On the Goodness Brought by the Ugly Barbarians

IF 0.5 4区社会学 0 ASIAN STUDIES

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY Pub Date : 2023-06-09 DOI:10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar013

San-Ching Chen

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Abstract

In early medieval China, the word hu 胡, at the time referring primarily to Iranian-speaking Central Asians, came to be used in a large group of personal names whose bearers ranged from ordinary people to a member of the Tang royal family. This paper examines the true meaning of these personal names, which has neither been recorded in known primary sources nor been explained in any dictionary, ancient or modern. Using both Sinitic and Iranian onomastic data, these names are shown to be part of the Iranization of Chinese nomenclature. They showcase the breadth and depth of the pre-Islamic Iranian cultural influence in medieval China.

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在中世纪早期的中国，“hu hu”一词在当时主要指说伊朗语的中亚人，后来被用于一大批人名中，这些人名的使用者从普通人到唐朝皇室成员都有。本文考察了这些人名的真正含义，这些名字既没有记录在已知的原始资料中，也没有在任何古代或现代的词典中解释。使用汉语和伊朗语的专有数据，这些名称被证明是中国命名法伊朗化的一部分。它们展示了前伊斯兰时代伊朗文化对中世纪中国影响的广度和深度。

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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY ASIAN STUDIES-

CiteScore

0.20

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33.30%

发文量

101

期刊介绍： The American Oriental Society is the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to a particular field of scholarship. The Society was founded in 1842, preceded only by such distinguished organizations of general scope as the American Philosophical Society (1743), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1780), and the American Antiquarian Society (1812). From the beginning its aims have been humanistic. The encouragement of basic research in the languages and literatures of Asia has always been central in its tradition. This tradition has come to include such subjects as philology, literary criticism, textual criticism, paleography, epigraphy, linguistics, biography, archaeology, and the history of the intellectual and imaginative aspects of Oriental civilizations.