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
Editor:
Paul W. Kroll
Publisher:
Brill
Publication Date:
May 2018
Abstract:
The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these and other reasons the Tang has been a key focus of Western sinologists. This volume presents English-language reprints of fifty-seven critical studies of the Tang, in the three general categories of political history, literature and cultural history, and religion. The articles and book chapters included here are important scholarly benchmarks that will serve as the starting-point for anyone interested in the study of medieval China.
Table of Contents:
Tang Emperors’ Accession Dates and Reign Titles (nianhao 年號)
General Introduction
Paul W. Kroll
History—Political, Intellectual, and Military
1 Wen Ta-ya 溫大雅: The First Recorder of T’ang History
Woodbridge Bingham
2 The Rise to Power of the T’ang Dynasty: A Reassessment
Howard J. Wechsler
3 The T’ang Imperial Family
Denis Twitchett
4 Canonical Scholarship
David McMullen
5 Neo-Confucianism and Neo-Legalism in T’ang Intellectual Life, 755–805
Edwin G. Pulleyblank
6 The Structure of T’ang Selection
P. A. Herbert
7 Decree Examinations in T’ang China
P. A. Herbert
8 The Bureaucratic Apparatus [of T’ang Historians]
Denis Twitchett
9 Bureaucracy and Cosmology: The Ritual Code of T’ang China
David McMullen
10 Wei Cheng’s Thought [esp. Regarding Government]
Howard J. Wechsler
11 Imperial Power and the Ruling Class [under Empress Wu]
Richard W. L. Guisso
12 The Chou Dynasty [of Empress Wu]
Richard W. L. Guisso
13 The Career of Yang Kuei-fei
Howard S. Levy
14 The Flight from the Capital and the Death of Precious Consort Yang
Paul W. Kroll
15 Foreign Policy
P. A. Herbert
16 The An Lu-shan Rebellion and the Origins of Chronic Militarism in Late T’ang China
Edwin G. Pulleyblank
Literature and Cultural History
17 T’ang Literati: A Composite Biography
Hans H. Frankel
18 Transparencies: Reading the T’ang Lyric
Stephen Owen
19 The Significance of the fu in the History of T’ang Poetry
Paul W. Kroll
20 An Offering to the Prince: Wang Bo’s Apology for Poetry
Ding Xiang Warner
21 Tamed Kite and Stranded Fish: Interference and Apology in Lu Chao-lin’s fu
Paul W. Kroll
22 A Re-evaluation of Chen Ziang’s 陳子昂 ‘Manifesto of a Poetic Reform’
Timothy Wai Keung Chan
23 On Li Po 李白
Elling O. Eide
24 Li Po’s Letters in Pursuit of Political Patronage
Victor H. Mair
25 Li Bai’s ‘Rhapsody on the Hall of Light’: A Singular Vision of Cosmic Order
Nicholas Morrow Williams
26 Tu Fu 杜甫
Stephen Owen
27 Tu Fu’s Social Conscience: Compassion and Topicality in his Poetry
Eva Shan Chou
28 Poems in Their Place: Collections and Canons in Early Chinese Literature
Pauline Yu
29 Heyue yingling ji 河嶽英靈集 and the Attributes of Tang Verse
Paul W. Kroll
30 The Formation of the T’ang Estate Poem
Stephen Owen
31 Lexical Landscapes and Textual Mountains in the High T’ang
Paul W. Kroll
32 Historical and Literary Theory in the Mid-Eighth Century
David McMullen
33 The Manuscript Legacy of the Tang: The Case of Literature
Stephen Owen
34 Literary Collections in Tang Dynasty China
Christopher M. B. Nugent
35 A Study of the Jinglong wenguan ji 景龍文館記
Jia Jinhua
36 The Old-Style fu of Han Yu 韓愈
David R. Knechtges
37 Another Go at the Mao Ying chuan 毛穎傳
Elling O. Eide
38 The Old Men [of the Early Ninth Century]
Stephen Owen
39 The Inscription of Emotion in Mid-Tang Collegial Letters
Anna M. Shields
40 Yüan Chen 元稹 and ‘The Story of Ying-ying’ 鶯鶯傳
James Robert Hightower
41 Nostalgia and History in Mid-Ninth-Century Verse: Cheng Yü’s Poem on ‘The Chin-yang Gate’
Paul W. Kroll
42 Remembering Kaiyuan and Tianbao: The Construction of Mosaic Memory in Medieval Historical Miscellanies
Manling Luo
43 The Dancing Horses of T’ang
Paul W. Kroll
44 Falconry in T’ang Times
Edward H. Schafer
45 Public Values in Calligraphy and Orthography in the Tang Dynasty
Amy McNair
Religion
46 The Role of Buddhist Monasteries in T’ang Society
Kenneth K. S. Ch’en
47 Buddhism and Education in T’ang Times
Erik Zürcher
48 Imperial Patronage in the Formation of T’ang Buddhism
Stanley Weinstein
49 Stūpa, Sūtra, Śarīra in China, c. 656–706 CE
T. H. Barrett
50 The Birth of a Patriarch: The Biography of Hui-neng
Philip B. Yampolsky
51 Metropolitan Chan
John R. McRae
52 Time after Time: Taoist Apocalyptic History and the Founding of the T’ang Dynasty
Stephen R. Bokenkamp
53 Taoist Ordination Ranks in the Tunhuang Manuscripts
Kristofer M. Schipper
54 Taoism in the T’ien-pao Era, 742–56
T. H. Barrett
55 Li Po’s Transcendent Diction
Paul W. Kroll
56 Immortality Can be Studied
Jan De Meyer
57 The Worshippers of Mount Hua
Glen Dudbridge
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
Editor:
Michael Lackner
Publication Date:
December 2017
Publisher:
Brill
Abstract:
Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia offers insights into various techniques of divination, their evolution, and their assessment. The contributions cover the period from the earliest documents on East Asian mantic arts to their appearance in the present time. The volume reflects the pervasive manifestations of divination in literature, religious and political life, and their relevance for society and individuals. Special emphasis is placed on cross-cultural influences and attempts to find theoretical foundations for divinatory practices. This edited volume is an initiative to study the phenomena of divination across East Asian cultures and beyond. It is also one of the first attempts to theorize divinatory practices through East Asian traditions.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Michael Lackner
Part 1: Divination and Literature: Excavated and Extant
1 A Recently Published Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscript on Divination
Marco Caboara
2 Hexagrams and Prognostication in the Weishu 緯書 Literature: The Thirty-Two-Year Cycle of the Qian zuo du 乾鑿度
Bent Nielsen
3 The Representation of Mantic Arts in the High Culture of Medieval China
Paul W. Kroll
4 Divination, Fate Manipulation, and Protective Knowledge in and around The Wedding of the Duke of Zhou and Peach Blossom Girl, a Popular Myth of Late Imperial China
Vincent Durand-Dastès
Part 2: Divination and Religions
5 A List of Magic and Mantic Practices in the Buddhist Canon
Esther-Maria Guggenmos
6 The Allegorical Cosmos: The Shi 式 Board in Medieval Taoist and Buddhist Sources
Dominic Steavu
7 Divining Hail: Deities, Energies, and Tantra on the Tibetan Plateau
Anne C. Klein
Part 3: Divination and Politics
8 Early Chinese Divination and Its Rhetoric
Martin Kern
9 Choosing Auspicious Dates and Sites for Royal Ceremonies in Eighteenth-century Korea
Park Kwon Soo
Part 4: Divination and Individual
10 Exploring the Mandates of Heaven: Wen Tianxiang’s Concepts of Fate and Mantic Knowledge
Liao Hsien-huei
11 Chŏng Yak-yong on Yijing Divination
Kim Yung Sik
12 From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary China
Stéphanie Homola
13 Women and Divination in Contemporary Korea
Jennifer Jung-Kim
Part 5: Mantic Arts: When East Meets West
14 Translation and Adaption: The Continuous Interplay between Chinese Astrology and Foreign Culture
Che-chia Chang 張哲嘉
15 Against Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest’s Criticisms of Chinese Mantic Arts
Chu Pingyi 祝平一
16 Contradictory Forms of Knowledge? Divination and Western Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Li Fan and Michael Lackner
17 Western Horoscopic Astrology in Korea
Jun Yong Hoon
Part 6: Reflections on Mantic Arts
18 How to quantify the Value of Domino Combinations? Divination and Shifting Rationalities in Late Imperial China
Andrea Bréard
19 Correlating Time Within One’s Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables in Early Modern Japanese “Chronomancy” Techniques
Matthias Hayek
20 The Physical Shape Theory of Fengshui in China and Korea
Oh Sanghak
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:
Mu-chou Poo, H. A. Drake, and Lisa Raphals
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Publication Date:
June 2017
Abstract:
In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: missionaries started to spread the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in Rome and the Buddha in China. Rome and China were not only ancient cultures, but also cultures whose elites felt no need to receive the new beliefs. Yet a few centuries later the two new faiths had become so well-established that their names were virtually synonymous with the polities they had entered as strangers. Although there have been numerous studies addressing this phenomenon in each field, the difficulty of mastering the languages and literature of these two great cultures has prevented any sustained effort to compare the two influential religious traditions at their initial period of development.
This book brings together specialists in the history and religion of Rome and China with a twofold aim. First, it aims to show in some detail the similarities and differences each religion encountered in the process of merging into a new cultural environment. Second, by juxtaposing the familiar with the foreign, it also aims to capture aspects of this process that could otherwise be overlooked. This approach is based on the general proposition that, when a new religious belief begins to make contact with a society that has already had long honored beliefs, certain areas of contention will inevitably ensue and changes on both sides have to take place. There will be a dynamic interchange between the old and the new, not only on the narrowly defined level of "belief," but also on the entire cultural body that nurtures these beliefs. Thus, this book aims to reassess the nature of each of these religions, not as unique cultural phenomena but as part of the whole cultural dynamics of human societies.
Author:
Terry F. Kleeman
Publisher:
Harvard University Asia Center
Publication Date:
2016.7.11
Abstract:
In 142 CE, the divine Lord Lao descended to Mount Cranecall (Sichuan province) to establish a new covenant with humanity through a man named Zhang Ling, the first Celestial Master. Facing an impending apocalypse caused by centuries of sin, Zhang and his descendants forged a communal faith centering on a universal priesthood, strict codes of conduct, and healing through the confession of sins; this faith was based upon a new, bureaucratic relationship with incorruptible supernatural administrators. By the fourth century, Celestial Master Daoism had spread to all parts of China, and has since played a key role in China’s religious and intellectual history.
Celestial Masters is the first book in any Western language devoted solely to the founding of the world religion Daoism. It traces the movement from the mid-second century CE through the sixth century, examining all surviving primary documents in both secular and canonical sources to offer a comprehensive account of the development of this poorly understood religion. It also provides a detailed analysis of ritual life within the movement, covering the roles of common believer or Daoist citizen, novice, and priest or libationer.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. History
1. The Founding of the Celestial Master Church: External Evidence
The Record of the Three Kingdoms
Zhang Xiu and Liu Yan
The Hanzhong Theocracy
Daoist Institutions and Life in Hanzhong
2. The Founding of the Celestial Master Church: Internal Documents
The Revelation to Zhang Ling
The Zhang Pu Stele of 173
The Laozi and the Xiang’er Commentary
Daoists and the Profane
Authority in the Xiang’er
3. After the Fall: Daoism in the Third Century
Yangping Parish
Church Offices
The Parish System
Commands and Precepts for the Great Family of the Dao
Demon Statutes of Lady Blue
Prohibitions and Taboos
The Merging of the Pneumas Rite
Demons and the Dao
4. Daoism under the Northern and Southern Dynasties
The Li Family and the Cheng-Han State
North China: The Northern Wei and Northern Zhou
South China: Gentry Daoism and Sun En
II. Ritual and Community
5. Ritual Life
The Oratory
The Parish
Daoist Attire
6. The Daoist Citizen
Precepts
The Daily Audience
The Assemblies
The Kitchens
7. The Novice
The Register
Ordination
Promotion
Gender, Class, and Ethnicity
Appendix: “The Codes and Precepts for Disciples in Serving Their Masters”
8. The Libationer
The Itinerant Evangelist and the Parish Master
The Parish System
The Libationer and Spirit Revelation
The Libationer as Judge
The Libationer as Pastor
Petitions
Rules for Submitting Petitions
Writing the Petition
How to Submit a Petition
Types of Petition
How to Draw a Talisman
Pledge Offerings
Rituals for the Dead
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Editor:
William H. Nienhauser
Publisher:
World Scientific
Publication Date:
30 Mar 2016
Abstract:
This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism. In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field.
Table of Contents:
"The Tale of the Supernatural Marriage at Dongting" 洞庭靈姻傳 (Li Chaowei 李朝威)
"Zhang Lao" 張老 (Li Liang 李諒)
"Yin Tianxiang" 殷天祥 (Shen Fen 沈汾)
"Xue Yi" 薛義 (Dai Fu 戴孚)
"An Account of Feng Yan" 馮燕傳 (Shen Yazhi 沈亞之)
"A Record of Dream of Qin" 秦夢記 (Shen Yazhi 沈亞之)
"The Biography of Ge Hua, Marquis of Xiapi" 下邳候革華傳 (Anonymous)
"An Account of Mid-rivers" 河間傳 (Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元)
"Scholar Cui" 崔書生 (Niu Sengru 牛僧孺)
"Third Lady of Plank Bridge Inn" 板橋三娘子 (Xue Yusi 薛漁思)
"An Account of Xie Xiao'e" 謝小娥傳 (Li Gongzuo 李公左)
"Monk Attached to Emptiness" 僧契虛 (Zhang Du 張讀)
Author:
Zornica Kirkova
Publisher:
Brill
Publication Month:
April 2016
Abstract:
In Roaming into the Beyond Zornica Kirkova provides the first detailed study in a Western language of Daoism-inspired themes in early medieval Chinese poetry. She examines representations of Daoist xian 仙 immortality in a broad range of versified literature from the Han until the end of the Six Dynasties, focusing on the transformations of themes, concepts, and imagery within a wide literary and religious context. Adopting a more integrated approach, the author explores both the complex interaction between poetry and Daoist religion and the interrelations between various verse forms and poetic themes. This book not only enhances our understanding of the complexities of early medieval literature but also reevaluates the place of Daoist religious thought in the intellectual life of the period.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Religious and literary background
The dramatis personae
A phenomenology of immortals
The world of the immortals
The way to immortality
Immortality in the context of the human world
Conclusion
Author:
Stephen Eskildsen
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Publication Year:
2015
Abstract:
Stephen Eskildsen offers an overview of Daoist religious texts from the Latter Han (25–220) through Tang (618–907) periods, exploring passive meditation methods and their anticipated effects. These methods entailed observing the processes that unfold spontaneously within mind and body, rather than actively manipulating them by means common in medieval Daoist religion such as visualization, invocations, and the swallowing of breath or saliva. Through the resulting deep serenity, it was claimed, one could attain profound insights, experience visions, feel surges of vital force, overcome thirst and hunger, be cured of ailments, ascend the heavens, and gain eternal life.
While the texts discussed follow the legacy of Warring States period Daoism such as the Laozi to a significant degree, they also draw upon medieval immortality methods and Buddhism. An understanding of the passive meditation literature provides important insights into the subsequent development of Neidan, or Internal Alchemy, meditation that emerged from the Song period onward.
Table of Content:

1 Introduction 1
2 The Earliest-Known Daoist Religious Movements 29
3 Dramatic Physical and Sensory Effects 75
4 Integrating Buddhism: Earlier Phase 143
5 Integrating Buddhism: Emptiness and the Twofold Mystery 181
6 Serenity and the Reaffirmation of Physical Transformation 211
7 Serenity Primal Qi and Embryonic Breathing 241
8 Conclusion 277
Notes 305
Bibliography 353
Index 373
Editor:
渡邉義浩 編
Publication Year:
2015
Publisher:
汲古書院
Table of Contents:
全体会
一 主旨説明――第六回日中学者中国古代史論壇の開催にあたって………池田知久
二 法律の儒教化と魏晋以降の制定法運動………………………楼 勁・島田 悠(訳)
三 人類史と東アジア史の時期区分………………………………………………妹尾達彦
四 明代韶州同知劉承範の「利瑪伝」の発見とその内容及び価値……湯 開 建・周 力(訳)
分科会（Ⅰ）
一 秦漢聚落形態研究
――あわせて宮崎市定の「中国都市国家論」について……………王 彦 輝・髙橋康浩(訳)
二 漢武帝期の「堯母門」に関する試論………………………………宋 豔 萍・池田雅典(訳)
三 「古典中国」の成立と展開…………………………………………………………渡邉義浩
四 漢晋の道教における「静室」と斎戒制度の淵源に関する考察
………王 承 文・冨田絵美(訳)
五 「霊宝略紀」と北宋初年における霊宝経の伝統……………………劉 屹・冨田絵美(訳)
六 陰陽五行観念と魏晋南北朝時代の「祓災、減災」…………劉 洪 波・西念咲和希(訳)
七 西魏政権成立当初の宇文泰集団………………………………黄 寿 成・三津間弘彦(訳)
八 中国文学史における近代――古典再評価の意味と限界…………………牧角悦子
分科会（Ⅱ）
一 内藤湖南の時代区分論とその現代的意義…………………………………氣賀澤保規
二 身分制度より見る中国中世社会の変遷…………………………李 天 石・袴田郁一(訳)
三 北宋東京街巷の時代特性と公共性質……………………………梁 建 国・関 俊史(訳)
四 「崇士重商」宋代以降の徽州人による四民観
――隆慶刊『璫溪金氏族譜』を中心として………………………………阿 風・仙石知子(訳)
五 思想史から見た宋代近世論………………………………………………………小島 毅
六 唐宋変革と明清実践――朱子学・理学を例にして……………陳 支 平・黒﨑恵輔(訳)
七 明代思想の特色に関する試論………………………………………汪 學 群・阿部 亘(訳)
八 元代の詩序にみる元人の詩学観………………………………韓 格 平・稀代麻也子(訳)
総合討論
一 全体会・分科会Ⅰ・総合討論を振り返って……………………………………石井 仁
二 分科会Ⅱを終えて…………………………………………………………………伊東貴之
あとがき……………………………………………………………………………………渡邉義浩
Author:
Shawn Arthur
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Publication Year:
2015 (paperback)
Abstract:
Much as the modern Western world is concerned with diets, health, and anti-aging remedies, many early medieval Chinese Daoists also actively sought to improve their health and increase their longevity through specialized ascetic dietary practices. Focusing on a fifth-century manual of herbal-based, immortality-oriented recipes—the Lingbao Wufuxu 靈寶五符序 (The Preface to the Five Lingbao Talismans of Numinous Treasure)—Shawn Arthur investigates the diets, their ingredients, and their expected range of natural and supernatural benefits. Analyzing the ways that early Daoists systematically synthesized religion, Chinese medicine, and cosmological correlative logic, this study offers new understandings of important Daoist ideas regarding the body’s composition and mutability, health and disease, grain avoidance (bigu 避穀) diets, the parasitic Three Worms, interacting with the spirit realm, and immortality. This work also employs a range of cross-disciplinary scientific and medical research to analyze the healing properties of Daoist self-cultivation diets and to consider some natural explanations for better understanding Daoist asceticism and its underlying world view.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Wufuxu’s Recipe Structure and Content
Chapter 3: Dietary Regimens: From Herbs to Qi
Chapter 4: Healing and Improving the Physical Body
Chapter 5: Beyond Physical Health: The Wufuxu’s Extraordinary Claims
Chapter 6: Daoist Grain Avoidance Today
Chapter 7: The Wufuxu’s Ingredients and Fasting
Chapter 8: Analyzing Dietary Ideals and Practices
Chapter 9: Conclusion
