a statement of identity and a strategy for survival during tumultuous political times. Table of Contents: List of Contributors vii Introduction: An Anthropology of Knowledge in Post-Communist Sinology xi Chih-yu Shih Part I Doing Sinology from Post-Communist Perspectives 1 Beyond Academia and Politics: Understanding China and Doing Sinology in Czechoslovakia after World War II 1 Olga Lomová and Anna Zádrapová 2 Linguistic Choices for the Identity of “China” in the Discourse of Czech Sinologists 27 Melissa Shih-hui Lin 3 Surging between China and Russia: Legacies, Politics, and Turns of Sinology in Contemporary Mongolia 41 Enkhchimeg Baatarkhuyag and Chih-yu Shih 4 Sinology in Poland: Epistemological Debates and Academic Practice 61 Anna Rudakowska 5 The Lifting of the “Iron Veil” by Russian Sinologists During the Soviet Period (1917–1991) 93 Valentin C. Golovachev 6 Soviet Sinology: Two Conflicting Paradigms of Chinese History 115 Alexander Pisarev 7 Chinese Studies in Post-Soviet Russia: From Uneven Development to the Search for Integrity 133 Alexei D. Voskressenski Part II Being Sinologists in Post-Communist Societies 8 Polish Sinology: Reflections on Individualized Trajectories 159 Bogdan J. Góralczyk 9 “The Songs of Ancient China”: The Myth of “The Other” Appropriated by an Emerging Sinology 189 Olga Lomová and Anna Zádrapová 10 Between Sinology and Socialism: The Collective Memory of Czech Sinologists in the 1950s 213 Ter-Hsing Cheng 11 Tangut (Xi Xia 西夏) Studies in the Soviet Union: The Quinta Essentia of Russian Oriental Studies 233 Sergey Dmitriev 12 Different Ways to Become a Soviet Sinologist: A Note on Personal Choices 253 Marina Kuznetsova-Fetisova Conclusion: The Evolution of Sinology after the Communist Party-State 267 Chih-yu Shih
Author: Jeffrey Kotyk School: Leiden University Defended: 2017 Abstract: This study demonstrates that various systems of foreign astrology, originating in India, Iran and the Hellenistic world, played a significant, albeit hitherto largely unrecognized role, in the development of Buddhism during the Tang dynasty, which subsequently deeply influenced religious traditions across East Asia for several centuries. Although Indian astrology was made available in China from the fourth to seventh centuries, it was never widely implemented in China in these centuries, for it was only in the eighth century with the introduction of Mantrayāna that Chinese Buddhists came to have a pressing need to observe astrology. This subsequently sparked popular interest in foreign astrology among Buddhist and non-Buddhist communities in China, a development that fostered the simultaneous development of astral magic comprised of elements from multiple sources, including some traced back to Greco-Egyptian and Near Eastern traditions. Around the turn of the ninth century, translation of astrological materials shifted from Indian to Iranian sources as a result of Persian astronomers operating at the court. The popularity of astrology additionally facilitated the proliferation of uniquely Chinese astral deities in Chinese Buddhism, most notably Tejaprabhā Buddha and the seven stars of the Big Dipper. This understudied interaction that resulted from deep interest in astrology marks a significant transmission of cultural and religious knowledge through multiple civilizations. Table of Contents: Abstract Acknowledgments Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures Abbreviations and Conventions Preface Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1. Preliminary Considerations 1.2. State of the Field 1.3. Aims of this Study 1.4. Primary Sources 1.5. Methodology 1.6. Chapter Outlines Chapter 2: Astrology and Eurasian Civilizations 2.1. Definitions: What is Astrology? 2.2. The Ecliptic in Three Civilizations 2.3. Occidental Astrology 2.4. Chinese Astrology 2.5. Astrology in Early Buddhism and Brahmanism 2.6. Astrology in Sūtra and Vinaya Literature 2.7. Astrology in Mahāyāna and Tantra 2.8. Astrology in the Chinese Buddhist Context 2.9. Conclusion Chapter 3: Early Buddhist Buddhist Astrology in China: the Fourth to Seventh Centuries 3.1. Translations of the Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna 3.2. Astrological Elements in the Mahāsaṃnipāta 3.3. Early Buddhist Hemerology in China 3.4. Brahmanical Astrological Literature in Chinese Translation 3.5. Conclusion Chapter 4: Buddhist Astrology in the Mid-Tang: the Eighth Century 4.1. The Historical Yixing 一行: Buddhist Monk and Astronomer 4.2. Tantric Hemerology 4.3. Early Astral Iconography 4.4. Amoghavajra and Astrology 4.5. Xiuyao jing 宿曜經 (T 1299) 4.6. Indian and Persian Astronomers at the Tang Court 4.7. The Duli yusi jing 都利聿斯經: Dorotheus in China 4.8. Cao Shiwei’s Futian li 符天曆 4.9. Conclusion Chapter 5: The Sinicization of Occidental Astrology: the Ninth Century 5.1. Popular Astrology in the Late-Tang 5.2. The Tejaprabhā and Sudṛṣṭi Cults 5.3. Qiyao rangzai jue 七曜攘災決 (T 1308): Mature Buddhist Astrology 5.4. Buddhist and Daoist Astral Magic in the Late-Tang 5.5. The Legendary Yixing 5.6. Xiuyao yigui 宿曜儀軌 (T 1304) 5.7. Qiyao xingchen bie xingfa 七曜星辰別行法 (T 1309) 5.8. Beidou qixing humo fa 北斗七星護摩法 (T 1310) 5.9. Fantian huoluo jiuyao 梵天火羅九曜 (T 1311) 5.10. Worship of the Big Dipper 5.11. Conclusion Chapter 6: Astrology in Post-Tang East Asia 6.1. Dunhuang and Bezeklik 6.2. Astrology and Astral Deities: Song to Ming Dynasties 6.3. Astrology in Korea, the Liao and Tangut Xixia 6.4. Astrology and Astral Magic in Japan 6.5. Sukuyōdō Horoscopy 6.6. Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Appendix 1: Timeline of Buddhist Astrology and Astral Magic in China Appendix 2: Tejaprabhā Maṇḍala Appendix 3: Tejaprabhā and the planets. Khara-Khoto Appendix 4: Planetary deities from Kuyō hiryaku 九曜秘曆
Table of Contents: Editor's Note Editor's Note J. Michael Farmer Bibliographies Bibliography of Robert Joe Cutter Articles The Three Scourges and Zhou Chu Sujane Wu Sanguo Zhi Fascicle 42: The Biography of Qiao Zhou J. Michael Farmer The Art of Wartime Propaganda: Chen Lin's 陳琳 Xi檄 Written on Behalf of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao Meow Hui Goh An Annotated Translation of Fu on Pomegranate in Yiwen Leiju Xurong Kong The Creation of the Bronze Bird Terrace-Scape in the Northern and Southern Dynasties Period Joanne Tsao
Editors: Deborah A. Bekken, Lisa C. Niziolek, Gary M. Feinman Publisher: University Of Chicago Press Publication Date: November 7, 2017
Abstract: At the entrance of The Field Museum’s Cyrus Tang Hall of China, two Chinese stone guardian lions stand tall, gazing down intently at approaching visitors. One lion’s paw rests upon a decorated ball symbolizing power, while the other lion cradles a cub. Traditionally believed to possess attributes of strength and protection, statues such as these once stood guard outside imperial buildings, temples, and wealthy homes in China. Now, centuries later, they guard this incredible permanent exhibition. China’s long history is one of the richest and most complex in the known world, and the Cyrus Tang Hall of China offers visitors a wonderful, comprehensive survey of it through some 350 artifacts on display, spanning from the Paleolithic period to present day. Now, with China: Visions through the Ages, anyone can experience the marvels of this exhibition through the book’s beautifully designed and detailed pages. Readers will gain deeper insight into The Field Museum’s important East Asian collections, the exhibition development process, and research on key aspects of China’s fascinating history. This companion book, edited by the exhibition’s own curatorial team, takes readers even deeper into the wonders of the Cyrus Tang Hall of China and enables them to study more closely the objects and themes featured in the show. Mirroring the exhibition’s layout of five galleries, the volume is divided into five sections. The first section focuses on the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods; the second, the Bronze Age, the first dynasties, and early writing; the third, the imperial system and power; the fourth, religion and performance; and the fifth, interregional trade and the Silk Routes. Each section also includes highlights containing brief stories on objects or themes in the hall, such as the famous Lanting Xu rubbing. With chapters from a diverse set of international authors providing greater context and historical background, China: Visions through the Ages is a richly illustrated volume that allows visitors, curious readers, and China scholars alike a chance to have an enduring exchange with the objects featured in the exhibition and with their multifaceted histories. Table of Contents: Introduction Lisa C. Niziolek, Deborah A. Bekken, and Gary M. Feinman Timeline 1 Building the China Collections at The Field Museum Deborah A. Bekken Section 1 Diverse Landscapes, Diverse Ways of Life 2 Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture in China Gary W. Crawford Highlight 1: Zhoukoudian: Peking Man and Evidence for Human Evolution in East Asia Chen Shen 3 China during the Neolithic Period Gary M. Feinman, Hui Fang, and Linda M. Nicholas Section 2 Ritual and Power, War and Unification 4 The Bronze Age in China: What and When Yungti Li 李永迪 Highlight 2: Sanyangzhuang 三楊莊: Life and Death in the Yellow River Floodplain Tristram R. Kidder and Haiwang Liu 5 Written on Bamboo and Silk, Inscribed in Metal and Stone: Varieties of Early Chinese Writing Edward L. Shaughnessy Highlight 3: Consort Hao’s Inauspicious Delivery Edward L. Shaughnessy Section 3 Shifting Power, Enduring Traditions 6 Along the River during the Qingming Festival: A Living Painting with a Long History Lu Zhang Highlight 4: Conserving a Treasure: Preparing Along the River during the Qingming Festival for Display Rachel Freeman and Shelley R. Paine 7 Men of Culture: Scholar-Officials and Scholar-Emperors in Late Imperial China Fan Jeremy Zhang Highlight 5: Commemorating a Gathering of Friends: The Lanting Xu Rubbing Yuan Zhou Section 4 Beliefs and Practices, Symbols and Stories 8 Daoism and Buddhism in Traditional China Paul Copp Highlight 6: Sealed in Time: A Manuscript from Dunhuang Yuan Zhou 9 Shadows between Worlds: Chinese Shadow Theater Mia Yinxing Liu Section 5 Crossing Boundaries, Building Networks 10 The Silk Road: Intercontinental Trade and the Tang Empire Lin Meciun 林梅村 and Ran Zhang 11 The Java Sea Shipwreck and China’s Maritime Trade Lisa C. Niziolek Highlight 7: Herbs and Artifacts: Trade in Traditional Chinese Medicine Amanda Respess Conclusion: Legacies of Qin Unification: A Hinge Point of Chinese History Gary M. Feinman
Editors: Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo Publisher: SUNY Press Publication Date: November, 2017
Abstract: Using newly discovered and excavated texts, Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo systematically explore material culture, inscriptions, transmitted texts, and genealogies from BCE China to reconstruct the role of women in social reproduction in the ancient Chinese world. Applying paleographical, linguistic, and historical analyses, Cook and Luo discuss fertility rituals, birthing experiences, divine conceptions, divine births, and the overall influence of gendered supernatural agencies on the experience and outcome of birth. They unpack a cultural paradigm in which birth is not only a philosophical symbol of eternal return and renewal but also an abiding religious and social focus for lineage continuity. They also suggest that some of the mythical founder heroes traditionally assumed to be male may in fact have had female identities. Students of ancient history, particularly Chinese history, will find this book an essential complement to traditional historical narratives, while the exploration of ancient religious texts, many unknown in the West, provides a unique perspective into the study of the formation of mythology and the role of birthing in early religion.
Table of Contents: Introduction: A Chu Text 1. Words and Images 2. Controlling Reproduction: Fertility Prayers 3. Mothers and Embryos 4. Controlling the Pregnant Body 5. Divine Origins and Chu Genealogical History 6. The Traumatic Births of Non-Zhou Ancestral Founders Conclusion
