Publisher:
中国古代史論叢編集委員会 (立命館東洋史学会)
Publication Date:
March, 2017
Table of Contents:
佐藤信弥 歴史評価としての共伯和
秋山陽一郎 「国別者八篇」考 劉向新定本『戦国策』の藍本
永田拓治 魏晋期における校書事業と史書編纂
松島隆真 鉅鹿の戦いとその歴史的意義 「懐王の約」をめぐる項羽と劉邦
落合淳思 甲骨文字の占卜用語 甲骨文字礼記（二）
山田崇仁 大正新脩大蔵経テキストデータベースを利用した外典佚文収集に関する基礎的研究
吉本道雄 『左伝』『国語』の歳星記事
吉本道雄 睡虎地秦簡年代考 日本における中国古代史研究の現状に寄せて
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Author:
WU, Chen
Defended:
2016
School:
The University of Wisconsin - Madison
Advisor:
Nienhauser, William H.
Abstract:
Tang Dynasty China witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of narrative writing. The Tang capital, Chang’an, as an international metropolis populated with talented writers and full of interesting subjects, was an ideal setting for the development of narrative texts. This dissertation argues that the urban space in Chang’an, with the memory, rhythm, and functions of the sub-spaces within it—the subjects of the three chapters to follow—had a significant impact on the formation and circulation of Tang narratives and on the construction of their plots. Besides the pool of cityscape material at the writer’s disposal, the historical depth of the capital and its representativeness as “the” Chinese city, gave narratives a special meaning from the very beginning.
As a part of the history of the city, urban memories played a big part. The transformations between the physical spaces of various works of architecture—such as residences, temples, tombs, and palaces—generated numerous urban legends and mysteries, which gave these spaces an enhanced spiritual dimensions. Tang Dynasty writers, therefore, preserved these spaces in literary texts and used the memories to enrich what were originally simple and formulaic stories.
The ongoing daily rhythm of the city was another distinct factor in constructing narratives of Chang’an. The Tang Dynasty curfew system caused the routinized opening and closing of ward and city gates and thus the alternately separated and connected spaces by these gates. For narrative writers, the daily rhythm of the urban space provided motivations for the delays, progressions, and twists in plots, all of which naturalized and authenticated the narrative.
Last but not least, many public spaces in Chang’an, such as the crowded markets, bustling streets, popular sightseeing spots, and secularized temples, stepped beyond their original roles and became a social stage for citizens to meet, learn, entertain and perform, creating new networks and patterns of behavior. The additional functions of these public spaces were emphasized, exaggerated, and skillfully used to create coincidences, intensify dramatic tensions and advance the plots.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
Chapter One. The City Remembered: Residences, Temples, Tombs, and Palaces
One Space, a Continuing Story, and an Everlasting Memory
Voice from the Other World
Nostalgia and Trauma: The City’s Memory
Chapter Two. Urban Spaces and Practices of Separation and Connection: On Uses of Walls and Gates in Cities and Wards
The Ward System and Plot Development in Tang Love Stories
The Ward System and the Narrative Construction of Tang Supernatural Stories
Chapter Three. The Chang’an of Infinite Possibilities: Public Space and Its Narrative Representations
East and West Markets: An Information Distribution Center
The Qujiang Area: An Ideal Place for Encounters
Buddhist Temples and Taoist Temples: Beyond Religious Responsibilities
The Mutual Gaze and the Shift towards Public Space: A Case Study of The
Hua’e/Qinzheng Towers
TOWARDS A CONCLUSION
Author:
SHI Jie
School:
University of Chicago
Defended:
2017
Advisor:
Wu Hung
Abstract:
To extend the imperial authority to the newly conquered lands, early Western Han 漢 emperors in the second century BCE dispatched their sons and brothers to reign over some remote kingdoms in the restive border regions, whose people lived in vivid memories of their pre-imperial pasts. While ancient historians only left succinct and fragmentary documents about these kingdoms, modern archaeologists have excavated dozens of royal tombs, which allow us to probe into religious, social, and political agendas of early imperial Chinese rulers.
This dissertation scrutinizes one king’s complex identification with himself, his family, and his state in the formative period of the Chinese empire by analyzing his and his wife’s tombs, dubbed Mancheng 滿城 Tombs 1 and 2, located in Hebei 河北 province in the northern border region of the Han Empire. Widely acknowledged as the richest, most significant, highest-ranking, and best-preserved royal tombs so far excavated in early imperial China, both tombs were found miraculously intact. More than ten thousand objects, many of which have been declared national treasures of China, were distributed on the floors in meaningful patterns across a cluster of interconnected, house-like burial chambers. These parallel tombs were occupied by King Liu Sheng 劉勝 (d. 113 BCE) and Queen Dou Wan 竇綰 (d. ca. 109 BCE), who re-established the originally non-Chinese “barbaric” state called Zhongshan (literally, “People within Mountains”) in 154 BCE.
This dissertation argues that architectural plans, the patterns of furnishing, and the diversity of burial objects addressed the royal couple’s three significant concerns during their lives: harmonizing the body with the soul, the husband with the wife, and the Chinese with the “barbaric.” In doing so, this dissertation methodologically synthesizes interdisciplinary methodologies from art history, archaeology, and sinology by closely reading visual materials from the royal tombs in conjunction with textual sources about Zhongshan.
This dissertation consists of three main chapters. Chapter 1 examines the tombs’ pattern of furnishing as the material embodiment of the traditional Chinese philosophy of harmonizing body and soul, which were housed respectively in the rear coffin and the front chamber. Chapter 2 studies the parallel relationship between the twin tombs as a visual commentary on the discourse of ideal husband and wife, who is mirroring and subject to the husband. The last Chapter 3 shows how non-Chinese elements were intertwined with Chinese elements in the tomb to represent the king’s double identity both as the heir to the local “barbaric” cultural tradition and as a Chinese imperial representative.
This dissertation contributes to the field of Chinese art history and culture by providing the first comprehensive analysis of one of the most important archaeological discoveries of ancient China and by offering a theoretical and methodological reflection of what early Chinese tombs were and how to study them as a source for historical inquiries.
Editors:
Paul van Els
Sarah A. Queen
Publication Date:
September 2017
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Abstract:
Between History and Philosophy is the first book-length study in English to focus on the rhetorical functions and forms of anecdotal narratives in early China. Edited by Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen, this volume advances the thesis that anecdotes—brief, freestanding accounts of single events involving historical figures, and occasionally also unnamed persons, animals, objects, or abstractions—served as an essential tool of persuasion and meaning-making within larger texts. Contributors to the volume analyze the use of anecdotes from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, including their relations to other types of narrative, their circulation and reception, and their central position as a mode of argumentation in a variety of historical and philosophical literary genres.
Table of Contents:
Anecdotes in Early China
Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen
Part I. Anecdotes, Argumentation, and Debate
1. Non-deductive Argumentation in Early Chinese Philosophy
Paul R. Goldin
2. The Frontier between Chen and Cai: Anecdote, Narrative, and Philosophical Argumentation in Early China
Andrew Seth Meyer
3. Mozi as a Daoist Sage? An Intertextual Analysis of the “Gongshu” Anecdote in the Mozi
Ting-mien Lee
4. Anecdotal Barbarians in Early China
Wai-yee Li
Part II. Anecdotes and Textual Formation
5. Anecdote Collections as Argumentative Texts: The Composition of the Shuoyuan 說苑
Christian Schwermann
6. From Villains Outwitted to Pedants Out-Wrangled: The Function of Anecdotes in the Shifting Rhetoric of the Han Feizi
Heng Du
7. The Limits of Praise and Blame: The Rhetorical Uses of Anecdotes in the Gongyangzhuan 公羊傳
Sarah A. Queen
Part III. Anecdotes and History
8. History without Anecdotes: Between the Zuozhuan and the Xinian 繫年Manuscript
Yuri Pines
9. Cultural Memory and Excavated Anecdotes in “Documentary” Narrative: Mediating Generic Tensions in the Baoxun 保訓 Manuscript
Rens Krijgsman
10. Old Stories No Longer Told: The End of the Anecdotes Tradition of Early China
Paul van Els
Author:
LIN, Hsin-Yi
School:
Columbia University
Advisor:
Bernard Faure
Defended:
2017
Abstract:
In Buddhism birth is regarded as the origin of suffering and impurity, whereas it also forms the physical basis indispensible for seeking and attaining awakening. Birth is both the starting points of incuring defilement and achieving sanctity. Pointing out this paradox on birth in Buddhism and situating the issue within the context of Chinese religion and history, this dissertation extensively investigates Buddhist discourses and practices of reproduction in medieval China. It anwsers how Buddhist discourses and practices of childbirth were transmitted, transformed, and applied in medieval China, and how they interacted with indigenous healing resources and practices in both Chinese religious and medical realms. Through examining the primary sources such as the excavated Day Books (Chapter One), Buddhist hagiographies (Chapter Two), Buddhist obstetric and embryological discourses (Chapter Three and Four) and healing resources preserved in Tripitaka and Dunhuang manuscripts, Dunhuang transformation texts and tableaux, and miracle tales and anecdote literature (Chapter Four and Five), I argue that not only was there a paradoxical dualism at the heart of Buddhism's relationship with reproduction, but also Buddhism provides abundant healing resources for dealing with childbirth on the practical level. Overall I contend that Buddhist healing resources for childbirth served as an effective channel through which Buddhist teaching, worldview and concepts of gender and body were conveyed to its supplicants. Through this investigation, this dissertation contributes to the understanding of the association of Buddhism with medicine, the influence of Buddhist discourses and practices of reproduction on China, and the transmission of Buddhist views of gender, the body, and life to China through its healing activities related to childbirth.
Editors:
土肥義和 (Dohi Yoshikazu); 氣賀澤保規 (KEGASAWA Yasunori)
Publisher:
汲古書院
Publication Date:
April, 2017
Table of Contents:
序 …… 氣賀澤保規
Ⅰ 制度・行政文書
伊藤敏雄 樓蘭出土漢文文字資料中の簿籍と公文書について
――殘紙の簿籍と公文書を中心に――
町田隆吉 河西出土五胡時代「板」(官吏辭令書)小攷
關尾史郎 「貲簿」の周邊
――北涼時代の簿籍と税制――
王 素 高昌王令形式總論
(河内 桂譯)
荒川正晴 通行證としての公驗と牒式文書
土肥義和 唐代における均田法施行の史料雜抄
劉 安志 唐代解文初探
――敦煌吐魯番文書を中心に――
(速水 大譯)
Ⅱ 地域と社会
妹尾達彦 唐長安の都市核と進奏院
――進奏院状(P3547・S1156)をてがかりに――
古瀬奈津子 書儀・往來物を通じてみた日唐親族の比較
石田勇作 9～10世紀敦煌地域社會と組織の一斷面
――P3249v文書を手掛かりに――
赤木崇敏 曹氏歸義軍節度使系譜攷
――2つの家系から見た10～11世紀の敦煌史――
吉田 豊 コータンのユダヤ・ソグド商人?
松井 太 トゥルファン=ウイグル人社會の連保組織
Ⅲ 文化と思想
朱 玉麒 トルファン文書にみえる漢文文學史料
(西村陽子譯)
張 娜麗 玄奘の譯場と玄應の行實
――敦煌・吐魯番文獻と日本古寫經の伝えるもの――
伊藤美重子 敦煌寫本「醜女縁起」の依據する經典の再檢討
――『賢愚經』と『雜寶藏經』の醜女説話をめぐって――
岩本篤志 敦煌文獻と傳存文獻の間
――唐代の醫藥書『新修本草』と『千金方』を中心として――
丸山裕美子 磯部武男氏所藏「朋友書儀」斷簡について(再論)
――「敦煌秘笈」及び中村不折舊藏吐魯番寫本「朋友書儀」との關係をめぐって――
余 欣 中古時期における瑞應圖書の源流
――敦煌文獻と日本寫本の總合考察――
(山口正晃譯)
史料紹介
吉田章人 東洋文庫における IOM RAS 所藏非佛教漢語文書の整理と考察
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