Editors:
Deborah A. Bekken, Lisa C. Niziolek, Gary M. Feinman
Publisher:
University Of Chicago Press
Publication Date:
November 7, 2017
Abstract:
At the entrance of The Field Museum’s Cyrus Tang Hall of China, two Chinese stone guardian lions stand tall, gazing down intently at approaching visitors. One lion’s paw rests upon a decorated ball symbolizing power, while the other lion cradles a cub. Traditionally believed to possess attributes of strength and protection, statues such as these once stood guard outside imperial buildings, temples, and wealthy homes in China. Now, centuries later, they guard this incredible permanent exhibition.
China’s long history is one of the richest and most complex in the known world, and the Cyrus Tang Hall of China offers visitors a wonderful, comprehensive survey of it through some 350 artifacts on display, spanning from the Paleolithic period to present day. Now, with China: Visions through the Ages, anyone can experience the marvels of this exhibition through the book’s beautifully designed and detailed pages. Readers will gain deeper insight into The Field Museum’s important East Asian collections, the exhibition development process, and research on key aspects of China’s fascinating history. This companion book, edited by the exhibition’s own curatorial team, takes readers even deeper into the wonders of the Cyrus Tang Hall of China and enables them to study more closely the objects and themes featured in the show. Mirroring the exhibition’s layout of five galleries, the volume is divided into five sections. The first section focuses on the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods; the second, the Bronze Age, the first dynasties, and early writing; the third, the imperial system and power; the fourth, religion and performance; and the fifth, interregional trade and the Silk Routes. Each section also includes highlights containing brief stories on objects or themes in the hall, such as the famous Lanting Xu rubbing.
With chapters from a diverse set of international authors providing greater context and historical background, China: Visions through the Ages is a richly illustrated volume that allows visitors, curious readers, and China scholars alike a chance to have an enduring exchange with the objects featured in the exhibition and with their multifaceted histories.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Lisa C. Niziolek, Deborah A. Bekken, and Gary M. Feinman
Timeline
1 Building the China Collections at The Field Museum
Deborah A. Bekken
Section 1 Diverse Landscapes, Diverse Ways of Life
2 Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture in China
Gary W. Crawford
Highlight 1: Zhoukoudian: Peking Man and Evidence for Human Evolution in East Asia
Chen Shen
3 China during the Neolithic Period
Gary M. Feinman, Hui Fang, and Linda M. Nicholas
Section 2 Ritual and Power, War and Unification
4 The Bronze Age in China: What and When
Yungti Li 李永迪
Highlight 2: Sanyangzhuang 三楊莊: Life and Death in the Yellow River Floodplain
Tristram R. Kidder and Haiwang Liu
5 Written on Bamboo and Silk, Inscribed in Metal and Stone: Varieties of Early Chinese Writing
Edward L. Shaughnessy
Highlight 3: Consort Hao’s Inauspicious Delivery
Edward L. Shaughnessy
Section 3 Shifting Power, Enduring Traditions
6 Along the River during the Qingming Festival: A Living Painting with a Long History
Lu Zhang
Highlight 4: Conserving a Treasure: Preparing Along the River during the Qingming Festival for Display
Rachel Freeman and Shelley R. Paine
7 Men of Culture: Scholar-Officials and Scholar-Emperors in Late Imperial China
Fan Jeremy Zhang
Highlight 5: Commemorating a Gathering of Friends: The Lanting Xu Rubbing
Yuan Zhou
Section 4 Beliefs and Practices, Symbols and Stories
8 Daoism and Buddhism in Traditional China
Paul Copp
Highlight 6: Sealed in Time: A Manuscript from Dunhuang
Yuan Zhou
9 Shadows between Worlds: Chinese Shadow Theater
Mia Yinxing Liu
Section 5 Crossing Boundaries, Building Networks
10 The Silk Road: Intercontinental Trade and the Tang Empire
Lin Meciun 林梅村 and Ran Zhang
11 The Java Sea Shipwreck and China’s Maritime Trade
Lisa C. Niziolek
Highlight 7: Herbs and Artifacts: Trade in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Amanda Respess
Conclusion: Legacies of Qin Unification: A Hinge Point of Chinese History
Gary M. Feinman
Editors:
Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Publication Date:
November, 2017
Abstract:
Using newly discovered and excavated texts, Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo systematically explore material culture, inscriptions, transmitted texts, and genealogies from BCE China to reconstruct the role of women in social reproduction in the ancient Chinese world. Applying paleographical, linguistic, and historical analyses, Cook and Luo discuss fertility rituals, birthing experiences, divine conceptions, divine births, and the overall influence of gendered supernatural agencies on the experience and outcome of birth. They unpack a cultural paradigm in which birth is not only a philosophical symbol of eternal return and renewal but also an abiding religious and social focus for lineage continuity. They also suggest that some of the mythical founder heroes traditionally assumed to be male may in fact have had female identities. Students of ancient history, particularly Chinese history, will find this book an essential complement to traditional historical narratives, while the exploration of ancient religious texts, many unknown in the West, provides a unique perspective into the study of the formation of mythology and the role of birthing in early religion.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: A Chu Text
1. Words and Images
2. Controlling Reproduction: Fertility Prayers
3. Mothers and Embryos
4. Controlling the Pregnant Body
5. Divine Origins and Chu Genealogical History
6. The Traumatic Births of Non-Zhou Ancestral Founders
Conclusion
Editor:
湯浅邦弘 (Kunihiro Yuasa)
Publisher:
汲古書院
Publication Date:
2017-9-29
Table of Contents:
はじめに
第一部 清華簡とは何か
第一章 発見から最新分冊の刊行まで 湯浅邦弘
第二章 清華簡（壹）～（陸）の字迹分類 福田哲之
第三章 清華簡（壹）～（陸）所収文献解題 草野友子・中村未来
第二部 清華簡の分析
第一章 『殷高宗問於三壽』の思想的特質 湯浅邦弘
第二章 『程寤』考――太姒の夢と文王の訓戒―― 湯浅邦弘
第三章 『尹誥』の思想史的意義 福田哲之
第四章 『耆夜』の文献的性格 竹田健二
第五章 『湯在啻門』における「気」 竹田健二
第六章 『湯在啻門』に見える「玉種」 曹 方 向
第七章 『祭公之顧命』考 草野友子
第八章 『周公之琴舞』考 中村未来
第九章 統治手段としての「恥」――『命訓』と『逸周書』三訓と―― 中村未来
第三部 清華簡研究の展開
第一章 『保訓』と三体石経古文――科斗体の淵源―― 福田哲之
第二章 『良臣』・『祝辞』の書写者――国別問題再考―― 福田哲之
第三章 『楚居』の劃線・墨線と竹簡の配列 竹田健二
第四章 劃線小考――北京簡『老子』と清華簡『繫年』とを中心に―― 竹田健二
第五章 清華簡『繫年』および郭店楚簡『語叢（一）』の「京」字に関する一考察
曹 方 向〈草野友子訳〉
あとがき
初出一覧
執筆者紹介
Author:
秦 小麗
Publisher:
六一書房
Publication Date:
August, 2017
Abstract:
中国初期国家の形成過程に関する従来の考古学的研究は、土器で設定した文化類型を、戦国時代以降の文献史料に示された夏や商(殷)王朝の活動範囲と結び付けて解釈することが多かった。著者はこの研究史上の問題点をふまえ、遺跡ごと・地域ごとの土器系統の分析により明らかになる複雑化した相互交流の実態にこそ初期国家の形成過程を分析するための鍵があるとし、数量的手法を用いた土器様式の分析を行う。土器の法量比較や土器表面に印された縄目数の計測は、日本考古学の手法を参考に実地の資料調査を積み重ねた著者ならではの着眼点で、日中の学会誌や国際学会においても高い評価を受けている。本書における著者の研究により、中国の国家形成期における複雑な地域間交流と、中央による地方の支配体制が二里頭時代から二里岡時代へと次第に強化されていくプロセスが、具体的に明らかになる。日本考古学の研究手法を随所に用いた本書は、単に中国考古学の研究書としてだけでなく、国家形成をめぐる日本考古学の方法論的な実践書として読んでいただけるだろう。
Table of Contents:
序文(岡村秀典)
はじめに
第1章 研究史
第1節 二里頭時代の研究史
第2節 二里岡時代の研究史
第3節 夏商考古研究の問題の所在と本書の視点
第2章 土器の型式分類と系統識別
第1節 土器型式の分類と型式の変化
第2節 中心地における各系統の起源
第3章 中心地における土器様式の変遷
第1節 二里頭遺跡の土器様式
第2節 鄭州商城遺跡の土器様式
第3節 偃師商城遺跡の土器様式
第4節 3遺跡間の比較
第4章 二里頭時代の地域動態
第1節 地域区分と編年
第2節 伊洛地区
第3節 山西省南西地区
第4節 河南省南西地区
第5節 鄭州周辺および河南省東部地区
第6節 河南省南部と長江中流域地区
小結
第5章 二里頭時代から二里岡時代への転換
第1節 鄭州・伊洛地区における複合遺跡の分析
第2節 河南省北部地区における複合遺跡の分析
第3節 山西省南西地区における複合遺跡の分析
第4節 考察
小結
第6章 二里岡時代の地域動態
第1節 伊洛・鄭州地区および河南省東部地区
第2節 河南省北部地区
第3節 山西省南西地区
第4節 長江中流域地区
第5節 考察
第7章 土器の地域動態と城郭遺跡の出現
第1節 土器の地域動態
第2節 土器様式変化の背景
第3節 中心と周辺
第4節 二里岡文化の成立過程
おわりに
あとがき
引用参考文献
図表出典
中国語要旨
Author:
Glenda E. Chao
Thesis Advisor:
Li, Feng
School:
Columbia University
Defended:
2017
Abstract:
This dissertation analyzes historical and archaeological evidence of culture change and the effects of state and imperial expansion on local communities to show that early Chinese cultural history is enriched when commoners are taken into account. I do this by focusing on heretofore unexamined evidence in the middle Han river valley of north-central Hubei province in early China during the 8th century BCE to the 1strd century CE. I argue that this was a particularly important region because it was an important crossroads where multiple polities interacted in the period between the fall of the Western Zhou state and the rise of China’s first empires, the Qin and the Han.
Traditional historiography attributes culture change during this period and in this region to the imposition of a holistic set of customs by elites representing state or imperial power on newly conquered lands. The sources used and analyses employed are disproportionately derived from elite contexts. As a result, current historical narratives privilege elite views of culture and society. By contrast, my dissertation employs a methodology that utilizes newly excavated archaeological data to enrich extant narratives of the early cultural history of this region. I do this in two ways. First, I interweave archaeological evidence of ordinary peoples’ cultural practices into the dominant political and social histories of the era. Second, I focus on the middle Han river area as a geographical crossroads that was as culturally complex as frontier regions, a perspective rarely taken in traditional studies of early China.
Chapter 1 lays out the three-tiered theoretical and methodological framework of the dissertation. I first outline theories of culture change in ancient colonial encounters, derived from anthropological discourse, and that can be utilized to understand my novel data. I then describe how archaeologists utilize material evidence of past funerary rituals, which form the bulk of my data, to study culture change. Finally, I talk about the quantitative methods through which I render the archaeological data intelligible to interpretation.
In Chapter 2, I engage with the third and narrowest tier of my methodology by using assemblage theory as the basis for archaeological periodization of funerary ceramics at Bianying 卞營 cemetery. This method takes as its premise the idea that the appearance of new ceramic types and the disappearance of others, signify moments of change due either to incoming practices or internal development, when the social and cultural affiliations of the community of mourners came under question, thus, allowing for the assertion and negotiation of emergent cultural identities.
In Chapter 3, I use exploratory data analyses to identify meaningful patterns in the seven chronological periods identified in Chapter 2. In interpreting these patterns, I explain how, within the realm of funerary ritual, the introduction of new cultural practices into Xiangyang engendered the formation of hybrid culture at Bianying, and how the active agency of the local population was expressed through this process.
In Chapter 4, I employ these previous analyses in returning to the level of culture change in order to build a more robust model of cultural hybridity in early imperial China. To do this, I analyze the more rural and idiosyncratic cemetery of Wangpo 王坡, located four kilometers north of Bianying. I use the evidence of hybridized burial practices at Wangpo to show how my model destabilizes accepted analytical categories and, thereby, allows new narratives of early imperial history in China to emerge, narratives that bring the discipline into dialogue with the study of other regions of the ancient world.
In Chapter 5, I construct a new history of cultural formation in Xiangyang. I do this by interweaving the archaeological narrative outlined in chapters 2 through 4 with textual evidence drawn from bronze inscriptions, excavated texts, and transmitted historical records. I reconcile contradictions between the archaeological and textual records by tacking back and forth between these two categories of source materials, treating both as different facets of the same story. In doing so, I present a holistic narrative of elite political designs on Xiangyang and its effects on locals, arguing that both groups mutually constructed one another in forming what we now know to be early imperial China. This work has important implications for further research by demonstrating the value of making more nuanced use of newly excavated material to reinvigorate the genre of regional history in China.
** Thank Dr. Albert Galvany for sharing this information
Editor:
窪添慶文 (KUBOZOE Yoshifumi)
Publication Date:
September, 2017
Publisher:
勉誠出版
Abstract:
魏晋南北朝時代は秦漢統一帝国と隋唐統一帝国の中間に位置する。
政治的に複数の政権が並立する分裂の時代ではあるが、そこには新しい動きが様々な点で生まれ、成長して行き、隋唐時代に繋がって行く。
それら新しい動きを「政治・人物」、「思想・文化」、「国都・都城」、「出土資料」の4つの側面から捉え、魏晋南北朝史研究の「いま」を分かりやすく解説し、非統一時代に生きた人々・物事の足跡を浮かび上がらせる。
Table of Contents:
総論―魏晋南北朝史のいま 窪添慶文
Ⅰ 政治・人物
曹丕―三分された日輪の時代 田中靖彦
晋恵帝賈皇后の実像 小池直子
赫連勃勃―「五胡十六国」史への省察を起点として 徐冲（板橋暁子・訳）
陳の武帝とその時代 岡部毅史
李沖 松下憲一
北周武帝の華北統一 会田大輔
それぞれの「正義」 堀内淳一
Ⅱ 思想・文化
魏晋期の儒教 古勝隆一
南北朝の雅楽整備における『周礼』の新解釈について 戸川貴行
南朝社会と仏教―王法と仏法の関係 倉本尚徳
北朝期における「邑義」の諸相―国境地域における仏教と人々 北村一仁
山中道館の興起 魏斌（田熊敬之・訳）
史部の成立 永田拓治
書法史における刻法・刻派という新たな視座―北魏墓誌を中心に 澤田雅弘
Ⅲ 国都・都城
鄴城に見る都城制の転換 佐川英治
建康とその都市空間 小尾孝夫
魏晋南北朝の長安 内田昌功
北魏人のみた平城 岡田和一郎
北魏洛陽城―住民はいかに統治され、居住したか 角山典幸
統万城 市来弘志
「蜀都」とその社会―成都 二二一―三四七年 新津健一郎
辺境都市から王都へ―後漢から五涼時代にかける姑臧城の変遷 陳力
Ⅳ 出土資料から見た新しい世界
竹簡の製作と使用―長沙走馬楼三国呉簡の整理作業で得た知見から 金平（石原遼平・訳）
走馬楼呉簡からみる三国呉の郷村把握システム 安部聡一郎
呉簡吏民簿と家族・女性 鷲尾祐子
魏晋時代の壁画 三崎良章
北朝の墓誌文化 梶山智史
北魏後期の門閥制 窪添慶文
