China and the World – the World and China: Essays in Honor of Rudolf G. Wagner

Volume 1：Transcultural Perspectives on Pre-modern China

Editor: 
Joachim GENTZ

Publication Date:
2019

Publisher:
OSTASIEN Verlag, Gossenberg

Abstract: 
A wide range of topics is covered in this collection of four volumes of essays in honor of Rudolf G. Wagner. The expansive time frame from pre-modern to contemporary China in China and the World – the World and China reflect the breadth of his own scholarship. The essays are also testimony to his ability to connect with scholars across the globe, across disciplines and generations.

The first volume (Transcultural Perspectives on Pre-modern China) brings together a set of contributions relating to the pre-modern period which reveals thematic clusters that correspond to the three main periods of Chinese pre-modern history. While the first six contributions on the early China period focus on conceptual questions of text interpretation and reconstruction, the following five on medieval China all deal with religious topics whereas the last four contributions, covering the late imperial period, address issues of the entangled relationship between the self and the exterior.

Table of Contents:

Foreword: The Joys of Transculturality – or Research and Teaching between China and the World: A Tribute to Rudolf G. Wagner
　　　(Monica JUNEJA and Barbara MITTLER)
 
Editor’s Introduction
　　　(Joachim GENTZ)
 
Zhuangzi’s Twinkle and Methods without Truth
　　　(Joachim GENTZ))
 
Materialität antiker Handschriften: Beispiele aus China
　　　(Enno GIELE)
 
Concepts of “Authenticity” and the Chinese Textual Heritage in Light of Excavated Texts
　　　(Anke HEIN)
 
Biographical Genres and Biography: The Case of Yan Zun 嚴遵
　　　(CHEN Zhi)
 
The Rule of Law in Eastern Han China: Some Cases of Murder, Suicide, Theft, and Private Dispute
　　　(Robin D. S. YATES)
 
Zhao Qi 趙岐 and Late Han Pedantic Conceptual Analysis
　　　(Christoph HARBSMEIER)
 
Antlers? Or Horns? Towards Understanding Gan Bao 干寶, the Historian
　　　(Michael SCHIMMELPFENNIG)
 
Kumārajīva’s “Voice”?
　　　(Michael RADICH)
 
Transcending Boundaries: Afterlife Conceptions in Entombed Epitaphs and Votive Steles of the Six Dynasties’ Period
　　　(Friederike ASSANDRI)
 
Motifs Traveled with Intentions: Mapping Tang China and the World through Pictorial Screens in the Nara Period Japan (710–794)
　　　(WANG Yizhou)
 
Studying Fears of Witchcraft in Traditional China: A Close Reading of Three Examples from Hong Mai’s The Records of a Listener
　　　(Barend TER HAAR)
 
Chi 癡, pi 癖, shi 嗜, hao 好: Genealogies of Obsession in Chinese Literature
　　　(LI Wai-yee)
 
Entangled Histories: Insights Gained from a Hodological Approach to the Blue Beryl’s Thanka on Metaphors of the Body
　　　(Elisabeth HSU)
 
Manchu Sources and the Problem of Translation
　　　(Mark ELLIOTT)
 
Kalmyk Echoes, Torghut Returns: Poet-Exiles in a Time of Shrinking Frontiers
　　　(Haun SAUSSY)

[Dissertation] Weathering History: Storms, State, and Society in South China since the Fifth Century CE

Author:
Alejandrino, Clark L.

School:
Georgetown University

Defended:
2019

Abstract:

My dissertation looks at typhoons in the history of the richest, most populous, and most typhoon-prone province of China: Guangdong. It considers political, social, cultural, and environmental aspects of typhoons from the fifth to the twentieth century and argues that successive states and generations of Chinese that occupied the province’s littoral regarded it as a "typhoon space." The real and perceived vulnerability of the Guangdong littoral inspired efforts at community- and state-building that had many consequences. In exploring the deep consciousness of storms and the social structures they inspired in a major part of China, I will contribute to both climate history and Chinese history by reimagining the spatial frameworks within which we study human interactions with the environment.

My project takes seriously the constructed nature of the Guangdong littoral as a "typhoon space" and its location in a tropical cyclone basin, arguing that its perceived vulnerability to storms across centuries was as influential in shaping its history as was the destructive force of the storms that so often came ashore. By delineating specific spaces where climatic phenomena have a deep influence on human society and culture, my project facilitates the reimagining of China, and even the world, as consisting of discrete, but at times overlapping, climate spaces. These, crucially, would not be the same as climate regions as understood by climatologists and enshrined in countless maps. Rather, they would be based both on climatic phenomena and social, cultural, and political structures that evolved to cope with climate features. Since climate spaces do not neatly coincide with the nation, province, or other familiar spatial categories, my project invites a rethinking of space in Chinese history and more globally in environmental history. Thinking in terms of climate spaces also eases comparisons by providing a common language for speaking about similar phenomena across the globe. For example, we can think of typhoon spaces in the Western Pacific and hurricane spaces in the Caribbean as comparable "storm spaces" within a transnational history of wind, water, risk, and response. It is my hope that reimagining coastal China as a typhoon space and thinking more broadly in terms of climate spaces may serve as catalysts for advancing both global environmental history and the underdeveloped field of Chinese climate history.

六朝江南道教の研究: 陸修静の霊宝経観と古霊宝経

Author:
林 佳恵 (Hayashi Kae)

Publisher:
Waseda University Press

Publication date:
March 2019

Table of Contents:

序　論
　第1節　序言（先行研究史）　　
　第2節　問題の所在　　
　第3節　研究の方法　　

第1篇　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」における経典の分類
　第1章　陸修静による霊宝経典の分類
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」の分類と「元始系」・「仙公系」の不一致 　　
　　第3節　陸修静の考える「元始旧経」　　
　　第4節　「元始旧経」と紫微宮秘蔵の経の関係 　　
　　第5節　紫微宮秘蔵の経の条件 　　
　　第6節　『太上洞玄靈寶眞文要解上巻』の分類　　
　　第7節　小　　結　　
　第2章　陸修静の霊宝経観と『太上洞玄靈寶天文五符經序』の分類
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　陸修静が示す霊宝経の二つの系統 　　
　　第3節　「霊宝経目序」に見える陸修静の霊宝経観 　　
　　第4節　『太上洞玄靈寶天文五符經序』の分類 　　
　　第5節　陸修静の霊宝経分類における「太上」の位置付け　　
　　第6節　『太上太極太虚上眞人演太上靈寶威儀洞玄眞一自然經訣』の分類 　　
　　第7節　小　　結　　
　第3章　陸修静の霊宝経観と「舊目」の解釈
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　陸修静の霊宝経典の分類結果と「舊目」の解釈　　
　　第3節　「篇目」の「未出」経典と「未出」の意味 　　
　　第4節　小　　結　　

第2篇　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」の分類カテゴリーの検証
　第4章　霊宝経における新旧の概念の形成
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　霊宝経における陸修静の新旧の概念　　
　　第3節　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」著録経典中の「新経」の概念　　
　　第4節　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」著録経典中の「元始旧経」の概念　　
　　第5節　霊宝経典中の「舊」の語の意味　　
　　第6節　小　　結　　
　第5章　「十部妙經」と「元始旧経」
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　「十部妙經」に言及する「元始旧経」中の経典 　　
　　第3節　「十部妙經」の設定　　
　　第4節　「十部妙經」と「十方」の観念　　
　　第5節　「十部妙經三十六巻」の検証　　
　　第6節　小　　結　　
　第6章 分類の為のカテゴリーとしての「元始旧経」と「仙公新経」
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　「元始旧経」の検証　　
　　第3節 「仙公新経」の検証 　　
　　第4節 「仙公新経」と「元始旧経」で共通する戒 　　
　　第5節　小　　結　　

第3篇　陸修静の霊宝経観
　第7章　霊宝経と天師道
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　霊宝経中の『道德五千文』への言及　　
　　第3節 「靈寶齋」と「三天齋」　　
　　第4節　霊宝経典中の天師張道陵　　
　　第5節 霊宝経典中の天師道の神々　　
　　第6節 「元始旧経」に見える「發爐」　　
　　第7節　小　　結　　
　第8章　陸修静の霊宝経観の形成
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節 「靈寶經目序」中の霊宝経観の形成にかかわる霊宝経典　　
　　第3節 「靈寶經目序」に見える陸修静独自の霊宝経観　　
　　第4節 『太上洞玄靈寶授度儀』の「師告丹水文」中の霊宝経に関する言及の考察　
　　第5節　陸修静の霊宝経観の継承　
　　第6節 小　　結　

The Cambridge History of China Volume 2: The Six Dynasties, 220–589

Editors:
Albert E. Dien & Keith N. Knapp

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Publication date:

2019

Abstract:

The Six Dynasties Period (220–589 CE) is one of the most complex in Chinese history. Written by leading scholars from across the globe, the essays in this volume cover nearly every aspect of the period, including politics, foreign relations, warfare, agriculture, gender, art, philosophy, material culture, local society, and music. While acknowledging the era's political chaos, these essays indicate that this was a transformative period when Chinese culture was significantly changed and enriched by foreign peoples and ideas. It was also a time when history and literature became recognized as independent subjects and religion was transformed by the domestication of Buddhism and the formation of organized Daoism. Many of the trends that shaped the rest of imperial China's history have their origins in this era, such as the commercial vibrancy of southern China, the separation of history and literature from classical studies, and the growing importance of women in politics and religion.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I. History:
1. Wei   Rafe de Crespigny
2. Wu   Rafe de Crespigny
3. Shu-Han   J. Michael Farmer
4. Western Jin   Damien Chaussende
5. Eastern Jin   Charles Holcombe
6. The Sixteen Kingdoms   Charles Holcombe
7. Cheng-Han State   Terry F. Kleeman
8. Northern Wei   Scott Pearce
9. Eastern Wei-Northern Qi   Albert E. Dien
10. Western Wei-Northern Zhou   Albert E. Dien
11. The Southern dynasties   Andrew Chittick

Part II. Society and Realia:
12. The art of war  David A. Graff
13. Foreign relations  Charles Holcombe
14. The Northern economy  Victor Cunrui Xiong
15. The Southern economy  Liu Shufen 劉淑芬
16. Agriculture  Francesca Bray
17. The history of Sogdians in China  Rong Xinjiang 榮新江
18. Northern material culture  Shing Müller
19. Southern material culture   Annette Kieser
20. Women, families, and gendered society  Jen-der Lee 李貞德
21. Local society Hou Xudong 侯旭東

Part III. Culture, Religion and Art:
22. Confucian learning and influence   Keith N. Knapp
23. Qingtan and Xuanxue   Y. K. Lo
24. Buddhism   John Kieschnick
25. Daoism   Stephen R. Bokenkamp
26. Popular religion   Robert Ford Campany
27. The world of prose literature   Antje Richter
28. The world of poetry   Cynthia Chennault
29. Art and visual culture   Wu Hung 巫鴻
30. Music   Bo Lawergren

Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China

Author:
James M. Hargett

Publisher:
Seattle: University of Washington Press

Publication date:
December 2018

Abstract:
First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places. In Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools, the first book-length treatment in English of Chinese travel literature (youji 遊記), James M. Hargett identifies and examines core works in the genre, from the Six Dynasties period (220-581), when its essential characteristics emerged, to its florescence in the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644). He traces the dynamic process through which the genre, most of which was written by scholars and officials, developed, and shows that key features include a journey toward an identifiable place; essay or diary format; description of places, phenomena, and conditions, accompanied by authorial observations, comments, and even personal feelings; inclusion of sensory details; and narration of movement through space and time.

Travel literature's inclusion of a variety of writing styles and purposes has made it hard to delineate. Hargett finds, however, that classic pieces of Chinese travel literature reveal much about the author, his values, and his view of the world, which in turn tells us about the author's society, making travel literature a rich source of historical information.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Harbingers in the Six dynasties
Articulation in the Tang
Maturity in the Song
Transition and innovation in the Jin, Yuan, and early to mid-Ming
The golden age of travel writing in the late Ming