Early China 43 (2020) 《古代中國》第43期

 

Table of Contents:
Letter from the Editor
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Sarah Allan 

主編的信

艾蘭

Articles
QIAN 謙 IN EARLY CHINESE THOUGHT
Doil Kim 

中國古代思想中的“謙”

金渡鎰

A DREAM OF THE SELF: IDENTITY IN THE “INNER CHAPTERS” OF THE ZHUANGZI
Matthew James Hamm

自我之夢：《莊子·內篇》中的“身份”問題

安天皓

REVEALING CONTINGENCY THROUGH SHUN'S 舜 ASCENSION TO THE THRONE
Youngsun Back

對舜即位故事的各種解釋和其“命”有關的研究

白英宣

CAPTURING THE WORLD IN WORDS: LATER MOHIST HERMENEUTIC THEORIES ON LANGUAGE AND DISPUTATION
Erica F. Brindley

以語言把握世界：後期墨家的語言與辯論的詮釋學理論

錢德樑

 
INTRODUCING THE *WU ZE YOU XING TU MANUSCRIPT FROM MAWANGDUI
Luke Waring

馬王堆《物則有形圖》概述

康路華

WHAT THE ELITES ACTUALLY WORE IN 500–300 B.C.E. CHINA: EVIDENCE FROM TEXTILES, BAMBOO, AND BRONZES
Kin Sum (Sammy) Li

公元前500-300年中國的精英穿甚麼：紡織物、竹器、銅器的證據

李建深

BIRDS AND BEASTS WERE MANY: THE ECOLOGY AND CLIMATE OF THE GUANZHONG BASIN IN THE PRE-IMPERIAL PERIOD
Brian Lander

禽獸衆：先秦時期關中盆地的生態與氣候

蘭德

WOMEN'S ROLE IN THE PRODUCTION AND SALE OF ALCOHOL IN HAN CHINA AS REFLECTED IN TOMB ART FROM SICHUAN
Hajni Elias

四川漢墓藝術品裡所見漢代釀酒與販售中的女性角色

薛好佩

WANG CHONG'S FATALISM
Yunwoo Song

王充的宿命論

宋允宇

Bibliography
DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS
Compiled by Wen-Yi Huang

博士論文提要

黃文儀彙編

ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Compiled by Wen-Yi Huang

年度論著目錄

黃文儀彙編

Chinese Lexicography on Matters of the Heart: An Exploratory Commentary on the Heart Radical in Shuō wén jiě zì

Authors:
Françoise Bottéro & Christoph Harbsmeier

Publication date:
2016

Publisher:
EHESS, Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale

Abstract:

“The Chinese Shuōwén Dictionary (AD 100) by Xǔ Shèn is the most famous book in the history of Chinese philology, and it is one of the most important documents in the history of linguistics and lexicography of the world. This stunningly ambitious dictionary explains systematically why 9,353 Chinese characters including nearly all the common characters of the time were written exactly the way they came to be written. Thus the Shuōwén is a vast systematised encyclopaedia of the principles of literacy in one of the most literate civilisations of the ancient world.

This book sets out to explain Xǔ Shèn’s scientific principles as well as the details of their implementation in his Dictionary by providing an extensive introduction to the whole work, followed by a detailed annotated “thick” reading of the section of the Shuōwén that focusses mainly on the ancient Chinese psychological vocabulary.”

Table of Contents:                                                                                

1. Introduction                                                                                                     
       1.1. The Shuōwén is not a Dictionary of Basic Meanings of Words       

       1.2. The Composition of the Lexical Entries in Shuōwén                       

       1.3. Taboos and Omissions              
                                                               
       1.4. The Significance of the Style of the Head Graph                       

       1.5. Graphemic Versus Graphic Analysis                                       

       1.6. The Significance of the Number of Radicals                         

       1.7. The Nature of the Radicals                                                 

       1.8. The Assignment of Radicals Versus the Designation of Semantic

            Constituents                                                                         

       1.9. The Shuōwén Entries on Radicals                                               

       1.10.Semantic Classification Versus Subsumption Under Radicals           

       1.11. The Hermeneutics of Xǔ Shèn's Glosses                                 

       1.12. The "Six Ways of Writing Down (Words)"liù shū 六書                       

       1.13. Problems with the Use of huì yì 會意                                                   
       1.14. Phonetics                                                                                 

       1.15. The Vicious Circle of Reconstruction on the Basis of Phonetic
                Series 

       1.16. Observations-Based Versus Conjectural Reconstructions         

       1.17. The Dú ruò 讀若"to be Pronounced Like" Problem                         

       1.18. A Caveat on our Translation of Shuōwén                               

       1.19. A Note on our Use of Sources                                                             

2. Chinese Lexicography on Matters of the Heart                                             

       2.1. Preliminary Remarks on the Heart Radical                                         

       2.2. The Heart Constituent is Never Taken as Phonetic                       

       2.3. Disused Archaic Heart Radicals                                                           

3. Annotated Translation of Shuō wén jiě zì, Xīn Bù 心部                   

4. Appendix: Radicals Containing the Grapheme 心not Classified

       under the Heart Radical                                                                   

5. Conclusion                                                                                           
              

Dao and Sign in History: Daoist Arche-Semiotics in Ancient and Medieval China

Author: 
Daniel Fried

Publisher:
SUNY

Publication date:
November 2018

Abstract:

From its earliest origins in the Dao De Jing, Daoism has been known as a movement that is skeptical of the ability of language to fully express the truth. While many scholars have compared the earliest works of Daoism to language-skeptical movements in twentieth-century European philosophy and have debated to what degree early Daoism does or does not resemble these recent movements, Daniel Fried breaks new ground by examining a much broader array of Daoist materials from ancient and medieval China and showing how these works influenced ideas about language in medieval religion, literature, and politics. Through an extended comparison with a broad sample of European philosophical works, the book explores how ideas about language grow out of a given historical moment and advances a larger argument about how philosophical and religious ideas cannot be divided into “content” and “context.”

Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China

Subtitle:
A Historical-Comparative Study of the Serbi or Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language Family, with an Analysis of Northeastern Frontier Chinese and Old Tibetan Phonology

Author:
Andrew Shimunek

Publication Date:
May 2017

Publisher:
Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag

Abstract:

This is the first book on the Serbi-Mongolic language family – a major language family of Asia – and the first modern linguistic study of the Serbi (Xianbei 鮮卑) peoples, whose conquest of North China took place at approximately the same time as the Germanic and Hunnic Völkerwanderung into the former Western Roman Empire. The findings presented in this book – the first rigorous and systematic unified theory on the origins of the Mongolic and Serbi languages – add substantially to our understanding of the linguistic geography of Eastern Eurasia, and to the ethnolinguistic history of the Mongolic peoples and their neighbors, including speakers of Chinese, Japanese-Koguryoic, Tibeto-Burman, Tungusic, possibly Indo-European, and later, Turkic. This book also enhances our understanding of attested Middle Chinese, Early Old Mandarin, and Old Tibetan phonology. Moreover, it is the first study to present linguistic sketches of Taghbach (Tuoba 拓跋), Tuyuhun 吐谷渾 (’Azha འ་ཞ་), and Kitan (Qidan 契丹), and to systematically compare Kitan and Mongol morphological and syntactic paradigms, resulting in the first reconstruction of Common Serbi-Mongolic phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax. Readers interested in Mongolia, the Mongols, North China, Central Eurasia, the Tibetan Empire, languages of Asia, historical linguistics, and history will find this book to be a useful resource.

Table of Contents:
1. Previous Theories on the Origins of the Mongolic Languages
2. A Brief Ethnolinguistic History of the Serbi-Mongolic Peoples
3. Early Northern Frontier Varieties of Chinese
4. Notes on the Phonology of Old Tibetan
5. Taghbach and other Middle Serbi Dialects of the Northern Wei
6. The T’u-yü-hun (‘Azha) Language
7. The Kitan Language
8. Toward a Reconstruction of Common Serbi-Mongolic
9. The Proto-Serbi-Mongolic Homeland
10. Conclusion

Linguistic Mysteries of Ethnonyms in Inner Asia

Author:
WANG, Penglin 

Publication Date:
March 2018

Publisher:
Lexington Books

Abstract:

In Linguistic Mysteries of Ethnonyms in Inner Asia, Penglin Wang focuses on semantics as a central theme in onomastics and strives to unravel the origin and meaning of a series of influential ethnonyms such as Xianbei, Rouran, Tabγač, Tatar, Shiwei, Mongol, Merkid, Nüzhen, Jušen, and Nikan. Since much of modern research has dealt with issues of Inner Asian ethnonyms within a regional framework, Wang’s exploration of the early Indo-European and Altaic influence on the ethnonymic designations of Mongol-Tungusic and Turkic groups opens up a new horizon for transcontinental approaches, which represent an important thrust in Inner Asian and Eurasian studies. Wang has based this comprehensive study on textual, cross-linguistic, and patterned analysis of the ethnonyms found primarily in ancient Chinese sources.


Table of Contents:

1. A Linguistic Approach to Ethnonyms
2. Numerals in Ethnonyms
3. Xianbei as Cold
4. Tabγač as Farmer
5. Shiwei 室韋 at the Juncture of Septenary and North
6. Mongol and Merkit as Sunrise
7. Jušen and Nikan as Deictic Expressions

Tense and Aspect in Han Period Chinese : A Linguistic Analysis of the 'Shĭjì'

Author:
Barbara Meisterernst

Publisher:
Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton

Publication Date:
December 2014

Abstract:

Many grammatical issues of Archaic and Medieval Chinese still lack a comprehensive analysis. The book provides the first thorough investigation of the syntactic and semantic constraints of the linguistic categories tense and aspect and their relation with the lexical aspect of the verb in Han period Chinese. The author uncovers fascinating details of a language with a highly restricted verbal morphology.

Table of Contents:


1. General introduction

2. The category tense

3. The category aspect

4. Tense and aspect in Chinese

5. The syntactic and semantic analysis of temporal adverbials and duration phrases

6. The syntactic and semantic constraints of aspecto-temporal adverbs in the Shiji

Conclusion

漢簡語彙考証

Editor:
冨谷至 (Itaru Tomiya)

Publisher: 
岩波書店 Iwanami Shoten

Publication Date:
March 2015

Abstract:

『漢簡語彙　中国古代木簡辞典』は，いかなる過程を経て結実したのか．2004年にはじまった京都大学人文科学研究所における共同研究の成果は辞典として集大成されたが，その項目がそぎ落とされた記述となるまでの，具体的な議論と考証の中身を明らかにする．漢簡概説，事項考証，語彙考証の三部からなる，『漢簡語彙』の姉妹編．

Table of Contents:

序
Ⅰ   漢簡概説　（冨谷至）
　　一　木簡の発見
　　（１）木簡€竹簡
　　（２）簡牘の発見
　　二　漢簡研究の軌跡
　　三　簡牘の形状と名称
　　（１）長さとその意味
　　（２）単独簡の名称と用途
        （３）木簡の素材
　　四　辺境出土簡の時代
　　五　辺境行政と漢簡の内容
　　（１）都尉府€候官€部€燧
　　（２）関所€倉
　　（３）動く簡と動かない簡
　　六　漢簡の文字と語彙
　　（１）書体
　　（２）木簡語彙
　　
Ⅱ   事項考証
　　一　エチナ川遺跡の最新情報（森谷一樹）
　　二　弓の部品の名称について（杉本憲司）
　　三　訴訟手続き（鷹取祐司）
　　四　農官について（佐藤達郎）
        五　王莽時代の漢簡
　　（１）王莽簡の特徴（門田明）
　　（２）王莽簡の官職（藤井律之）
　　（３）地名変更－とくに居延都尉府をめぐって（鷹取祐司）
　　六　漢代の時制（吉村昌之）
　　
Ⅲ   語彙考証

New Aspects of Classical Chinese Grammar

Editor:
Meisterernst, Barbara

Publisher:
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag

Publication Date:
2016.2.25

Abstract:

The objective of the collection of articles presented in this volume is to provide a representative and meaningful selection of present research work on Classical Chinese Grammar. Since the articles cover a temporal range from the Pre-Classical to the Medieval period, the term ‘Classical Chinese’ is used in a more generous sense.

Two different but representative lines of research are predominant in this collection: the first focuses on the lexicon of Chinese, and the second focuses on its syntax or on the interface of its syntax and its semantics. Regarding the history of grammatical studies of Chinese, the first approach can be considered as a continuation and refinement of the traditional Chinese linguistic studies with new linguistic tools; the second approach follows and enhances the syntactic approach first proposed for the analysis of Chinese in the grammar of von der Gabelentz. 

In addition to these two general fields, a third and innovative field of research is included, focusing on the stratification of different linguistic registers in the Ancient Chinese language. With its selection of articles, this volume represents the multifaceted approaches presently employed to study the lexicon and the grammar of Classical Chinese, and it demonstrates the great progress the employment of different theoretical frameworks has induced in the analysis of the grammar Classical Chinese in recent times. This volume intends to convey the relevance of a meticulous and detailed study of the structural properties of Classical Chinese and to demonstrate that this study has to go beyond the mere analysis of apparent similarities.

Table of Contents:

Introduction 

EDITH ALDRIDGE
ECM and Control in Archaic Chinese 

FRANÇOISE BOTTÉRO
Glossing Strategies in the Shìmíng 釋名 

SHENGLI FENG AND JAN VIHAN
The Tripartite Division of Formal, Informal and Elevated Registers 

HU CHIRUI
From Implicity to Explicity: Grammar Changes Induced by Lexical Changes 

BARBARA MEISTERERNST
The Expression of Epistemic Modality in Classical and Han Period Chinese 

WANG CHENG AND YUAN YIMIN
Aspectual Function of the Particle yú 于/於 in Old Chinese 

LUKÁŠ ZÁDRAPA
Lǚshì Chūnqiū 呂氏春秋: Object Words Denoting Processes