Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies最新文献

{"title":"Queshi","authors":"Filippo Ugolini","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131804","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines a little-studied work of medieval literature, Queshi (The Missing History). Written by an otherwise unknown author between the ninth and tenth century AD, this collection of short stories records minor historical events of the last decades of the Tang dynasty (618–907). Scholars have long suspected the book to be incomplete, a hypothesis the first part of this article will explore. The enigmatic fragments of a supplementary scroll, in turn, suggest that some stories were probably deliberately expunged between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. The article will show that these fragments, although unlikely to be original, did gravitate towards the book and were in fact included in it. A close inspection of a note appended to the book will reveal traces of the editing process through which the book went.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"389 - 404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90873314","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":"All Mine! Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China","authors":"Monika Motsch","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131844","url":null,"abstract":"(biji 筆記), which literati regularly compiled in times of leisure, while mourning their parents (which came with a three-year hiatus), when dismissed from ranks, or after their retirement. Such compilations could result in fully-fledged philosophies or alternative histories. The larger majority, though, consists of idiosyncratic reflections of savants who cherished either one theme or format, or enjoyed dabbling in many fields. Zuo Ya’s contribution to the field reveals Shen Gua’s intellectual stance in conversation with the major philosophical trends and the context of sociopolitical theorizing of China during the eleventh century. This contextualization has much to offer, even as it runs counter to historians of science’s efforts to show how the practical and material sides of historical knowledge production – that is, efforts such as making a compass, developing numerology and music, or analyzing phonetics – are all social practices, deeply informed by materials. Scholars including Pamela H. Smith and Harold Cook advocate studying science in context as a social and material practice that, drawing on everyday experiences and trial and error, calls upon collectives. Such a history of knowledge offers critical engagement with the boundaries, hierarchies, and mutual constitution of different types of knowledge, asking basic questions such as what a contribution to knowledge is or what counts as ignorance, and equally responds, as Sven Dupré has remarked, to current concerns about truth, reliability, or authority. It also begs the question of which collective produced and used the knowledge that Shen reports so meticulously. Whether we now call it science or a nonsystem, knowledge is a collective achievement – never an individual’s world. Empiricism is a fascinating and rewarding read, because it raises all of these concerns.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"549 - 551"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73958137","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":"Beyond Shanghai","authors":"Sebastian Eicher","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131810","url":null,"abstract":"Before the 1858 Treaty of Tianjin the Chinese operations of the London Missionary Society’s Protestant missionaries were legally limited to five treaty ports. Yet Shanghai reports attest that the missionaries based there had already considerably expanded their influence over Jiangsu and Zhejiang by the mid 1850s. According to their own reports, they broke the rules established by the 1842 Treaty of Nanjing, and routinely traveled beyond the confines of Shanghai to spread the gospel and distribute bibles. They also opened outstations and staffed them with locals. The diaries of Wang Tao (1828–1897), who was an assistant during these years, provide many additional details on these undertakings, in particular with regard to the Chinese assistants. This paper consolidates the information available on the LMS missionaries’ itinerations beyond Shanghai before the Treaty of Tianjin and analyses how Wang Tao described his own involvement.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"423 - 455"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78290628","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":"Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China","authors":"P. Unschuld","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131838","url":null,"abstract":"extended to incorporate other texts, both received and excavated, which do not belong either to the “Masters” literature or to the Shi. Throughout the book, Hunter engages in a respectful critical dialogue with scholarship, making his study useful not only as a source of innovative argument, but also as an engaging introduction to the Western research on the Shi. Nevertheless, it is expected that an ambitious study like Hunter’s would contain some debatable points. For example, one may wonder whether the pattern of return and homecoming, identified in the book as a key element of the Shi poetics that influenced many other texts, really originates from the Shi or is simply an element of shared cultural repertoire that is articulated in the Shi the most explicitly. But in any case, there is no doubt that the embracement of this pattern in the Shi has reinforced its impact on Chinese culture across centuries.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"543 - 545"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72924413","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":"Yang Enlin (1929–2014)","authors":"Konrad Herrmann","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131821","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces Yang Enlin, whose scholarly life was dedicated to building and deepening the cultural understanding between China and Germany. Born in Yunnan, China, in 1929, he graduated from the Central University of Governance (Guoli zhongyang zhengzhi daxue 國立中央政治大學) in Nanjing in 1948. To continue his studies, he then moved to Switzerland and later Germany. From the 1950s, he lived in East Berlin, first working as a translator, and then, after doctoral studies at Humboldt University, at the East Asian Art Collection of the Pergamon Museum. During his tenure at this institution from 1959 to 1994, he not only contributed to the museum’s mission in the form of exhibitions and catalogues, but also continued his research in the areas of Chinese art history and German studies. He, moreover, kept working on the translation of Chinese literature into German and was teaching Chinese language, calligraphy, and painting.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"68 1","pages":"499 - 519"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79879603","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":"Indes néerlandaises et culture chinoise: Deux traductions malaises du Roman des Trois Royaumes (1910–1913)","authors":"T. Hoogervorst","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131874","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"572 - 575"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89073400","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":"P. Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. und die Geheimakten zum Gerichtsprozeß der Jahre 1664–1665 in China","authors":"H. Walravens","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131858","url":null,"abstract":"Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1592–1666) from Cologne is one of the best-known Jesuit missionaries in China, along with Matteo Ricci and Ferdinand Verbiest. Thanks to his good relationship with the young Emperor Shizu (Shunzhi), who addressed him confidentially as mafa (grandfather, elder gentleman), he rose in the hierarchy of officials to the first rank (which, however, did not include the corresponding executive powers) and thus attained themost influential position among all missionaries in the empire. His life and work have been known in detail for almost a century, after Schall’s own Historica narratio of the China Mission was published in 1665, especially through Alfons Väth’s excellent, well-documented biography, which admittedly has hagiographic overtones, but this does not detract from its reliability. Schall played an important role in the reform of the Chinese calendar, which had already been initiated by his untimely deceased confrères Johannes Schreck (1576–1630) and Giacomo Rho (1593–1638). Since in China Heaven enjoyed the highest reverence and the emperor ruled the empire by its mandate, astronomers and astrologers were very influential; they registered celestial phenomena and predicted eclipses, which, like other unusual phenomena, were considered unlucky; they signalled the displeasure of Heaven and could have an effect on the continuance of the dynasty. Schall himself was to experience the significance of such phenomena first-hand when earth tremors affected his trial.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"94 1","pages":"559 - 562"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75955379","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 Making of the Human Sciences in China: Historical and Conceptual Foundations","authors":"Iwo Amelung","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131869","url":null,"abstract":"dynasty and still exists in China as a monastic order; 2) “New Developments in the Confucian Ethic” (pp. 47–110), an in-depth investigation into the religious thisworldliness of “new Confucianism,” which was influenced by Chan Buddhism (Yü agreed with Tillman that it is better to use this translation than the conventional term “Neo-Confucianism” used in the West; cf. pp. xxi–xxii). These new spiritual developments were then disseminated in China, also within Daoist religion. These “Three Teachings/Religions” (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism), considered as a harmonious body within Chinese culture since the end of the third and at the beginning of the fourth centuries, have grasped “an ethic that everyone should engage in labor as a crucial component to their personal enlightenment and their duty to society” (p. xvii); and 3) “The Spiritual Configuration of Chinese Merchants” (pp. 113–199), in which Yü describes changes discovered in Chinese history in the social status of Chinese merchants and their spiritual resources within the “Three Religions,” focusing especially on the period 1500–1820. The focus of this part is the problematic of the relationship between merchants with their increased confidence in their profession and traditional ethics of Chinese religions with their work ethic developed over the ages. In his book, Yü Ying-shih does not so much strive to answer the “capitalism question” in China by engaging with Weber’s thesis as such, but rather, as he emphatically states in his “Introduction” something more modest: “Before the importation of modern Western capitalism into China, did the traditional religious ethic exert any influence on indigenously developed commercial activities? And if so, what was the specific import of such influence?” (p. 8). The English translation of Yü Ying-shih’s book, which is a welcome contribution to Western Chinese studies, should be a stimulation for intensifying investigation into the relationship between Chinese religiosity with its inner-worldly asceticism and mercantile spirit (or generally speaking economy) in China not only for Sinologists but also for researchers in religious studies, economic history and social sciences.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"568 - 572"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78575233","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":"Donald Daniel Leslie (1922–2020)","authors":"H. Walravens","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131825","url":null,"abstract":"It was with some delay that the news of the passing of Donald Daniel Leslie, the prominent historian of Judaism and Islam in China, spread in the scholarly community. He died already on 27 March 2020 at Sydney, Australia. He was born on 1 July 1922 as the youngest of four children of Alfred and Ada (née Schneiderman) Leslie in Tottenham, London. He joined the armed forces in 1943 after he had taken aBachelor of Science degree at the University of London, and served six months in Belgium and Holland at the end of WWII. He then volunteered to learn Japanese, so he was attached to the Intelligence Corps at Kure, near Hiroshima, after a preliminary nine months crash course in Karachi (Pakistan). In 1947 he returned to England and attended first SOAS and then the University of Cambridge where he took a diploma in Chinese in 1951 and a Master of Letters (Chinese Studies) in 1954. This choice of study was triggered by Leslie’s strong interest in mathematics and the sciences, and as he was awarded a generous six-year Scarborough grant which allowed him to study under the outstanding historian of science, Joseph Needham, at Cambridge, and also two years in China, this option was attractive. But fate decided otherwise: Because of the political development in China the envisaged term of study and research there was out of the question, and Leslie’s thesis “Man Donald Daniel Leslie in 2001. Photo provided courtesy of the family.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"96 1","pages":"521 - 531"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76845943","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 Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China","authors":"Zbigniew Wesołowski SVD","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"566 - 568"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86771006","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}