Exemplary Figures (Fayan 法言)

Author:
Yang Xiong (Translated and introduced by Michael Nylan)

Publication Year: 
2013

Publisher: 
University of Washington Press

Abstract:

Exemplary Figures (sometimes translated as Model Sayings) is an unabridged, annotated translation of Fayan, one of three major works by the Chinese court poet-philosopher Yang Xiong (53 BCE-18 CE). Yang sought to "renew the old" by patterning these works on earlier classics, drawing inspiration from the Confucian Analects for Exemplary Figures. In this philosophical masterwork, constructed as a dialogue, Yang poses and then answers questions on philosophical, political, ethical, and literary matters. Michael Nylan's rendering of this text, which is laden with word play and is extraordinarily difficult to translate, is a joy to read-at turns wise, cautionary, and playful. 

Exemplary Figures is a core text that will be relied upon by scholars of Chinese history and philosophy and will be of interest to comparativists as well. 

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments 
Chronology of Dynasties 
Introduction 

Exemplary Figures / Fayan

1. Learning and Practicing 
2. Our Masters 
3. Cultivating One’s Person 
4. Asking about the Way 
5. Asking about Divine Insight 
6. Asking about Illumination 
7. Things Rarely Seen 
8. Every Five Hundred Years 
9. Foresight
10. Chong and Li 
11. Yan Yuan and Min Ziqian 
12. The Noble Man 
13. Honoring the Ancestors, the Ultimate Duty

Glossary of Names, Legendary and Historical 
Abbreviations 
Bibliography 
Index 

西魏・北周政権史の研究 Research on the Political History of the Western Wei and Northern Zhou

Author: 
前島佳孝

Publisher:
汲古書院

Publication Year:
2013

Table of Contents:

序　
第1部 官制より見た政権構造　
第1章：西魏宇文泰政権の官制構造について　
第2章：西魏行台考　
第3章：いわゆる西魏八柱国の序列について　
第4章：柱国と国公　

第2部 対梁関係の展開と四川獲得　
第1章：西魏・簫梁通交の成立　
第2章：西魏前半期の対梁関係の展開と賀抜勝　
第3章：梁武帝死後の西魏・梁関係の展開　
第4章：西魏の漢川進出と梁の内訌　
第5章：西魏の四川進攻と梁の帝位闘争　
第6章：東魏・北斉等の情勢と西魏の南進戦略総括　
第7章：西魏・北周の四川支配の確立とその経営　

第3部 人物研究　
第1章：李虎の事跡とその史料　
第2章：北周徒何綸墓誌銘と隋李椿墓誌銘　
第3章：〔補論〕隋末李密の東都受官に関する一試論　
総括

佯狂: 古代中国の処世術

Author : 
矢嶋美都子 

Publisher: 
汲古書院

Publication Date：
October, 2013


Table of Contents:

第1章：中国古代の「狂」

第2章：漢代の「狂」（佯狂）、容認から公認へ

第3章：六朝時代の「狂」

第4章：唐詩に詠じられた「楚狂接輿」について

第5章：『懐風藻』にみる「狂」（佯狂）の観念の受容

北朝隋代墓誌所在総合目録 （明治大学東洋史資料叢刊）

Editor: 
梶山智史

Publication Year: 
2013

Publisher:
汲古書院

Abstract: 
中国北朝・隋代の墓誌を北魏・東魏・北斉・西魏・北周・隋の年代順に配列し、出土場所と所蔵場所、および著録状況を見開きの表形式でまとめた目録。墓誌名索引も掲載。

Table of Content:

• 前言
• 凡例
• 目録
  • 北魏
  • 東魏・北斉
  • 西魏・北周
  • 隋
• 墓誌名索引

[Dissertation] Learning from Maoshan: Temple Construction in Early Medieval China

Author: 
Pettit, J. E. E..

School: 
Indiana University

Publication Year: 
2013

Advisers: 
Eno, Robert & Stalnaker, Aaron

Abstract:

Maoshan, a range of mountains southeast of Nanjing, has been home to one of China's most influential Daoist temples. One of Maoshan's most famous patriarchs was Tao Hongjing (456-536 CE), a polymath whose wide range of interests included alchemy, genealogy, mapmaking, herbal medicine, and Daoist ritual. Scholarship on Tao has focused on his editorial work of the Shangqing Revelations, an assortment of mid-fourth-century scriptures written at Maoshan. I build on these earlier studies by demonstrating that Tao promoted the Shangqing Revelations as a prospectus for prospective clients interested in building temple compounds. I first study Tao's commentary to the Shangqing Revelations in which Tao persuaded his principal sponsor, Liang Emperor Wu, to invest in temple construction at Maoshan. I argue that Tao interpreted the revelations as evidence that his sponsor's salvation was predicated, at least in part, on the completion of a temple compound. I further show that Tao's skills as an excavator and architect of temples helped justify his leadership over this burgeoning institution.

In the middle chapters of this study, I analyze the ways in which Tao's persona as a "temple builder" would likely have been received by potential clients. The methodology of these chapters is explicitly comparative: I examine hagiographies, scriptures, and inscriptions composed in both early imperial and medieval China. I rely heavily on narratives written in both Buddhist and Daoist contexts. This disparate group of texts illustrates the history that made Tao's status as a temple developer a recognizable social role by his era. It further establishes that Tao's temple building was one expression of a cultural practice that transcended doctrinal and geographic boundaries.

In the final chapter, I examine Tao's construction at Maoshan during his post-515 abbacy, a period when he remade Maoshan into a Buddhist-Daoist ritual site. While Tao might have altered the doctrinal symbols of his temple, his representation of his abbotship remained consistent with his earlier writings. Tao's writings on the cooperation between clerics and sponsors, I conclude, formed a template for later religious entrepreneurs at Maoshan.

[Dissertation] Daoists and Doctors: The Role of Medicine in Six Dynasties Shangqing Daoism 六朝上清道教中醫者的角色

Author:
Michael Stanley-Baker

School:
University College London

Year:
2013

Adviser:
Vivienne Lo


As for this dissertation's abstract, please click on the link below:

http://www.academia.edu/206371/Abstract_Daoists_and_Doctors_-_The_role_of_Medicine_in_Six_Dynasties