Editor:
Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames
Publication Date:
March 2018
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Abstract:
This volume engages with the works and ideas of Angus Charles Graham (1919–1991), one of the most prominent Western scholars of Chinese philosophy, at the twenty-fifth anniversary of his passing. Over a professional career of more than thirty years, Angus Graham produced an impressive amount of scholarship on a wide array of topics, ranging from Chinese grammar and philology to poetry and philosophy. His combination of rigorous scholarship and philosophical originality has continued to inspire scholars to tackle related research topics, and in so doing, has required of them a response to his views. This book illustrates the range of scholarship still elaborating upon, disagreeing with, and reacting to Graham’s work on Chinese thought, philosophy, philology, and translation.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Having a Word with Angus Graham: At the First Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality
Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames
1. Reading the Zhuangzi Anthology
Esther S. Klein
2. Reflections on Textual Analysis in the Post-Graham Era
Liu Xiaogan
3. Cognitive Attunement in the Zhuangzi
Harold D. Roth
4. Vital Matters, A.C. Graham, and the Zhuangzi
Michael Nylan
5. Remarks on Intertranslatability and Relativism
Henry Rosemont, Jr.
6. Getting to the Bottom of “Things” (wù 物): Expanding on A.C. Graham’s Understanding
Robert H. Gassmann
7. Míng (名) as “Names” Rather than “Words:” Disabled Bodies Speaking without Acting in Early Chinese Texts
Jane Geaney
8. Unfounded and Unfollowed: Mencius’ Portrayal of Yang Zhu and Mo Di
Carine Defoort
9. Reconstructing A.C. Graham’s Reading of Mencius on xing 性: A Coda to “The Background of the Mencian Theory of Human Nature” (1967)
Roger T. Ames
10. Reason and Spontaneity Reconsidered
Lisa Raphals
11. Spontaneity and Marriage
Paul Kjellberg
12. Rationalism and Anti-Rationalism in Later Mohism and Zhuāngzǐ
Chris Fraser
Author:
Liu Yiqing 劉義慶
Translator:
Zhenjun Zhang
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
May 2018
Abstract:
Chinese culture of the Six Dynasties period (220–589) saw a blossoming of stories of the fantastic. Zhiguai, “records of the strange” or “accounts of anomalies,” tell of encounters with otherness, in which inexplicable and uncanny phenomena interrupt mundane human affairs. They depict deities, ghosts, and monsters; heaven, the underworld, and the immortal lands; omens, metamorphoses, and trafficking between humans and supernatural beings; and legendary figures, strange creatures, and natural wonders in the human world.
Hidden and Visible Realms （幽明錄）, traditionally attributed to Liu Yiqing, is one of the most significant zhiguai collections, distinguished by its varied contents, elegant writing style, and fascinating stories. It is also among the earliest collections heavily influenced by Buddhist beliefs, values, and concerns. Beyond the traditional zhiguai narratives, it includes tales of karmic retribution, reincarnation, and Buddhist ghosts, hell, and magic. In this annotated first complete English translation, Zhenjun Zhang gives English-speaking readers a sense of the wealth and wonder of the zhiguai canon. Hidden and Visible Realms opens a window into the lives, customs, and religious beliefs and practices of early medieval China and the cultural history of Chinese Buddhism. In the introduction, Zhang explains the key themes and textual history of the work.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Wonder of Love
Chapter 2. A Garden of Marvels
Chapter 3. The Spectacle of Monsters
Chapter 4. The Realm of Ghosts
Chapter 5. The Netherworld and This World
Chapter 6. Animals and Men
Chapter 7. Anecdotes of Notable Figures
Chapter 8. Local Legends
Appendix
Tales Appearing in Other Renditions
Works Cited
Index
Author:
WANG, Penglin
Publication Date:
March 2018
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Abstract:
In Linguistic Mysteries of Ethnonyms in Inner Asia, Penglin Wang focuses on semantics as a central theme in onomastics and strives to unravel the origin and meaning of a series of influential ethnonyms such as Xianbei, Rouran, Tabγač, Tatar, Shiwei, Mongol, Merkid, Nüzhen, Jušen, and Nikan. Since much of modern research has dealt with issues of Inner Asian ethnonyms within a regional framework, Wang’s exploration of the early Indo-European and Altaic influence on the ethnonymic designations of Mongol-Tungusic and Turkic groups opens up a new horizon for transcontinental approaches, which represent an important thrust in Inner Asian and Eurasian studies. Wang has based this comprehensive study on textual, cross-linguistic, and patterned analysis of the ethnonyms found primarily in ancient Chinese sources.
Table of Contents:
1. A Linguistic Approach to Ethnonyms
2. Numerals in Ethnonyms
3. Xianbei as Cold
4. Tabγač as Farmer
5. Shiwei 室韋 at the Juncture of Septenary and North
6. Mongol and Merkit as Sunrise
7. Jušen and Nikan as Deictic Expressions
Author:
Roderick Campbell
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication date:
April 2018
Abstract:
Situated between myth and history, the Shang has been hailed both as China's first historical dynasty and as one of the world's primary civilizations. This book is an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeological, palaeographic and transmitted textual evidence for the Shang polity at Anyang (c.1250–1050 BCE). Roderick Campbell argues that violence was not the antithesis of civilization at Shang Anyang, but rather its foundation in war and sacrifice. He explores the social economy of practices and beliefs that produced the ancestral order of the Shang polity. From the authority of posthumously deified kings, to the animalization of human sacrificial victims, the ancestral ritual complex structured the Shang world through its key institutions of war, sacrifice, and burial. Mediated by hierarchical lineages, participation in these practices was basic to being Shang. This volume, which is based on the most up-to-date evidence, offers comprehensive and cutting-edge insight into the Chinese Bronze Age civilization.
Table of Contents:
1. Being, society and world: towards an inter-ontic approach
2. Cities, states and civilizations
3. Central plains civilization from Erlitou to Anyang
4. The great settlement Shang and its polity: networks, boundaries and the
social economy
5. Kinship, place and social order
6. Violence and Shang civilization
7. Constructing the ancestors: the social economy of burial
8. Technologies of pacification and the world of the great settlement Shang
Author:
Craig Benjamin
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
April 2018
Abstract:
The Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness of ancient Eurasian civilizations. Using challenging land and maritime routes, merchants and adventurers, diplomats and missionaries, sailors and soldiers, and camels, horses and ships, carried their commodities, ideas, languages and pathogens enormous distances across Eurasia. The result was an underlying unity that traveled the length of the routes, and which is preserved to this day, expressed in common technologies, artistic styles, cultures and religions, and even disease and immunity patterns. In words and images, Craig Benjamin explores the processes that allowed for the comingling of so many goods, ideas, and diseases around a geographical hub deep in central Eurasia. He argues that the first Silk Roads era was the catalyst for an extraordinary increase in the complexity of human relationships and collective learning, a complexity that helped drive our species inexorably along a path towards modernity.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Pastoral nomads and the empires of the Steppe
2. Early China: prelude to the silk roads
3. Zhang Qian and Han expansion into Central Asia
4. The early Han dynasty and the Eastern Silk Roads
5. Rome and the Western Silk Roads
6. The Parthian Empire and the Silk Roads
7. The Kushan Empire: at the crossroads of ancient Eurasia
8. Maritime routes of the first Silk Roads era
9. Collapse of Empires and the decline of the first Silk Roads era
Conclusion.
Editor:
宮宅 潔 (MIYAKE, Kiyoshi)
Publisher:
京都大学学術出版会
Publication Date:
April 2018
Table of Contents:
はじめに
――共同研究の経緯と問題の所在
Ⅰ 研究動向篇
第1章 中国古代軍事史研究の現状［宮宅 潔］
第2章 「闘争集団」と「普遍的軍事秩序」のあいだ
――親衛軍研究の可能性［丸橋充拓］
Ⅱ 論考篇
第1部 「中華」の拡大と軍事制度：占領支配の諸相
第3章 征服から占領統治へ
――里耶秦簡に見える穀物支給と駐屯軍［宮宅 潔］
第4章 秦代遷陵県の「庫」に関する初歩的考察［陳 偉］
第5章 漢代西北辺境防備軍の社会構造h
――出土史料の分析に基づく方法論的考察［エノ・ギーレ］
第6章 漢代長城警備体制の変容［鷹取祐司］
第2部 軍事制度よりみた古代帝国の構造
第7章 秦漢「内史―諸郡」武官変遷考
――軍事体制より日常行政体制への転換を背景として［孫 聞博］
第8章 漢代における周辺民族と軍事
――とくに属国都尉と異民族統御官を中心に［佐藤達郎］
第9章 漢帝国の辺境支配と部都尉［金 秉駿］
はじめに
第3部 「中華」の転換と再編：多民族社会における軍事と支配
第10章 前秦政権における「民族」と軍事［藤井律之］
第11章 北魏道武帝の「部族解散」と高車部族に対する羈縻支配［佐川英治］
はじめに
第12章 唐前半期における羈縻州・蕃兵・軍制に関する覚書
――営州を事例として［森部 豊］
第13章 唐代高句麗・百済系蕃将の待遇及び生存戦略［李基天］
後記
