{"title":"Emotional Regime of the Shishuo Xinyu","authors":"D. Felt","doi":"10.1179/1529910414Z.00000000014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/1529910414Z.00000000014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Through compiling all anecdotes that reference emotional expressions from Liu Yiqing’s Shishuo xinyu, I will reveal the principles of an emotional regime (i.e. the rules and rituals of proper emotional expression). This ranking of different emotional expressions within an evaluative hierarchy is best explained in the balancing of two principles: emotional detachment and naturalness. Emotional detachment was the highest ideal, but when this was not possible, the regime required the expression of natural emotions, that is, emotions stirred by natural objects and limited to natural levels. Because the understanding of emotions is gender specific, the paper concludes with an examination of how this emotional regime applied to women.","PeriodicalId":41624,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval China","volume":"2014 1","pages":"60 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/1529910414Z.00000000014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65834839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE XIANBEI IN CHINESE HISTORY","authors":"Charles Holcombe","doi":"10.1179/1529910413Z.0000000006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/1529910413Z.0000000006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Xianbei were perhaps the most prominent of the various non-Chinese peoples active in north China during the Age of Division. They established a number of imperial dynasties there, some of which were admittedly no more than ephemeral footnotes to history, but others of which—notably including the Northern Wei—are commonly viewed as having been major dynasties, squarely in the legitimate line of Chinese dynastic succession. In addition, the Xianbei were also central to the origins of the gloriously reunified Sui and Tang dynasties, even though the Xianbei role in their formation has not always been sufficiently appreciated. Despite their very real importance in Chinese history, the Xianbei remain today relatively little known, especially in English language scholarship. This article therefore aims to provide the most comprehensive study of the Xianbei available yet in English, to assess the overall role of the Xianbei in Chinese history, and also to examine the Xianbei as a critical case study in the more general, and controversial, process known as sinicization.","PeriodicalId":41624,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval China","volume":"36 1","pages":"1 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/1529910413Z.0000000006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65834262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TO MAKE HER MINE: WOMEN AND THE RHETORIC OF PROPERTY IN EARLY AND EARLY MEDIEVAL FU","authors":"Robert Joe Cutter","doi":"10.1179/1529910413Z.0000000007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/1529910413Z.0000000007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The description of women in early and early medieval fu and related genres often employs the rhetorical device know as effictio, usually referred to in poetry as the blazon. The use of the blazon is mainly seen in fu on goddesses, in the Summons Poems of Chu ci, and in certain poems in the Qi, or Sevens, genre. A connection is seen between the blazoning of women and the rhetoric of property that informs the Summons Poems and many fu, with their enumerative tendencies, including the spatial enumerations of the journey and the attendant notions of possession.","PeriodicalId":41624,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval China","volume":"2013 1","pages":"39 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/1529910413Z.0000000007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65833998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BECOMING WEN: THE RHETORIC IN THE “FINAL EDICTS” OF HAN EMPEROR WEN AND WEI EMPEROR WEN","authors":"Meow Hui Goh","doi":"10.1179/1529910413Z.0000000008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/1529910413Z.0000000008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article argues that an emperor’s “final edict” (yizhao 遺詔, yiling 遺令, zhongling 終令, or zhongzhi 終制) should be read not simply as an emperor’s instruction for his funeral and burial, but as a piece of rhetoric meant to define his image and legacy. Through a comparative reading of Han Emperor Wen’s and Wei Emperor Wen’s “final edicts”—two of the longest pieces in the early development of the genre—the author discusses their different rhetorical strategies, their different visions of emperorship, and their different imperial “personae.” In conducting the comparison, the author also examines the authority of imperial rhetoric against skepticism about such rhetoric. As her analysis demonstrates, the tension between rhetoric and anti-rhetoric is present even within a “final edict” itself and can still be felt in modern interpretations of the genre.","PeriodicalId":41624,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval China","volume":"2013 1","pages":"58 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/1529910413Z.0000000008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65834317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IN MEMORIAM","authors":"A. Spiro","doi":"10.1179/1529910412z.0000000005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/1529910412z.0000000005","url":null,"abstract":"Audrey Goldman Spiro died of cancer on July 30, 2011, at home with her family in La Jolla, California. Audrey was born in St Louis, Missouri. She attended the University of Louisville where she earned a BA in 1948, and at Washington University in St Louis where she earned a MSW in 1950. At Washington University, she also met her husband, the anthropologist Melford E. Spiro. Their departments were located in the same building where, every afternoon at 5:00 P.M., coffee was served to the faculty and graduate students. They met one day when, as Mel stood in line ahead of Audrey, he expressed a political opinion to a friend. From behind him, he heard a voice pipe up: “That’s just wrong!” That was Audrey. They married three months later and went to Israel the same year (1950) to study children raised collectively in a kibbutz. In 1961–1962 they lived in Burma, studying Burmese Buddhism and society. During the 1950s and 1960s, they migrated according to Mel’s teaching career, spending years in Seattle, Chicago, and Honolulu before settling permanently in La Jolla, California in 1968, where Mel was founding chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. While they were in Seattle and Hawai’i, Audrey’s visits to the Seattle Art Museum and Honolulu Art Museum sparked her lifelong passion for Chinese art and art history. She studied Chinese language at UCSD and Chinese art history at UCLA, earning a PhD in 1986 in Chinese Art History from UCLA where her major advisor was Professor Martin Powers. She taught Chinese Art History at UCLA, UC Riverside, UCSD, USC, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Among many contributions to the field, she served on the board of directors of the Early Medieval China Group. Audrey is survived by her husband and her two sons, Michael Elliot Spiro, a musician and professor of music at Indiana University, and Jonathan Peter Spiro, a professor of American history at Castleton College in Vermont, and three grandchildren.","PeriodicalId":41624,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval China","volume":"38 1","pages":"87 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/1529910412z.0000000005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65834144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DISCURSIVE FLIGHTS: STRUCTURING STORIES IN THE SHUYI JI 述異記","authors":"Erin L. Brightwell","doi":"10.1179/1529910412Z.0000000003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/1529910412Z.0000000003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Shuyi ji 述異記 (Notes Relating the Extraordinary), an anomaly account traditionally attributed to Ren Fang 任昉 (460–508), has received little attention, with most research focused on questions of authorship and dating, and rarely on the content itself. Despite its wealth of information about local geographic and cultural curiosities, the Shuyi ji contains relatively few stories, per se, and offers limited immediate literary appeal. The present study, however, argues that a reading of the work that focuses on structure reveals new possibilities about the value of this under-studied text. In the textual world of the Shuyi ji, distinct discursive strategies for recording anomalies emerge. Analysis of the relationship between the types of phenomena and the rhetoric of their representation uncovers a close connection between the nature of the extraordinary and the structure of its portrayal to raise new questions about the implications of the work’s categorization of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":41624,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval China","volume":"2012 1","pages":"48 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/1529910412Z.0000000003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65833461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MAINLAND CHINESE BOOKS (2002–2010) ON EARLY MEDIEVAL CHINESE LITERATURE (220–589)","authors":"Yue Zhang","doi":"10.1179/1529910412Z.0000000004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/1529910412Z.0000000004","url":null,"abstract":"This bibliography is a continuation of ‘‘A Selective Bibliography of Recent Chinese Books on Early Medieval Literature’’ by Alan Berkowitz with Yuejin Liu [Early Medieval China 8 (2002)], which covered publications from 1996 to 2001. It lists and categorizes major Chinese books on early medieval Chinese literary studies published in mainland China between 2002 and 2010, including translations of American, Japanese, and Korean scholarship but excluding books reprinted without any changes. This bibliography includes monographs on literature and its broader cultural context, but does not contain books purely about Confucian classics, history, philosophy, or religion. Citations use traditional characters and are transliterated in pinyin to keep consistent with current usage in North America.","PeriodicalId":41624,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval China","volume":"2012 1","pages":"69 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/1529910412Z.0000000004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65834042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HUILIN ON BLACK AND WHITE, JIANG YAN ON WUWEI: TWO BUDDHIST DIALOGUES FROM THE LIU-SONG DYNASTY","authors":"P. Kroll","doi":"10.1179/1529910412Z.0000000001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/1529910412Z.0000000001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The genre of the lun (discourse) in early medieval Buddhism most often pertains to scriptural commentary or to interpretation of doctrine. But it can also accommodate other approaches to Buddhist topics, including those that more heavily emphasize literary flair. This article focuses on two essays in dialogue form that illustrate how far the genre can be stretched. These works are from early and late in the Liu-Song dynasty, by a monk and by a scholar-official, are from a large-scale and from a very personal perspective, are aimed at different audiences and were differently received. Attention is given here to the political and religious background of the two texts as well as to their literary qualities.","PeriodicalId":41624,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval China","volume":"2012 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/1529910412Z.0000000001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65833594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LADY YUCHI IN THE FIRST PERSON: PATRONAGE, KINSHIP, AND VOICE IN THE GUYANG CAVE","authors":"Kate Lingley","doi":"10.1179/1529910412Z.0000000002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/1529910412Z.0000000002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recent research sheds new light on the importance of maternal and matrilineal kin relationships during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period. Yet accounts of women’s family lives remain rare in the historical record, and first-person accounts still rarer. The dedication of Buddhist images by women during this period provides the occasional exception to this rule. The Maitreya niche sponsored by Lady Yuchi in 495 ce in the Guyang Cave at Longmen, dedicated to her deceased son, constitutes a first-person account of her own identity and her place in her husband’s family. Despite the social eminence of her husband’s primary wife, an imperial princess, she omits the princess and her son from the family group represented in her niche. Lady Yuchi depicts instead a nuclear family group centered on herself, and privileges her own mother-son relationship over all others in commemorating her son Niujue.","PeriodicalId":41624,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval China","volume":"2012 1","pages":"25 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/1529910412Z.0000000002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65833482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Accession of Sima Yan, AD 265: Legitimation by Ritual Replication","authors":"Carl Leban, A. Dien","doi":"10.1179/152991010X12863647122280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/152991010X12863647122280","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Using what textual material can be found in the standard histories and in statements by later commentators, this paper traces the process by which the Sima family was able finally to replace the Wei state of the Three Kingdoms with their own Jin dynasty. It provides a close reading of these materials in the context of the Sima family's need to gain widespread support and to be seen as Wei's legitimate successors. The events of ad 239–65 may be useful for comparative purposes of analysis in other cases of replacement through abdication of one dynasty by another, especially in respect to the importance of legitimacy. This study thus considers usurpation not as a matter of raw power but rather a carefully planned series of steps that involve also an observance, indeed, a conscious exploitation of the traditional symbols of such a transition. The elements of precedent, ritual, sympathetic magic, and temporal manipulation can all be combined in a legitimating formulation.","PeriodicalId":41624,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval China","volume":"2010 1","pages":"1 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/152991010X12863647122280","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65833097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}