Editors:
Cynthia L. Chennault (Author), Keith N. Knapp (Author), Alan J. Berkowitz (Author), Albert E. Dien (Author)
Publisher:
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Publication Year:
2015
Abstract:
A guide to primary sources that date from China's early medieval period (late third through sixth centuries) and to later anthologies or reference works concerning them. Ninety-eight essays, arranged alphabetically by title, discuss authorship, contents, history of editions, traditional commentaries and assessments, modern scholarship, and translations; subject index included.
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Editor:
東アジア恠異学会
Publisher:
勉誠出版
Publication Year:
2015
Abstract:
「怪異」は中国の災異思想をはじめ、日本の神仏による霊験や物の怪、西洋の驚異、また民間説話や芸能、文学作品に見える妖怪など、様々なものを指すが、いずれも不思議な現象を読み解き、説明する情報の発信者と受容者のコミュニケーションによって成立する。そこには、神霊と人、人と人を「媒介」する〈知〉と〈技〉が重要な役割を果たしてきた。卜占や託宣を操る宗教者、怪異を知識で解釈する儒者や国学者、怪異をエンターテイメントに昇華させる作家や芸能者等「媒介者」は多様である。
その諸相を検討し、「怪異」をめぐる社会や人々の心性のダイナミズムを明らかにする。
Table of Contents:
はじめに 大江篤
Ⅰ 記す・伝える
霊験寺院の造仏伝承―怪異・霊験譚の伝播・伝承 大江 篤
『風土記』と『儀式帳』―恠異と神話の媒介者たち 榎村寛之
【コラム】境界を越えるもの―『出雲国風土記』の鬼と神 久禮旦雄
奈良時代・仏典注釈と霊異―善珠『本願薬師経鈔』と「起屍鬼」 山口敦史
【コラム】古文辞学から見る「怪」―荻生徂徠『訳文筌蹄』『論語徴』などから 木場貴俊
「妖怪名彙」ができるまで 化野燐
Ⅱ 語る・あらわす
メディアとしての能と怪異 久留島元
江戸の知識人と〈怪異〉への態度―〝幽冥の談〞を軸に 今井秀和
【コラム】怪異が現れる場所としての軒・屋根・天井 山本陽子
クダンと見世物 笹方政紀
【コラム】霊を捉える―心霊学と近代の作家たち 一柳廣孝
「静坐」する柳田国男 村上紀夫
Ⅲ 読み解く・鎮める
遣唐使の慰霊 山田雄司
安倍吉平が送った「七十二星鎮」 水口幹記
【コラム】戸隠御師と白澤 熊澤美弓
天変を読み解く―天保十四年白気出現一件 杉岳志
【コラム】陰陽頭土御門晴親と「怪異」 梅田千尋
吉備の陰陽師 上原大夫 木下浩
Ⅳ 辿る・比べる
王充『論衡』の世界観を読む―災異と怪異、鬼神をめぐって 佐々木聡
中国の仏教者と予言・讖詩―仏教流入期から南北朝時代まで 佐野誠子
【コラム】中国の怪夢と占夢 清水洋子
中国中世における陰陽家の第一人者―蕭吉の学と術 余欣（翻訳：佐々木聡・大野裕司）
台湾道教の異常死者救済儀礼 山田明広
【コラム】琉球の占術文献と占者 山里純一
【コラム】韓国の暦書の暦注 全勇勳
アラブ地域における夢の伝承 近藤久美子
【コラム】〈驚異〉を媒介する旅人 山中由里子
Author:
Clark, Hugh R
Publisher:
University Of Hawai'i Press
Publication Year:
2015
Abstract:
This work engages two of the most neglected themes in China’s long history: the integration of lands south of the Yangtze River into China and its impact on Chinese culture. The roots of Chinese civilization are commonly traced to the North. For millennia after the foundations of the northern culture had been laid, the South was not part of its mandate, and long after the imperial center had claimed political control in the late first millennium BCE, it remained culturally distinct. Yet for the past one thousand years the South has been the cultural, demographic, economic—and, on occasion, political—center of China. The process whereby this was accomplished has long been overlooked in Chinese historiography.
Hugh Clark offers a new perspective on the process of assimilation and accommodation that led to the new alignment. He begins by focusing on the stages of encounter between the sinitic north and the culturally diverse and alien south. Initially northerners and southerners looked on each other with antipathy: To the former, the non-sinitic inhabitants of the South were “barbarians.” To these “barbarians,” northerners were arrogantly hegemonic. Such attitudes led to patterns of resistance and alienation across the South that endured for many centuries until, as Clark suggests, the South grew in importance within the empire—a development that was finally recognized under the Song.
Clark’s approach to the second theme poses a fundamental challenge to what is meant by “Chinese culture.” Drawing on his long familiarity with southern Fujian, he closely examines the pre-sinitic cultural and religious heritage as well as later cults on the southeast coast to argue that an enduring legacy of pre-sinitic indigenous southern culture contributed significantly to late imperial and modern China, effectively challenging the paradigm of northern cultural hegemony that has dominated Chinese history for centuries.
The Sinitic Encounter in Southeast China is a path-breaking book that puts long-neglected issues back on the historian’s table for further investigation.
Table of Contents:
"The civilizing mission" and the historiographical context
Northern perceptions of the pre-Sinitic south
The Sinitic accommodation with the south
Social innovation in the eleventh century and the debates on civilization
The central coast through the eighth century
The Sinitic encounter
Cults of the Sinitic era: a narrative of appropriation and civilization
Civilizing the god of Baidu: a case study in civilizing strategy
Conclusions
Author:
谷中信一 YANAKA Shin-ichi
Publisher:
汲古書院
Publication Year:
2015
Abstract:
傳世文獻研究の蓄積と、出土資料から得られた新知見を活用し、「經典」として確立される過程を解明する
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口絵 巻頭カラー４頁
郭店楚墓竹簡 『老子』
馬王堆漢墓帛書『老子』甲乙本
北京大學藏西漢竹書 『老子』
序
第一章 郭店楚簡『老子』考
第二章 郭店楚簡『太一生水』 考
第三章 上博楚簡（七）『凡物流形』考
第四章 上博楚簡（三）『恆先』考
第五章 『莊子』天下篇考
第六章 いわゆる黄帝言考
第七章 『淮南子』道應訓所引『老子』考
第八章 『史記』老子傳に隱された眞實
第九章 北大漢簡『老子』の學術價値―「執一」概念を中心に
終 章
注・あとがき・索引（人名 書名 事項・國名）
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
Author:
Lander, Brian G.
School:
Columbia University
Advisor:
Feng Li
Defended:
2015
Abstract:
This thesis examines the long-term ecological transformation of the Guanzhong plain, capital region of China's ancient empires, from the origins of agriculture to the fall of the Qin Empire in 208 BCE. It employs textual, archaeological and paleoecological evidence to reconstruct the natural environment of the region and examine how it was transformed by the centralization of political power.
Following the introduction, the second chapter reconstructs the geology, climate and ecology of the region before it was converted to farming. After discussing potential reasons why the region was not forested, it describes the many wild animals that once lived there in order to help the reader imagine an ecosystem that has long since disappeared.
Chapter Three explores the environmental impacts of Neolithic and early Bronze Age societies, examining the formation of the North Chinese agricultural system through indigenous domestication and the arrival of already domesticated plants and animals from Central Asia. It also discusses the environmental impacts of these small-scale farming communities.
Chapter Four employs the Book of Odes and other evidence to analyze the human ecology of the Western Zhou period (1045-771 BC). It then considers the political ecology of the Western Zhou state, arguing that because it remained an alliance of independent economic units, it was far less aggressive towards the environment than later states despite its formidable military reach.
Chapter Five begins by arguing that the constantly increasing scale of warfare in the subsequent Eastern Zhou period (771-221) prompted states to extend their control over resources and people, leading to the development of centralized bureaucracies. It also discusses the evidence for the origins and spread of iron tools and ox-drawn ploughs in early China.
Chapter Six focuses on the political history of Qin, beginning with its origins, occupation of the Guanzhong and consolidation up to the fourth century. The second half of the chapter discusses the reforms of Shang Yang, which greatly increased the power of the state over the environment, and the Zheng Guo canal project, which transformed the northeast of the plain.
Chapter Seven employs archaeologically excavated documents to analyze the political ecology of Qin during the reign of the First Emperor, who reigned from 246 to 210. Qin's power was based on its rank-based land grant system, state ownership of forests and wetlands, and the large-scale use of convict and slave labor. Because it was so centralized, the Qin state had a remarkable amount of control over how land was exploited in its domain. Although the empire did not last long, its centralized bureaucracy became the standard model of political organization in China, playing an important role in the spread of agricultural societies across the subcontinent.
