T’oung PaoPub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10434P01
D. Sou
{"title":"Crossing Borders: Control of Geographical Mobility in Early China","authors":"D. Sou","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10434P01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10434P01","url":null,"abstract":"Qin and Han subjects were required by law to register residency with local governments. Their mobility was thus subject to government scrutiny. This study explores (a) how such control extended to both official and private travel and (b) the various reasons that led people to travel. To facilitate surveillance, the Qin and Han governments both demarcated their territory through administrative units and checkpoints, issued transit permits, and enforced strict laws controlling the flow of travelers. Such control meant that people required permission to travel on private business to manage family matters, seek employment, and perform various other tasks. Although control was tight, the people in the early empire were still free to move from place to place.","PeriodicalId":378098,"journal":{"name":"T’oung Pao","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133486626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T’oung PaoPub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10434P12
C. Salmon
{"title":"Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands. By Bradley Camp Davis, 2017","authors":"C. Salmon","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10434P12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10434P12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378098,"journal":{"name":"T’oung Pao","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116499414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T’oung PaoPub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10434P06
Stéphanie Homola
{"title":"Stalk Divination: A Newly Discovered Alternative to the I Ching. Edited and translated by Constance A. Cook and Zhao Lu, 2017","authors":"Stéphanie Homola","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10434P06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10434P06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378098,"journal":{"name":"T’oung Pao","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130047407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T’oung PaoPub Date : 2018-06-28DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10412P06
W. L. Idema
{"title":"Western Han: A Yangzhou Storyteller’s Script. Edited and translated by Vibeke Børdahl and Liangyan Ge; editorial assistance by Wang Yalong, 2017","authors":"W. L. Idema","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10412P06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10412P06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378098,"journal":{"name":"T’oung Pao","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123869348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T’oung PaoPub Date : 2018-06-28DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10412p01
{"title":"Announcement from the Editors of T’oung Pao","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10412p01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10412p01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378098,"journal":{"name":"T’oung Pao","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121100390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T’oung PaoPub Date : 2018-06-28DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10412p08
Robert E. Hegel
{"title":"Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity. By Rivi Handler-Spitz, 2017","authors":"Robert E. Hegel","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10412p08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10412p08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378098,"journal":{"name":"T’oung Pao","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123820433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T’oung PaoPub Date : 2018-06-28DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10412P03
Yanlong Guo
{"title":"The Monetary Value of Bronze Mirrors in the Han Dynasty","authors":"Yanlong Guo","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10412P03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10412P03","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay investigates the monetary value of bronze mirrors during the Han dynasty. It reevaluates the rhetorical and realistic prices of mirrors reckoned in catties of gold or in coins by engaging the scattered inscriptional evidence, estimated cost of raw materials, and existing studies of the price history of the Han. To achieve this goal, an interdisciplinary strategy is employed, including a close textual reading of recently uncovered inscriptions, a quantitative analysis of weights and diameters of mirrors, and a comparative examination of financial values embedded in various types of objects. As the first empirical study of Han mirrors as commodities, this essay critiques the conventional use of art history criteria for assessing the value of mirrors and unveils a previously suppressed economic feature of these specular discs. It argues that bronze mirrors served as a form of affordable luxury in Han society.","PeriodicalId":378098,"journal":{"name":"T’oung Pao","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123709468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T’oung PaoPub Date : 2018-06-28DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10413P04
R. Wagner
{"title":"The Free Flow of Communication Between High and Low: The Shenbao as Platform for Yangwu Discussions on Political Reform, 1872-1895","authors":"R. Wagner","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10413P04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10413P04","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article studies the role played by the Shenbao 申報 between 1872 and 1895 in framing Chinese discussions of the problems of their polity and possible reforms. It challenges the narrative that such discussions only began after the loss of the war in 1895, and shows that the discussions documented by Onogawa Hidemi for the 1880s actually followed earlier Shenbao precedents. The case study presented here concerns how the lack of communication between high and low social classes was at the heart of China’s problems. The Shenbao discusses modern Western institutions such as independent newspapers and a parliament as ways to ensure such communication, and as modern developments of a political ideal that existed in the Three Dynasties (Sandai 三代). The dismantling of that ideal state reflects, in the lines of thought expressed in the Shenbao articles, the despotic nature of Chinese rule since the Qin dynasty (221-206 bce).","PeriodicalId":378098,"journal":{"name":"T’oung Pao","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132079038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T’oung PaoPub Date : 2018-06-28DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10412P02
R. Krijgsman
{"title":"An Inquiry into the Formation of Readership in Early China: Using and Producing the *Yong yue 用曰 and Yinshu 引書 Manuscripts","authors":"R. Krijgsman","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10412P02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10412P02","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The material features of the Shanghai Museum *Yong yue 用曰 and Zhangjiashan Yinshu 引書 manuscripts structure their texts in ways different from each other, inviting questions on production methods and the influence of form on the reception of content. I provide an overview of developments in manuscript formatting, noting a gradual development towards increased visual formatting in manuscripts over time. The article examines what the use of codicological features such as manuscript materiality, layout, and punctuation reveal about manuscript production and how these translate to the reception and understanding of text. It analyzes how such features in the two manuscripts contribute to a sense of textual unity, order their respective contents, and facilitate different modes of reading such as vocalization, memorization, browsing, and linear reading. I propose that developments in manuscript formatting increasingly facilitated visually clearer, context-independent, and text-centered modes of reading, allowing for a dynamic involvement of readers with the modes of engagement structurally favored by the manuscripts. This, in turn, possibly reveals broader shifts towards the formation of readership in Early China.","PeriodicalId":378098,"journal":{"name":"T’oung Pao","volume":"95 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114001486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}