Table of Contents:
Letter from the Editor
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Sarah Allan
Obituaries
IN MEMORY OF A GREAT SINOLOGIST: NOEL BARNARD
Cheung Kwong-Yue (Alex)
ZHOU FENGWU 周鳳五 (1947–2015)
Kuan-yun Huang
Articles
THE PROBLEM OF TYPOLOGY IN CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY
Anke Hein
THE XINIAN: AN ANCIENT HISTORICAL TEXT FROM THE QINGHUA UNIVERSITY COLLECTION OF BAMBOO BOOKS
Olivia Milburn
VARIETIES OF TEXTUAL VARIANTS: EVIDENCE FROM THE TSINGHUA BAMBOO-STRIP *MING XUN MANUSCRIPT
Edward L. Shaughnessy
DATING A PRE-IMPERIAL TEXT: THE CASE STUDY OF THE BOOK OF LORD SHANG
Yuri Pines
SUNZI VERSUS XUNZI: TWO VIEWS OF DECEPTION AND INDIRECTION
Lisa Raphals
EVALUATING SWORDS: INTRODUCTION AND TRANSLATION OF A HOW-TO GUIDE FROM THE HAN-XIN PERIOD
Charles Sanft
Review Articles
CHEN WEI 陳偉 (ED.), QIN JIANDU HEJI 秦簡牘合集 [CORPUS OF QIN DOCUMENTS WRITTEN ON BAMBOO AND WOOD]: A REVIEW ARTICLE
Olivier Venture
SARAH ALLAN, BURIED IDEAS: LEGENDS OF ABDICATION AND IDEAL GOVERNMENT IN EARLY CHINESE BAMBOO-SLIP MANUSCRIPTS: A REVIEW ARTICLE
Mark Edward Lewis
Reviews
REVIEW: THREE PERSPECTIVES ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT CHINA - Li Liu and Xingcan Chen . The Archaeology of China from the Late Paleolithic to the Early Iron Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Rowan Flad and Pochan Chen . Ancient Central China, Centers and Peripheries along the Yangzi River. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Gideon Shelach-Lavi . The Archaeology of Early China, from Prehistory to the Han Dynasty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015.
Sarah Milledge Nelson
Erica Fox Brindley . Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c. 400 BCE–50 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxii + 279 pp.
Brian Lander
Lisa Raphals . Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Paul R. Goldin
Charles Sanft . Communication and Cooperation in Early Imperial China. Albany: State University Press of New York, 2014.
Karen Turner
Ralph D. Sawyer , with the bibliographic collaboration of Mei-chün Lee Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare. New York: Basic Books, 2011.
John S. Major
Review of Zhao Dingxin . The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, xx + 447 pp.
Yuri Pines
Bibliography
DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS WENYI HUANG, COMP.
ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY WENYI HUANG, COMP.
Author:
Catherine Churchman
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date:
20160923
Abstract:
This fundamental study provides the first comprehensive history in any language of the lands between the Red and Pearl Rivers in southern China and the people who resided there over a span of a thousand years. Bringing to life the mysterious early people known as Li 俚 and Lao 僚 who inhabited the area, Catherine Churchman explores their custom of casting large bronze kettledrums. As the symbols of political authority and legitimacy for the Li and Lao rulers, the abundance of drums found in the archaeological record is an indication not only of the great number of such rulers, but also of their great wealth and power, which increased significantly from the third century CE even as the Chinese Empires tightened their control over surrounding districts.
Drawing on a combination of Classical Chinese sources and scholarship in archaeology, anthropology, and historical linguistics, the author explains the political and economic factors behind the rise to power and subsequent disappearance of the indigenous leadership and its drum culture. She fills significant gaps in our understanding of the early interactions between China and northern Southeast Asia, challenging many widely held assumptions about the history of Chinese settlement and ethnic relations in the region, including those concerning the relationship between the Chinese Empires and the lands that would form the heart of a future Vietnamese state. A crucial work for understanding historical developments in the highland regions south of the Yangzi valley, it examines the first steps in the Sinic penetration of this highland world, one that has continued to the present. Bringing unprecedented attention to the historical identity of a previously overlooked region and a people, this book creates a new category in East Asian history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter One: Digging up Drums
Chapter Two: The Two Rivers and the Lands Between—a Geographical Outline
Chapter Three: Why are the Li and Lao?—The shifting meanings of Ethnonyms
Chapter Four: ‘Masters of their Small Domains’—Local and Imported Traditions of Leadership
Chapter Five: ‘To Overawe the Li and Lao’—Attempts at Military Conquest
Chapter Six: Gold, Silver, Snakes and Slaves: Highland-Lowland Trade Relations
Chapter Seven: ‘Last of the Bronze Drum Chiefs’—The Rise and Fall of the Great Families
Conclusion
Authors:
Martzloff, Jean-Claude
Publication Date:
September 2, 2016
Publisher:
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Abstract:
Presented from the viewpoint of the history of mathematics, this book explores both epistemological aspects of Chinese traditional mathematical astronomy and lunisolar calendrical calculations. The following issues are addressed: (1) connections with non-Chinese cultural areas; (2) the possibility or impossibility of using mathematics to predict astronomical phenomena, a question that was constantly raised by the Chinese from antiquity through medieval times; (3) the modes of representation of numbers, and in particular the zero, found in the context of Chinese calendrical calculations; and (4) a detailed analysis of lunisolar calendrical calculations. Fully worked-out examples and comparisons between the results of calculations and the content of Chinese historical calendars from various periods are provided.
Traditional Chinese calendrical and mathematical astronomy consists of permanently reformed mathematical procedures designed to predict, but not explain, phenomena pertaining to astronomy and related areas. Yet, despite appearances, models of the mathematical techniques hidden behind this voluminous corpus reveal that they depend on a limited number of clear-cut mathematical structures. Although only a small fraction of these techniques have been fully studied, what is known surprisingly broadens our knowledge of the history of Chinese mathematics.
Sinologists interested in the history of Chinese science, and anyone interested in the history of Chinese mathematics, the Chinese calendar, and the history of Chinese mathematical astronomy from its origin (104 BC) to its European reform (AD 1644) will find this book very useful. The present English language edition is a fully revised and updated version of the French original. Even though this is a research monograph in sinology, no particular sinological background is required, although a basic understanding of ‘concrete mathematics’ is needed.
Table of contents:
Part I Chinese Astronomical Canons and Calendars
II Calculations
III Examples of Calculations
Appendix
Bibliography
Author:
落合淳思 (OCHIAI Atsushi)
Publisher:
中央公論新社
Publication Date:
January 22, 2015
Abstract:
殷王朝は、今から三〇〇〇年以上も前に中国に実在した王朝である。酒池肉林に耽る紂王の伝説など、多くの逸話が残されているが、これらは『史記』をはじめとする後世の史書の創作である。いまだ謎多き殷王朝の実像を知るには、同時代資料である甲骨文字を読み解かねばならない。本書は、膨大な数にのぼる甲骨文字から、殷王朝の軍事や祭祀、王の系譜、支配体制と統治の手法などを再現し、解明したものである。
Table of Contents:
序章 甲骨文字に記された殷王朝の社会
第１章 殷王朝の前期・中期
第２章 殷王朝の支配体制
第３章 神々への祭祀儀礼
第４章 戦争と神秘性による支配―紀元前十三世紀
第５章 政治の転換と安定期の到来―紀元前十二世紀
第６章 動揺、集権化、そして滅亡―紀元前十一世紀
終章 殷王朝の歴史的位置
Author:
Victor Cunrui Xiong
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Date:
2016.9.7
Abstract:
Luoyang, situated in present-day Henan province, was one of the great urban centres of pre-Qin and early imperial China, the favoured site for dynastic capitals for almost two millennia. This book, the first in any Western language on the subject, traces the rise and fall of the six different capital cities in the region which served eleven different dynasties from the Western Zhou dynasty, when the first capital city made its appearance in Luoyang, to the great Tang dynasty, when Luoyang experienced a golden age. It examines the political histories of these cities, explores continuity and change in urban form with a particular focus on city layouts and landmark buildings, and discusses the roles of religions, especially Buddhism, and illustrious city residents. Overall the book provides an accessible survey of a broad sweep of premodern Chinese urban history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Genesis: From Luoyi 洛邑 to Wangcheng 王城
2. Eastern Han Luoyang: The Imperial Capital
3. Towards a National Metropolis: Cao-Wei and Western Jin Luoyang
4. Rebirth and Destruction: Northern Wei Luoyang
5. The Sui Eastern Capital
6. Tang Luoyang I: A Historical Perspective
7. Tang Luoyang II: Physical Characteristics
8. Tang Luoyang III: The Inhabitants
9. Epilogue
Translator:
佐藤武敏 (Sato Taketoshi)
Publisher:
平凡社
Publication Date:
July, 2016
Abstract:
中国の春秋時代末期、中原の覇権をめぐって激しく争った南方の列国である呉と越の盛衰を描く『呉越春秋』が、東洋文庫の新刊として初めて日本語に翻訳されました。
原著者は後漢の趙曄です。日本においてもよく知られている「臥薪嘗胆」や「呉越同舟」、「会稽の恥」の故事は、呉越間での相克の歴史に由来しており、呉王の夫差と越王の勾践という両雄が繰り広げる復讐劇が本書の大きな魅力になっています。また、祖国である楚から呉に亡命し、呉の賢臣として楚への復讐を果たすことに成功する一方、最後は主君である夫差によって冷遇された伍子胥の物語も有名です。
本書の解説部では、訳者である佐藤武敏氏が『呉越春秋』の成立過程に関して説明を行っているだけではなく、同書と同年代に書かれ、呉越の歴史を扱った『越絶書』との比較をしています。
『呉越春秋』を通じて、日本においても馴染みのある故事成語の起源や背景を知ることができるだけではなく、歴史小説を読むような感覚で、呉越を中心とした春秋時代の中国史を学ぶことができます。
Table of Contents:
凡例
地図
上巻
第一 呉太伯伝（呉の太伯の伝記）
第二 呉王寿夢伝（呉王寿夢の伝記）
第三 王僚使公子光伝（王僚の伝記と公子光・伍子胥が王僚を殺した顛末）
第四 闔閭内伝（闔閭の伝記）
第五 夫差内伝（夫差の伝記）
下巻
第六 越王無余外伝（越王無余の伝記）
第七 勾践入臣外伝（勾践、呉の臣となった伝え）
第八 勾践帰国外伝（勾践帰国後の決意）
第九 勾践陰謀外伝（勾践の陰謀）
第十 勾践伐呉外伝（勾践が呉を伐った次第と後日譚）
解説（佐藤武敏）
