{"title":"Crossing the Border","authors":"Huang Meiting 黃渼婷","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1910160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1910160","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, Sinologists have been arguing about the terms “Sinology,” “China Studies,” “guoxue,” “Area Studies,” “New Sinology” and other new terms with which scholars could better define this discipline. Scholars in Europe, America and other Chinese-speaking countries obviously take different positions on this issue and have thus developed different terms, such as Sinology in Europe, Area Studies and China/Chinese Studies in the United States, New Sinology in Australia and Sinology and Sinophone Studies for the research on the Chinese-speaking areas. They are attempting to clarify how to discuss Chinese culture without causing problematic identity issues. Sinologists’ focus has shifted from traditional Chinese culture to modern China. Meanwhile, the Chinese themselves are focusing on their identity. They have insisted that only Chinese could understand their own culture, which scholars outside of China will never be able to grasp. Therefore, Chinese scholars use the new term “Foreign Chinese Studies” to distinguish external approaches from their own. Global research on Chinese culture has gone through a long history; now it is stuck in a dilemma and cannot find common ground. This article attempts to construct a new model: the prism model. “Prism” means mirror, lens or a tool to break up a beam of light into its constituent spectrum. It could be also interpreted as an “observation” or “analysis” that reflects the different facets of things. Each angle or cultural background scholars use to understand Chinese culture could be treated as a “lens,” one that reflects a certain aspect and a way to a possible future of Sinology. In this article, I attempt to use this prism model as a methodology for giving researchers of Chinese culture a new broader way without entering into the problems of the identity issue.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"183 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85953585","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}
{"title":"Forgotten Assistants behind the Scenes","authors":"Hsieh Chia-wen 謝嘉文","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1910145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1910145","url":null,"abstract":"In the 16th century, Western Catholic missionaries arrived in China to propagate the Christian faith. In order to accommodate, assimilate with and blend into the new culture’s setting, they first intentionally imitated it and adopted the same language and lifestyle. Commenting on this process, Paul Rule notes that some Chinese literati served as xianggong (assistant) to help the Western missionaries with the daily matters of sinicisation. Although they played a significant role, they were not widely acknowledged. As Rule asserts, the xianggong were the Catholic Chinese literati of the 17th century. They used their excellent command of the Chinese language to hold full-time jobs in the Church assisting European Catholic priests with translation and writing. The author elucidates the role of the xianggong, uncovering their outstanding achievements as well as acknowledging their proper and deserved prominence in history by introducing a number of xianggong in form of case studies.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"49 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78749970","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}
{"title":"Aural-mnemonic Architectonics of Ancient Chinese Philosophical Texts","authors":"Y. Grebnev","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2020.1831205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2020.1831205","url":null,"abstract":"Taking inspiration from Soviet scholarship and South Asian parallels, this article proposes a new interpretation of the compositional regularities in certain philosophical texts from ancient China. It argues that such texts are underpinned by mechanisms of aural and mnemonic reinforcement that contributed to the fixation of textual compositions and facilitated the creation of stable discursive spaces for communities distributed in space and time. The sophisticated structural patterning can be seen as a technological alternative to writing and literacy, providing another platform for advanced textuality. Visualisation of the non-linear compositional structures pioneered by Vladimir Spirin, a Soviet scholar of ancient Chinese texts, makes them more comprehensible to the contemporary reader, and this approach holds much potential if combined with modern dynamic hypertext technology.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"289 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90204332","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}
{"title":"The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order","authors":"Nathan Woolley","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2020.1831276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2020.1831276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"578 - 580"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87366861","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}
{"title":"Die Übertragung buddhistischer Sutras ins Chinesische: Theorie und Praxis am Beispiel von Zanning (919–1001)","authors":"Thomas Jülch","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2020.1831273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2020.1831273","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"572 - 575"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79124053","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}
{"title":"Chinese Navigation near the Coast of Central Guangdong","authors":"R. Ptak","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2020.1831209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2020.1831209","url":null,"abstract":"Maps, nautical accounts and geographical works of the Ming period often refer to Nantingshan 南亭山 and Nantingmen 南亭門. Both locations were key sites for Chinese navigation. While it is possible to identify the first site with modern Da Wanshandao 大萬山島, an island in the Wanshan liedao 萬山列島, the identification of Nantingmen remains difficult. The present article examines diverse references to both places, trying to explain why they were important and how we should deal with them. This makes it necessary to also consider other nearby islands and spaces, and to discuss certain commercial, administrative and cultural aspects. Portuguese sources provide additional data, but the navigational priorities of the Portuguese were different from those of their Ming counterparts, which is addressed in the final part of this study.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"106 1","pages":"339 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87967696","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}
{"title":"Shamanism in Early China","authors":"T. Michael","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2020.1831270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2020.1831270","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"563 - 567"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88760074","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}
{"title":"Qing Literati’s Quiet Resistance against Qianlong’s Condemnation of Qian Qianyi: A Study of the Ming–Qing Gazetteer Sources","authors":"Chan Wing-ming 陳永明","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2020.1831216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2020.1831216","url":null,"abstract":"The deeds and words of the well-known Ming–Qing historical figure Qian Qianyi (1582–1664), as well as his name, suddenly turned into taboos in local histories during the high Qing due to the Qianlong emperor’s condemnation of Qian for serving two dynasties. Nevertheless, the sources in the gazetteers reveal that the imperial measures could hardly achieve the emperor’s goal, neither eradicating the non-censored publications during the Qianlong literary inquisition nor prohibiting the use of Qian’s works in the gazetteers compiled after the edict. This phenomenon discloses how everyday resistance was practiced by some local Chinese literati during and after the Qianlong reign in their struggle against the cultural hegemony of the imperial court.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"203 1","pages":"369-392"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76196122","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}
{"title":"Worüber man nicht spricht: Tabus, Schweigen und Redeverbote in China","authors":"D. Wippermann","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2020.1831268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2020.1831268","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"557 - 561"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72555825","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}