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}
T'oung PaoPub Date : 2017-11-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10345P01
Tsang Wing Ma
{"title":"Scribes, Assistants, and the Materiality of Administrative Documents in Qin-Early Han China: Excavated Evidence from Liye, Shuihudi, and Zhangjiashan","authors":"Tsang Wing Ma","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10345P01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10345P01","url":null,"abstract":"As a result of the increasing administrative needs in the early imperial period, the profession of scribes was liberated from being the exclusive reserve of traditional hereditary families and opened to aspirants from non-hereditary families. Based on the excavated legal and administrative texts from Liye, Shuihudi, and Zhangjiashan, this paper explores the complementary nature of the scribes and assistants to understand the opening of the scribal profession. This paper also coins a concept of “administrative literacy,” which suggests that the materiality of written surfaces is a significant factor in understanding the literacy of administrative officials in early imperial China. Du fait des besoins croissants de l’administration aux debuts de l’epoque imperiale, la profession de scribe a cesse d’etre l’apanage des familles qui traditionnellement en avaient l’acces exclusif, et a ete ouverte a des candidats venus d’autres familles. En se fondant sur les documents administratifs et juridiques exhumes a Liye, Shuihudi et Zhangjiashan, cet article explore la nature complementaire des roles de scribe et d’assistant, en vue de comprendre une telle ouverture de la profession de scribe. Ce faisant, il propose le concept de “competence administrative” et suggere que la materialite des supports d’ecriture etait un facteur important pour comprendre les niveaux de competence des fonctionnaires de l’administration aux debuts de l’ere imperiale.","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"1 1","pages":"297-333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88539262","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: 10.1163/15685322-10345P12
Georges Favraud
{"title":"Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers: Ritual Change and Social Transformation in a Southeastern Chinese Community, 1368-1949 , written by Yonghua Liu, 2013","authors":"Georges Favraud","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10345P12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10345P12","url":null,"abstract":"HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers: Ritual Change and Social Transformation in a Southeastern Chinese Community, 1368-1949, written by Yonghua Liu, 2013 Georges Favraud","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"128 1","pages":"502-505"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87962619","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: 10.1163/15685322-10345P07
Michèle Pirazzoli-t’Serstevens
{"title":"The People between the Rivers: The Rise and Fall of a Bronze Drum Culture, 200-750 CE , written by Catherine Churchman, 2016","authors":"Michèle Pirazzoli-t’Serstevens","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10345P07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10345P07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"81 3 1","pages":"477-481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88014999","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: 10.1163/15685322-10345P08
Michael Nylan
{"title":"Lectures et usages de la Grande Étude, edited by Anne Cheng, with Damien Morier-Genoud, 2015","authors":"Michael Nylan","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10345P08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10345P08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"385 1","pages":"482-484"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84983747","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: 10.1163/15685322-10345P03
Stephen Owen
{"title":"How Did Buddhism Matter in Tang Poetry","authors":"Stephen Owen","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10345P03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10345P03","url":null,"abstract":"Buddhism was often a theme in poetry, especially when writing to monks and on Buddhist sites; it was sometimes a deep conviction on the part of individual poets that contributed to the way they represented the world. There was a period, however, from the ninth through early eleventh century, when Chan meditation shaped how poets thought about the very way of writing poetry. The common use of the [Buddhist] “Way” or Chan in parallel with “poetry” in couplets from this period worked through the possible relations: identity, similarity, complementarity, and mutual exclusion. But the presumption was that the composition of poetry was the counterpart of Chan meditation. Such serious reflection on the relation between Chan meditation practice and poetry eventually devolved into Yan Yu’s thirteenth-century comparison of Chan sectarian doctrine with the study of poetry.\u2029Le bouddhisme est un theme tres frequent dans la poesie chinoise, en particulier quand le poete ecrit a un moine ou au sujet d’un site bouddhique. Il constitue dans certains cas une conviction profonde qui contribue fortement a forger la representation du monde telle que le poete l’exprime en vers. Il y eut cependant une epoque, entre le ixe et le debut du xie siecle, ou la meditation Chan a faconne la facon meme dont les poetes concevaient l’ecriture poetique. L’usage frequent des termes “Voie” (bouddhique) ou Chan en parallele avec celui de “poesie” dans les couplets de cette epoque couvre la gamme de leurs relations possibles: identite, similarite, complementarite et exclusion mutuelle. L’hypothese commune a ces diverses options etait que l’ecriture poetique etait l’homologue de la meditation Chan. Ces reflexions elaborees sur les rapports entre les pratiques de la meditation Chan et de la poesie ont debouche au xiiie siecle sur la comparaison menee par Yan Yu entre la doctrine Chan et l’etude de la poesie.","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"17 1","pages":"388-406"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87154234","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: 10.1163/15685322-10345P05
E. Kajdański
{"title":"Michael Boym’s Medicus Sinicus: New Facts, Reflections, Conclusions","authors":"E. Kajdański","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10345P05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10345P05","url":null,"abstract":"Following the author’s previous work on reconstituting the transmission to Europe, disappearance, and eventual publication under other names of the Polish Jesuit Michael Boym’s manuscript work on Chinese medicine, this article recounts the recent discovery of some of these manuscripts. They are kept at the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow, and were originally part of the Chinese Library of the Elector of Brandenburg, where they were acquired from Dutch officials who had earlier bought them from the Jesuit Philippe Couplet (who had obtained them from Boym’s last companion). The complex story of these manuscripts’ travels documents the keen interest in Chinese medicine among the many competing European powers and institutions in the seventeenth century; it also shows that we should be careful in assessing whether the publication of Boym’s seminal work under other names was willful plagiarism, or a result of contemporary tensions and confusion. Cet article fait suite aux travaux anterieurs de l’auteur sur la transmission en Europe, la disparition puis la publication sous d’autres noms des travaux manuscrits sur la medecine chinoise du jesuite polonais Michael Boym. Il relate la decouverte recente d’une partie de ces manuscrits dans la bibliotheque Jagiellonienne a Cracovie, et montre qu’ils viennent de l’ancienne bibliotheque chinoise du Grand Electeur de Brandebourg, ou ils ont ete originellement acquis aupres d’officiers hollandais qui les avaient achetes aupres du jesuite Philippe Couplet, qui lui-meme les avait obtenus du dernier compagnon de Boym a la mort de celui-ci. L’histoire complexe des voyages de ces manuscrits met en lumiere le fort interet pour la medecine chinoise de la part des diverses puissances et institutions europeennes du 17e siecle, alors en vive concurrence ; elle nous engage aussi a la prudence quant aux jugements que l’on peut porter sur la publication des travaux pionniers de Boym sous d’autres noms, qui doit autant aux tensions et confusions politiques du temps qu’a un plagiat intentionnel.","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"87 1","pages":"448-472"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88947815","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 : 2017-08-28DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10313P08
Jean-Pierre Drège
{"title":"A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture. (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 4, China, vol. 31.), edited by Antje Richter","authors":"Jean-Pierre Drège","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10313P08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10313P08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"20 1","pages":"279-283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87243505","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 : 2017-08-28DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10313P10
Mark R. E. Meulenbeld
{"title":"Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and his Indian Origins, written by Meir Shahar","authors":"Mark R. E. Meulenbeld","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10313P10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10313P10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"27 1","pages":"291-296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83381533","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}