Conquer and Govern: Early Chinese Military Texts from the Yi Zhou shu 《征服與統治: 逸周書中早期中國軍事文獻》

作者 Author:

Robin McNeal 

出版年 Publication Year:

2012 

出版社 Publisher:

University Of Hawaii Press 

內容簡介 Abstract:

China’s Warring States era (ca. 5th–3rd century BCE) was the setting for an explosion of textual production, and one of the most sophisticated and enduring genres of writing from this period was the military text. Social and political changes were driven in large part by the increasing scope and scale of warfare, and some of the best minds of the day (including Sunzi, whose Art of War is still widely read) devoted their attention to the systematic analysis of all factors involved in waging war. Conquer and Govern makes available for the first time in any Western language a corpus of military texts from a long neglected Warring States compendium of historical, political, military, and ritual writings known as the Yi Zhou shu, or Remainder of the Zhou Documents.

The texts articulate concretely and vividly the relationship between military conquest of an enemy and incorporation of conquered territories into one’s civilian government, expressed dynamically through the paired Chinese concept of wen and wu, the civil and the martial. Exploring this conceptual dyad as it evolved across the Warring States era into the early Western Han (ca. 2nd–1st century BCE) provides an alternative view of the social and intellectual history of classical China—one based not primarily on philosophical works but on a complex array of ideological writings concerned with the just, effective, and appropriate use of state power. In addition, this study presents a careful reconstruction of the poetic structure of these texts; analyzes their place in the broader discourse on warfare and governance in early China; introduces the many text historical problems of the Yi Zhou shu itself; and offers a synthetic analysis of early Chinese thinking about warfare, strategy, and the early state’s use of coercive power.

Affiliation and Transmission in Daoism: A Berlin Symposium

編者 Editor:

Florian C. Reiter

出版年 Publication Year:

2012 

出版社 Publisher:

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 

目錄 Table of Contents:  

Foreword             VII

FLORIAN C. REITER

Modes of Affiliation and Transmission: Early Quanzhen Daoism (全真) and

Daoist Thunder Magic (五雷法) ............................................. 1

TERRY KLEEMAN

“Take charge of households and convert the citizenry”

The Parish Priest in Celestial Master Transmission ........................19

JOHN LAGERWEY

Canonical fasts according to Lu Xiujing ....................................41

LÜ PENGZHI

Ordination Ranks in Medieval Daoism and the Classification of Daoist Rituals ..........................................................81

STEPHEN BOKENKAMP

Transmissions of a Female Daoist: Xie Ziran (767-795) ..........................109

HSIEH SHUWEI

Lineage, Hagiographie and Teaching: The Daoist School of Eastern

Florescence in Song and Yuan Dynasties ................................................123

CHANG CHAOJAN

Nocturnal Invocation and Installation of Officiants: Difficulties

encountered in Purification Rites of the Numinous Treasure Sect during

the Tang and Song and adaptive responses to them .................................159

TAM WAI-LUN

Transmission Ritual of Local Daoists in Southeast China ........................ 173

PAUL R. KATZ

The Development of Jiangnan Daoist Networks of Transmission and

Affiliation as seen in the Mount Weiyu Genealogy ....................193

LEE FONGMAO

The Transmission of Daoist Registers and the Climbing of the Knife-Ladder:

The 63rd Heavenly Master Zhang Enpu in Taiwan (1950-1969) and the

Reorganisation of Daoism ................................................... 225

LIN WEI-PING

Son of Man or Son of God? The Spirit Medium in Chinese Popular

Religion ................................................................................. 249

HSIEH TSUNG-HUI

The Study of Secret Knowledge Transmission in Daoist Altars: How

“The Origin and Development of Daoism” 《道教源流》has been

transmitted in South Taiwan .................................................277

Abbreviations ...................................................................... 293

List of Contributors ..............................................................295

Glossary ...............................................................................297

The Everlasting Empire:The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy

《永恆的帝國: 古代中國的政治文化及其遺產》

作者 Author:
Yuri Pines

出版社 Publisher:
Princeton Press

出版年 Publication Year:
2012

內容簡介 Abstract:
Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132 years before being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912. During its two millennia, the empire endured internal wars, foreign incursions, alien occupations, and devastating rebellions--yet fundamental institutional, sociopolitical, and cultural features of the empire remained intact. The Everlasting Empire traces the roots of the Chinese empire's exceptional longevity and unparalleled political durability, and shows how lessons from the imperial past are relevant for China today.

Yuri Pines demonstrates that the empire survived and adjusted to a variety of domestic and external challenges through a peculiar combination of rigid ideological premises and their flexible implementation. The empire's major political actors and neighbors shared its fundamental ideological principles, such as unity under a single monarch--hence, even the empire's strongest domestic and foreign foes adopted the system of imperial rule. Yet details of this rule were constantly negotiated and adjusted. Pines shows how deep tensions between political actors including the emperor, the literati, local elites, and rebellious commoners actually enabled the empire's basic institutional framework to remain critically vital and adaptable to ever-changing sociopolitical circumstances. As contemporary China moves toward a new period of prosperity and power in the twenty-first century, Pines argues that the legacy of the empire may become an increasingly important force in shaping the nation's future trajectory.


目錄 Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments vi i
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: The Ideal of "Great Unity" 11
Chapter 2: The Monarch 44
Chapter 3: The Literati 76
Chapter 4: Local Elite 104
Chapter 5: The People 134
Chapter 6: Imperial Political Culture in the Modern Age 162
Notes 185
Bibliography 209
Index 233

Riding the Wind with Liezi: New Perspectives on the Daoist Classic 《列子》

Editors:
Ronnie Littlejohn & Jeffrey Dippmann

Publisher:
SUNY Press

Publication Year:
2012

Abstract:


The Liezi is the forgotten classic of Daoism. Along with the Laozi (Daodejing) and the Zhuangzi, it’s been considered a Daoist masterwork since the mid-eighth century, yet unlike those well-read works, the Liezi is little known and receives scant scholarly attention. Nevertheless, the Liezi is an important text that sheds valuable light on the early history of Daoism, particularly the formative period of sectarian Daoism. We do not know exactly what shape the original text took, but what remains is replete with fantastic characters, whimsical tales, paradoxical aphorisms, and philosophically sophisticated reflection on the nature of the world and humanity’s place within it. Ultimately, the Liezi sees the world as one of change and indeterminacy.

Arguing for the Liezi’s historical, philosophical, and literary significance, the contributors to this volume offer a fresh look at this text, using contemporary approaches and providing novel insights. The volume is unique in its attention to both philosophical and religious perspectives.

Table of Content:

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I The Liezi Text

1. Reading the Liezi: The First Thousand Years

2.The Liezi’s Use of the Lost Zhuangzi

3. Is the Liezi an Encheiridion?

Part II  Interpretive Essays

1.Torches of Chaos and Doubt: Themes of Process and Transformations in the Liezi

2. The That-Beyond-Which of the Pristine Dao: Cosmogony in the Liezi

3.The Theme of Unselfconsciousness in the Liezi

4. Reading the Zhuangzi in Liezi: Redefining Xianship

Part III  Applying the Teachings of the Liezi

1. Body and Identity

2. I, Robot: Self as Machine in the Liezi

3. Dancing with Yinyang: The Art of Emergence

4. How To Fish Like a Daoist

5. When Butterflflies Change into Birds: Life and Death in the Liezi

Contributors
Index

《辨古集》・Warring States Papers: Studies in Chinese and Comparative Philology

Editors:
Alvin P. Cohen, Donald E. Gjertson, and E. Bruce Brooks

Publication Year:
2012

Abstract:
The first volume of the scholarly journal Warring States Papers. Includes leading research from scholars around the world, including Stephen C. Angle, E. Bruce Brooks, A. Taeko Brooks, Scott Cook, Robert Eno, Chris Fraser, Paul Goldin, Dennis Grafflin, Eric Henry, Manyul Im, John V. Lombardi, David Nivison, Dan Robins, Karen Turner, Keith Yoder, and the late Gilbert Mattos. The journal subjects center on classical Sinology, but also include the philological and historical study of texts from other traditions, including classical India and Greece, with special emphasis on the New Testament.


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[Dissertation] Embodying the Way: Bio-spiritual Practices and Ritual Theories in Early and Medieval China

作者 Author:

Ori Tavor

系所 School: 
University of Pennsylvania, East Asian Languages and Civilization

指導教授 Supervisor:

Paul R. Goldin

摘要 Abstract:

The recent emergence of Ritual Studies as an interdisciplinary academic field has engendered a renewed interest in ritual practices. In Chinese Studies, this has led to a surge in research devoted to the reconstruction of ancient rituals through textual resources. It has also resulted in the examination of contemporary practices through anthropological field work. Painting a clear picture of the rich history of ritual in China entails more than studying ritual practices using modern methodologies, however; it also involves understanding the ritual theories that helped shape them.

My dissertation surveys a variety of texts from the Warring States to the Early Medieval periods that can all be read as attempts to "theorize" ritual. I examine three theories, written by the Confucian philosopher Xunzi, a group of Western Han literati, and the Daoist liturgist Lu Xiujing, against the backdrop of contemporaneous individual self-cultivation practices. I demonstrate that ritual was often depicted as a technology of the body, a technique of self-cultivation that allows man, through the medium of his own body, to assert his influence on the world or even transcend it. By tracing the similarities and transformations in ritual theory over a period of a thousand years, I demonstrate that, despite the evident differences in their sociopolitical and religious agendas, all three ritual theorists shared a common belief in the ultimate efficacy of ritual over the individual self-cultivation techniques advocated by their rivals.

I conclude by situating Chinese ritual theory in the broader context of Ritual Studies and demonstrate how the insights I have obtained open up new ways of thinking about ritual, the body, and the relationship between them. I argue that the distinctive philosophical and cosmological assumptions that surfaced in Early and Medieval China have produced ritual theories that are fundamentally different from their Western counterparts. Distilling a Chinese approach to the theorization of ritual can thus offer alternative solutions to the challenges faced by contemporary scholars, such as the role and meaning of ritual in the modern world.