ある地方官吏の生涯：木簡が語る中国古代人の日常生活

Editor:

宮宅潔 (MIYAKE, Kiyoshi)

Publication date:
July 2021

Publisher:

臨川書店

Table of Contents:
はじめに

第一章　人の誕生
第一節　出生の吉凶　／　第二節　いのちの始まり

第二章　出生届――中国古代の戸籍制度――
第一節　戸籍制度のあらまし　／　第二節　戸籍制度の整備

第三章　喜をとりまく人たち――家族制度・郷里制度――
第一節　家族の暮らし　／　第二節　郷里社会のすがた

第四章　書記官への道――教育制度――
第一節　書記官の養成とその地位　／　第二節　知識習得の場とテキスト

第五章　役人生活の始まり――地方行政制度・裁判制度――
第一節　官吏のキャリアと地方官府の構造　／　第二節　「治獄」の仕事

第六章　結婚と夫婦関係――婚姻制度――
第一節　喜の結婚　／　第二節　夫婦関係

第七章　従軍生活――秦の戦役史と軍事制度――
第一節　秦の軍事制度　／　第二節　兵士の日常

第八章　喜のそれから
第一節　喜の後半生――両親の死と相続――　／　第二節　始皇帝の臣民として

第九章　老いと死――人生の終わりに――
第一節　寿命とやまい　／　第二節　死と葬送

Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue: An Annotated Translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu

Author:

Jianjun He

Publication date:

April 2021

Publisher:

Cornell University Press

Abstract:

Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue is the first complete English translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of two neighboring states during China's Spring and Autumn period. This collection of political history, philosophy, and fictional accounts depicts the rise and fall of Wu and Yue and the rivalry between them, the inspiration for centuries of poetry, vernacular fiction, and drama.

Wu Yue Chunqiu makes use of rich sources from the past, carefully adapting and developing them into complex stories. Historical figures are transformed into distinctive characters; simple records of events are fleshed out and made tangible. The result is a nuanced record that is both a compelling narrative and a valuable historical text. As one of the earliest examples of a regional history, Wu Yue Chunqiu is also an important source for the history of what is now Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

In Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue, Jianjun He's engaging translation and extensive annotations make this significant historical and literary work accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1. The Tradition of the Great Earl of Wu

2. The Tradition of King Shoumeng of Wu

3. The Tradition of King Liao Commanded Gongzi Guang

4. The Inner Tradition of Helu

5. The Inner Tradition of Fuchai

6. The Outer Tradition of King Wuyu of Yue

7. The Outer Tradition of Goujian as a Servant

8. The Outer Tradition of Goujian's Return to His State

9. The Outer Tradition of Goujian's Secret Plots

10. The Outer Tradition of Goujian Attacking Wu

Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action

Author:
Mercedes Valmisa

Publisher:
Oxford University Press

Publication date:
September 2021

Abstract:
If you are from the West, it is likely that you normally assume that you are a subject who relates to objects and other subjects through actions that spring purely from your own intentions and will. Chinese philosophers, however, show how mistaken this conception of action is. Philosophy of action in Classical China is radically different from its counterpart in the Western philosophical narrative. While the latter usually assumes we are discrete individual subjects with the ability to act or to effect change, Classical Chinese philosophers theorize that human life is embedded in endless networks of relationships with other entities, phenomena, and socio-material contexts. These relations are primary to the constitution of the person, and hence acting within an early Chinese context is interacting and co-acting along with others, human or nonhuman.

This book is the first monograph dedicated to the exploration and rigorous reconstruction of an extraordinary strategy for efficacious relational action devised by Classical Chinese philosophers, one which attempts to account for the interdependent and embedded character of human agency-what Mercedes Valmisa calls "adapting" or "adaptive agency" (yin) As opposed to more unilateral approaches to action conceptualized in the Classical Chinese corpus, such as forceful and prescriptive agency, adapting requires heightened self- and other-awareness, equanimity, flexibility, creativity, and response. These capacities allow the agent to “co-raise” courses of action ad hoc: unique and temporary solutions to specific, non-permanent, and non-generalizable life problems.

Adapting is one of the world's oldest philosophies of action, and yet it is shockingly new for contemporary audiences, who will find in it an unlikely source of inspiration to cope with our current global problems. This book explores the core conception of adapting both on autochthonous terms and by cross-cultural comparison, drawing on the European and Analytic philosophical traditions as well as on scholarship from other disciplines. Valmisa exemplifies how to build meaningful philosophical theories without treating individual books or putative authors as locations of stable intellectual positions, opening brand-new topics in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: What is Adaptive Agency?
Chapter 2: Locating Adaptive Agency
Chapter 3: Strategy and Control
Chapter 4: The Reifying Pattern
Chapter 5: Coping with Uncertainty
Chapter 6: The Unifying Pattern