Editor:
Nicholas Sims-Williams
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers
Abstract:
Containing a variety of texts ranging from liturgy to pharmacology via hagiography, calendars and ascetical works by Isaac of Nineveh, this volume completes the publication of all known Christian Sogdian texts. This volume completes the publication of the Christian Sogdian texts of the Berlin Turfan Collection begun by F. W. K. Müller in 1907. Several Syriac texts are also included, in particular a series of liturgical texts in Syriac with Sogdian rubrics (edited in collaboration with J. F. Coakley).
The texts edited here are mostly short but extremely varied and interesting. The Syriac liturgical fragments are some of the earliest surviving witnesses to the liturgy of the "Church of the East", though the Sogdian rubrics which accompany them show that those who performed them were not native speakers of Syriac. Other texts connected with the liturgy include a Sogdian version of the Gloria in excelsis and a text explaining how to calculate the date of Easter or Lent. Hagiographical texts include fragments of the martyrdoms of St George and of Cyriacus and Julitta as well as part of the so-called "Six Books" on the Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Two pharmacological fragments (edited in collaboration with Dieter Maue) show familiarity with Indian medicine, while a "prayer-amulet" belongs rather to a Syriac tradition. Finally, a chapter contributed by Adrian Pirtea contains the re-edition of a well-preserved folio identified by him as a Sogdian version of a work by Isaac of Nineveh.
The edition and translation of the texts is accompanied by a detailed commentary. The volume is completed by a full glossary, a bibliography, and a word-index covering all five of the author’s volumes of Christian Sogdian texts in the series BTT.
Editor:
谷中 信一 (YANAKA Shin-ichi)
Publication Date:
March 2018
Publisher:
汲古書院
Table of Contents:
序 文 谷中信一
第1部 辨僞學の確立
「非發掘簡」を扱うために 大西克也
考古學研究から見た非發掘簡―商周靑銅器研究との對比を中心に― 丹羽崇史
第2部 非發掘簡の資料價値の確立
上博楚簡『君子爲禮』譯注 ……………………………………………………………… 今田裕志
淸華簡『繫年』抄寫時代の推定―及び文字の形體から見た、戰國楚文字の
地域的特徴形成の複雜なプロセス ………………………………… 郭 永秉（宮島和也 譯）
從淸華簡《繫年》看兩周之際的史事 …………………………………………………… 劉 國忠
重讀淸華簡《厚父》筆記 ………………………………………………………………… 趙 平安
淸華簡《湯在啻門》譯注 ………………………………………………………………… 曹 峰
淸華簡『鄭武夫人規孺子』の謙虛な君子像について ………………………………… 小寺 敦
淸華簡(六)『管仲』譯注並びに論考 …………………………………………………… 谷中信一
北京大學藏秦牘「泰原有死者」考釋 池澤 優
北大藏秦漢《敎女》釋文再探 朱 鳳瀚
北京大學漢簡「揕輿」と馬王堆帛書『陰陽五行』甲篇「堪輿」の對比研究 名和敏光
北大漢簡所見的堪輿術初探及補説 陳 侃理
第3部 出土資料を通した中国文獻の再評價
楚國世族の邑管領と呉起變法 平㔟隆郎
坊記禮説考 末永高康
老官山漢簡醫書に見える診損至脈論について 廣瀬薫雄
戰國秦漢出土文獻と『孔子家語』成書研究 鄔 可晶（北川 直子譯）
『老子』における「天下」全體の政治秩序の構想
―馬王堆帛書甲本に基づいて― 池田知久
見果てぬ三晉簡―後書きに代えて 大西克也
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:
Paul U. Unschuld
Translator:
Bridie Andrews
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
January 2018
Abstract:
A leading authority explains the ideas and practice of Chinese medicine from its beginnings in antiquity to today. Paul U. Unschuld describes medicine's close connection with culture and politics throughout Chinese history. He brings together texts, techniques, and worldviews to understand changing Chinese attitudes toward healing and the significance of traditional Chinese medicine in both China and the Western world.
Unschuld reveals the emergence of a Chinese medical tradition built around a new understanding of the human being, considering beliefs in the influence of cosmology, numerology, and the supernatural on the health of the living. He describes the variety of therapeutic approaches in Chinese culture, the history of pharmacology and techniques such as acupuncture, and the global exchange of medical knowledge. Insights are offered into the twentieth-century decline of traditional medicine, as military defeats caused reformers and revolutionaries to import medical knowledge as part of the construction of a new China. Unschuld also recounts the reception of traditional Chinese medicine in the West since the 1970s, where it is often considered an alternative to Western medicine at the same time as China seeks to incorporate elements of its medical traditions into a scientific framework. This concise and compelling introduction to medical thought and history suggests that Chinese medicine is also a guide to Chinese civilization.
Table of Contents:
Preface to the English Edition
Introduction
Part I: The Historical Foundations
1. Origins and Characteristics of Chinese Medicine
2. The Lack of Existential Autonomy
3. The Longing for Existential Autonomy
4. Quotations from the Medical Classics
5. The Banality of Violence
6. The Mawangdui Texts
7. Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology in the New Medicine
8. Deficiencies in the Credibility of the New Medicine
9. The Alternative Model: The View from Illness
10. Radical Healing: Life as a Form of Disease
11. Between Antiquity and the Modern Age
12. Two Medical Authors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Part II: Modern and Contemporary Times
13. The Confrontation with the Western Way of Life
14. The Persuasiveness of Western Medicine
15. The Opinions of Intellectuals and Politicians
16. The Selection
17. The Surprise
18. The Creative Reception of Chinese Medicine in the West
19. The Objectification of the Discussion: Opportunity and Challenge
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Editors:
Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Publication Date:
November, 2017
Abstract:
Using newly discovered and excavated texts, Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo systematically explore material culture, inscriptions, transmitted texts, and genealogies from BCE China to reconstruct the role of women in social reproduction in the ancient Chinese world. Applying paleographical, linguistic, and historical analyses, Cook and Luo discuss fertility rituals, birthing experiences, divine conceptions, divine births, and the overall influence of gendered supernatural agencies on the experience and outcome of birth. They unpack a cultural paradigm in which birth is not only a philosophical symbol of eternal return and renewal but also an abiding religious and social focus for lineage continuity. They also suggest that some of the mythical founder heroes traditionally assumed to be male may in fact have had female identities. Students of ancient history, particularly Chinese history, will find this book an essential complement to traditional historical narratives, while the exploration of ancient religious texts, many unknown in the West, provides a unique perspective into the study of the formation of mythology and the role of birthing in early religion.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: A Chu Text
1. Words and Images
2. Controlling Reproduction: Fertility Prayers
3. Mothers and Embryos
4. Controlling the Pregnant Body
5. Divine Origins and Chu Genealogical History
6. The Traumatic Births of Non-Zhou Ancestral Founders
Conclusion
Table of Contents:
Letter from the Editor: Early China at 40
SARAH ALLAN
OBITUARY
David Noel Keightley (1932–2017)
SARAH ALLAN
Remembrances of David Keightley
MIRANDA BROWN, DAVID D. BUCK, RODERICK B. CAMPBELL, JONATHAN CHAVES, CONSTANCE A. COOK, LOTHAR VON FALKENHAUSEN, MARIÁN GÁLIK, ZEV HANDEL, KUAN-YUN HUANG, LIONEL M. JENSEN, STEVEN I. LEVINE, LI LING, LI XUEQIN, PAUL ROPP, EDWARD L. SHAUGHNESSY
FRANK JOSEPH SHULMAN 5
David Noel Keightley (1932–2017), Publications and Unpublished
Writings: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Research Guide
FRANK JOSEPH SHULMAN
ARTICLES
Early Chinese Manuscript Writings for the Name of the Sage Emperor Shun 舜, and the Legacy of Warring States Period Orthographic Variation in Early Chinese Received Texts
ADAM D. SMITH
Mozi and the Ghosts: The Concept of Ming 明 in Mozi’s “Ming gui” 明鬼
PIOTR GIBAS
Echoing Rulership: Understanding Musical References in the Huainanzi
AVITAL H. ROM
Introduction to the Peking University Han Bamboo Strips: On the Authentication and Study of Purchased Manuscripts
CHRISTOPHER J. FOSTER
EXCAVATED TEXT TRANSLATION
The Wuwei Medical Manuscripts: A Brief Introduction and Translation
YANG YONG and MIRANDA BROWN
RESEARCH NOTE
To Punish the Person: A Reading Note Regarding a Punctuation Mark in the Tsinghua Manuscript *Ming Xun
EDWARD L. SHAUGHNESSY
BOOK REVIEWS
Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, Michael Nylan, and Hans van Ess. The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy
LEI YANG
Barbieri-Low Anthony J., and Robin D. S. Yates. Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: A Study with Critical Edition and Translation of the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan Tomb no. 247
CHARLES SANFT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dissertation Abstracts
WEN-YI HUANG, comp.
Annual Bibliography
WEN-YI HUANG, comp
Author:
Hilary A. Smith
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Publication Date:
October, 2017
Abstract:
Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these new identities as revelations, overlooking evidence that challenges Western ideas about these conditions. In Forgotten Disease, Hilary A. Smith argues that, by privileging nineteenth century sources, we misrepresent what traditional Chinese doctors were seeing and doing, therefore unfairly viewing their medicine as inferior.
Drawing on a wide array of sources, ranging from early Chinese classics to modern scientific research, Smith traces the history of one representative case, foot qi, from the fourth century to the present day. She examines the shifting meanings of disease over time, showing that each transformation reflects the social, political, intellectual, and economic environment. The breathtaking scope of this story offers insights into the world of early Chinese doctors and how their ideas about health, illness, and the body were developing far before the advent of modern medicine. Smith highlights the fact that modern conceptions of these ancient diseases create the impression that the West saved the Chinese from age-old afflictions, when the reality is that many prominent diseases in China were actually brought over as a result of imperialism. She invites the reader to reimagine a history of Chinese medicine that celebrates its complexity and nuance, rather than uncritically disdaining this dynamic form of healing.
Table of Contents:
Foot qi in early Chinese medicine
Competing for medical authority
Simplifying and standardizing disease
The northerner's eating disorder
Getting rich and getting sick
Creating beriberi in Meiji Japan
Foot qi's multiple meanings in modern East Asia
Publication Date:
Aug. 2017
Publisher:
Tokyo: Tōhō Gakkai
Table of Contents:
IKEDA Tomohisa (池田知久): Introduction
LI Ling (李零): The Revolution in Shu-shu: From Divination Using Tortoiseshells and Yarrow Stalks to Shih Methods and Selection
KUDŌ Motoo (工藤元男): Local Government Officials and Shu-shu: A View from Daybooks (Jih-shu)
TAKEDA Tokimasa (武田時昌): The Six Incurables and Four Difficulties: An Examination of the Paradigms of Chinese Medicine from the Perspective of Shu-shu Studies
KAWAHARA Hideki (川原秀城): A Third Thesis concerning Shu-shu: Is Neo-Confucianism the Study of Shu-shu?
MINAKUCHI Takuju (水口拓寿): Perceptions of “Water Quality” in Early-Ch‘ing Feng-shui Texts: An Inquiry into Shen Hao’s Ti-hsüeh
Editors:
池田知久 (Ikeda Tomohisa)、水口拓寿 (Minakuchi Takuju)
Publisher:
汲古書院
Publication Date:
December, 2016
Abstract:
旧中国（殷周〜明清時代）の伝統文化の一つである術數の重要な論題７つを選び、それぞれの社会状況を背景に捉えながら、各論題を時代思想との関わりにおいて検討した論文集。２０１５年５月開催のシンポジウムを書籍化。
Table of Contents:
始めに（池田知久）
説数術革命――従亀卜筮占到式法選択（李零）
数術革命を語る――亀卜・筮占から式法・選択へ（李零 著，久保田知敏 翻譯）
郡県少吏と術数――「日書」からみえてきたもの（工藤元男）
王莽「奏群神為五部兆」の構造――劉歆三統理論との類似について（平澤歩）
六不治と四難――中国医学パラダイムの術数学的考察（武田時昌）
術数三論――朱子学は術数学か（川原秀城）
明清時代の風水文献に現れる「水質」論について（水口拓寿）
周縁文化より考える占卜の技術と文化（近藤浩之）
終わりに（水口拓寿）
Author:
小髙 修司
Publication Date:
2016/07/15
Publisher:
知泉書館
Abstract:
中国唐代の6名の文人，白居易，杜甫，李商隠，柳宗元，温庭筠，蘇軾の詩詞に現れた医学関連用語を検討し，当時の医学的常識を踏まえて彼らの医学と養生に関する事跡から，どのような環境や習慣が文人たちの疾病や老化，死因になったかを明らかにする。
白居易は病弱多病で頭痛眩暈，眼病，半身不随，ストレスによる肺疾患に罹り，白髪，歯脱などの老化が速かった。杜甫は窮貧や船上生活などにより風邪に悩まされ，老齢のなかでの過剰な性生活による腎疾患，飲酒や喫茶習慣に由来する様々な病状，そして生薬への関心を強めた。李商隠は遺伝による糖尿病を患い，それによる眼疾患や腎不全，心不全などの二次病態が原因で47歳で死亡した。柳宗元が流謫された永州や柳州は暑湿の地で種々の疾病が流行る土地柄であった。環境と身の不遇の中で，散策や腹式呼吸，さらに「荘子」や仏教に親しんで，不安定な心身の状態に耐えようと苦心した。温庭筠の詩文の過剰なまでの修飾表現は，他者との関係を取り持てないアスペルガー症候群に由来する。蘇軾は眼や耳，そして痔に悩まされたが，医薬，養生への関心と知識を広く伝えようと努めた。本書は中国古典文学の疾病に関する貴重な報告である。
Table of Contents:
目 次
まえがき
一 白居易（楽天）疾病攷
一 基礎的な事歴
二 儒仏道三教の関わりについて
三 疾病について
まとめ
二 白居易「風痺」攷
一 風痺＝中風説について
二 風偏枯について
三 脚気について
四 風痺について
五 頭風について
結語
三 杜甫疾病攷
一 時代背景――疾病史と気候史
二 先天の生命力――「腎」の盛衰
三 後天的な病因
四 医学用語の考察
五 薬物と関連事項
六 まとめ
四 杜甫と白居易の病態比較――特に白居易の服石の検証
一 先天の本＝「腎」の状況について
二 外因について
三 内因について
四 不内外因について
五 焼丹について
六 白居易の服石について
七 まとめ
五 李商隠疾病攷
一 家族歴を考える
二 病状の記述
三 「瘦骨」「廻腸」について
四 消渇の病について
五 眼症状について
六 「瘴」と「瘧」の記録
七 まとめ
六 柳宗元疾病攷
一 外的環境の影響
二 精神が及ぼした影響
三 柳州時代の病態――死因の考察
四 その他の課題
五 まとめ
七 温庭筠（飛卿）疾病攷
付録 蘇軾（東坡居士）を通して宋代の医学・養生を考える
――古代の気候・疫病史を踏まえて『傷寒論』の校訂を考える
一 蘇軾の道教（特に内丹法）との関わり
二 宋までの気候・疫病史
三 聖散子方から傷寒と時行寒疫を考える
四 詩詞に見られる蘇軾自身の疾病
五 結語
おわりに
初出一覧
Author:
Koehle, Natalie Caroline
School:
Harvard University
Year:
2016
Advisory Committee:
Kuijp, Leonard W. van der; Kuriyama, Shigehisa; Gyatso, Janet
Abstract:
This dissertation examines the Chinese conception of phlegm and related body fluids phlegm from the first occurrence of phlegm in Zhang Zhongjing’s 張仲景 (fl. 150-219) Jingui yaolue 金匱要略 through the first extended discussion Wang Gui’s 王桂 (1264-1354) Taiding yangsheng zhulun 泰定養生主論 (1338). Following the conceptual development of phlegm and fluids, the study illustrates one of the most important shifts in postclassical Chinese medicine. That is the transformation of the experience of phlegm from an insignificant water pathology that causes indigestion, to a major pathogen in Chinese medicine that is associated with an astonishing range of symptoms, and external and internal etiologies. The history of phlegm also intersects with another major shift in the history of Chinese medicine that is rise of fire, and the link of fire and emotions that was forged during the early Song dynasty.
In contrast to the current over-emphasis on pneumatic or energetic aspects of the Chinese imagination of the body, this dissertation focuses on the humoral aspects of Chinese medicine. This focus brings into view distinct parallels in the conception, experience, and treatment of fluids in the Chinese, Greek and Indian medical traditions, such as the concern with maintaining flow, and the fear of blockage, stagnation, and misguided flows. For instance, all of these traditions view phlegm as the result of a disturbance in the flow. These parallels in the Chinese, Greek, and Indian conception of humors, therefore, help us to better understand the history of phlegm not only in the history of Chinese medicine, but also in the Indo-European traditions.
The dissertation further sheds light on the history of Sino-Indian and Sino-Persian knowledge transfer, and the influence of Indic and Greek conceptions into Chinese medicine, as it puts forward evidence, which suggests that the similarities between Chinese and Indo-European conceptions of phlegm were due, in part, to historical influences from the Indic and Islamic medical traditions. Āyurvedic conceptions of phlegm reached China through the intermediary of Buddhist translations, where phlegm played an important role in physiology. Islamic medicine was present in the Yuan dynasty, and its concepts show clearly in Wang Gui’s Yuan period treatise.
The dissertation’s focus on fluids also brings into view differences in the conception of matter and the experience of fluid in the Chinese and the Greco-Roman medical traditions. In early Chinese medicine, phlegm and stagnant fluids were associated with lumps and tumorous growth, but not with decay. In the Greco-Roman tradition phlegm and stagnations were feared because of their immediate connection with putrefaction and decay. In early Chinese medicine, phlegm and fluids were diagnosed by signs from within the body, such as the sounds of water, but also the subjective feeling of fullness reported by the patients. In the Greco-Roman tradition, as in Wang Gui’s Yuan period treatise, phlegm was diagnosed through the examination of the patients’ outflows.
Author:
Liu, Yan 劉焱
School:
Harvard University
Year:
2015
Advisory Committee:
Shigehisa Kuriyama; Katharine Park; James Robson
Abstract:
This dissertation explores the medicinal use of poisons in China from the third to the tenth century, which is when the major outlines of Chinese toxicological thought took shape. Challenging a widespread view that contrasts the benign naturalness of Chinese herbal remedies with the dangerous side effects of Western synthetic drugs, my research highlights the centrality of poisons to the practice and theory of medicine in China. Chinese doctors regularly relied on a large number of substances that they recognized as toxic to combat sickness, and identified toxicity as the central pillar for the classification of drugs. I argue that the boundary between poisons and medicines was always hazy in medieval China; it was not the substance itself, but how it was used and experienced that mattered.
To examine this crucial yet ignored feature of Chinese medicine, my dissertation develops the following themes. The first is that drugs in medieval China were not fixed entities with unique effects. The effect of a given substance—whether it healed as a medicine, or sickened or killed as a poison, or altered a person in myriad other ways—varied both with usage and with processing. Subsequently, Chinese doctors developed a variety of techniques (the dosage, the drug combination, and the drug preparation) to mitigate the toxicity of a poison while preserving its therapeutic potency.
Secondly, I highlight the intimate relation between bodily experience and the understanding of poisons. By studying the alchemical practice of ingesting toxic minerals, I show that the violent bodily effects induced by these substances were often perceived as confirmations of efficacy rather than worrying signs of pathology.
My third theme is the circulation of toxicological knowledge across geographical and social domains. I argue that standardized textual knowledge propagated by the state was fluidly transformed in practice, contingent upon the availability of pharmacological ingredients and the needs of local people.
Finally, I turn to non-poisons, especially foods, in Chinese pharmacy, and identify a distinctive character of Chinese medicine—the ingestion of mild substances to nourish the body and prolong life. Chinese medicine thus developed through the interaction of two related, but distinct enterprises—the fight against sickness, and the quest for ever-enhanced vitality.
Author:
Miranda Brown
Publication Year:
2015
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Abstract:
In this book, Miranda Brown investigates the myths that acupuncturists and herbalists have told about the birth of the healing arts. Moving from the Han (206 BC–AD 220) and Song (960–1279) dynasties to the twentieth century, Brown traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the gradual emergence of the archive of medical tradition. She exposes the historical circumstances that shaped the current image of medical progenitors: the ancient bibliographers, medieval editors, and modern reformers and defenders of Chinese medicine who contributed to the contemporary shape of the archive. Brown demonstrates how ancient and medieval ways of knowing live on in popular narratives of medical history, both in modern Asia and in the West. She also reveals the surprising and often unacknowledged debt that contemporary scholars owe to their pre-modern forbearers for the categories, frameworks, and analytic tools with which to study the distant past.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Before Medical History:
1. Attendant He: innovator or persona?
2. Bian Que as a seer: political persuaders and the medical imagination
3. Chunyu Yi: can the healer speak?
Part II. Medical Histories:
4. Liu Xiang: the imperial library and the creation of the exemplary healer list
5. Zhang Ji: the kaleidoscopic father
6. Huangfu Mi: from innovator to transmitter
Epilogue: ancient histories in the modern age
Appendix: a problematic preface.
Editors:
MICHAEL NYLAN & GRIET VANKEERBERGHEN
Publication Date:
Jan. 29 2015
Publisher:
University of Washington Press
Abstract:
During the last two centuries BCE, the Western Han capital of Chang'an, near today's Xi'an in northwest China, outshone Augustan Rome in several ways while administering comparable numbers of imperial subjects and equally vast territories. At its grandest, during the last fifty years or so before the collapse of the dynasty in 9 CE, Chang'an boasted imperial libraries with thousands of documents on bamboo and silk in a city nearly three times the size of Rome and nearly four times larger than Alexandria. Many reforms instituted in this capital in the Western Han substantially shaped not only the institutions of the Eastern Han (25-220 CE) but also the rest of imperial China until 1911.
Although thousands of studies document imperial Rome's glory, until now no book-length work in a Western language has been devoted to Han Chang'an, the reign of Emperor Chengdi (whose accomplishments rival those of Augustus and Hadrian), or the city's impressive library project (26-6 BCE), which ultimately produced the first state-sponsored versions of many of the classics and masterworks that we hold in our hands today. Chang'an 26 BCE addresses this deficiency, using as a focal point the reign of Emperor Chengdi (r. 33-7 BCE), specifically the year in which the imperial library project began. This in-depth survey by some of the world's best scholars, Chinese and Western, explores the built environment, sociopolitical transformations, and leading figures of Chang'an, making a strong case for the revision of historical assumptions about the two Han dynasties. A multidisciplinary volume representing a wealth of scholarly perspectives, the book draws on the established historical record and recent archaeological discoveries of thousands of tombs, building foundations, and remnants of walls and gates from Chang'an and its surrounding area.
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Editorial note
Chronology of dynasties and Han reign periods
Introduction / Michael NYLAN
Part 1. The built environment and archaeology of Han Chang'an
● The evolution of imperial urban form in Western Han Chang'an / TANG Xiaofeng 唐曉峰
● Chang'an and Rome : structural parallels and the logics of urban form / Carlos F. NORENA
● Supplying the capital with water and food / Michael NYLAN
● Mural tombs in late Western Han Chang'an / Arlen LIAN
● Chang'an's funerary culture and the core Han culture / HUANG Yijun
● The residential wards of Western Han Chang'an / ZHANG Jihai 張繼海
● The tombs built for Han Chengdi and migrations of the population / Michael LOEWE
Part 2. Sociopolitical transformations in late Western Han
● Chengdi's reign : problems and controversies / Michael LOEWE
● Recasting the imperial court in late Western Han : rank, duty, and alliances during institutional change / Luke HABBERSTAD
● The suburban sacrifice reforms and the evolution of the imperial sacrifices / TIAN Tian 田天
● Calendrical computation numbers and Han Dynasty politics : a study of Gu Yong's 谷永 Three Troubles theory / LIU Tseng-Kuei 劉增貴
● The politics of omenology in Chengdi's reign / Shao-yun YANG
● Pining for the West : Chang'an in the life of kings and their families during Chengdi's reign / Griet VANKEERBERGHEN
Part 3. Leading figures in late Western Han
● Liu Xiang and Liu Xin / Michael LOEWE
● A fu by Liu Xin on his travels in Shanxi and Inner Mongolia / David R. KNECHTGES
● Yang Yun's biography, his outlook, and his poem / Jurij L. KROLL
● Looking backward : the rise of medical tradition in the Han period / Miranda BROWN
● The social roles of the annals classic in late western Han / Mark CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
● The late Western Han historian Chu Shaosun / Hans VAN ESS
Afterword: New perspectives and avenues for future research / Michael NYLAN
Glossary
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Letter from the Editor..........SARAH ALLAN
ARTICLES
Did Babylonian Astrology Influence Early Chinese Astral Prognostication Xing zhan shu 星占書..........DAVID W. PANKENIER
The Total Lunar Eclipse on June 16, 2011: A Key to Dating the Yin Lunar Eclipse in Yingcang 885/886..........LIU XUESHUN
Marital Alliances and Affinal Relatives (sheng 甥 and hungou 婚購) in the Society and Politics of Zhou China in the Light of Bronze Inscriptions.......... MARIA KHAYUTINA
Scribal Variation and the Meaning of the Houma and Wenxian Covenant Texts' Imprecation Ma yi fei shi 麻夷非是.......... CRISPIN WILLIAMS
Texts, Performance, and Spectacle: The Funeral Procession of Marquis Yi of Zeng, 443 B.C.E........... LUKE HABBERSTAD
Delinquent Fathers and Philology: Lunyu 論語 13.18 and Related Texts.......... OLIVER WEINGARTEN
Promoting Action in Warring States Political Philosophy: A First Look at the Chu Manuscript, Cao Mie's Battle Arrays.......... ERNEST CALDWELL
Xunzi's Criticism of Zisi-New Perspectives.......... KUAN-YUN HUANG
New Information on Qin Religious Practice: Evidence from Liye and Zhoujiatai 周家台.......... CHARLES SANFT
All Merged in One: The First Emperor's Tumulus.......... JIE SHI
Epiphanies of Sovereignty and the Rite of Jade Disc Immersion in Weft Narratives.......... GRÉGOIRE ESPESSET
ARTICLES FROM THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EXCAVATED MANUSCRIPTS, MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, 2004
Collaterality in Early Chinese Cosmology: An Argument for Confucian Harmony (he 和) as Creatio In Situ.......... ROGER T. AMES
"Only the Human Way May Be Followed": Reading the Guodian Manuscripts against the Mozi.......... ANDREW MEYER
New Light on the Li ji 禮記: The Li ji and the Related Warring States Period Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts.......... XING WEN
REVIEW ARTICLES
Newly Excavated Texts in the Digital Age: Reflections on New Resources.......... LEE-MOI PHAM AND KUAN-YUN HUANG
Hail to the King: A Review of Two Books by David N. Keightley.......... MAGNUS FISKESJÖ
REVIEW FORUM
Wai-yee Li. The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography.......... ERIC HENRY
The Shape of History: On Reading Li Wai-yee.......... KAI VOGELSANG
BOOK REVIEW
Elisabeth Hsu. Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine: The Telling Touch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010........... MIRANDA BROWN
Dissertation Abstracts......... CLAIRE V. BESKIN, Comp.
Annual Bibliography.......... XIUCAI ZHENG, Comp.
Author :
Fodde-Reguer, Anna-Alexandra
Defended:
2014
School:
University of Michigan
Abstract:
The authors of divination manuals dating to early China (c. 220 B.C.E.-c. 400 C.E.) treated divination as a technology to gain access to hidden empirical knowledge. By transcribing this knowledge in cosmological language and through the use of diagrams, the authors of these manuals attempted to standardize knowledge for capable readers. The manuals thereby mark a crucial departure from ancient China (c. 1600-c. 300 B.C.E.), when divination authority was invested in privileged individuals, whose skills were monopolized by the wealthy and powerful. The standardization of divinatory techniques and hidden knowledge in these manuals fits the context of bureaucratic expertise and the expanding scope of influence of written culture in the early imperial period.
Using an historical approach, I argue that the knowledge recorded in divination manuals points to a view of divination as a perfectible technique for the discovery of practical knowledge. I carefully differentiate such information from the imagined perspective of the manual authors and the manual users. Each chapter focuses on selections from texts containing divination manuals.
The texts I will draw on originate from three caches: the "Dream Divination Book" from the Yuelu cache of bamboo slips dating to the Qin dynasty (221 B.C.E.-206 B.C.E.); five divination sections from tomb 6 at Yinwan, Jiangsu Province and dating to 11 B.C.E. (the Han Dynasty 206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.); and a section from the manuscript Pélliot-Chinoise 2856 (Recto) discovered in the Mogao caves at Dunhuang, Gansu Province, dating to c. 400 C.E.
Using specific examples from each cache, I discuss how the texts disclose specific methods for using divination as a technique for readers to interpret their dreams, choose auspicious dates for various activities, and heal their bodies from illness.
Author:
C. Pierce Salguero
Publication Year:
2014
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Abstract:
The transmission of Buddhism from India to China was one of the most significant cross-cultural exchanges in the premodern world. This cultural encounter involved more than the spread of religious and philosophical knowledge. It influenced many spheres of Chinese life, including the often overlooked field of medicine. Analyzing a wide variety of Chinese Buddhist texts, C. Pierce Salguero examines the reception of Indian medical ideas in medieval China. These texts include translations from Indian languages as well as Chinese compositions completed in the first millennium C.E.
Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China illuminates and analyzes the ways Chinese Buddhist writers understood and adapted Indian medical knowledge and healing practices and explained them to local audiences. The book moves beyond considerations of accuracy in translation by exploring the resonances and social logics of intercultural communication in their historical context. Presenting the Chinese reception of Indian medicine as a process of negotiation and adaptation, this innovative and interdisciplinary work provides a dynamic exploration of the medical world of medieval Chinese society. At the center of Salguero's work is an appreciation of the creativity of individual writers as they made sense of disease, health, and the body in the context of regional and transnational traditions. By integrating religious studies, translation studies, and literature with the history of medicine, Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China reconstructs the crucial role of translated Buddhist knowledge in the vibrant medical world of medieval China.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Buddhist Medical Transmission
Chapter 2. Translators and Translation Practice
Chapter 3. Translating Medicine in Buddhist Scriptures
Chapter 4. Rewriting Buddhist Medicine
Chapter 5. Popularizing Buddhist Medicine
Conclusion
