Saturday, November 28, 2015

A Companion to Chinese Art

Editors:
Martin J. Powers & Katherine R. Tsiang

Publisher:
Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell 

Publication Year:
2015




Abstract:
Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes two dozen newly-commissioned essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures xi
Notes on Contributors xv

Introduction 1
Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang

Part I Production and Distribution 27

1 Court Painting 29
Patricia Ebrey

2 The Culture of Art Collecting in Imperial China 47
Scarlett Jang

3 Art, Print, and Cultural Discourse in Early Modern China 73
J. P. Park

4 Art and Early Chinese Archaeological Materials 91
Xiaoneng Yang

Part II Representation and Reality 113

5 Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror 115
Shane McCausland

6 The Language of Portraiture in China 136
Dora C. Y. Ching

7 Visualizing the Divine in Medieval China 158
Katherine R. Tsiang

8 Landscape 177
Peter C. Sturman

9 Concepts of Architectural Space in Historical Chinese Thought 195
Cary Y. Liu

10 Time in Early Chinese Art 212
Eugene Y. Wang

Part III Theories and Terms 233

11 The Art of “Ritual Artifacts” (Liqi 禮器): Discourse and Practice 235
Wu Hung

12 Classification, Canon, and Genre 254
Richard Vinograd

13 Conceptual and Qualitative Terms in Historical Perspective 277
Ronald Egan

14 Imitation and Originality, Theory and Practice 293
Ginger Cheng-chi Hs¨u

15 Calligraphy 312
Qianshen Bai

16 Emptiness-Substance: Xushi 329
Jason C. Kuo

Part IV Objects and Persons 349

17 Artistic Status and Social Agency 351
Martin J. Powers

18 Ornament in China 371
Jessica Rawson

19 Folding Fans and Early Modern Mirrors 392
Antonia Finnane

20 Garden Art 410
Xin Wu

21 Commercial Advertising Art in 1840–1940s “China” 431
Tani E. Barlow

Part V Word and Image 455

22 Words in Chinese Painting 457
Alfreda Murck

23 On the Origins of Literati Painting in the Song Dynasty 474
Jerome Silbergeld

24 Poetry and Pictorial Expression in Chinese Painting 499
Susan Bush

25 Popular Literature and Visual Culture in Early Modern China 517
Jianhua Chen

Index 535

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

ジェンダーの中国史

Editor:
小浜正子

Publisher:
勉誠出版

Publication Year:
2015





Abtract:
ジェンダーとは性別をどのように社会が意味づけてきたかという文化構築的なものであるが、ジェンダーから中国史を論じてきたものは、これまであまりなかった。
中国社会におけるジェンダーのあり方――社会の基礎とされてきた家族や法の構造から、男性や女性の日々の服装やふるまい方のあるべき姿と実態、さらには同性愛者や宦官などのセクシャル・マイノリティーがどのように存在していたのかに至るまで――を理解することは、中国の文化そのものを理解する上で欠かせない視点である。
中国とその「周縁」社会におけるジェンダーの理念と表象、規範と現実の多様で流動的な情況を、様々な分野から論じる。(出版社紹介文)

Table of Contents:
はじめに――ジェンダーの中国史 小浜正子
[1]中国的家族の変遷
むすめの墓・母の墓:墓から見た伝統中国の家族 佐々木愛
異父同母という関係:中国父系社会史研究序説 下倉渉
孝と貞節:中国近世における女性の規範 仙石知子
現代中国の家族の変容:少子化と母系ネットワークの顕現 小浜正子

[2]「悪女」の作られ方
呂后:〝悪女”にされた前漢初代の皇后 角谷常子
南朝の公主:貴族社会のなかの皇帝の娘たち 川合安
則天武后:女帝と祭祀 金子修一
江青:女優から毛沢東夫人、文革の旗手へ 秋山洋子

[3]「武」の表象とエスニシティの表象
木蘭故事とジェンダー「越境」:五胡北朝期の社会からみる 板橋暁子
辮髪と軍服:清末の軍人と男性性の再構築 高嶋航
「鉄の娘」と女性民兵:文化大革命における性別役割への挑戦 江上幸子
中国大陸の国民統合の表象とポリティクス:エスニシティとジェンダーからみた近代 松本ますみ
[コラム]纏足 小川快之

[4]規範の内外、変容する規範
貞節と淫蕩のあいだ:清代中国の寡婦をめぐって 五味知子
ジェンダーの越劇史:中国の女性演劇 中山文
中国における代理出産と「母性」:現代の「借り腹」 姚毅
セクシャリティのディスコース:同性愛をめぐる言説を中心に 白水紀子
[コラム]宦官 猪原達生

[5]「周縁」への伝播:儒教的家族秩序の虚実
日本古代・中世における家族秩序:婚姻形態と妻の役割などから 伴瀬明美
彝族「女土官」考:明王朝の公認を受けた西南少数民族の女性首長たち 武内房司
『黙斎日記』にみる十六世紀朝鮮士大夫家の祖先祭祀と信仰 豊島悠果
十九世紀前半ベトナムにおける家族形態に関する一考察:花板張功族の嘱書の分析から 上田新也

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn 《春秋繁露》英譯本

Editors and Translators:
Sarah A. Queen and John S. Major

Publication Year:
2015

Publisher:
Columbia University Press






Abstract:

A major resource expanding the study of early Chinese philosophy, religion, literature, and politics, this book features the first complete English-language translation of the Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu fanlu), one of the key texts of early Confucianism. The work is often ascribed to the Han scholar and court official Dong Zhongshu, but, as this study reveals, the text is in fact a compendium of writings by a variety of authors working within an interpretive tradition that spanned several generations, depicting a utopian vision of a flourishing humanity that they believed to be Confucius's legacy to the world.

The Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) is a chronicle kept by the dukes of the state of Lu from 722 to 481 B.C.E. The Luxuriant Gems follows the interpretations of the Gongyang Commentary, whose transmitters belonged to a tradition that sought to explicate the special language of the Spring and Autumn. The Gongyang masters believed that the Spring and Autumn had been written by Confucius himself, employing subtle and esoteric phrasing to indicate approval or disapproval of important events and personages. The Luxuriant Gems augments Confucian ethical and philosophical teachings with chapters on cosmology, statecraft, and other topics drawn from contemporary non-Confucian traditions, reflecting the brilliance of intellectual life in the Han dynasty during the formative decades of the Chinese imperial state. 

To elucidate the text, Sarah A. Queen and John S. Major divide their translation into eight thematic sections with extensive introductions that address dating, authorship, authenticity, and the relationship between the original text and the evolving Gongyang approach.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Group 1: Exegetical Principles
1. King Zhuang of Chu
2. Jade Cup
3. Bamboo Grove
4. Jade Brilliance
5. The Quintessential and the Ornamental
6. The Kingly Way
7. Annihilated States, Part A
8. Annihilated States, Part B
9. Waxing and Waning in Accord with the Root
10. The Essentials of Covenants and Meetings
11. The Rectifying Thread
12. Ten Directives
13. Emphasize Governance
14. Images for the Regulation of Dress
15. Two Starting Points
16. Signs and Omens
17. Yu's Postface

Group 2: Monarchical Principles
18. Departing from and Conforming to the Fundamental
19. Establishing the Originating Spirit
20. Preserving Position and Authority
21. Investigating Achievement and Reputation
22. Comprehending the State as the Body

Group 3: Regulatory Principles
23. The Three Dynasties' Alternating Regulations of Simplicity and Refinement
24. Regulations on Officialdom Reflect Heaven
25. Yao and Shun Did Not Presumptuously Transfer [the Throne]; Tang and Wu Did Not Rebelliously Murder [Their Rulers]
26. Regulations on Dress
27. Regulating Limits
28. Ranking States

Group 4: Ethical Principles
29. Standards of Humaneness and Righteousness
30. The Necessity of [Being] Humane and Wise
31. For Nurturing the Self, Nothing Is More Important Than Righteous Principles
32. An Official Response to the King of Jiangdu: The Great Officers of Yue Cannot Be Considered Humane
33. Observing Virtue
34. Serving the Root
35. Deeply Examine Names and Designations
36. Substantiating Human Nature
37. The Lords of the Land
38. An Official Response Regarding the Five Phases
39. [Title and text are no longer extant]
40. [Title and text are no longer extant]
41. Heaven, the Maker of Humankind
42. The Meaning of the Five Phases

Group 5: Yin-Yang Principles
43. Yang Is Lofty, Yin Is Lowly
44. The Kingly Way Penetrates Three
45. Heaven's Prosperity
46. The Heavenly Distinctions Lie in Humans
47. The Positions of Yin and Yang
48. Yin and Yang End and Begin the Year
49. The Meaning of Yin and Yang
50. Yin and Yang Emerge, Withdraw, Ascend, and Descend
51. Heaven's Way Is Not Dualistic
52. Heat or Cold, Which Predominates?
53. Laying the Foundation of Righteousness
54. [Title and text are no longer extant]
55. The Correlates of the Four Seasons
56. Human Correlates of Heaven's Regularities
57. Things of the Same Kind Activate One Another

Group 6: Five-Phase Principles
58. The Mutual Engendering of the Five Phases
59. The Mutual Conquest of the Five Phases
60. Complying with and Deviating from the Five Phases
61. Controlling Water by Means of the Five Phases
62. Controlling Disorders by Means of the Five Phases
63. Aberrations of the Five Phases and Their Remedies
64. The Five Phases and Five Affairs

Group 7: Ritual Principles
65. Sayings Pertaining to the Suburban Sacrifice
66. The Principles of the Suburban Sacrifice
67. Sacrificial Rites of the Suburban Sacrifice
68. The Four [Seasonal] Sacrificial Rites
69. The Suburban Sacrifice
70. Following Orders
71. An Official Response Regarding the Suburban Sacrifice
72. Presenting Gifts to Superiors
73. Hymn to the Mountains and Rivers
74. Seeking Rain
75. Stopping Rain
76. The Principles of Sacrificial Rites

Group 8: Heavenly Principles
77. Conform to Heaven's Way
78. The Conduct of Heaven and Earth (Lau version)
78A. The Conduct of Heaven and Earth (Su Yu version)
79. The Origins of Severity and Beneficence
80. In Imitation of Heaven's Activities (Lau version)
80A. In Imitation of Heaven's Activities (Su Yu version)
81. Heaven, Earth, Yin, and Yang (Lau version)
81A. Heaven, Earth, Yin, and Yang (Su Yu version)
82. The Way of Heaven Bestows (Lau version)
82A. The Way of Heaven Bestows (Su Yu version)

Appendix A. Biographies of the Confucian Scholars
Appendix B. The Biography of Dong Zhongshu
Selected Bibliography
Index


Thursday, November 19, 2015

Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600)

Editors: 
Matthias Bley , Nikolas Jaspert andStefan Köck

Publisher: 
Brill

Publication Year:
2015

Abstract:
This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus processes of religious demarcation and transfer.




Table of Contents:
Preface
An Introduction to Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective

Section 1 Material Purity

Chapter 1 Early Medieval Churches as Cultic Space between Material and Ethical Purity

Chapter 2 Some Brief Notes on Purity in Chinese Daoism

Chapter 3 An Almost Tangible Presence: Some Thoughts on Material Purity among Medieval European Jews

Section 2 Ethical and Moral Purity

Chapter 4 From 'Clean' to 'Pure' in Everyday Life in Late Imperial China: A Preliminary Enquiry

Chapter 5 Discourses on Purity in Western Christianity in the Early and High Middle Ages 

Section 3 Purity of Spirit and Thought

Chapter 6 Purity between Semantics and History: Notes on Daoist Soteriology and Interreligious Encounters in Early Medieval China

Chapter 7 Purity of Language: A Short-lived Concept in Medieval Hebrew Poetry

Section 4 Purity of Cult

Chapter 8 Domum immundam a perversis violata mundavit. Viking Defilement in Early Medieval Francia 

Chapter 9 Washing Away the Dirt of the World of Desire-On Origins and Developments of Notions of Ritual Purity in Japanese Mountain Religions 

Chapter 10 Patterns of Intensification of the Laws on Ritual Purity in Medieval Jewish Ashkenaz

Section 5 Concepts of Textual Purity

Chapter 11 Religious Texts and the Islamic Purity Regime

Section 6 Concepts of Genealogical Purity

Chapter 12 Sons of Damnation: Franciscans, Muslims, and Christian Purity

Chapter 13 Purifying the Pure: The Visuddhimagga, Forest-Dwellers and the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Prestige in Theravāda Buddhism

Chapter 14 Registers of Genealogical Purity in Classical Islam

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

ソグド人と東ユーラシアの文化交渉

Editor:
森部豊 (Yutaka Moribe)

Publisher:
勉誠出版

Publication Year:
2014

Abstract:

かつてオアシス都市に住んでいた歴史上の民族、ソグド人。
彼らはいかなる活動を行い、独自の文化を築いたのか。
四世紀から十一世紀にかけて草原世界から中国東端にわたるユーラシア地域を移住しながら交易活動を行ったソグド人の言語・文化・信仰や各地域における様相を、編纂史料のほか新出の石刻史料・出土文書史料・文物を用いた最新の研究成果で明らかにする。
またその東方活動を通して中国史を相対化し、新たな東ユーラシア世界史を構築する。





Table of Contents:

総論 ソグド人と東ユーラシアの文化交渉―ソグド人の東方活動史研究序説 森部豊

[ソグド人の文化と思想(信仰)]

ソグド文字の縦書きは何時始まったか 吉田豊 
中国におけるソグド姓の歴史 斉藤達也
唐代中国におけるソグド人と仏教 中田美絵
ソグド人の墓と葬具―中国とソグディアナ 影山悦子

[唐朝の中のソグド人]

『天聖令』と唐のソグド人 石見清裕
トゥルファンにおけるソグド人 荒川正晴
ソグド人と敦煌 赤木崇敏
長安・洛陽のソグド人 福島恵
北朝末〜唐初におけるソグド人軍府と軍団 山下将司
八世紀半ば〜十世紀の北中国政治史とソグド人 森部豊

[草原世界の中のソグド人]

突厥碑文から見るトルコ人とソグド人 鈴木宏節 
突厥とソグド人―漢文石刻史料を用いて 齊藤茂雄
西突厥におけるソグド人 大澤孝
ソグドからウイグルへ 松井太

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Early Medieval China 21 《中國中古研究》第21期 (2015)




Table of Contents:

Memo From the President:

Memo from the President of the Early Medieval China Group
Keith Knapp
pp. 1–1

Articles:

From Spirited Youth to Loyal Official: Life Writing and Didacticism in the Jin shu Biography of Wang Dao 王導
Matthew V. Wells
pp. 3–20

There's No Place Like Home: Xie Lingyun's Representation of His Estate in “Rhapsody on Dwelling in the Mountains” (山居賦)
Wendy Swartz
pp. 21–37

Mapping Gender and Poetic Role in Early Medieval Poetry
Qiulei Hu
pp. 38–62

Literary Controversy at the Liang Court Revisited
Nicholas Morrow Williams
pp. 63–92

In Memoriam:  

IN MEMORIAM
Richard B. Mather
pp. 93–93