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{"title":"Shen Gua’s Empiricism","authors":"Dagmar Schäfer","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131840","url":null,"abstract":"the few concepts and practices that are propagated as “traditional Chinese medicine” today. In a final chapter, Liu Yan finds some clear words to explain the historically unjustified “emphasis on the benign naturalness of Chinese drug therapy” as a “strategic rhetoric that highlighted the unique benefits of Chinese medicine [...] at the expense of admitting the heterogeneity, diversity and complex internal dynamics of multiple traditions of Chinese medical practice developed across vast expanses of time and place. This romanticized impression has carried on to our own time” (p. 172). It is hoped that the example set by Liu Yanwith his bookwill be followed bymany in the future. Some Europeanmedical historiansmay object to a persistent, nonchalant use of the terms “pharmacological” and “pharmacopoeia,” irrespective of the fact that not all materia medica literature is “pharmacological” (a “pharmacology” as an explanatory theory how drugs act in the human body was not conceptualized in China prior to the Song-Jin-Yuan era) and that the first Chinese “pharmacopoeia,” that is a drug code with a legal status, appeared in China only in 1936. But this is common usage in English language publications now and does not diminish the value of Liu Yan’s book.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"545 - 549"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87800019","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":"Bernsteinglanz und Perlen des Schwarzen Drachen: Die Geschichte der chinesischen Weinkultur","authors":"Anthony Hu (Hu Baozhu)","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131832","url":null,"abstract":"programmatic in the sense that it suggests what scholars might try to do in the near future to overcome such problems. From this point of view, it was certainly a good idea to conclude the present volume with his paper. As indicated above, knowing very little about Taiwan’s archaeological record, I should abstain from further judgements. All I can state is this: Reading the present volume was quite enjoyable. Outsiders may consider it as a well-composed eyeopener. Without doubt, it is a remarkable effort to establish a smooth narration by skillfully combining archaeological and textual evidence. Of course, Sinologists aremore familiar with the textual part. The contributions dealing with this material, I may confirm, are pleasant. Finally, the book contains a very long bibliography and a detailed index. As everything else in the volume, they are most useful. In sum, one ought to congratulate the editors for having assembled this beautiful collection.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"538 - 541"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87319862","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 Ludibrium of Living Well","authors":"R. Zandbergen","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2131802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2131802","url":null,"abstract":"In the present article a new case will be made for the philosophical and religious merit of the Xiang’er commentary to the Laozi. Throughout the text there is a normative emphasis on reaching sagehood and the levels of obedience and cultivation that this entails. The Xiang’er prescribes a preparatory morality that readies Daoist practitioners for the eventual return to the Dao from which everything sprang. While this creates a temporary equilibrium in which commoners are held in check by a matrix of morality, this is but a stepping stone towards the ultimate dismantling of the edifice of human consciousness and the cosmic return to the Dao, as of yet the prerogative of sages. This creates a grim religious worldview in which humans are tasked with muting the clamour of the species in order to restore the original calm and stillness of the cosmic Dao.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"367 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82119835","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":"Jonas Polfuẞ, Brief. Kontakt. Netz: Soziale Vernetzung in der Tang-Zeit am Beispiel der Briefliteratur Han Yus und Liu Zongyuans. Deutsche Ostasienstudien, 23. Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag, 2017. xi, 391 pp. € 48.50 (PB). ISBN 978-3-940527-91-2","authors":"Monika Motsch","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2061178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2061178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"56 1","pages":"258 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76724626","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":"On the Notion of “Vowel” and “Consonant” in Chinese Linguistic Tradition","authors":"G. Orlandi","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2061171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2061171","url":null,"abstract":"The present article seeks to investigate the notion of vowels and consonants in the Chinese linguistic tradition, which developed independently of Western linguistic traditions, despite being influenced by the phonetic science of India. In particular, this study seeks to discuss the questions of (1) how traditional phonologists in China had split the syllable into smaller units, (2) what was the nature of the units, and (3) whether Chinese phonologists had already been aware of the existence of vowels and consonants. This study also discusses the question of whether the Four Grades of traditional rime tables were actually related to the quality of vowels, and the presence of medial glides. It is concluded that vowels were probably understood as sounds that may have been pronounced alone, whereas consonants were interpreted as sounds which should be attached to a vowel. Occasionally, a comparison with Western linguistic tradition is also offered.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"209 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85129765","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 Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949. Edited by Thomas Fröhlich and Axel Schneider. Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2020. ix, 323 pp. Bibliography, Index. US$ 172 (HB). ISBN 978-90-04-42653-5","authors":"Hon Tze-ki","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2061516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2061516","url":null,"abstract":"Gabelentz’s work. Moreover, the majority of the articles in Von Lindenblättern und verderbten Dialekten fulfills the promise given in the “Introduction” of presenting at least a few “important new insights.” In some articles, Gabelentz’s ideas are put in a very broad context, which functions as a source of information in itself, rather than shedding a direct light upon Gabelentz. Nevertheless, this important and original scholar nowhere fails to fascinate.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"277 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84386967","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 Explanations of Snow in the Taixi shuifa 泰西水法 (Hydromethods of the Great West, 1612) and Their Reception beyond the Ming–Qing Transition","authors":"Sabine Kink","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2061159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2061159","url":null,"abstract":"The Taixi shuifa (Hydromethods of the Great West, 1612), composed jointly by the Italian Jesuit Sabatino de Ursis and the Chinese official Xu Guangqi, is much more than a technical treatise about Western hydraulic pumps. It also contains an extensive theoretical chapter about the “principles of water” (shuili), including some questions about snow and the formation of its hexagonal crystals in the atmosphere. This essay takes the idiosyncratic answers given in the Taixi shuifa as an example of some of the characteristics of West–East knowledge transfer during the early modern period. Compared to traditional Chinese ideas about these phenomena, the explanations given in the Taixi shuifa appear as a creative combination of standard Renaissance knowledge with a novel quest for experimental verification and first attempts at a mathematization of nature that are not found in subsequent Jesuit works on this topic. However, despite an initially lively response on part of the learned audience during the Ming–Qing transition, the innovative approach of the Taixi shuifa did not eventually lead to decisive changes in traditional Chinese perceptions, and thus foreshadows the growing divergences in scientific developments between China and the West.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":"165 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84492046","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 Cambridge History of China, Vol. 2: The Six Dynasties, 220–589, edited by Albert E. Dien and Keith N. Knapp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxii, 897 pp. 7 maps, 7 tables. £ 120 (HB). ISBN 978-1-107-02077-1","authors":"Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2061177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2061177","url":null,"abstract":"This is the first comprehensive Western-language survey on a period of Chinese history which now is commonly known as EarlyMedieval China. For those familiar with Chinese history it is not astonishing that the two volumes of the Cambridge History of China (CHC) which deal with the “unified empires” of the Qin/Han and Sui/Tang dynasties were published, respectively, forty and thirty-five years ago. It is fitting that the grand endeavor of the CHC is being completed with the publication of the volume under review. It must be noted that the history after the fall of the Han empire has been subjected to specialized research by scholars from various fields such as Daoism, Buddhism, or historical anthropology (e.g., lineage studies). Nevertheless, to conceive of this period as an entity for treatment in one single volume was a formidable challenge since it is one of the most volatile periods of Chinese history, characterized by an incessant influx of foreign peoples into the Chinese realm, by migration and resettlement on an unprecedented scale, and hence by constant bordercrossing, in a very physical way, yet also in a figurative sense, in terms of cultural practices, of music, spirituality, and imagery. Especially the fourth through the sixth century CE was “a time of unprecedented mobility of people, texts, goods, and ideas.” A better understanding of Chinese regionalism nurtured in the last few decades has definitely contributed to a new reflective historiography which made an impact on the project of dealing with this intricate period of Early Medieval China in an adequate way. In particular, scholars were encouraged “to think less in terms of ‘China’ as whole, and more in terms of local or regional cultures.” In the beginning, this proposal was probably regarded as a burden. Yet meanwhile it has come to be seen as a fortuitous notion, especially by those who abstain from “the teleological construct of ‘China’ and the ‘Chinese’ (or Han) people and culture” and thus – expressedly or not – follow the admonitions voiced by Hugh R. Clark some years ago. Thus the volume under review really is the state of the art in terms of a reflective thinking and writing about China and her past. As to the term of “Six Dynasties,” it must be noted that the usage of this term mirrors the historiographical conventions rooted in the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, which has been passed on from one dynasty to the next one. This has led some historians to denounce the term of “Six Dynasties” as Han-Chinese-centric or even as being permeated by a Jiangnan centrism shaped by Late Qing and Early Republican intellectuals from southern China. In an earlier article, one of the","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"256 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79072918","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":"Yuri Pines, Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. x, 4, 352 pp. Maps, Bibliography, Index. US$ 120 (HB). ISBN 978-0-231-19662-8","authors":"Monique Nagel-Angermann","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2061173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2061173","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"458 1","pages":"242 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83030789","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":"Water, Cosmos, and Body","authors":"Valente Lee","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2022.2061166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2022.2061166","url":null,"abstract":"In an ongoing discussion on correlative cosmology in early China, the interrelation between the macro- and microcosms is pervasively deemed a central feature of the Chinese mode of thinking. The human body, in that view, is modeled on and serves as a miniature of the outer universe. Embracing a broad spectrum of instantiations of correlative cosmology, this study focuses on the notion of liuxing, literally “to flow into form,” which is used as both a cosmological term and a gestational term in early Chinese literature. By inspecting unearthed and transmitted texts, the article suggests that liuxing should be understood against the intellectual background of the “water metaphor” system. It argues also that liuxing is not only a reflection of the parallelism of the macro- and microcosms, but also an epitome of the trifold interconnection between water, the cosmos, and body.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"33 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83680563","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}