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Letter from the Editor: Early China at 40
SARAH ALLAN
OBITUARY
David Noel Keightley (1932–2017)
SARAH ALLAN
Remembrances of David Keightley
MIRANDA BROWN, DAVID D. BUCK, RODERICK B. CAMPBELL, JONATHAN CHAVES, CONSTANCE A. COOK, LOTHAR VON FALKENHAUSEN, MARIÁN GÁLIK, ZEV HANDEL, KUAN-YUN HUANG, LIONEL M. JENSEN, STEVEN I. LEVINE, LI LING, LI XUEQIN, PAUL ROPP, EDWARD L. SHAUGHNESSY
FRANK JOSEPH SHULMAN 5
David Noel Keightley (1932–2017), Publications and Unpublished
Writings: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Research Guide
FRANK JOSEPH SHULMAN
ARTICLES
Early Chinese Manuscript Writings for the Name of the Sage Emperor Shun 舜, and the Legacy of Warring States Period Orthographic Variation in Early Chinese Received Texts
ADAM D. SMITH
Mozi and the Ghosts: The Concept of Ming 明 in Mozi’s “Ming gui” 明鬼
PIOTR GIBAS
Echoing Rulership: Understanding Musical References in the Huainanzi
AVITAL H. ROM
Introduction to the Peking University Han Bamboo Strips: On the Authentication and Study of Purchased Manuscripts
CHRISTOPHER J. FOSTER
EXCAVATED TEXT TRANSLATION
The Wuwei Medical Manuscripts: A Brief Introduction and Translation
YANG YONG and MIRANDA BROWN
RESEARCH NOTE
To Punish the Person: A Reading Note Regarding a Punctuation Mark in the Tsinghua Manuscript *Ming Xun
EDWARD L. SHAUGHNESSY
BOOK REVIEWS
Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, Michael Nylan, and Hans van Ess. The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy
LEI YANG
Barbieri-Low Anthony J., and Robin D. S. Yates. Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: A Study with Critical Edition and Translation of the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan Tomb no. 247
CHARLES SANFT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dissertation Abstracts
WEN-YI HUANG, comp.
Annual Bibliography
WEN-YI HUANG, comp
Author:
Lidu Yi
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Date:
November, 2017
Abstract:
The first ever comprehensive analysis of its kind in any western language, this unique volume provides a social art history of Yungang: a fifth-century rock-cut court cave complex, UNESCO World Heritage site, and one of the greatest Buddhist monuments of all time. Yungang asks why, when, and under what circumstances this impressive cave sanctuary was made, and who played significant roles at various stages.
Recent economic changes in China including the expansion of roads have led to unprecedented numbers of objects being unearthed on site and near the cave chapels. Archaeological discoveries in 2010 have shed significant new light on the architectural configuration of monasteries in the capital and the functions of different sections of the cave complex, as well as monastic life within it. For the first time, it is possible to reconstruct where the monks lived and translated sacred literary texts, and to fully understand that freestanding monasteries are an important component of the rock-cut cave complex.
Illustrated throughout with remarkable full-colour photographs, this re-examination of the cave chapels, which brings together previous scholarship, primary documentation, and more than a decade of first hand field research, will not only fill in the gaps in our knowledge about Yungang, but also raise, and perhaps answer, new questions in art history.
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Acknowledgements
Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
Chapter One Introduction
1. Chinese Antiquarian Documentation 2. Pioneering Japanese Expeditions 3. Chinese Scholarship 4. Western Research 5. Purpose and Organization of the Book
Chapter Two The Sacred Site of Yungang
1. Making the Sacred Cave Temples of Yungang 2. Auspicious Geographical Environment of Yungang 3. Archaeological Excavations and Related Issues 4. Art and Architecture
Chapter Three Phase One—Emperor As Tathāgata
1. The Imperial Five Tanyao Caves 2. Dates of Excavation of the Five Tanyao Caves 3. Emperor as the Living Tathāgata in the Cave temple 4. Tanyao and the Significance of the Translation of Sacred Books in Yungang 5. Concluding Remarks
Chapter Four Phase Two: Political Struggles and Chronicles Reconsidered
1. Dates of Caves 11-13 Reconsidered 2. Reconstructing a Chronological Sequence of the Second-phase Cave temples 3. Summary of the Chronology of the Second-phase Cave temples
Chapter Five Considering Karmic Narratives And Liturgical Functions
1. Reading the Iconography 2. Modes of Narratives and Viewers’ Response 3. Ritual and Function in a Rock-cut Cave Sanctuary 4. Folk Faith, Karmic Practice and the Tiwei Boli Jing 5. Concluding Remarks
Chapter Six Phase Three—The Remaining Splendour
1. Architectural Structure 2. Iconographic Composition 3. Telling Tales: Narrative Stories and Visual Representations 4. Iconographic Style 5. Classification, Dating and Chronological Sequence 6. Concluding Remarks 7. One Final Remark: Buddhist Sinicization Re-considered
Chapter 7 Postscript
Classification of the Caves in the Third-phase
Groups and Periodization of the Third-phase Caves
Character Glossary
Editors:
Hyun Jin Kim, Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, Selim Ferruh Adalı
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication date:
October 2017
Abstract:
The great empires of the vast Eurasian continent have captured the imagination of many. Awe-inspiring names such as ancient Rome, Han and Tang China, Persia, Assyria, the Huns, the Kushans and the Franks have been the subject of countless scholarly books and works of literature. However, very rarely, if at all, have these vast pre-industrial empires been studied holistically from a comparative, interdisciplinary and above all Eurasian perspective. This collection of studies examines the history, literature and archaeology of these empires and others thus far treated separately as a single inter-connected subject of inquiry. It highlights in particular the critical role of Inner Asian empires and peoples in facilitating contacts and exchange across the Eurasian continent in antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Table of Contents:
Introduction Hyun Jin Kim and Frederik Vervaet
Part I. Political Organization and Interactions of Eurasian Empires:
1. The Political Organization of Steppe Empires and their Contribution to Eurasian Interconnectivity: the case of the Huns and their impact on the Frankish West Hyun Jin Kim
2. Tang China's Horse Power: The Borderland Breeding Ranch System Jonathan Skaff
3.Cimmerians and the Scythians: The Impact of Nomadic Powers on the Assyrian Empire and the Ancient Near East Selim Ferruh Adalı
Part II. Socio-institutional Aspects of Eurasian Empires:
4. Honour and Shame in the Roman Republic Frederik Juliaan Vervaet
5. Honor and Shame in Han China Mark Lewis
6. Slavery and forced labor in early China and the Roman world
Walter Scheidel
Part III. Cultural Legacies of Eurasian Empires:
7. Homer and the Shi Jing as Imperial Texts
Alexander Beecroft
8. The Serpent from Persia – Manichaeism in Rome and China
Samuel Lieu
Part IV. Archaeology of Eurasian Empires:
9. The Alans in the Southern Caucasus?
Antonio Sagona, Claudia Sagona and Aleks Michalewicz
10. Greeks, Scythians, Parthians and Kushans in Central Asia and India
Osmund Bopearachchi
11. Enclosure Sites, non-nucleated settlement strategies and political capitals in ancient Eurasia Michelle Negus Cleary
Conclusion Hyun Jin Kim, Frederik Juliaan Vervaet and Selim Ferruh Adalı.
Author:
Constance A. Cook
Publication Date:
October, 2017
Publisher:
Harvard
Abstract:
Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao outlines the evolution of musical performance in early China, first within and then ultimately away from the socio-religious context of ancestor worship. Examining newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring States period, Constance A. Cook compares the rhetoric of Western Zhou (1046–771 BCE) and Spring and Autumn (770–481 BCE) bronze inscriptions with later occurrences of similar terms in which ritual music began to be used as a form of self-cultivation and education. Cook’s analysis links the creation of such classics as the Book of Odes with the ascendance of the individual practitioner, further connecting the social actors in three types of ritual: boys coming of age, heirs promoted into ancestral government positions, and the philosophical stages of transcendence experienced in self-cultivation.
The focus of this study is on excavated texts; it is the first to use both bronze and bamboo narratives to show the evolution of a single ritual practice. By viewing the ancient inscribed materials and the transmitted classics from this new perspective, Cook uncovers new linkages in terms of how the materials were shaped and reshaped over time and illuminates the development of eulogy and song in changing ritual contexts.
Table of Contents:
Part I.
1. Establishing the Zhou tradition: Memorial feasts and the rise of eulogy to Zhou kings
2. Kings, ancestors, and the transmission of De: Transitions and setting the pattern
3. Song of heirs: Royal inscriptions: the king as heir
4. Eulogy and the rise of the musical performance: Training the Xiaozi
Part II. The Zhou way after the Zhou:
5. Transitions and bronze inscriptions: Archaic rings
6. The new old Zhou way: Notes on the transmission of odes and A song of King Wen
7. From ancestor worship to inner cultivation: Notes on the bamboo text the lute dance of Zhou Gong
8. Coming-of-age rituals: Performing the capping ritual
Editors:
Alexei Ditter, Sarah M. Allen, and Jessey J. C. Choo.
Publisher:
Hackett Publishing Co.
Publication Date:
September 2017
Abstract:
Compiled during the Song dynasty (960–1279) at the behest of Emperor Taizong, the Taiping Guangji anthologized thousands of pages of unofficial histories, accounts, and minor stories from the Tang dynasty (618–907).
The twenty-two tales translated in this volume, many appearing for the first time in English, reveal the dynamism and diversity of society in Tang China. A lengthy Introduction as well as introductions to each selection further illuminate the social and historical contexts within which these narratives unfold. This collection offers a wealth of information for anyone interested in medieval Chinese history, religion, or everyday life.
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Timeline
Note on Translation Conventions
Introduction
THIS WORLD
"The Woman in the Carriage" 車中女子
introduced and translated by Linda Feng
"Xiao Yingshi" 蕭穎士
introduced and translated by Alexei Ditter
"Ming Siyuan" 明思遠
introduced and translated by Alexei Ditter
"The Record of Master Shenxiu’s Predictions" 秀師言記
introduced and translated by Jessey Choo
"Du Mu" 杜牧
introduced and translated by Manling Luo
"Di Weiqian" 狄惟謙
introduced and translated by Alexei Ditter
“General Pan” 潘將軍
introduced and translated by Linda Feng
"The Female Slave of Li Fu" 李福女奴
introduced and translated by Alexei Ditter
"Pengyan" 捧硯
introduced and translated by Alexei Ditter
BETWEEN WORLDS: OTHERWORLDY ENCOUNTERS IN THE HUMAN WORLD
"Yao Hong" 姚泓
introduced and translated by Sarah M. Allen
"Tang Xuan" 唐晅
introduced and translated by Jessey Choo
"Cao Weisi" 曹惟思
introduced and translated by Natasha Heller
"Dou Yu" 竇裕
introduced and translated by Jack W. Chen
"Scholar Wang" 王生
introduced and translated by Sarah M. Allen
"Shentu Cheng" 申屠澄
introduced and translated by Sarah M. Allen
"Scholar Hu" 胡生
introduced and translated by Manling Luo
"The Clan of Xingyang" 滎陽氏
introduced and translated by Natasha Heller
BETWEEN WORLDS: TRAVEL TO OTHER WORLDS
"Vice Magistrate of Liuhe District 六合縣丞"
introduced and translated by Jessey Choo
"Dong Guan" 董觀
introduced and translated by Jessey Choo
"Yang Jingzhen" 楊敬真
introduced and translated by Sarah M. Allen
"Lu Yong" 陸顒
introduced and translated by Linda Feng
"Master Yang" 楊大夫
introduced and translated by Timothy Davis
APPENDIX 1: TALES ORGANIZED BY CHRONOLOGY
APPENDIX 2: SOURCES FOR TALES WITHIN THE TAIPING GUANGJI
APPENDIX 3: TALES BY CATEGORIES WITHIN THE TAIPING GUANGJI
APPENDIX 4: TALES CATEGORIZED BY THEME OR TOPIC
Author:
Hilary A. Smith
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Publication Date:
October, 2017
Abstract:
Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these new identities as revelations, overlooking evidence that challenges Western ideas about these conditions. In Forgotten Disease, Hilary A. Smith argues that, by privileging nineteenth century sources, we misrepresent what traditional Chinese doctors were seeing and doing, therefore unfairly viewing their medicine as inferior.
Drawing on a wide array of sources, ranging from early Chinese classics to modern scientific research, Smith traces the history of one representative case, foot qi, from the fourth century to the present day. She examines the shifting meanings of disease over time, showing that each transformation reflects the social, political, intellectual, and economic environment. The breathtaking scope of this story offers insights into the world of early Chinese doctors and how their ideas about health, illness, and the body were developing far before the advent of modern medicine. Smith highlights the fact that modern conceptions of these ancient diseases create the impression that the West saved the Chinese from age-old afflictions, when the reality is that many prominent diseases in China were actually brought over as a result of imperialism. She invites the reader to reimagine a history of Chinese medicine that celebrates its complexity and nuance, rather than uncritically disdaining this dynamic form of healing.
Table of Contents:
Foot qi in early Chinese medicine
Competing for medical authority
Simplifying and standardizing disease
The northerner's eating disorder
Getting rich and getting sick
Creating beriberi in Meiji Japan
Foot qi's multiple meanings in modern East Asia
