Author:
氣賀澤保規 (Kegasawa, Yasunori)
Publisher:
講談社
Publication Date:
2016. 11.10
Abstract:
秦の始皇帝に始まる二千年余にわたる中華帝国の歴史にその名を刻む唯一の女帝・則天武后（武則天）。男性中心秩序の古代社会に己の才覚と知力で挑み、至尊の座にまで登りつめた女性は、何を目指し、また何が彼女を生み出したのか－－。大唐帝国繁栄の礎を築いた冷徹にして情熱的な生涯とその時代を、学術的知見に基づいて鮮やかに描き出す。
Table of Contents:
はじめに
第一章 則天武后の生卒年
第二章 隋末の動乱と唐の決起
第三章 玄武門の変
第四章 唐太宗と貞観の治
第五章 太宗の後継問題
第六章 武照の出生と武士かく
第七章 武照、太宗の後宮へ
第八章 高宗朝の女の争い
第九章 武昭儀、皇后の座に
第十章 二聖と垂簾の政
第十一章 武后政治の新展開
第十二章 武后とその一族
第十三章 高宗の崩御
第十四章 李敬業の反乱
第十五章 酷吏と告密の恐怖政治
第十六章 怪僧薛懐義
第十七章 武周政権への最終コーナー
第十八章 武周革命
第十九章 武周朝の朝士──狄仁傑
第二十章 武周朝の終焉
第二十一章 武后残影
おわりに
則天武后関係年表
則天武后評伝・文学書一覧
講談社学術文庫によせて
解 説 上野 誠
Editors:
Constance A. Cook; Paul R. Goldin
Publisher:
Society for the Study of Early China
Publication Date:
November 10, 2016
Abstract:
Bronze inscriptions are not only the most important category of historical sources for the Chinese Bronze Age, but also records of crucial rituals in ancient Chinese religious life. Addressed both to unborn descendants and to the spirits of deceased ancestors, bronze inscriptions, and the ceremonies they memorialized, connected the human world to the spirit world, and linked the generations of a lineage for all time.
This source book is a collaborative effort involving ten scholars, including Constance A. Cook, Wolfgang Behr, Robert Eno, Paul R. Goldin, Martin Kern, Maria Khayutina, David W. Pankenier, David Sena, Laura Skosey, Yan Sun. It begins with a general editorial introduction outlining the significance of bronze inscriptions, followed by more focused discussions of subjects such as the implied ceremonies of bronze inscriptions, typological trends, and modern interpretive methods. The body of the book consists of eighty-two illustrative inscriptions, each with a brief contributor's introduction detailing the historical value and distinctive features of the text, as well as a list of further readings. The book concludes with a glossary of technical terms, a comprehensive bibliography, and an index.
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Author:
Tong Tao 仝濤
Publisher:
Archaeopress
Publication Year:
2013
Abstract:
The excavation of Tuyuhun-Tubo (Tibetan) elite graves at Dulan 都蘭 and Delingha 德令哈 in the modern province of Qinghai has necessitated a rewriting of the history of the Silk Road of the north-western China, especially during the 5th-8th centuries AD. This work analyses the history and archaeological evidence reflecting the Han Chinese, Tuyuhun and Tibetan domination of the northern Tibetan Plateau, on which the Qinghai Silk Road features. The study focuses on the Tuyuhun-Tubo cemeteries and artefacts, including silks, gold and silver objects, coffin paintings and other significant findings made during the past decades. The result gives fresh insights into the complicated cultural dimensions and interactions along the Silk Road, which contributed greatly to the shaping of the Tibetan culture.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. The natural environment of the northern Tibetan plateau
3. Transport routes on the northern Tibetan plateau as mentioned in Chinese sources
4. Archaeological materials of the Han and Jin periods (3rd century BC-3rd century AD)
5. Archaeological study of sites on the northern Tibetan plateau along the silk road during the early Tuyuhun period (4th-mid 7th century AD)
6. Archaeological study of sites on the northern Tibetan plateau along the silk road during the Tubo period (the later Tuyuhun period, mid 7th-8th century AD)
7. Conclusions
Editor:
Paula Varsano
Publisher:
SUNY
Publication Date:
December 30, 2016
Abstract:
This volume brings together fourteen essays that explore the role of hiddenness as both an object and a mode of representation in the history of cultural production in China from the Warring States Period (403 221 BCE) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1911) and beyond. The rhetorical use of various forms of hiddenness makes its appearance in literary, political, philosophical, and religious writings, as well as in the visual arts. Working in fields as disparate as traditional Chinese literature, religion, philosophy, history, medicine, and art, the contributors attempt to characterize one of the fundamental signifying practices in traditional Chinese cultural production. In the process, they not only reveal otherwise obscure patterns connecting longstanding social, political, aesthetic, and epistemological practices, but also contribute to ongoing discussions well beyond the field of China studies regarding the representation and communicability of knowledge, as well as the practices controlling its dissemination."
Table of Contents:
1. Lowered Curtains in the Half-Light: An Introduction
Paula M. Varsano
I. The Art of Withholding
2. The Ruling Mind: Persuasion and the Origins of Chinese Psychology
David Schaberg
3. Beliefs about Social Seeing: Hiddenness (wei 微) and Visibility in Classical-Era China
Michael Nylan
4. Woman in the Tower:“Nineteen Old Poems”and the Poetics of Un/concealment
Xiaofei Tian
5. Hiding Behind a Woman: Contexts and Meanings in Early Qing Poetry
Wai-yee Li
II. The Lessons of Distraction
6. Hiddenness of the Body and the Metaphysics of Sight
Shigehisa Kuriyama
7. Worlds of Meaning and the Meaning of Worlds in Sikong Tu’s Twenty-Four Modes of Poetry
Paula M. Varsano
III. On Blind Spots
8. Hidden in Plain View: Concealed Contents, Secluded Statues, and Revealed Religion
James Robson
9. The Vernacular Story and the Hiddenness of Value
Sophie Volpp
10. Absence and Presence: The Great Wall in Chinese Art
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
IV. The Languages of Synecdoche
11. Synecdoche of the Imaginary
Stephen Owen
12.“The Disarrayed Hills Conceal an Old Monastery”: The Dynamics of Poetry and Painting in the Northern Song
Eugene Wang
V. Just Words
13. Manifesting Sagely Knowledge: Commentarial Strategies in Chinese Late Antiquity
Michael Puett
14. The Yi-Xiang-Yan Paradigm and Early Chinese Theories of Literary Creation
Zong-qi Cai
Author:
Xiaoyun Wu
Publisher:
Archaeopress
Publication Year:
2013
Abstract:
This book concerns the ways in which the adaption of a steppe innovation, the horse-drawn chariot, in Chinese society during the 12th - 3rd century BCE contributed profoundly to the development of Chinese political and social value. The importance of the steppe driving skill in warfare, and political and ritual ceremonies in Chinese society not only brought a number of steppe people to serve in Chinese states, but also largely transformed Chinese social, political, and burial practices, and value systems. These early uses were reinterpreted in later periods and still have their influence today
Table of Contents:
Introduction.
Historical background ; Literature Review ; Research Approaches ; Organization of the book
The Origins: the Shang Chariot and Their Steppe Associations.
Introduction ; Components of the Shang chariot set ; The origins of the Shang chariot set ; The adaption of steppe chariots in the late Shang society
The Golden Chariot of the Zhou.
Background ; Associations between the Zhou chariot and the Steppe culture ; The development of social roles of chariots in the Western Zhou period ; Chariots in the Eastern Zhou period ; The adoption of Zhou fittings by northern steppe groups
Chariots, Steppe Elements, and the Zhou Elite's Local Networks.
Introduction ; Negotiation with steppe groups: cases from the Yan state and its periphery ; Gender and ethnic expressions of chariot burials in a local context: cases from the cemetery of the Jin ruling family ; Adopting chariots in the south in the middle Yangtze River valley ; Later developments
The Chariot of Early China: a Cultural Symbol
Author:
Newell Ann Van Auken
Publication Date:
December 2016
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Abstract:
The Spring and Autumn is among the earliest surviving Chinese historical records, covering the period 722–479 BCE. It is a curious text: the canonical interpretation claims that it was composed by Confucius and embodies his moral judgments, but this view appears to be contradicted by the brief and dispassionate records themselves. Newell Ann Van Auken addresses this puzzling discrepancy through an examination of early interpretations of the Spring and Autumn, and uncovers a crucial missing link in two sets of commentarial remarks embedded in the Zuoû Tradition. These embedded commentaries do not seek moral judgments in the Spring and Autumn, but instead interpret its records as produced by a historiographical tradition that was governed by rules related to hierarchy and ritual practice. Van Auken’s exploration of the Zuo Tradition and other early commentaries sheds light on the transformation of the Spring and Autumn from a simple, non-narrative historical record into a Confucian classic.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Scholarly Conventions
Introduction
Text, Commentary, and Authority
The Spring and Autumn: An Overview and Brief Reception History
The Zuô Tradition and Spring and Autumn Commentary
Overview of the Book
1. Orthodoxy and Transformation: Two Categories of Commentary
2. The Ritual Filter and the Centrality of Lǔ
3. Hierarchy, Criticism, and Commendation: Recognizing Merit and Assigning Fault
4. Two Ways of Teaching the Spring and Autumn: The Sources of the Direct Commentaries
5. Other Approaches to Commentary in the Zuô Tradition: The Gentleman and Confucius
6. Incomplete Correspondences and the Likelihood of Mediated Contact: The Relation of the Direct Commentaries to Gōngyáng and Gǔliáng
7. From Recording Rules to Written Text: Conceptual Antecedents to Gōngyáng and Gǔliáng in the Direct Commentaries
Epilogue
Appendix
Summaries and Topical Lists of the Direct Commentary Passages
Summaries: Specific Remarks
Summaries: General Remarks
Topical Lists of Direct Commentary Passages
Notes
Bibliography
Index
