三国志の考古学: 出土資料からみた三国志と三国時代

Author:
関尾史郎 (Sekio, Shiro)

Publisher:
東方書店

Publication date:
June, 2019

Abstract:

小説『三国志演義』の描く英雄たちの活躍によって、日本でもよく知られている三国時代。本書では、その三国時代について、『三国志演義』ではなく、史書の『三国志』でもなく、発掘調査によって中国各地で出土した資料によりながら考える。曹操の墓である高陵の発見は記憶に新しいところだが、この高陵や、呉の名将である朱然の墓からは貴重な文物が出土している。そして七万点以上という、一地点からの出土枚数としては最大を記録した走馬楼呉簡など、三国時代に関する出土資料は近年増加の一途をたどっている。本書では、簡牘や石刻をはじめ、漆器・陶器や画像石・墓葬壁画に至るまで、多種多様な出土資料を取り上げ、膨大な研究史を整理したうえで、新たな知見を提供する。また、それをふまえて史書『三国志』の解釈にも見直しを迫っている。

Table of Contents:

はしがき
第一章　曹氏の人びと――曹氏一族墓と出土刻字塼
はじめに
一　『三国志』のなかの曹氏一族
二　『水經注』に記された曹氏一族墓
三　発見された曹氏一族墓
四　刻字塼とは
五　姓名塼を読み解く――曹氏塼
六　姓名塼を読み解く――曹氏塼以外の姓名塼
おわりに

第二章　曹操の死――高陵とその出土文物
はじめに
一　魯潜墓誌
二　高陵の発掘とその後の経緯
三　出土石牌とその意義
四　画像石の題記から
おわりに

第三章　名刺と名謁―朱然墓出土簡牘
はじめに
一　朱然とその家族墓
二　朱然墓出土の漆器類
三　名謁、名刺とは
四　名謁
五　名刺
おわりに

第四章　呉の地方行政と地域社会――長沙走馬楼呉簡
はじめに
一　後漢末の長沙郡
二　走馬楼呉簡とは
三　走馬楼呉簡の世界
四　走馬楼呉簡からみた呉・蛮抗争
おわりに

第五章　諸葛亮の「北伐」と涼州――高台地埂坡四号墓壁画ほか
はじめに
一　「涼州諸国王」の正体
二　懸泉置漢簡と「古代書簡」から
三　河西の塼画と壁画から
四　「涼州諸国王」の環境と方向性
おわりに

第六章　魏と中央アジア――トゥルファン出土墓誌と敦煌出土鎮墓瓶
はじめに
一　西域戊己校尉の復活が意味するもの
二　トゥルファンと敦煌のその後から考える
おわりに

あとがき

In Pursuit of the Great Peace： Han Dynasty Classicism and the Making of Early Medieval Literati Culture

Author:
ZHAO Lu 趙璐

Release Date:
June 2019

Publisher:
State University of New York Press

Abstract:

Through an examination of the Great Peace (taiping 太平), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, Zhao Lu describes the transformation of literati culture that occurred during the Han Dynasty. Driven by anxiety over losing the mandate of Heaven, the imperial court encouraged classicism in order to establish the Great Peace and follow Heaven’s will. But instead of treating the literati as puppets of competing and imagined lineages, Zhao uses sociological methods to reconstruct their daily lives and to show how they created their own thought by adopting, modifying, and opposing the work of their contemporaries and predecessors. The literati who served as bureaucrats in the first century BCE gradually became classicists who depended on social networking as they traveled to study the classics. By the second century CE, classicism had dissolved in this traveling culture and the literati began to expand the corpus of knowledge beyond the accepted canon. Thus, far from being static, classicism in Han China was full of innovation, and ultimately gave birth to both literary writing and religious Daoism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1. Toward a Zeal for Classicism: Intellectual Transitions from 74 BC to AD 9 China
The Search for Heaven’s Will in Emperor Xuan’s Period
Toward the Great Peace: Emperor Yuan and the Restoration of the Kingly Way
The Six Classics: Complete and Fundamental
Restoring the Original Six Classics or Getting Rid of Them: Two Paths of Innovation
Concluding Remarks

2. The Conflation between Heaven and the Classics: The Rise of Apocrypha (chenwei 讖緯)
Discovering the Heavenly Nature of the Classics
Forming a Tradition: The Sociopolitical Background of the Emergence of the Apocryphal Texts
A Case Study: Liu Xiu’s Feng and Shan Sacrifices
Concluding Remarks

3. Apocrypha, Confucius, and Monarchy in Emperor Ming’s Reign (AD 58–75)
Xuan sheng 玄聖: The Dark Sage
Su Wang 素王, the “Uncrowned King”
Zixia 子夏 and Confucius: A Political Analogy
Concluding Remarks

4. Finding Teachers versus Making Friends: The Gradual Departure from Classicism in the First Two Centuries AD
How to Succeed in the Han: Sketching the Han Official Recruitment System
How One Learned Classical Knowledge in the Han: Schools and Curricula
Ma Rong and His Friends: A Case Study of Horizontal Relationships
Concluding Remarks

5. The Radical and the Conservative: Zheng Xuan 鄭玄, He Xiu 何休, the Scripture of the Great Peace 太平經, and Their Stances on the Classics
Zheng Xuan and His Scholarship
He Xiu and His Return to the Gongyang Tradition
The (Re)emergence of the Scripture of the Great Peace
Concluding Remarks

Conclusion
Han Intellectual Communities and Their Features
The Matter of the Great Peace
The Production of Innovation and Its Driving Force
The Impact and Legacy of Classicism

Appendix 1. The Chinese Classics
Appendix 2. The Origin of the Old Script / New Script Controversy
Appendix 3. The Contrast-Debate Model and Its Critique
Appendix 4. The Assumptions of Confucian Empire and Its Problems
Appendix 5. Apocryphal Texts: A History of Superstition and Adulation
Appendix 6. Chen 讖, Wei 緯, and Apocrypha: A Matter of Definition

The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume V.1： The Hereditary Houses of Pre-Han China, Part I

Author: 
Ssu-ma Ch'ien

Editor:
William H. Nienhauser, Jr.

Translators:
Weiguo Cao, Zhi Chen, Scott Cook, Hongyu Huang, Bruce Knickerbocker, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., Wang Jing, Zhang Zhenjun and Zhao Hua

Publication date: 
02/27/2019

Publisher:
Indiana University Press

Abstract:
With Part I of the two-part fifth volume of Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s Shi chi (The Grand Scribe’s Records), we enter the world of the shih chia 世家 or "hereditary houses." These ten chapters trace the history of China’s first states, from their establishment in the 11th century B.C. until their incorporation in the first empire under the Ch’in in 221 B.C. Combining myth, anecdote, chronicle, and biography based on early written and oral sources, many no longer extant, the narratives make for compelling reading, as dramatic and readable as any in this grand history.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction (William H. Nienhauser, Jr.)
On Using this Book
A Note on Terms
Weights and Measures (Lu Zongli)
List of Abbreviations

Hereditary House 1 (Zhi Chen and William H. Nienhauser, Jr., translators)
Hereditary House 2 (Bruce Knickerbocker, translator)
Hereditary House 3 (Weiguo Cao, translator)
Hereditary House 4 (Hongyu Huang, translator)
Hereditary House 5 (William H. Nienhauser, Jr., translator)
Hereditary House 6 (Wang Jing, translator)
Hereditary House 7 (Scott Cook, translator)
Hereditary House 8 (Zhenjun Zhang, translator)
Hereditary House 9 (Zhao Hua and William H. Nienhauser, Jr., translators)
Hereditary House 10 (Weiguo Cao, translator)

Frequently Mentioned Commentators
Biographical Sketches of Shih chi Commentators (Juri Kroll)
Selected Recent Studies of the Shih chi
Index
Maps

Art in a Time of Chaos: Masterworks from Six Dynasties China

Publisher:
New York : China Institute in America

Publication date:
2016

Abstract:
Art in a Time of Chaos: Masterworks from Six Dynasties China provides the first major survey of Chinese culture and its international influences during the Six Dynasties period, as well as the relationship between the two dominant political centers in the North and South. This bilingual catalogue of the exhibition presents more than 100 ceramics, sculpture, calligraphy, and paintings, many only recently unearthed. 12 essays by leading scholars explore the works and artistic achievements of the period in greater depth, and the informative appendix features renowned Six Dynasties artistic subjects and a glossary of characters and terminology.

Table of contents:

Forword / Gong Liang

Preface / Willow Weilan Hai

Six Dynasties: Seeking the Origin of Chinese Art / Willow Weilan Hai

Important Archaeological Findings of the Six Dynasties (in the South) / Gong Liang

Jiankang : The Southern Capital and Metropolitan Life / Bai Ning

The Northern Dynasties and Major Archaeological Discoveries / Shi Jinming

Celadon and Customs of the Six Dynasties / Willow Weilan Hai

Buddhist Sculpture: Innovation, Invention and Imagination / Annette L. Juliano

Negotiating the Afterlife in the Tombs of the Northern and Southern Dynasties / Susan L. Beningson 

Calligraphy of the Six Dynasties / Xue Longchun

An Overview of Seals from the Wei-Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties / Zhou Xiaolu and Zhu Bang

The Admonition of the Instructress to the Court Ladies and the Six Dynasties / Clarissa von Spee

After the "Five Barbarians Brought Disorder to China" : Painting in north China in the Sixth Century / David Ake Sensabaugh

Key events in the history of art in the Six Dynasties period / Li Xiujian

Appendices

Table of Six Dynasties artists by period / Li Xiujian

Popular Six Dynasties literary subjects in art through the ages / Willow Weilan Hai and Shawn Eichman

Selected reference paintings / Willow Weilan Hai

『華陽国志』の世界：巴、蜀、そして南方へのまなざし

Editors:
竹内洋介 TAKEUCHI Yosuke
大室智人 Omuro Tomohito

Publisher: 
東洋大学アジア文化研究所

Publication date:
2018

Table of Contents:

津田資久   『華陽国志』に見える蜀漢叙述
菊地大   孫呉の南方展開とその影響
飯塚 勝重   『華陽国志』に見る巴郡の世界

「華陽国志訳注稿」人名・地名・官職名索引

Editors:
竹内洋介 Yosuke Takeuchi
大室智人 Ōmuro Tomohito
飯塚勝重 Katsushige Iizuka

Publisher:
東洋大学アジア文化研究所

Publication date:
2017

Table of Contents:

華陽国志訳注稿人名地名官職名索引: p1-92
『華陽国志』関係文献目録稿: p93-118

Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding

Author:
Roel Sterckx

Publisher:
London: Penguin Books Ltd

Publication date:
2019

Abstract:

We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally, economically or aesthetically present in everyday life in the Western world. But how much do we really know about its origins and key beliefs, especially compared to the many histories of Western philosophy? How did the ancient Chinese think about the world?In this enlightening book, Roel Sterckx, one of the foremost experts in Chinese thought, takes us through centuries of Chinese history, from Confucius to Daoism to the Legalists. With evocative examples from philosophy, literature and everyday life, he shows us how the ancient Chinese have shaped the thinking of a civilization that is now influencing our own.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 China in Time and Space
Chapter 2 The Way (Dao) and Its Ways
Chapter 3 The Art of Government
Chapter 4 The Individual and the Collective
Chapter 5 Behaving Ritually
Chapter 6 Spirits and Ancesters
Chapter 7 The World of Nature
Chapter 8 Work and Wealth
Chapter 9 Food for Thought

Cultural interactions during the Zhou Period (c. 1000-350 BC): A Study of Networks from the Suizao Corridor

Author:
Beichen Chen

Publisher: 
Archaeopress Archaeology

Publication date:
February 28, 2019

Abstract:

‘Cultural Interactions during the Zhou Period (c. 1000-350 BC): A study of networks from the Suizao corridor’ examines cultural interactions during the Zhou period of China (c. 1000- 350 BCE) between the Suizao corridor (near the present-day Yangtze River region) and its contemporaries within or outside the Zhou realm. It concentrates mainly, but not exclusively, on bronze ritual vessels from the Suizao corridor, and discusses the underlying social and political relations between the dominant cultures and the regional ones in this particular area (the Zeng state for example), which are central to understanding the ways in which the dominant cultures joined their disparate territories into a whole. Newly excavated archaeological evidence show that there were at least three periods when people in the corridor learned about the current traditions employed elsewhere, which are: 1) Yejiashan period (from the 11th to the 10th century BCE); 2) post-Ritual Reform period (from the mid-9th to the mid-7th century BCE); and 3) Marquis Yi’s period (from the mid- 6th to the mid-4th century BCE). In these periods, local people were involved in networks of enormous and constantly changing complexity, in which people, objects, practices, and ideas were mixed together through inter-regional contacts. The choices of local people in adopting foreign materials and ideas from either the dominant cultures or other places depended heavily on the subjective view of their social identity, which can be constructed, maintained, or transited to adapt to different social and political environments.

Table of Contents:

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Yejiashan Period

Chapter Three: Post-Ritual Reform Period

Chapter Four: Marquis Yi’s Period

Chapter Five: Conclusion

Blossom on the Run: A Han Dynasty Adventure

Authors:
Michael Nylan & Robert J. Litz

Publisher: 
Metron Publications

Publication date:
July 21, 2016

Abstract:

This is Volume One of a planned trilogy. One morning in Han dynasty China (206 BC - 220 AD), a girl of eleven is waking up... The day Meike grew up started out like most. She woke to the songs of mockingbirds in the camellia tree. She could hear Ahmei, the cook, in the forecourt bang a pot over the stove. She could smell smoke from Ahmei’s fire and from a hundred others in their crowded district. If she concentrated, she could smell other things too – earth still damp from last night’s rain, peppers soaking in a vat, and something she couldn’t quite name riding the breeze that stirred the bamboo in the courtyard and trickled in through her latticed window. The first light that peeked over the roof-tiles of the east wing of the family compound made the soft green of the spring bamboo almost glow. A softer light caressed the petals of the plum blossom sprig in the vase on the table beneath her window. Her name, Meike, with its soft “may” and harder “kuh,” meant Plum Blossom – soft petals, hard branch – and every Spring, on Meike’s birthday, her mother placed a cutting in her room. In a few minutes, Ahmei would call her name, then call again when Meike didn’t hop out of bed as ordered. She knew that if she waited, her father would creep in, slowly lift her cover, then grab her belly in a tickling claw. But then, all of a sudden, she had this unsettling feeling that today would be different.

ATTN: This is Volume One of a planned trilogy, which was interrupted by the sudden demise of Robert J. Litz.

目録学の誕生 劉向が生んだ書物文化

Author:
古勝 隆一 (KOGACHI, Ryuichi)

Publisher:
臨川書店

Publication date:
2019

Abstract:

人にとって書物とは何か。なぜ、書物は必要なのか
書物をぬきにして中国文化を語ることはできない。その書物は、どのように書かれ、整理され、系統立てられ、そして伝承されてきたのだろうか。前漢にはじまる皇室の図書事業は、やがて独立した「書物の学問」＝「目録学」に発展し、過去から未来へと学問をつなぐ知の集積がはじまっていく。目録学の始祖とされる劉向（りゅうきょう）は、何を考え、何を成し遂げたのか。原資料と先行研究を幅広く渉猟し、目録学の誕生史を描き出す。

Table of Contents:

はじめに
序章　目録と目録学
　第一節　校書と分類の関係
　第二節　目録と書目
　第三節　「校讐」の起源―校正の始まりについての一試論
　第四節　中国学術の全体像を俯瞰する
　第五節　「儒」の位置
　□コラム　目録学と校讐学
第一章　劉向目録学のインパクト
　第一節　二劉の学の大きさ
　第二節　書目の背後にあるのは「学術」である
　第三節　術をめぐって
　第四節　官職と書物
　第五節　『漢書』芸文志の序文を読む
　第六節　「大序」は誰の文章か
　□コラム　書物と国家
第二章　目録学前史―戦国時代から前漢時代における学術と学派
　第一節　諸子を批判する諸子
　第二節　批判精神の発露―『荀子』非十二子篇
　第三節　道術の衰え―『荘子』天下篇
　第四節　学派内部の分裂をめぐって―『韓非子』顕学篇
　第五節　司馬談の学術観
　□コラム　荀子は子思と孟子を批判したのか
第三章　前漢時代の皇帝と学問
　第一節　焚書のダメージ
　第二節　漢初の学問好尚の変化
　第三節　武帝と儒教
　第四節　ポスト武帝時代から前漢末にいたる学問好尚
　第五節　前漢における六芸の位置
　第六節　漢室と神仙思想
　第七節　前漢における図書蒐集の歴史
　□コラム　芸をめぐって
第四章　劉向の家系と学問
　第一節　『史記』楚元王世家と『漢書』楚元王伝
　第二節　劉向の祖先、楚の元王
　第三節　劉交の子孫たち
　第四節　劉向の曽祖父・祖父・父
　第五節　劉向の生涯
　第六節　毀誉褒貶を生んだ劉歆の生き方
　□コラム　劉安と劉向
第五章　『別録』と『七略』
　第一節　『別録』と『七略』
　第二節　『七略別録』とは何だろう
　第三節　『別録』『七略』のその後
　第四節　『別録』『七略』の輯本
　第五節　姚振宗輯本の登場
　第六節　『別録』『七略』に著録された書物
　第七節　劉氏校書と『漢書』芸文志
　□コラム　姚振宗とその著作
第六章　校書の様相
　第一節　校書を担ったのは誰なのか
　第二節　校書の記録―「荀子書録」を例として
　第三節　校書の実態―『戦国策』の場合
　第四節　序録に見える「中書」
　第五節　校書はどこで行われたのか
　□コラム　天禄閣から飛び降りた楊雄
第七章　『七略』の六分類
　第一節　なぜ「七」略なのに「六」文類なのか
　第二節　『七略』の六分類
　第三節　輯略について
　第四節　六分類の体系性をめぐって
　□コラム　数術略なのか術数略なのか
第八章　ポスト劉向時代の目録学
　第一節　劉向らの校書は無力だったのか
　第二節　劉向らが校讐した本の運命
　第三節　劉向らの校書結果の影響
　第四節　四部分類の誕生
　第五節　現代にも残るその影響力
　□コラム　劉向的分類を乗り越えることの難しさ
第九章　劉向の学を広め深めた学者たち―鄭樵・章学誠・余嘉錫
　第一節　鄭樵の学術観―理想の学術分類を目指して
　第二節　章学誠の見た劉向―目録学の理念
　第三節　余嘉錫の目録学―近代に劉向を伝える
　第四節　目録学は本当に劉向が始めたのか
　□コラム　「言公」の読みづらさ
終章　書物はなぜ必要なのか
　第一節　書物は聖人が遺した糟粕なのか
　第二節　劉向の思い
　第三節　書物肯定と否定のはざま
主要資料・参考文献一覧／あとがき／図版出典一覧／関連年表／索引

Authorship and Text-making in Early China

Author:
Hanmo Zhang

Publisher:
De Gruyter

Publication date: 
October 2018

Abstract:

This book is a timely response to a rather urgent call to seek an updated methodology in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts in light of newly discovered early writings. For a long time, the concept of authorship in the formation and transmission of early Chinese texts has been misunderstood. The nominal author who should mainly function as a guide to text formation and interpretation is considered retrospectively as the originator and writer of the text. This book illustrates that although some notions about the text as the author’s property began to appear in some Eastern Han texts, a strict correlation between the author and the text results from later conceptions of literary history. Before the modern era, there existed a conceptual gap between an author and a writer. A pre-modern Chinese text could have had both an author and a writer, or even multiple authors and multiple writers. This work is the first study addressing these issues by more systematically emphasizing the connection of the text, the author, and the religious and sociopolitical settings in which these issues were embedded. It is expected to constitute a palpable contribution to Chinese studies and the discipline of philology in general.

Table of Contents:

1. Text, Author, and the Function of Authorship

2. The Author as Cultural Hero: The Yellow Emperor, the Symbolic Author

3. The Author as the Head of a Teaching Lineage: Confucius, the Quotable Author

4. The Author as a Patron: Prince of Huainan, the Owner-Author

5. The Author as an Individual Writer: Sima Qian, the Presented Author

中国ジェンダー史研究入門 (Introduction to gender history in China)

Editors:
小浜 正子・下倉 渉・佐々木 愛・高嶋 航・江上 幸子

Publication date:
2018

Publisher:
京都大学学術出版会 Kyoto University Press

Abstract:

中国の長い歴史とともに変化したジェンダー秩序の変遷過程をダイナミックに描く。社会の父系化、ジェンダー規範の強化、そして社会主義をへて改革開放の大変動まで。家族、労働、ナショナリズム、身体、ＬＧＢＴなど今日的な研究視点を網羅し、中国ジェンダー史研究の全体像を初めて伝える。初学者から隣接分野まで必携の研究入門。

Table of Contents:

遺跡地図

はじめに―中国史におけるジェンダー秩序　（小浜正子）
１．ジェンダー史とジェンダー主流化
２．中国女性史から中国ジェンダー史へ
３．中国ジェンダー史共同研究と中国ジェンダー史のいくつかの論点
４．残された課題
５．本書の構成

第一編　通時的パースペクティブ

Ⅰ期　先秦～隋唐　古典中国―父系社会の形成

はじめに　（下倉　渉）

第１章　考古学からみた先秦時代のジェンダー構造　（内田純子）
はじめに
１．墓葬資料の扱い
２．副葬工具にみられる性差―新石器時代の男耕女織の起源
３．初期王朝時代（商代）の文字資料と女性
４．考古学からみた商王とその妻―王陵区大墓と婦好墓の比較
５．殷墟の族墓地の男女墓の分析
６．西周から春秋・戦国期にかけての変化
７．青銅器と装身具にみられる女性の役割
―西周から春秋・戦国期にかけての変化
８．女性の寿命、生涯と身分
９．男耕女織と絹生産
10．先秦時代のジェンダー構造の変化過程

第２章　父系化する社会　（下倉　渉）
はじめに
１．異父の兄弟姉妹と舅甥の関係
２．「公主」の歴史
（1）六朝から明清まで
（2）漢代の公主について
おわりに

第３章　中国の文学と女性　（佐竹保子）
はじめに
１．先秦（紀元前）
２．漢代
３．魏晋南北朝
４．唐代
５．宋代の李清照
おわりに

第４章　唐代の家族　（翁育瑄、三田辰彦訳）
はじめに
１．門閥貴族研究と唐代の家族・親族
２．女性史研究と唐代の家族・親族
３．礼制・法制研究と唐代の家族・親族
おわりに

コラム1　史料紹介―敦煌文書にみる妻の離婚、娘の財産相続
（荒川正晴）

コラム2　則天武后とその後　（金子修一）

Reading Sima Qian from Han to Song: The Father of History in Pre-Modern China

Author: 
Esther S. Klein

Publication Date: 
November 2018

Publisher:
Brill

Abstract:

In Father of Chinese History, Esther Klein explores the life and work of the great Han dynasty historian Sima Qian as seen by readers from the Han to the Song dynasties. Today Sima Qian is viewed as both a tragic hero and a literary genius. Premodern responses to him were more equivocal: the complex personal emotions he expressed prompted readers to worry about whether his work as a historian was morally or politically acceptable. Klein demonstrates how controversies over the value and meaning of Sima Qian’s work are intimately bound up with larger questions: How should history be written? What role does individual experience and self-expression play within that process? By what standards can the historian’s choices be judged?

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Structure of the Book
Historians, Lineages, and Confucian Scholars: Good Problems in Translation

Part 1: Contextualization

1 A Record of Doubts and Difficulties
Overview
Sources and Attribution
Who is the Honorable Senior Historian?
Autobiography and Authenticity
Chu Shaosun: A Third Author?
Extreme Textual Damage and Loss
A Conclusion Leading Onward
2 Sima Qian’s Place in the Textual World
Aspects of Self-Description
Early Views of the Shiji
The New Historical Tradition
Sima Qian in the Realm of Literary Prose

Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship

Editors:
Michael Hunter and Martin Kern

Publication date:
October 2018 

Publisher:
Brill

Abstract:

Edited by Michael Hunter and Martin Kern and featuring contributions by preeminent scholars of early China, Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship critically examines the long-standing debates surrounding the history of the Analects, for two millennia considered the most authoritative source of the teachings of Confucius (551–479 BCE). Unlike most previous scholarship, it does not take the traditional view of the Analects’ origins as given. Instead, it explores the validity and the implications of recent revisionist critiques from historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives, and further draws on recently discovered ancient manuscripts and new technological advances in the Digital Humanities. As such, it opens up new ways for productive engagement with the text. 

Table of Contents:

Introduction
 Michael Hunter and Martin Kern

1 A Critical Overview of Some Contemporary Chinese Perspectives on the Composition and Date of Lunyu
 John Makeham

2 The Lunyu as an Accretion Text
 Robert Eno

3 The Lunyu as Western Han Text
 Michael Hunter

4 Confucius and His Disciples in the Lunyu: The Basis for the Traditional View
 Paul R. Goldin

5 The Lunyu, a Homeless Dog in Intellectual History: On the Dating of Discourses on Confucius’s Success and Failure
 Joachim Gentz

6 Confucius’s Sayings Entombed: On Two Han Dynasty Bamboo Lunyu Manuscripts
 Paul van Els

7 Manuscript Formats and Textual Structure in Early China
 Matthias L. Richter

8 Interlocutor Collections, the Lunyu, and Proto-Lunyu Texts
 Mark Csikszentmihalyi

9 Sima Qian’s Kongzi and the Western Han Lunyu
 Esther Klein

10 Kongzi as Author in the Han
 Martin Kern

The Philosophical Thought of Wang Chong

Author:
McLeod, Alexus

Publication date:
September 2018

Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract:

This book is a study of the methodological, metaphysical, and epistemological work of the Eastern Han Dynasty period scholar Wang Chong. It presents Wang’s philosophical thought as a unique and syncretic culmination of a number of ideas developed in earlier Han and Warring States philosophy.  Wang’s philosophical methodology and his theories of truth, knowledge, and will and determinism offer solutions to a number of problems in the early Chinese tradition.  His views also have much to offer contemporary philosophy, suggesting new ways of thinking about familiar problems.  While Wang is best known as a critic and skeptic, Alexus McLeod argues that these aspects of his thought form only a part of a larger positive project, aimed at discerning truth in a variety of senses.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Wang Chong and Philosophy in Early China

Background, Writings, and Influence

Philosophical and Critical Method

Truth: Properties and Pluralism

Naturalism:

Free Will, Allotment, and Inborn Characteristics

Conclusion: The Significance of Wang Chong’s Philosophical Thought

Paradigm Shifts in Early and Modern Chinese Religion: A History

Author:
John Lagerwey

Publisher:
Brill

Publication date:
October 2018

Abstract:

From the fifth century BC to the present and dealing with the Three Teachings (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) as well as popular religion, this introduction to the eight-volume Early and Modern Chinese Religion explores key ideas and events in four periods of paradigm shift in the intertwined histories of Chinese religion, politics, and culture. It shows how, in the Chinese church-state, elite processes of rationalization, interiorization, and secularization are at work in every period of major change and how popular religion gradually emerges to a position of dominance by means of a long history of at once resisting, adapting to, and collaborating with elite-driven change. Topics covered include ritual, scripture, philosophy, state policy, medicine, sacred geography, gender, and the economy. 

Table of Contents:

Preface

Preliminaries

Intellectual Change in the Warring States and Han (481 BC–220 AD)

Religious Transformation in the Period of Division (220–589 AD)

Religion and Thought in the Song, Jin, and Yuan (960–1368)

Structuring Values 1850–2015

By Way of Conclusion

The Emergence of Civilizational Consciousness in Early China: History Word by Word

Author:
Uffe Bergeton

Publisher:
Routledge

Publication date:
October 2018

Abstract:

This book provides a conceptual history of the emergence of civilizational consciousness in early China. Focusing on how words are used in pre-Qín (before 221 BCE) texts to construct identities and negotiate relationships between a 'civilised self' and 'uncivilised others', it provides a re-examination of the origins and development of these ideas.

By adopting a novel approach to determining when civilizational consciousness emerged in pre-Qín China, this book analyzes this question in ways that establish a fresh hermeneutical dialogue between Chinese and modern European understandings of 'civilization.' Whereas previous studies have used archaeological data to place its origin somewhere between 3000 BCE and 1000 BCE, this book explores changes in word meanings in texts from the pre-Qín period to reject this view. Instead, this book dates the emergence of civilizational consciousness in China to around 2,500 years ago. In the process, new chronologies of the coining of Old Chinese terms such as ‘customs,’ ‘barbarians,’ and ‘the Great ones,’ are proposed, which challenge anachronistic assumptions about these terms in earlier studies.

Examining important Chinese classics, such as the Analects, the Mencius and the Mozi, as well as key historical periods and figures in the context of the concept of ‘civilization,’ this book will useful to students and scholars of Chinese and Asian history.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1. The Coining of Civilizational Consciousness in Modern Western Europe

2. From ‘Awe-Inspiringly Beautiful’ to ‘Morally Refined’— The Coining of ‘Civility’ in Pre-Qín China

3. Coiners and Critics of ‘Civility/Civilization’ (Wén)

4. Inventing the ‘Barbarian’: From ‘Belligerent Others’ to ‘Civilizationally Inferior Others’

5. Ethnographic Vocabulary of Civilizational Otherness: The ‘Elegant’ ‘Rites’ of the ‘Great Ones’ Versus the ‘Vulgar’ ‘Customs’ of the ‘Barbarians’

Conclusion

劉向本戰國策の文献学的研究：二劉校書研究序説

Author:
秋山陽一郎 (Yoichiro Akiyama)

Publisher:
朋友書店

Publication date:
July 2018

Table of Contents:

序論
一　《戰國策》の史料的価値
二　劉向以前の《戰國策》の伝本
三　《戰國策》の資料的性格の問題

第一章　劉向校書以前における書物の通行形態
はじめに
第一節　問題の所在
第二節　篇章の混乱
第三節　書題・篇題の問題
第四節　出土文献における一書の範囲
第五節　劉向の校書以前から定着していた古文献の例
馬王堆三号漢墓出土帛書群の体裁的特徴
篇題木牘に見る劉向校書前本の実態
第六節　劉向新定本中に内在する先行著作群
小結
【附表】主要出土篇目一覧

第二章　劉向新定本の特徴と編集基準
はじめに
第一節　問題の所在
第二節　劉向書籍整理法検討の重要性
第三節　章學誠の劉向校讐説
以人類書説と互著・別裁説
九流出於王官説と古時官師合一説

第三章　姚本戰國策考
第一節　劉向本から曾鞏本までの諸問題
一　漢唐間の伝承過程
二　唐宋間の散佚と曾鞏本
三　鄭良樹氏の今本脱文説と何晉氏の批判
四　南宋の姚宏本と鮑彪本
第二節　劉向本と劉向以前本の特徴
一　《荀子》楊倞新目と劉向旧目にみる劉向本の構成上の特徴
二　《戰國縦橫家書》にみる劉向以前本《戰國策》の特徴
第三節　姚本《戰國策》の内部構造
結語

第四章　劉向以前本戰國策への復元
はじめに
第一節　三十三篇の分篇について
第二節　東周策・西周策（2篇4群）
第三節　秦策（5篇13群）
第四節　齊策（6篇11群）
第五節　楚策（4篇9群）
第六節　趙策（4篇17群）
第七節　魏策（4篇15群）
第八節　韓策（3篇10群）
第九節　燕策（3篇6群）
第十節　宋衞策（1篇2群）
第十一節　中山策（1篇3群+1章）
【附表】《戰國策》章目および内包故事群

第五章　「國別者八篇」考　劉向新定本《戰國策》の藍本
緒言
第一節　「國別者八篇」とは
第二節　「國別者八篇」中、七篇の比定
第三節　縦橫家と辞賦の関連性
第四節　合從連橫賦群の特徴
第五節　「國別者八篇」が作られた時と場
結語

結論

Women in Early Medieval China

Author:
Bret Hinsch

Publication date:
October 1, 2018

Publisher: 
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Abstract:

This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in 220 AD to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in 581 AD, also known as the Six Dynasties. Bret Hinsch offers rich descriptions of the most important aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritance, education, and religious roles. He traces women’s lived experiences as well as the emotional life and the ideals they pursued. Building on the best Western and Japanese scholarship, Hinsch also draws heavily on Chinese primary sources and scholarship, most of which is unknown outside China. As the first study in English about women in the early medieval era, this groundbreaking book will open a new window into Chinese history for Western readers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction 

1 Family 

2 Mothers 

3 Politics 

4 Work 

5 Religion 

6 Learning 

7 Virtue 

8 Ideals 

Conclusion: An Awakening of Female Consciousness 

Routledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History

Editors:
Victor Cunrui Xiong & Kenneth J. Hammond

Publisher:
Routledge

Publication Date:
August 2018

Abstract:

Following more than 30 years of market reform, China has become an economic powerhouse, likely to surpass the United States as the world's largest economy in the not so distant future. The resurgence of China has generated much interest not only in the present conditions of that country, but also in her past. Since China is the only uninterrupted ancient civilization that is stilling living today, the study of it can be a very rewarding pursuit in its own right, but can also offer tremendous benefit to anyone who wants to gain an in-depth understanding of modern China. Perhaps more than anywhere else, in China, the present is intricately linked with the past. Providing coverage of the entire Imperial Era (221 BCE-1912 CE) the handbook takes a chronological approach with key themes such as politics, religion, culture, the economy, and science embedded in the chapters. This is an essential resource for upper level undergraduates and graduates studying Imperial Chinese history in class or on their own; it will also be of interest to graduate students and scholars interested in broadening the scope of their research.

Table of contents:

Introduction

Part I: Early Imperial China (Qin–Five Dynasties) 

Section 1 The Qin-Han Empire

1. The Qin Dynasty, Charles Sanft

2. The Western Han, Liang CAI

3. The Eastern Han, Rafe de Crespigny


Section 2 The Six Dynasties

4. The Three States (Three Kingdoms), Michael Farmer

5. The Jin and the Sixteen States, Kawamoto Yoshiaki 川本芳昭

6. The Southern and Northern Dynasties, Andrew Chittick


Section 3 The Sui-Tang Empire and Five Dynasties

7. The Sui Dynasty, Victor Cunrui Xiong

8. The Tang Dynasty I (618-756), Seo Tatsuhiko 妹尾達彥

9. The Tang Dynasty II (756–907), Antony DeBlasi

10. The Five Dynasties, Peter Lorge