Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory: An Outline of Western Studies of Chinese Unearthed Documents

Author:
Edward L. Shaughnessy

Publication date:
18 Nov 2019

Publisher: 
De Gruyter Mouton

Abstract:
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While these discoveries have necessarily taken place in China, Western scholars have also contributed to the study of these documents throughout this entire period.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the contributions of these Western scholars to the field of Chinese paleography, and especially to study of oracle-bone inscriptions, bronze and stone inscriptions, and manuscripts written on bamboo and silk. Each of these topics is provided with a comprehensive narrative history of studies by Western scholars, as well as an exhaustive bibliography and biographies of important scholars in the field. It is also supplied with a list of Chinese translations of these studies, as well as a complete index of authors and their works. Whether the reader is interested in the history of ancient China, ancient Chinese paleographic documents, or just in the history of the study of China as it has developed in the West, this book provides one of the most complete accounts available to date.

グローバル・ヒストリー

Author: 
妹尾達彥 (Tatsuhiko Seo)

Publisher: 
中央大学出版部

Publication date: 
May 2018

Abstract:

従来とは異なる見方で人類の歴史を読み解き、人類共生の道を求める21世紀の世界史教科書。 内陸部から沿海部に交通の幹線が移動することによって、人類の政治や軍事、経済、社会の組織、 宗教、思想のあり方が大きく変貌していき、現代世界がつくられていくことを、豊富な図を駆使して体系 的かつ具体的に論じる。前3000年紀における都市と国家の形成から今日までの世界の歴史を読み 解く鍵は、交通史と都市史にある。ユーラシア大陸東部の歴史を一つのモデルとして世界史の構造を さぐり、21世紀の混沌を生きる人々に新しい歴史像を提供する。

Table of Contents:

第1部 グローバル・ヒストリーの理論と方法
第1講 人類史の大きな流れを把握する
第2講 3つの仮説 ─生態環境の境域で国家がつくられる─
第3講 前近代の世界システム ─生態環境と広域経済圏─
第4講 空間の分類 ─ユーラシア大陸東部・中央部・西部という空間設定の提唱─
第5講 時間の区分 ─4~7世紀と16~18世紀を画期とする三時期区分─

第2部 グローバル・ヒストリーの三段階─古典国家・農牧複合国家・近代国民国家─ 
第6講 初期国家 ─国家の始まり─
第7講 古典国家 ─前1000年紀における遊牧国家の形成と農業国家の再編─
第8講 農牧複合国家 ─4~7世紀の混乱と農牧複合の構築─
第9講 世界宗教圏 ─広域経済圏の形成と個人意識の確立─
第10講 都城時代の誕生 ─東アジアの都城時代と日本の建国─
第11講 “商業帝国" の交替 ─ソグド商人からイスラーム商人へ─
第12講 古典文化の復興運動 ─ユーラシア大陸の複数のルネサンス─
第13講 西欧の勃興と全球史(グローバルヒストリー) ─沿海都市網の拡大と近代国家の形成─
第14講 国民広場の誕生 ─視覚化される20世紀と目に見えない21世紀─

第3部 グローバル・ヒストリーとしての現在と未来 
第15講 これからの世界:ユーラシア大陸経済圏の形成

中華の成立: 唐代まで（シリーズ中国の歴史1）

Author:
渡辺信一郎 Watanabe, Shinichiro

Publisher:
岩波書店

Publication date:
November 2019

Table of Contents:

いま、中国史をみつめなおすために――シリーズ 中国の歴史のねらい（執筆者一同）

はじめに

第一章　「中原」の形成――夏殷周三代
　一　農耕社会の形成――新石器時代
　二　夏殷周三代
　三　殷周時代の政治統合――貢献制から封建制へ

第二章　中国の形成――春秋・戦国
　一　春秋・戦国の「英雄時代」
　二　小農民社会の形成――百生から百姓へ
　三　封建制から県制へ
　四　商鞅の変法――前四世紀中葉の体制改革

第三章　帝国の形成――秦漢帝国
　一　郡県制から郡国制へ
　二　武帝の時代――帝国の形成

第四章　中国の古典国制――王莽の世紀
　一　宣帝の中興
　二　王莽の世紀
　三　王莽を生みだす社会
　四　後漢の古典国制

第五章　分裂と再統合――魏晋南北朝
　一　漢魏革命
　二　華北地方社会の変貌
　三　西晋――中原統一王朝の再建
　四　五胡十六国と天下の分裂
　五　鮮卑拓跋部の華北統合

第六章　古典国制の再建――隋唐帝国
　一　隋文帝の天下再統一
　二　天可汗の大唐帝国
　三　『大唐六典』の唐代国制

おわりに

Women in Tang China

Author:
Bret Hinsch

Publication date:
November 11, 2019

Publisher: 
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Abstract:

This important book provides the first comprehensive survey of women in China during the Sui and Tang dynasties from the sixth through tenth centuries CE. Bret Hinsch provides rich insight into female life in the medieval era, ranging from political power, wealth, and work to family, religious roles, and virtues. He explores women’s lived experiences but also delves into the subjective side of their emotional life and the ideals they pursued. Deeply researched, the book draws on a wide range of sources, including standard histories, poetry, prose literature, and epigraphic sources such as epitaphs, commemorative religious inscriptions, and Dunhuang documents. Building on the best Western and Japanese scholarship, Hinsch also draws heavily on Chinese scholarship, most of which is unknown outside China. As the first study in English about women in the medieval era, this groundbreaking work will open a new window into Chinese history for Western readers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1 Marriage

2 Mothers

3 Government

4 Wealth

5 Religion

6 Learning

7 Virtue

8 Love

Conclusion

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