Editor:
Zong-qi Cai
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
February 2018
Abstract:
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618–907). It aims to break down barriers—between language and culture, poetry and history—that have stood in the way of teaching and learning Chinese poetry. Not only a primer in early Chinese poetry, the volume demonstrates the unique and central role of poetry in the making of Chinese culture.
Each chapter focuses on a specific theme to show the interplay between poetry and the world. Readers discover the key role that poetry played in Chinese diplomacy, court politics, empire building, and institutionalized learning; as well as how poems shed light on gender and women’s status, war and knight-errantry, Daoist and Buddhist traditions, and more. The chapters also show how people of different social classes used poetry as a means of gaining entry into officialdom, creating self-identity, fostering friendship, and airing grievances. The volume includes historical vignettes and anecdotes that contextualize individual poems, investigating how some featured texts subvert and challenge the grand narratives of Chinese history. Presenting poems in Chinese along with English translations and commentary, How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context unites teaching poetry with the social circumstances surrounding its creation, making it a pioneering and versatile text for the study of Chinese language, literature, history, and culture.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Cultural Role of Chinese Poetry, by Zong-qi Cai
Part I: Pre-Han Times
1. Poetry and Diplomacy in The Zuo Commentary(Zuozhuan), by Wai-yee Li
2. Poetry and Authorship: The Songs of Chu (Chuci), by Stephen Owen
Part II: The Han Dynasty
3. Empire in Text: Sima Xiangru’s “Sir Vacuous/Imperial Park Rhapsody”(“Zixu/Shanglin fu”), by Yu-yu Cheng and Gregory Patterson
4. Poetry and Ideology: The Canonization of the Book of Poetry (Shijing) During the Han, by Zong-qi Cai
5. Love Beyond the Grave: A Tragic Tale of Love and Marriage in Han China, by Olga Lomová
Part III: The Six Dynasties
6. Heroes from Chaotic Times: The Three Caos, by Xinda Lian
7. The Worthies of the Bamboo Grove, by Nanxiu Qian
8. The Poetry of Reclusion: Tao Qian, by Alan Berkowitz
9. The Struggling Buddhist Mind: Shen Yue, by Meow Hui Goh
Author:
Chris Jensen
Advisor:
James Benn
School:
McMaster University
Defended:
2018
Abstract:
This project explores the evolution of medieval Chinese Buddhist perspectives on dreams through a series of in-depth comparisons between the oneiric narratives preserved in Huijiao's (慧皎) "Biographies of Eminent Monks" (Gaoseng zhuan 高僧傳 [GSZ]) and Daoxuan's (道宣) "Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks" (Xu gaoseng zhuan 續高僧傳 [XGSZ]), drawing inspiration from contemporary Sinological and Buddhist Studies scholarship, as well as anthropological and psychological perspectives on dreaming. In addition to using these comparisons to address questions related to the diachronic transformation of Chinese Buddhist thought and practice from the early sixth to mid-seventh centuries, I also posit (and provide evidence for) the hypothesis that dreams (and the stories told about them) represent a potent conceptual metaphor for the “betwixt and between” experience of liminality: a hypothesis that I hope inspires discussion and debate in the broader oneirological community.
I approach these topics through four interrelated case studies. Chapter One uses dream narratives to investigate the various modes of oneiric practice ascribed to Chinese monks (and laypeople) in GSZ and XGSZ, focusing on three specific subtopics (dream telling, dream interpretation, and dream incubation) to evaluate the differences between the episodes preserved in both collections. Chapter Two examines the differing ways that Huijiao and Daoxuan engaged with both Chinese and (Indian) Buddhist oneiric conception tropes when describing the birth and early lives of exemplary monks. Chapter Three posits that Huijiao and Daoxuan made distinctive (and historically-situated) use of oneiric narratives to help situate China within the imagined geographies of contemporary Chinese Buddhists. Finally, Chapter Four explores the distinctive ways that oneiric narratives were used in GSZ and XGSZ to negotiate the interactions between exemplary Buddhists and indigenous Chinese religious practices, practitioners and deities.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter One – Engaging with the Liminal: Oneiric Practice in the Eminent Monks
Chapter Two – Dreaming Betwixt and Between Conception and Birth
Chapter Three: Dreaming Betwixt and Between Regions
Chapter Four – Dreaming Betwixt and Between: Oneiric Experiences at the
Conclusion / For Future Research
Author:
神塚淑子 Kamitsuka, Yoshiko
Publication date:
2017
Publisher:
名古屋大学出版会 Nagoya Daigaku Shuppankai
Table of Contents:
序 章
第一篇 霊宝経の形成とその思想
第1章 霊宝経と初期江南仏教
—— 因果応報思想を中心に
第2章 霊宝経における経典神聖化の論理
—— 元始旧経の 「開劫度人」 説をめぐって
第3章 霊宝経に見える葛仙公
—— 新経の成立をめぐって
第4章 六朝道教と 『荘子』
—— 『真誥』・霊宝経・陸修静
第二篇 天尊像考
第1章 隋代の道教造像
第2章 天尊像・元始天尊像の成立と霊宝経
第3章 元始天尊をめぐる三教交渉
第三篇 道教経典と漢訳仏典
第1章 『海空智蔵経』 と 『涅槃経』
—— 唐初道教経典の仏教受容
第2章 『海空智蔵経』 巻十 「普記品」 小考
—— 道教経典と中国撰述仏典
第3章 仏典 『温室経』 と道典 『洗浴経』
はじめに
第四篇 日本国内所蔵の道教関係敦煌写本
第1章 国立国会図書館所蔵の敦煌道経
はじめに
1 金録晨夜十方懺残巻 WB32-1 （3）
2 道教叢書残巻 WB32-1 （30）
第2章 杏雨書屋所蔵の敦煌道経
はじめに
1 道教願文 杏雨書屋六七三R
2 道経残簡 杏雨書屋六六六
3 太玄真一本際経巻第七譬喩品 杏雨書屋六一六
第3章 京都国立博物館所蔵の敦煌道経
—— 「太上洞玄霊宝妙経衆篇序章」 を中心に
はじめに
1 京都二五二 「太上業報因縁経巻第八」
2 京都二五三 「太上洞玄霊宝妙経衆篇序章」
3 道教史から見た 「太上洞玄霊宝妙経衆篇序章」
第五篇 唐代道教と上清派
第1章 則天武后期の道教
第2章 司馬承禎 『坐忘論』 について
補 論 石刻坐忘論をめぐって
第3章 司馬承禎と天台山
終 章
Author:
廣瀬憲雄 (Hirose, Norio)
Publisher：
勉誠出版
Publication date：
October 2018
Abstract:
外交文書と外交儀礼を丹念に読み解き、5～9世紀の倭国・日本の対隋・唐・新羅・百済政策の実態を明らかにし、古代日本の外交関係と東部ユーラシアの国際秩序を体系的に考究。また、「東部ユーラシア」という新たな枠組みに基づき、柔然・突厥・吐蕃・回鶻・契丹など様々な遊牧勢力を含む地域全体を、独自の支配理念や国際秩序が多数存在する場として理解する新しい世界史像の可能性を示す。
Table of Contents:
東部ユーラシア地図
序 章 東部ユーラシアと東アジア―政治圏と文化圏の設定―
第一部 五代両宋／遼金時代の外交文書と国際関係
第一章 隋唐五代両宋期における「致書文書」の再検討と五代十国の外交関係
第二章 宋代東部ユーラシアにおける外交文書と国際関係
第二部 南北朝―隋代の東部ユーラシアと倭国
第一章 五・六世紀東部ユーラシアの外交文書と外交儀礼―南北朝と柔然の事例から―
第二章 倭の五王の冊封と劉宋遣使―倭王武を中心に―
第三章 「日出処天子」外交文書再考―典故と翻訳の問題から―
第三部 唐の全盛期と倭国・日本の外交関係
第一章 『日本書紀』皇極紀百済関係記事の再検討
第二章 七世紀後半における倭国の外交儀礼
第三章 七世紀後半から八世紀前半の倭国・日本―新羅関係
第四部 八・九世紀日本の外交関係と君臣秩序
第一章 渤海の対日本外交文書について―六国史と『類聚国史』の写本調査から―
第二章 九世紀日本の君臣秩序と辞官・致仕の上表―状と批答に注目して―
終章 日本―渤海間の擬制親族関係について―東部ユーラシアの視点から―
Editors:
Li Tang, Dietmar W. Winkler
Publication Date:
2016
Publisher:
Wien: Lit Verlag
Abstract:
As early as AD 781, the writer of the Xi'an Fu inscription described the spread of Syriac Christianity (called Jingjiao in Chinese) to China as a wind blowing eastward. The discovery of the Xi'an Fu Stele, the Dunhuang Jingjiao Manuscripts, the numerous Syriac tombstones and fragments in Central Asia and many parts of China has unearthed a buried history of Syriac Christianity from the Tang Dynasty to the time of the Mongol Empire. The papers in this volume cover a wide range of topics from manuscripts and inscription, to the historical, liturgical and theological perspectives of Syriac Christianity in this geographic realm.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: winds of Jingjiao / Li Tang
Manuscripts and inscriptions
The Dunhuang Jingjiao documents in Japan: a report on their reappearance / Matteo Nicolini-Zani
Criciacal remarks on the so-called newly discoverd Jingjiao epitaph from Luoyang with a preliminary English translation / Li Tang
Syriac crosses in Central and Southwest China / Dale Albert Johnson
The geograhical context of the Tangtse Inscriptions / Roderic L. Mullen
Commemorating the saints at Turfan / Erica C D. Hunter
More gravestones in Syriac script from Tashkent, Panjikent and Ashgabat / Mark Dickens
The tale of Ahikar according to a Garshuni Turkish manuscript of the John Rylands University library / Peter Zieme
The exorcism in the newly found Khara-Khoto Syriac document / Shinichi Muto
Hisotrical Perspectives
Al-Bayruni - The twelve apostles and the Twelve months of the Julian year / Francois de Blois
Changing mission at home and abroad: Catholico Timothy I and the Church of the East on the early abbasid period / Andrew Platt
The Westwardness of things: Literary Geography and the Church of the East / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Byzantine-Rite Christians (Melkites) in Central Asia and China and their contacts with the Church of the East / Ken Parry
On Christianity among Central Asian and Syr Daryan Oghuz and their possible Nestorian Connections / Mehmet Tezcan
An anachronism in the Stele of Xian - why Henanisho? / Max Deeg
Beth Sinaye: a typical East Syrian ecclesiatical province? / David Wilmshurst
'Eunuchs for the Kingdom of God' : rethinking the Christian-Buddhist Imperial translation incident of 787 / R. Todd Godwin
Why did Chinese Nestorians name their religion Jingjiao? / Xiaoping Yin
Priests of Jingjiao in the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom (five dynasties - the early song dynasty) / Yuanyuan Wang
Liturgical Tradition & Theological Reflections
Lost in transcription? - the theological vocabulary of Christian texts in Central Asia and China / Samuel N.C. Lieu
Uber die enkulturation der persisch-syrischen Christen im Tangzeitlichen China - am Beispiel der abgewandelten for derZehn Gebote im buch uber Jesus den Messias / Zhu Li
The sacraments of the Assyrian Church of the East / Mar Awa Royel
Theological transfer: how did monks from China influence East Syriac sacramental theology? / Dietmar W. Windler
Ying/?/Nirmana: a case study on the translatability of Buddhism into Jingjiao / Donghua Zhu
Author:
Jinhua Jia
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
March 2018
Abstract:
During the Tang dynasty (618–907), the adoption of Daoism as the de facto state religion opened the possibility for Chinese women to play an unprecedented role in religious and public life. Women from imperial princesses to the daughters of commoner families could be ordained as Daoist priestesses and become religious leaders, teachers, and practitioners in their own right. Some achieved remarkable accomplishments: one wrote and transmitted influential texts on meditation and inner cultivation; another, a physician, authored a treatise on therapeutic methods, medical theory, and longevity techniques. Priestess-poets composed major works, and talented priestess-artists produced stunning calligraphy.
In Gender, Power, and Talent, Jinhua Jia draws on a wealth of previously untapped sources to explain how Daoist priestesses distinguished themselves as a distinct gendered religious and social group. She describes the life journey of priestesses from palace women to abbesses and ordinary practitioners, touching on their varied reasons for entering the Daoist orders, the role of social and religious institutions, forms of spiritual experience, and the relationships between gendered identities and cultural representations. Jia takes the reader inside convents and cloisters, demonstrating how they functioned both as a female space for self-determination and as a public platform for both religious and social spheres. The first comprehensive study of the lives and roles of Daoist priestesses in Tang China, Gender, Power, and Talent restores women to the landscape of Chinese religion and literature and proposes new methodologies for the growing field of gender and religion.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. The Rise of Daoist Priestesses as a Gendered Religio-Social Group
2. Destiny and Power of the Ordained Royal Women
3. Religious Leadership, Practice, and Ritual Function
4. Liu Moran 柳默然 and the Daoist Theory of Inner Cultivation
5. Longevity Techniques and Medical Theory: The Legacy of Hu Yin 胡愔
6. The Yaochi ji 瑤池集 and Three Daoist Priestess-Poets
7. Unsold Peony: The Life and Poetry of the Priestess-Poet Yu Xuanji 魚玄機
Conclusion
Appendix: Du Guangting and the Hagiographies of Tang Daoist Women
Author:
麥谷邦夫 (MUGITANI, Kunio)
Publisher:
岩波書店
Publication Date:
January 2018
Table of Contents:
まえがき
凡 例
第一部 道教教理思想の形成
第一章 魏晋南北朝期の道家・道教における気
第二章 道教的生成論の形成と展開
第三章 『老子想爾注』と道気論
第二部 道教教理思想の諸相
第一章 道教教理における天界説
第二章 初期道教における救済思想
第三章 道教における真父母の概念と孝
第三部 道教教理体系と仏教教理学
第一章 『道教義枢』と南北朝隋初唐期の道教教理学
第二章 道教教理学と三論学派の論法
第三章 唐代老子注釈学と仏教
第四章 道教類書と教理体系
第四部 唐玄宗三教思想研究
第一章 玄宗『道徳真経』注疏における「妙本」
第二章 玄宗と『道徳真経』注疏の撰述
第三章 玄宗と三経御注
あとがき
Author:
石井正敏 (Masatoshi Ishii)
Publication Date:
September 2017
Publisher:
勉誠出版
Table of Contents:
序 言 鈴木靖民
Ⅰ 倭国と東アジア外交
1 五世紀の日韓関係―倭の五王と高句麗・百済―
2 『日本書紀』隋使裴世清の朝見記事について
Ⅱ 古代の日本と新羅・渤海
3 日本・渤海間の名分関係―舅甥問題を中心に―
4 八・九世紀の日羅関係
5 九世紀の日本・唐・新羅三国間貿易について
Ⅲ 内憂と外患―貞観期の災害・海賊―
6 円仁と張宝高―入唐日本人と新羅人―
7 大宰府鴻臚館と張宝高時代を中心とする日本・新羅関係
8 貞観十一年の震災と外寇
9 貞観十一年の天災と外寇
10 東アジア史からみた鞠智城
Ⅳ 古代国家の変転と残像
11 『金液還丹百問訣』にみえる渤海商人李光玄について―日本渡航問題を中心に―
12 『日本書紀』金春秋来日記事について
13 藤原定家書写『長秋記』紙背文書「高麗渤海関係某書状」について
14 東アジアの変動と日本外交
略年譜・著作目録
第一巻初出一覧
索 引
Author:
Todd Godwin
Publisher:
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd.
Publication Date:
18 Dec 2017
Abstract:
The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China. While scholars have considered the Stele exclusively in relation to the Chinese cultural and historical context, Todd Godwin demonstrates that it can only be fully understood by reconstructing the complex connections that existed between the Church of the East, Sasanian aristocratic culture, and the Tang Empire (617–907) between the fall of the Sasanian Persian Empire (225–651) and the birth of the Abbasid Caliphate (762–1258).
Through close textual re-analysis of the Stele and by drawing on ancient sources in Syriac, Greek, Arabic, and Chinese, Godwin demonstrates that Tang China (617–907) was a cosmopolitan milieu where multiple religious traditions, namely Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Christianity, formed zones of elite culture. Syriac Christianity in fact remained powerful in Persia throughout the period, and Christianity―not Zoroastrianism―was officially regarded by the Tang government as "The Persian Religion."
Persian Christians at the Chinese Court uncovers the role played by Syriac Christianity in the economic and cultural integration of late Sasanian Iran and China, and is important reading for all scholars of the Church of the East, China, and the Middle East in the medieval period.
Table of Contents:
Chapter One: The Late Sasanian Court and Divine Economy
Chapter Two: 'Repairing the Imperial Net' before the An Lushan Rebellion
Chapter Three: The Habitus of Patriarch Timothy I
Chapter Four: The Court of Emperor Tang Dezong as 'Imperial Net,' andthe
Church of the East's Persian Longue Duree
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:
土肥義和 (Dohi Yoshikazu); 氣賀澤保規 (KEGASAWA Yasunori)
Publisher:
汲古書院
Publication Date:
April, 2017
Table of Contents:
序 …… 氣賀澤保規
Ⅰ 制度・行政文書
伊藤敏雄 樓蘭出土漢文文字資料中の簿籍と公文書について
――殘紙の簿籍と公文書を中心に――
町田隆吉 河西出土五胡時代「板」(官吏辭令書)小攷
關尾史郎 「貲簿」の周邊
――北涼時代の簿籍と税制――
王 素 高昌王令形式總論
(河内 桂譯)
荒川正晴 通行證としての公驗と牒式文書
土肥義和 唐代における均田法施行の史料雜抄
劉 安志 唐代解文初探
――敦煌吐魯番文書を中心に――
(速水 大譯)
Ⅱ 地域と社会
妹尾達彦 唐長安の都市核と進奏院
――進奏院状(P3547・S1156)をてがかりに――
古瀬奈津子 書儀・往來物を通じてみた日唐親族の比較
石田勇作 9～10世紀敦煌地域社會と組織の一斷面
――P3249v文書を手掛かりに――
赤木崇敏 曹氏歸義軍節度使系譜攷
――2つの家系から見た10～11世紀の敦煌史――
吉田 豊 コータンのユダヤ・ソグド商人?
松井 太 トゥルファン=ウイグル人社會の連保組織
Ⅲ 文化と思想
朱 玉麒 トルファン文書にみえる漢文文學史料
(西村陽子譯)
張 娜麗 玄奘の譯場と玄應の行實
――敦煌・吐魯番文獻と日本古寫經の伝えるもの――
伊藤美重子 敦煌寫本「醜女縁起」の依據する經典の再檢討
――『賢愚經』と『雜寶藏經』の醜女説話をめぐって――
岩本篤志 敦煌文獻と傳存文獻の間
――唐代の醫藥書『新修本草』と『千金方』を中心として――
丸山裕美子 磯部武男氏所藏「朋友書儀」斷簡について(再論)
――「敦煌秘笈」及び中村不折舊藏吐魯番寫本「朋友書儀」との關係をめぐって――
余 欣 中古時期における瑞應圖書の源流
――敦煌文獻と日本寫本の總合考察――
(山口正晃譯)
史料紹介
吉田章人 東洋文庫における IOM RAS 所藏非佛教漢語文書の整理と考察
圖版一覽
執筆者一覽
Editors:
N. Harry Rothschild and Leslie V. Wallace
Publisher:
University of Hawaii Press
Publication Date:
August 31, 2017
Abstract:
Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China presents a rogues’ gallery of treacherous regicides, impious monks, cutthroat underlings, ill-bred offspring, and disloyal officials. It plumbs the dark matter of the human condition, placing front and center transgressive individuals and groups traditionally demonized by Confucian annalists and largely shunned by modern scholars. The work endeavors to apprehend the actions and motivations of these men and women, whose conduct deviated from normative social, cultural, and religious expectations.
Early chapters examine how core Confucian bonds such as those between parents and children, and ruler and minister, were compromised, even severed. The living did not always reverently pay homage to the dead, children did not honor their parents with due filiality, a decorous distance was not necessarily observed between sons and stepmothers, and subjects often pursued their own interests before those of the ruler or the state. The elasticity of ritual and social norms is explored: Chapters on brazen Eastern Han (25–220) mourners and deviant calligraphers, audacious falconers, volatile Tang (618–907) Buddhist monks, and drunken Song (960–1279) literati reveal social norms treated not as universal truths but as debated questions of taste wherein political and social expedience both determined and highlighted individual roles within larger social structures and defined what was and was not aberrant.
A Confucian predilection to “valorize [the] civil and disparage the martial” and Buddhist proscriptions on killing led literati and monks alike to condemn the cruelty and chaos of war. The book scrutinizes cultural attitudes toward military action and warfare, including those surrounding the bloody and capricious world of the Zuozhuan (Chronicle of Zuo), the relentless violence of the Five Dynasties and Ten States periods (907–979), and the exploits of Tang warrior priests―a series of studies that complicates the rhetoric by situating it within the turbulent realities of the times. By the end of this volume, readers will come away with the understanding that behaving badly in early and medieval China was not about morality but perspective, politics, and power.
Table of Contents:
There are maggots in my soup! : medieval accounts of unfilial children / Keith N. Knapp
Negative role models: unfilial stories in Song miscellaneous writing / Cong Ellen Zhang
Copulating with one's stepmother—or birth mother? / Paul R. Goldin
Intransigent and corrupt officials during the early Han / Anthony Barbieri-Low
Ritual without rules: Han-Dynasty mourning practice revisited / Miranda Brown and Anna-Alexandra Fodde-Regue
Bad writing: cursive calligraphy and the ethics of orthography in the Eastern Han Dynasty / Vincent S. Leung
Wild youths and fallen officials: falconry and moral opprobrium in early medieval China / Leslie V. Wallace
Stopping drinking: alcohol, alcoholism, and Song literati / Edward van-Bibber Orr
Flouting, flashing and favoritism: an insouciant Buddhist monk bares his midriff before the Confucian court / N. Harry Rothschild
Running amok in early Chinese narrative / Eric Henry
"Wolves shepherding the people": cruelty and violence in the Five dynasties / Wang Hongjie
A "villain-monk" brought down by a villein-general: a forgotten page in Tang monastic warfare and state-samgha relations / Chen Jinhua
Martial monks without borders: was Sinseong a traitor or did he open the gate to a pan-Asian Buddhist realm? / Kelly Carlton
Author:
Fu Xinian
Editor:
Nancy S. Steinhardt
Translator:
Alexandra Harrer
Publication date:
6 June 2017
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Abstract:
Fu Xinian is considered by many to be the world's leading historian of Chinese architecture. He is an expert on every type of Chinese architecture from every period through the nineteenth century, and his work is at the cutting edge of the field. Traditional Chinese Architecture gathers together, for the first time in English, twelve seminal essays by Fu Xinian. This wide-ranging book pays special attention to the technical aspects of the building tradition since the first millennium BC, and Fu Xinian's signature drawings abundantly illustrate its nuances.
The essays delve into the modular basis for individual structures, complexes, and cities; lateral and longitudinal building frames; the unity of sculpture and building to create viewing angles; the influence of Chinese construction on Japanese architecture; and the reliability of images to inform us about architecture. Organized chronologically, the book also examines such topics as the representation of architecture on vessels in the Warring States period, early Buddhist architecture, and the evolution of imperial architecture from the Tang to Ming dynasty. A biography of Fu Xinian and a detailed Chinese-English glossary are included.
Table of Contents:
Biography of Fu Xinian 傅熹年 xxv
1 Representations of Architecture on Vessels of the Warring States Period 1
2 Reconstruction of Northern Dynasties Buildings Based on Relief Sculpture and Murals in Cave-Temples at Maijishan 31
3 Early Buddhist Architecture in China 79
4 The Development of Timber-Frame Architecture during the Two Jins and the Northern and Southern Dynasties 97
5 Architectural Features of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang Periods in China as Reflected in Japanese Architecture of the Asuka and Nara Periods 140
6 Hanyuan Hall at Daminggong in Tang Chang'an 167
7 The Module in Tang Architecture 209
8 Imperial Architecture of Tang through Ming and Its Relation to Other Architecture 226
9 The Problem of Pillar Displacement with Respect to the Characteristics of Song Construction 253
10 Song Architecture in South China and Its Relation to Japanese Great Buddha-Style Architecture of the Kamakura Period 273
11 Northern Song Architecture in the Painting A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains by Wang Ximeng 296
12 Typical Design Features of Ming Palaces and Altars in Beijing 315
Author:
Thomas J. Mazanec
School:
Princeton University
Defended:
2017
Abstract:
This dissertation presents an alternative history of late medieval literature, one which traces the development of Chinese Buddhist poetry into a fully autonomous tradition. It does so through a careful study of the works of poet-monks in the late medieval period (760–960), especially Guanxiu (832–913) and Qiji (864–937?). Weaving together the frayed threads of the literary traditions they inherited, these poet-monks established a tradition of elite Buddhist poetry in classical Chinese that continued in East Asia until the twentieth century. This dissertation also breaks new methodological ground by using digital tools to analyze and display information culled from medieval sources, and by using poetry composition manuals to understand medieval Chinese poetry on its own terms.
The introduction systematically analyzes the meanings of the concept of “religious literature” and situates this study of poet-monks therein. Part I, comprised of chapters 2, 3, and 4, presents a social history of poet-monks first by examining the invention of the term “poet-monk” in the late eighth century and its development until the tenth, then by mapping literary relations in the late medieval period using social network analysis. It demonstrates the existence and importance of poet-monks to the literary culture of this time. Part II, comprised of chapters 5 and 6, turns to the monks’ poetics at their most extreme: first the wild excess of repetition in song, madness, and incantation; then the austere devotion of “bitter intoning” (kuyin) and the identification of poetry with meditation. Both extremes are the fruit of the poet-monks’ deliberate mixing of literary and religious practices. The conclusion brings the various threads together to show how the poet-monks identified their religious and literary practices, hints at why their work had been neglected in both Buddhist and classical literary circles, and reflects on the implications of this dissertation for the study of religious poetry.
Thus, this dissertation provides one way of answering the question of how to define religious poetry and, in the process, sheds light on an overlooked corner of Chinese literary history, reconstructing an entire subtradition to demonstrate their fusion of religious and literary practices.
Author:
Thierry, François
Publication Date:
May, 2017
Publisher:
Paris: Les Belles Lettres
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
Une remarquable anomalie
La conception chinoise de la monnaie
Penser la monnaie
I-DES ORIGINES A LA FIN DES ROYAUMES COMBATTANTS
1- AUX ORIGINES DE LA MONNAIE
A- Les cauris
B- Une révolution : l’homme peut fabriquer de la monnaie
C- Premières bêches et premiers couteaux
2- LA MONETARISATION DE LA SOCIETE
A- Le monnayage traditionnel des Royaumes Combattants.
B - La valeur intrinsèque et ses limites
C- Les pseudo-monnaies
II-L’UNIFICATION MONETAIRE
1- LES SOURCES ECRITES
2-L’APPORT DE L’ARCHEOLOGIE
A-Les fiches de Shuihudi
B- Les dépôts monétaires
3-LA MONNAIE AU QIN
A-Monnaies et circulation monétaire
B-Une classification des banliang
C-Les autres monnaies
D-Les banliang de l’empire de Qin (220-206 av. J.-C.)
III-LA MONNAIE DES HAN DE L’OUEST
1-LA QUESTION DU MONOPOLE D’EMISSION
Le peuple
Les royaumes
L’administration impériale
La marche au monopole
2-LA SUCCESSION DES EMISSIONS MONETAIRES
Les yujia banliang (209-175 av. J.-C.)
Les bazhu qian (186 av. J.-C.)
Les wufen qian (182 av. J.-C.)
Les sizhu banliang (175 av. J.-C.)
Les sanzhu qian (140-136 av. J.-C.)
Les banliang de Wudi (136 av. J.-C.)
3-LE TEMPS DES REFORMES
Les billets de cuir et les monnaies de métal blanc (119 av. J.-C.)
Les junguo wuzhu (118-113 av. J.-C.)
Les chice wuzhu (115-113 av. J.-C.)
Les sanguan wuzhu (à partir de 118 av. J.-C.)
4-LA CLASSIFICATION DES WUZHU DE WUDI ET DE SES SUCCESSEURS
Editors:
Wiebke Denecke, Wai-yee Li, and Xiaofei Tian
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Publication Date:
April, 2017
Abstract:
This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practices change over these two millennia? How did concepts of literature evolve? What were the factors that shaped literary production and textual transmission? How do traditional bibliographic categories, modern conceptions of genre, and literary theories shape our understanding of classical Chinese literature? What are the recurrent and evolving concerns of writings within the period under purview? What are the dimensions of human experience they address? Why is classical Chinese literature important for our understanding of pre-modern East Asia? How does the transmission of this literature in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam define cultural boundaries? And what, in turn, can we learn from the Chinese-style literatures of Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, about Chinese literature? In addressing these questions, the Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature departs from standard literary histories and sourcebooks. It does not simply categorize literary works according to periods, authors, or texts. Its goal is to offer a new conceptual framework for thinking about classical Chinese literature by defining a four-part structure. The first section discusses the basics of literacy and includes topics such as writing systems, manuscript culture, education, and loss and preservation in textual transmission. It is followed by a second section devoted to conceptions of genre, textual organization, and literary signification throughout Chinese history. A third section surveys literary tropes and themes. The final section takes us beyond China to the surrounding cultures that adopted Chinese culture and produced Chinese style writing adapted to their own historical circumstances. The volume is sustained by a dual foci: the recuperation of historical perspectives for the period it surveys and the attempt to draw connections between past and present, demonstrating how the viewpoints and information in this volume yield insights into modern China and east Asia.
Table of Contents:
SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Key Concepts of 2. Periodization and Major Inflection Points (Stephen Owen)
SECTION TWO: BASICS OF LITERACY
I. Technology and Media
Editor's Introduction (Xiaofei Tian)
3. The Chinese Writing System (Imre Galambos)
4. Literary Media: Writing and Orality (Christopher M. B. Nugent)
5. Manuscript Culture (Christopher M. B. Nugent)
6. The Relationship of Calligraphy and Painting to Literature (Ronald Egan)
II. Institutions of Literary Culture
Editor's Introduction (Xiaofei Tian)
7. Education and the Examination System (Rebecca Doran)
8. Text and Commentary: The Early Tradition (Michael Puett)
9. Text and Commentary in the Medieval Period (Yu-yu Cheng 鄭毓瑜)
10. Literary Learning: Encyclopedias and Epitomes (Xiaofei Tian)
11. Libraries, Book Catalogues, Lost Writings (Glen Dudbridge)
SECTION THREE: LITERARY PRODUCTION
I. Traditional Genre Spectrum
Editor's Introduction (Wai-yee Li)
12. Classics (David Schaberg)
13. Histories (Stephen Durrant)
14. Masters (Wiebke Denecke)
15. Collections (Xiaofei Tian)
II. Modern Perspectives on Genre
Editor's Introduction (Wai-yee Li)
16. 17. Elite and Popular Literature (Wilt Idema)
18. Narrative Genres (Sarah Allen)
III. Collecting, Editing, Transmitting
Editor's Introduction (Xiaofei Tian)
19. Pre-Tang Anthologies and Anthologization (David R. Knechtges)
20. Anthologies in the Tang (Paul W. Kroll)
21. The Song Reception of Earlier Literature (Stephen Owen)
22. Textual Transmission of Earlier Literature during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties (Wai-yee Li)
IV. Literature and Metaliterature
Editor's Introduction (Wiebke Denecke)
23. Defenses of Literature/Literary Thought/Poetics (Paul Rouzer)
24. Concepts of Authorship (Wai-yee Li)
25. Tradition Formation: Beginnings to Eastern Han (Stephen Durrant)
26. Classicisms in Chinese Literary Culture: Six Dynasties through Tang (Anna Shields)
SECTION FOUR: MOMENTS, SITES, FIGURES
Editor's Introduction (Wai-yee Li)
27. Moments (Paula Varsano)
28. Sites I (Jack Chen)
29. Sites II (Wendy Swartz)
30. Figures (Wai-yee Li)
SECTION FIVE: EARLY AND MEDIEVAL CHINA AND THE WORLD
Editor's Introduction (Wiebke Denecke)
31. Colonization, Sinicization, and the Multigraphic Northwest (Tamara T. Chin)
32. Translation (Daniel Boucher)
33. Shared Literary Heritage in the Sinographic Sphere (Wiebke Denecke, with contributions by Nam Nguyen)
34. Sino-Korean Literature (Peter Kornicki)
35. Early Sino-Japanese Literature (Wiebke Denecke)
36. Sino-Vietnamese Literature (Peter Kornicki)
