Editors:
Jan Bemmann & Michael Schmauder
Publisher:
Bonn : Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Publication Year:
2015
Table of Contents:
PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
NOMADIC EMPIRES – MODES OF ANALYSIS
NIKOLAI N. KRADIN
Nomadic Empires in Inner Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
NICOLA DI COSMO
China-Steppe Relations in Historical Perspective. . . . .. . . . . . . . 49
J. DANIEL ROGERS
Empire Dynamics and Inner Asia. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .73
CLAUDIO CIOFFI-REVILLA, WILLIAM HONEYCHURCH, J. DANIEL ROGERS
MASON
Hierarchies: A Long-range Agent Model of Power, Conflict, and
Environment in Inner Asia . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
PAVEL E. TARASOV, MAYKE WAGNER
Environmental Aspects of Chinese Antiquity: Problems of
Interpretation and Chronological Correlation . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
XIONGNU, THE HAN EMPIRE, AND THE ORIENTAL KOINE
BRYAN K. MILLER
The Southern Xiongnu in Northern China: Navigating and Negotiating
the Middle Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
URSULA B. BROSSEDER
A Study on the Complexity and Dynamics of Interaction and Exchange in
Late Iron Age Eurasia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
MAREK JAN OLBRYCHT
Arsacid Iran and the Nomads of Central Asia – Ways of Cultural Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
INNER AND CENTRAL ASIA FROM THE TÜRKS TO THE MONGOLS
SERGEY A. VASYUTIN
The Model of the Political Transformation of the Da Liao as an Alternative
to the Evolution of the Structures of Authority in the Early Medieval Pastoral Empires of Mongolia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
MICHAEL R. DROMPP
Strategies of Cohesion and Control in the Türk and Uyghur Empires. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
ÉTIENNE DE LA VAISSIÈRE
Away from the Ötüken: A Geopolitical Approach to the seventh Century
Eastern Türks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
SÖREN STARK
Luxurious Necessities: Some Observations on Foreign Commodities and Nomadic Polities in Central Asia in the sixth to ninth Centuries . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
PETER B. GOLDEN
The Turkic World in Maḥmûd al-Kâshgharî . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
THOMAS O. HÖLLMANN
On the Road again – Diplomacy and Trade from a Chinese Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
MICHAL BIRAN
The Qarakhanids’ Eastern Exchange: Preliminary Notes on the Silk Roads
in the eleventh and twelfth Centuries. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
JÜRGEN PAUL
Forces and Resources. Remarks on the Failing Regional State of
Sulṭānšāh b. Il Arslan Ḫwārazmšāh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .597
TATIANA SKRYNNIKOVA
Old-Turkish Roots of Chinggis Khan’s “Golden Clan”. Continuity of
Genesis. Typology of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623
NOMADIC INTERACTION WITH THE ROMAN AND BYZANTINE WEST
MISCHA MEIER
Dealing with Non-State Societies: The failed Assassination Attempt against
Attila (449 CE) and Eastern Roman Hunnic Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635
TIMO STICKLER
The Gupta Empire in the Face of the Hunnic Threat. Parallels to the
Late Roman Empire? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
MICHAEL SCHMAUDER
Huns, Avars, Hungarians – Reflections on the Interaction between Steppe Empires in Southeast Europe and the Late Roman to Early Byzantine Empires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
WALTER POHL
Huns, Avars, Hungarians – Comparative Perspectives based on Written Evidence . . . . . . . . . 693
INDEX OF AUTHORS. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 703
Editor:
King, R.A.H.
Publication Year:
2015
Publisher:
Berlin: De Gruyter
Abstract:
Chinese and Greek ethics remain influential in modern philosophy, yet it is unclear how they can be compared to one another. This volume, following its predecssor 'How should one live?' (DeGruyter 2011), is a contribution to comparative ethics, loosely centered on the concepts of life and the good life. Methods of comparing ethics are treated in three introductory chapters (R.A.H.King, Ralph Weber, G.E.R. Lloyd), followed by chapters on core issues in each of the traditions: human nature (David Wong, Guo Yi), ghosts (Paul Goldin), happiness (Christoph Harbsmeier), pleasure (Michael Nylan), qi (Elisabeth Hsu & Zhang Ruqing), cosmic life and individual life (Dennis Schilling), the concept of mind (William Charlton), knowledge and happiness (Jörg Hardy), filial piety (Richard Stalley), the soul (Hua-kuei Ho), anddeliberation (Thomas Buchheim). The volume closes with three essays in comparison - Mencius and the Stoics (R.A.H. King), equanimity (Lee Yearley), autonomy and the good life (Lisa Raphals). An index locorum each for Chinese and Greco-Roman authors, and a general index complete the volume.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
Pages I-IV
Acknowledgements
Pages V-VI
Table of Contents
Pages VII-VIII
I. Methods
Introduction
King, R.A.H.
Pages 3-20
Models for living in ancient Greece and China
Lloyd, G.E.R.
Pages 21-28
On Comparing Ancient Chinese and Greek Ethics: The tertium comparationis as Tool of Analysis and Evaluation
Weber, Ralph
Pages 29-56
II. China
The Consciousness of the Dead as a Philosophical Problem in Ancient China
Goldin, Paul R.
Pages 59-92
The Ideas of Human Nature in Early China
Yi, Guo
Pages 93-116
Cosmic Life and Human Life in the “Book of Changes”
Schilling, Dennis
Pages 117-144
Good Fortune and Bliss in Early China
Harbsmeier, Christoph
Pages 145-156
Bing-distress in the Zuo zhuan: the not-so-good-life, the social self and moral sentiment among persons of rank in Warring States China
Hsu, Elisabeth
Pages 157-180
Pleasures and Delights, Sustaining and Consuming
Nylan, Michael
Pages 181-210
III. Greece and Rome
Is the Concept of the Mind Parochial?
Charlton, William
Pages 213-226
Taking Thoughts about Life seriously
Hardy, Jörg
Pages 227-246
Filial Piety in Plato
Stalley, Richard
Pages 247-264
The Good Life for Plato’s Tripartite Soul
Ho, Hua-kuei
Pages 265-280
Good counsel and the role of logos for human excellence
Buchheim, Thomas
Pages 281-302
Hedonê in the Poets and Epicurus
Erler, Michael
Pages 303-318
IV. Comparisons
Autonomy, Fate, Divination and the Good Life
Raphals, Lisa
Pages 321-340
Mencius and the Stoics – tui and oikeiôsis
King, R.A.H.
Pages 341-362
The Role and Pursuit of the Virtue of Equanimity in Ancient China and Greece
Yearley, Lee H.
Pages 363-386
Editors:
Kyle Steinke & Dora C.Y. Ching.
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Publication Year:
2014
Abstract:
Named after an archaeological site discovered in 1951 in Zhengzhou, China, the Erligang civilization arose in the Yellow River valley around the middle of the second millennium BCE. Shortly thereafter, its distinctive elite material culture spread to a large part of China's Central Plain, in the south reaching as far as the banks of the Yangzi River. The Erligang culture is best known for the remains of an immense walled city at Zhengzhou, a smaller site at Panlongcheng in Hubei, and a large-scale bronze industry of remarkable artistic and technological sophistication.
This richly illustrated book is the first in a western language devoted to the Erligang culture. It brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, including art history and archaeology, to explore what is known about the culture and its spectacular bronze industry. The opening chapters introduce the history of the discovery of the culture and its most important archaeological sites. Subsequent essays address a variety of important methodological issues related to the study of Erligang, including how to define the culture, the usefulness of cross-cultural comparative study, and the difficulty of reconciling traditional Chinese historiography with archaeological discoveries. The book closes by examining the role the Erligang civilization played in the emergence of the first bronze-using societies in south China and the importance of bronze studies in the training of Chinese art historians.
Table of Contents:
Contributors 7
Foreword and Acknowledgments 9
Preface 11
INTRODUCTION
1. Erligang Bronzes and the Discovery of the Erligang Culture 19
Robert Bagley
2. Erligang: A Perspective from Panlongcheng
Zhang Changping 51
DEFINING THE ERLIGANG CIVILIZATION
3. China's First Empire? Interpreting the Material Record of the Erligang Expansion 67
Wang Haicheng
4. Civilizations and Empires: A Perspective on Erligang from Early Egypt 99
John Baines
5. Erligang: A Tale of Two "Civilizations" 121
Roderick Campbell
6. The Politics of Maps, Pottery, and Archaeology: Hidden Assumptions in Chinese Bronze Age Archaeology 137
Yung-ti Li
ERLIGANG AND THE SOUTH
7. Erligang and the Southern Bronze Industries 151
Kyle Steinke
8. Erligang Contacts South of the Yangzi River: The Expansion of Interaction Networks in Early Bronze Age Hunan 173
Robin McNeal
PARTING THOUGHTS
9. Bronzes and the History of Chinese Art 191
Maggie Bickford
References 213
Index 226
Image Credits 235
Author:
TAKASHIMA, Ken-ichi 髙嶋謙一
Publisher:
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
Publication Year:
2015
Abstract:
Indispensable to the study of the history of Chinese religion, politics, agriculture, the calendar system, hunting, warfare, medicine, sacrificial and ritual practices, and other matters of life in China’s first historical dynasty, these more than 130,000 pieces of inscribed turtle plastrons and bovine scapulas, though mostly fragmented ones, comprise more text in terms of number of characters than the combined transmitted traditional pre-Qín classical Chinese texts.
The material will be presented in three forms: normalized transcriptions of the texts into modern standard Chinese script, translations into English, and ink-squeezes or rubbings of the original texts. There is also a detailed linguistic and philological explanation of the text, plus an annotation, and commentary on the cultural and historical background of the material. No special background in analyzing grammar and syntax will be required to understand most, if not all, of the materials presented in this Little Primer.
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Chinese Oracle-Bone Inscriptions
Piece 1-38
Zhōuyuán jiǎgǔ kècí 周原甲骨刻辭
Map of Yīnxū 殷墟
Appendix: A Short Annotated Bibliography*
Editors:
Cynthia L. Chennault (Author), Keith N. Knapp (Author), Alan J. Berkowitz (Author), Albert E. Dien (Author)
Publisher:
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Publication Year:
2015
Abstract:
A guide to primary sources that date from China's early medieval period (late third through sixth centuries) and to later anthologies or reference works concerning them. Ninety-eight essays, arranged alphabetically by title, discuss authorship, contents, history of editions, traditional commentaries and assessments, modern scholarship, and translations; subject index included.
Table of Contents:
Editor:
東アジア恠異学会
Publisher:
勉誠出版
Publication Year:
2015
Abstract:
「怪異」は中国の災異思想をはじめ、日本の神仏による霊験や物の怪、西洋の驚異、また民間説話や芸能、文学作品に見える妖怪など、様々なものを指すが、いずれも不思議な現象を読み解き、説明する情報の発信者と受容者のコミュニケーションによって成立する。そこには、神霊と人、人と人を「媒介」する〈知〉と〈技〉が重要な役割を果たしてきた。卜占や託宣を操る宗教者、怪異を知識で解釈する儒者や国学者、怪異をエンターテイメントに昇華させる作家や芸能者等「媒介者」は多様である。
その諸相を検討し、「怪異」をめぐる社会や人々の心性のダイナミズムを明らかにする。
Table of Contents:
はじめに 大江篤
Ⅰ 記す・伝える
霊験寺院の造仏伝承―怪異・霊験譚の伝播・伝承 大江 篤
『風土記』と『儀式帳』―恠異と神話の媒介者たち 榎村寛之
【コラム】境界を越えるもの―『出雲国風土記』の鬼と神 久禮旦雄
奈良時代・仏典注釈と霊異―善珠『本願薬師経鈔』と「起屍鬼」 山口敦史
【コラム】古文辞学から見る「怪」―荻生徂徠『訳文筌蹄』『論語徴』などから 木場貴俊
「妖怪名彙」ができるまで 化野燐
Ⅱ 語る・あらわす
メディアとしての能と怪異 久留島元
江戸の知識人と〈怪異〉への態度―〝幽冥の談〞を軸に 今井秀和
【コラム】怪異が現れる場所としての軒・屋根・天井 山本陽子
クダンと見世物 笹方政紀
【コラム】霊を捉える―心霊学と近代の作家たち 一柳廣孝
「静坐」する柳田国男 村上紀夫
Ⅲ 読み解く・鎮める
遣唐使の慰霊 山田雄司
安倍吉平が送った「七十二星鎮」 水口幹記
【コラム】戸隠御師と白澤 熊澤美弓
天変を読み解く―天保十四年白気出現一件 杉岳志
【コラム】陰陽頭土御門晴親と「怪異」 梅田千尋
吉備の陰陽師 上原大夫 木下浩
Ⅳ 辿る・比べる
王充『論衡』の世界観を読む―災異と怪異、鬼神をめぐって 佐々木聡
中国の仏教者と予言・讖詩―仏教流入期から南北朝時代まで 佐野誠子
【コラム】中国の怪夢と占夢 清水洋子
中国中世における陰陽家の第一人者―蕭吉の学と術 余欣（翻訳：佐々木聡・大野裕司）
台湾道教の異常死者救済儀礼 山田明広
【コラム】琉球の占術文献と占者 山里純一
【コラム】韓国の暦書の暦注 全勇勳
アラブ地域における夢の伝承 近藤久美子
【コラム】〈驚異〉を媒介する旅人 山中由里子
