T'oung PaoPub Date : 2020-01-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10556p03
Sufen Xu
{"title":"The Courtesan as Famous Scholar: The Case of Wang Wei (ca. 1598-ca. 1647)","authors":"Sufen Xu","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10556p03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10556p03","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines the life and poetry of Wang Wei, one of the most distinguished courtesan poets of the Ming dynasty. Through an examination of her courtesan career, her friendship networks in literati circles, and her adoption of multiple identities such as xianren (person of leisure), daoren (person of the Dao), and shiren (poet), it seeks to illustrate what I believe is an important explanation for the flourishing of late Ming courtesan and literati culture. The rising prominence of learned and literary courtesans was strongly connected to a new social formation of nonconformist literati, the “men of the mountains” (shanren). These nonofficial urban elites of the prosperous Jiangnan region fashioned themselves as retired literati, devoting themselves to art, recreation, and self-invention, instead of government service. In constructing an “artistic and hedonistic counterculture,” they encouraged the involvement of both courtesans and literary women of the gentry class.","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"28 1","pages":"587-630"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83075416","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}
T'oung PaoPub Date : 2020-01-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10556p08
A. Romano
{"title":"Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds, written by Dominic Sachsenmaier, 2018","authors":"A. Romano","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10556p08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10556p08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"5 1","pages":"653-656"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85208126","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}
T'oung PaoPub Date : 2020-01-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10556p01
J. Kotyk
{"title":"Chinese State and Buddhist Historical Sources on Xuanzang: Historicity and the Daci’en si sanzang fashi zhuan 大慈恩寺三藏法師傳","authors":"J. Kotyk","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10556p01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10556p01","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper explores the historicity of state and Buddhist accounts of the monk Xuanzang 玄奘 (602-664), arguing that in the reconstruction of Xuanzang’s life and career we ought to utilize the former to help adjudicate the latter. It is specifically argued that the Daci’en si sanzang fashi zhuan 大慈恩寺三藏法師傳 (T. no. 2053), a biography of Xuanzang sometimes cited by modern scholars, was produced as Buddhist propaganda to advance the standing of certain monks under the reign of Wu Zetian 武則天 (r. 690-705). It is further argued that the objectivity of the Buddhist account that describes Emperor Taizong 太宗 (r. 626-649) embracing Buddhism in his twilight years under the influence of Xuanzang ought to be reconsidered.","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"86 1","pages":"513-544"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83692206","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}
T'oung PaoPub Date : 2020-01-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10556p04
Florence Bretelle‐Establet
{"title":"Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China, written by Andrew Schonebaum, 2016","authors":"Florence Bretelle‐Establet","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10556p04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10556p04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"16 1","pages":"631-635"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79653425","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}
T'oung PaoPub Date : 2017-11-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10345P09
R. Lanselle
{"title":"Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700 , written by Daria Berg, 2013","authors":"R. Lanselle","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10345P09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10345P09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"13 1","pages":"485-493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87594800","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}
T'oung PaoPub Date : 2017-11-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10345P11
O. Milburn
{"title":"Island of Guanyin: Mount Putuo and Its Gazetteers , written by Marcus Bingenheimer, 2016","authors":"O. Milburn","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10345P11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10345P11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"26 1","pages":"498-501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85345142","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}
T'oung PaoPub Date : 2017-11-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10345P04
Anna M. Shields
{"title":"The “Supplementary” Historian? Li Zhao’s Guo shi bu as Mid-Tang Political and Social Critique","authors":"Anna M. Shields","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10345P04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10345P04","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the Tang dynasty anecdote collection Guo shi bu 國史補 (Supplement to the History of the State), compiled by Li Zhao 李肇 (?-after 827) in part as a critique of imperial government and elite social mores of the early decades of the ninth century. A quantitative analysis of topic frequency and distribution in the collection reveals Li Zhao’s techniques for depicting the corruption or political brilliance of the reigns of Tang emperors, as well as his admiration of powerful aristocratic clans, and his disdain for social climbing, perspectives that likely stemmed from his experiences as an official in Xianzong’s court and his elite family background. Understanding the organization, underlying themes, and structure of individual anecdotes of the Guo shi bu allows us to see the ways that anecdotes and “miscellaneous” histories ultimately shaped official accounts of the Tang dynasty.\u2029Cet article examine la collection d’anecdotes d’epoque Tang Guo shi bu 國史補 (supplement a l’histoire de l’Etat) compilee par Li Zhao 李肇 (?-apres 827), et la considere en partie comme une critique du gouvernement imperial et des mœurs des elites au debut du ixe siecle. Une analyse quantitative des themes traites, dans leur frequence et leur repartition au sein de l’ouvrage permet de reveler les techniques mises en œuvre par Li Zhao pour decrire la corruption ou le rayonnement politique des regnes des empereurs Tang successifs, son admiration pour les grands clans aristocratiques, et son dedain pour les parvenus et l’ascension sociale. Li herite certainement cette vision de son experience en tant que fonctionnaire a la cour de Xianzong ainsi que de son ascendance au sein des elites. Une telle comprehension de l’organisation du Guo shi bu , de ses themes sous-jacents et de la structure des anecdotes prises individuellement nous permet de mieux saisir comment les anecdotes et les miscellanees ont fini par determiner le contenu des histoires officielles de la dynastie des Tang.","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"3 1","pages":"407-447"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84259569","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}
T'oung PaoPub Date : 2017-11-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10345P06
C. Despeux
{"title":"Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History , written by James A. Benn, 2015","authors":"C. Despeux","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10345P06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10345P06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"6 1","pages":"473-476"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72966705","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}
T'oung PaoPub Date : 2017-11-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10345P10
P. Goldin
{"title":"In Search of the Way: Legal Philosophy of the Classic Chinese Thinkers , written by Wejen Chang, 2016","authors":"P. Goldin","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10345P10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10345P10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"45 1","pages":"494-497"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80097028","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}
T'oung PaoPub Date : 2017-11-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10345P02
D. Felt
{"title":"The Metageography of the Northern and Southern Dynasties","authors":"D. Felt","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10345P02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10345P02","url":null,"abstract":"Sui and Tang historians constructed a geographical conceptualization for the Northern and Southern Dynasties that depicted them as equal and complementary halves of one greater whole, now “unified” under the Sui-Tang empire. This spatial model has been the dominant way in which modern historians have thought about the fifth and sixth centuries. But literati of that time conceptualized their geopolitical landscape very differently. This article examines the varied ways in which literati of the Northern and Southern Dynasties conceptualized their own geopolitical landscape. In each of the models examined, the spatial relationship between north and south is described as hierarchical and adversarial, differing considerably from the equal and complementary model espoused by Tang historians. Les historiens des epoques Sui et Tang ont elabore une conceptualisation geographique des dynasties du Nord et du Sud qui les decrit comme les moities egales et complementaires d’un tout, unifie par les empires Sui et Tang. Ce modele spatial est devenu le principal mode d’apprehension de l’histoire des ve et vie siecles pour les historiens modernes. Les intellectuels de ces deux siecles cependant, avaient de toutes autres conceptions de leur paysage geopolitique. Cet article examine ces differentes conceptions; il identifie plusieurs modeles, dans lesquels les relations entre Nord et Sud sont toujours decrites comme hierarchiques et hostiles, au contraire du modele complementaire adopte ensuite par les historiens des Tang","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"4 1","pages":"334-387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80009399","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}