IF 0.3 3区社会学

Early China Pub Date : 2024-04-18 DOI: 10.1017/eac.2024.1

Amelia Ying Qin

{"title":"HISTORY AND LORE: INTERPRETIVE EMPLOTMENT AND “EMPTY WRITING” IN THE “HEREDITARY HOUSE OF ZHAO”","authors":"Amelia Ying Qin","doi":"10.1017/eac.2024.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eac.2024.1","url":null,"abstract":"This study identifies two textual strata in the “Zhao shijia” of the Shi ji: the “wo 我 stratum” and the “legendary stratum.” While the “wo stratum” points to the existence of Zhao local historical records, the “legendary stratum” reveals an interpretive framework that guides the chapter's presentation of the Zhao history toward the central concern and anxiety over the succession of lineage and power. The series of prophetic dreams and supernatural encounters that were emplotted in the narrative of Zhao history comprise this “legendary stratum” and point toward a key figure, King Wuling of Zhao, during whose time the Zhao state reached its pinnacle of power and prosperity. Accounts that are clearly fabrications, such as the story of the orphan of Zhao and later prophecies of the decline of the Zhao, show hidden connections to the personal experience of Sima Qian and to possible political dissent and discourses criticizing Emperor Wu of Han. In identifying such fabricated “empty writing” hidden in the chapter's framework of interpretive emplotment, this article aims to offer one way to read the Shi ji's account for the hereditary house of Zhao that follows a coherent pattern on the meta-level of historical narrative.","PeriodicalId":11463,"journal":{"name":"Early China","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140608595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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THE XIA SHANG ZHOU DUANDAI GONGCHENG BAOGAO 夏商周斷代工程報告 AND ITS CHRONOLOGY OF THE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY 夏商周断代工程报告及其西周年表

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Early China Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1017/eac.2024.2

Edward L. Shaughnessy

{"title":"THE XIA SHANG ZHOU DUANDAI GONGCHENG BAOGAO 夏商周斷代工程報告 AND ITS CHRONOLOGY OF THE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY","authors":"Edward L. Shaughnessy","doi":"10.1017/eac.2024.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eac.2024.2","url":null,"abstract":"The Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project was a five-year state-sponsored project, carried out between 1995–2000, to determine an absolute chronology of the Western Zhou dynasty and approximate chronologies of the Xia and Shang dynasties. At the end of the five years, the Project issued a provisional report entitled Report on the 1996–2000 Provisional Results of the Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project: Brief Edition detailing its results. A promised full report was finally published in 2022: Report on the Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project. Although numerous discoveries in the more than twenty years between the publications of the Brief Edition and the Report have revealed that the Project's absolute chronology of the Western Zhou is fundamentally flawed, and some of the problems are acknowledged by the Report, still the Report maintains the Project's chronology without any correction. In the review, I present four of these discoveries, from four different periods of the Western Zhou, discussing their implications for the Project's chronology. I conclude with a call for some sort of authoritative statement acknowledging the errors in the report.","PeriodicalId":11463,"journal":{"name":"Early China","volume":"300 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140601462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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INTRODUCING THE TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY *WU JI 五紀 MANUSCRIPT WITH A FOCUS ON ITS MATERIALITY AND ITS STATUS AS A SOURCE 介绍清华大学《戊集五纪》手稿，重点关注其资料性及其作为资料来源的地位

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Early China Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.1017/eac.2023.7

Rens Krijgsman

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A NOTE CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN “BUTCHER DING” AND “NOURISHING LIFE” IN THE TRADITIONAL ZHUANGZI COMMENTARIES 关于传统《庄子》注释中 "屠丁 "与 "养生 "关系的说明

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Early China Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1017/eac.2023.5

John Williams

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THE PRINCE OF HUAYUANZHUANG 花園莊, ZU JIA 祖甲, AND THE SUCCESSION OF WU DING 武丁: ALLIANCE AND CRISIS 花园庄的皇子，祖嘉的皇子，与武定的继承:结盟与危机

3区社会学

Early China Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI: 10.1017/eac.2023.1

Gilles Boileau

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THE SCRIBAL WITNESS 抄写证人

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Early China Pub Date : 2023-06-02 DOI: 10.1017/eac.2022.25

Thomas Crone

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THE CHRONOLOGY OF WESTERN ZHOU 西周年表

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Early China Pub Date : 2023-05-12 DOI: 10.1017/eac.2022.5

Pengcheng Zhang

{"title":"THE CHRONOLOGY OF WESTERN ZHOU","authors":"Pengcheng Zhang","doi":"10.1017/eac.2022.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eac.2022.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 By systematically analyzing the relative relationship between complete bronze inscription dates, this study deduces the lunar phases described by the specialized terms jishengba 既生霸, jiwang 既望, and jisiba 既死霸, finding that the term chuji 初吉 is unrelated to the lunar phase. The study then reconstructs a complete chronology of Western Zhou that is highly consistent with archaeological and textual evidence. The results support the traditional notion that the Zhou calendar year began in the month containing the winter solstice, and show that the Western Zhou calendar month began with the first invisibility of the waning lunar crescent while the calendar day began at sunrise. The overall evidence indicates that King Wu 武王 led an initial campaign against the Shang in 1046 b.c.e. and defeated Zhòu 紂 in 1044 b.c.e., lending credence to the narrative of the military display at Mengjin (觀兵孟津). The derived chronology reveals a previously unknown seven-year gap between King You's 幽王 final year and King Ping's 平王 first year, thus explaining the discrepancies between Shi ji 史記 and the archaeological evidence. This study demonstrates that the Modern Text (jinben 今本) Bamboo Annals 竹書紀年 is unsuitable for use in chronological studies, and suggests that the dates of Western Zhou were already obscure in Eastern Zhou. These results provide testable hypotheses and raise new questions that can guide further research into Western Zhou archaeology, history, society, and culture.","PeriodicalId":11463,"journal":{"name":"Early China","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46426538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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RETHINKING THE ANCESTRAL SHRINES IN THE EARLY EMPIRES 重新思考早期帝国的祖先神殿

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Early China Pub Date : 2022-10-17 DOI: 10.1017/eac.2022.12

Tian Tian, Zhou Wen

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WANG MANG 王莽 (c. 45 b.c.e.–23 c.e.) AND CLASSICAL LEARNING AS PATH TO SUPREME POWER 王莽王氏(公元前45年-公元23年)古典学习是通往最高权力的途径

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Early China Pub Date : 2022-10-17 DOI: 10.1017/eac.2022.11

Béatrice L'Haridon

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BAN GU'S VIEW ON THE “SECOND VICTORY” OF “CONFUCIANISM” AND THE FALL OF THE FORMER HAN 班固对“儒”“二次胜利”与前汉灭亡的看法