{"title":"Data Collection Practices for Compiling Confucian School Library Book Lists in Ming and Qing Local Gazetteers","authors":"Joseph Dennis","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1989783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1989783","url":null,"abstract":"Local gazetteers are a key source for Chinese history, but relatively little is known about how compilers obtained the information they presented in their finished works. Examining data collection practices for gazetteers is not only important to understanding the production processes and contents, but also can shed light on a variety of questions related to locality and geographical knowledge in imperial China. Tensions between standardization and localization may be revealed, the politics of geographical knowledge can be highlighted, and who was served by geographical knowledge may be shown through analysis of collection practices. This article explores data collection for Confucian school library book lists in the Ming and Qing and argues that list data came from various sources: accounting registers, on-site inspections, transcriptions of stelae and wooden plaques that recorded book acquisitions, other gazetteers, and court publications. List compilers approached their lists in different ways and lists could be comprehensive, selective, or normative in nature.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"544 1","pages":"487 - 513"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78349830","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":"Namen- und Titelregister zu den Jahresberichten über ostasiatische Neuerwerbungen der Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1912–1941","authors":"H. Walravens","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1989796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1989796","url":null,"abstract":"The Library of Congress owns one of the largest and most important collections of East Asian books. The present index includes the personal names related to acquisitions in East Asian languages found in the Library’s regular annual reports, which included careful bibliographic descriptions of books and manuscripts, among them many rare items (for an index of titles, see Part 1). The index may facilitate access to the reports which are nowadays easily available on the website of Hathi Trust.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"174 1","pages":"549 - 590"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73003876","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":"“Locality” on the Borderlands","authors":"Eloise Wright","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1989782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1989782","url":null,"abstract":"A key characteristic of the gazetteer genre is its systematic intertextuality through citation. In this, it is a precise exemplar of Bakhtin’s secondary genres. This article examines the representation of place in the Ming borderlands through close reading of the earliest extant gazetteer of Dali Prefecture, the 1563 Dali fuzhi. Through examination of the poems, histories, and inscriptions referenced in the text, as well as the paratextual material, this article situates Li Yuanyang’s Dali fuzhi in relation to both the gazetteer genre and the literary world of sixteenth-century Yunnan. I argue that the concept of the locality realised in Dali fuzhi was as complex as its sources, creating new knowledge out of the interplay of local and imperial discourses.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"457 - 486"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72839916","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":"Documenting Spiritual Geography","authors":"E. Kindall","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1989781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1989781","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the visual and textual geographical knowledge presented in a unique scroll of painting and poetry depicting the Yandang Mountains (Wild Goose Pond Mountains) northeast of Wenzhou on the Zhejiang coast. The Yuan-dynasty Attendant Censor Li Zixiao documented this local geography after his trip there in a 1316 scroll consisting of five inscriptions and seven detailed pictures of the northeastern spur of the range. This study examines how his travel notes and poems work together with the pictured routes, geography, architecture, and activities to recreate multi-sensory experiences of the mountains. It then suggests four ways the scroll may have been circulated and read by fourteenth-century people in social networks at the local and national levels: as a personal travel record; as a local landscape through which viewers might imagine traveling; as a document of visual knowledge for religious practice; and as an official report for the imperial court.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"413 - 455"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74772931","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":"Writing Memories","authors":"G. Vankeerberghen","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1989778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1989778","url":null,"abstract":"A longstanding debate on whether the capital should be located in Chang’an or Luoyang culminated in Ban Gu’s “Western Capital fu” (Xidu fu) and Zhang Heng’s “Western Metropolis fu” (Xijing fu); this debate, and other descriptions of Chang’an preserved in the histories of the early imperial period, led to an image of Chang’an as a city that violates classical ritual. This article reads the Sanfu huangtu (Imperial Plan of the Three Capital Regions) as a response to these debates, as a text of memory that adopts the format of local geographical writings to commemorate Western Han Chang’an. Whereas it is well known that the Plan includes many explicit citations from other texts, this article breaks ground in demonstrating the extent to which its structure and vocabulary are borrowed (without acknowledgment) from the early imperials texts, especially Ban Gu’s and Zhang Heng’s fu.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":" 68","pages":"353 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72538871","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 First Translation of a Chinese Drama into a European Language","authors":"Catello Criscuolo","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1989775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1989775","url":null,"abstract":"A partial translation of the Yuan dynasty drama The Orphan of the Zhao Family by the Jesuit missionary Joseph Henri-Marie de Prémare was published in Paris in 1735. As the first example of a Chinese theatrical work becoming known in Europe, the translation had a vast impact and gave rise to the composition of some European plays which, to varying degrees, were inspired by it. The present study focuses not on these adaptations, but on Prémare’s translation itself. In recognising its central role both in the formation of a European perception of Chinese literature and in the history of the development of Sinology, this study is an investigation of the linguistic and cultural modalities through which Prémare managed to present to the European reader, at least in part, the moral tension that animates the drama, despite the objective difficulty present in every transcoding operation – especially in the earlier works – and the subjective ambition to provide an image of China that was not excessively “pagan.”","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"309 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87674490","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 Confusions of Space","authors":"Mario Cams","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1989784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1989784","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a typology of Ming-era printed and comprehensive works of geography over the course of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. It traces how state-led efforts at defining imperial space in the Da Ming yitong zhi (1461) were gradually displaced by the competing spatial constructs found in the scholarly atlas and the commercial guidebook. Finally, following wider trends in the late Ming book market at the turn of the seventeenth century, the disparate spatial arrangements found in these three types of books on geography were increasingly juxtaposed and combined for an ever-expanding readership. As a result, a more creative and open attitude emerged vis-à-vis the ordering of Ming space and its relationship to the outside world.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"515 - 547"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87911135","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":"Knowledge, Power, and Technology","authors":"Lin Fan 林凡","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1989780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1989780","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the epistemological nature, material forms, and social functions of zhentu (diagrams of troop formation) in the context of early Northern Song history. The first two sections contextualize the concept of zhentu in the new political and military institutions during this period. In the early Northern Song, the diagrams and geographic knowledge came to be incorporated into the imperial knowledge system in a more systematic manner. The third section divides the diagrams into two categories according to their forms and purposes: diagrams involving relative positions that were used for military training purposes, and diagrams combining topographical components that were used for military campaigns. The last section of the article discusses how the use of diagrams was intertwined in court debates. Their making and circulation demonstrate the changing power dynamics between the emperor and the court officials.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"387 - 412"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80772023","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":"Local Uses of Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China","authors":"Alexis Lycas, Hasegawa Masato 長谷川正人, Chen Shih-Pei 陳詩沛","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1989777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1989777","url":null,"abstract":"Geographical knowledge traditionally viewed as a monolithic system constructed for ordering the political space of the state. Yet what did historical actors in imperial China do with geographical knowledge produced at the local level? While acknowledging this political function of geographical knowledge, the six contributions of this special issue approach localities as places of knowledge production. They highlight the shifting values that those actors assigned to localities and proble-matize what locality meant in the history of imperial China: Was the imperial capital a locality? Were there localities within localities? Did mountains and religious sites function as localities? And can localities be treated as historical records? Focusing on localities allows us to move beyond the somewhat abstract and uniform notion of geographical knowledge and to consider the variety and ductility of the geographical cultures that were produced and circulated in the Sinitic sphere, across time and space, but in locally specific contexts. 1 The six authors in this special issue examine a broad spectrum of literary genres transcending traditional boundaries and underscore the importance of paratextual and material elements. To understand what informs the divergent uses of geographical knowledge, local and central factors must be juxtaposed. Whether local or imperially centered, these factors are multifaceted, encompassing disparate literary genres and reading practices. They also reveal practical processes of making, managing, and understanding the meaning of locality. They show a complex set of references from various genres, places, and times that historical actors used to create and recreate idiosyncratic ways of describing and representing the environs. The authors focus on different genres and periods, and together they compellingly complicate our understanding of the various genres they analyze –","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"228 1","pages":"349 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74677723","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":"Transgressive Typologies: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China.","authors":"Yu. S Mylnikova","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1910217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1910217","url":null,"abstract":"tion of motifs, styles, andmeditation practices, the visual program of Cave 14might not be a literal guide for rituals, but it presents possibilities of personal agency of the Guiyijun ruling elites, artisans, and the monastic and lay communities in generating new concepts and practices in meditation as well as visual representation. Chapter Five, “Beyond the Maṇḍala,” examines the sociohistorical and religious contexts for privileging the Gaṇḍhavyūha narrative in Cave 85. The absence of the pilgrim Sudhana, the protagonist in the Gaṇḍhavyūha chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, suggests the possibility for practitioners to identify themselves with Sudhana to embark on the journey of awakening. The association of this narrativewith Samantabhadra’s vows in the Avataṃsaka Sūtra and the bodhisattvas of the “Maṇḍala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas” in visual representations demonstrates the conjunction of esoteric and exoteric Buddhist practices – in particular Mahav̄airocana and vairocana – and this shows another fundamental difference between the esoteric Buddhist practice in Guiyijun Dunhuang and Shingon Buddhism in medieval Japan. In conclusion, Wang’s book best exemplifies the depth and breadth that a case study can attain. It is rich in detail, careful in examination, and broad in scope. Its critical reading of the earlier scholarship and its interdisciplinary approach pave ways to rethink fundamental aspects in the studies of the visual materials from Dunhuang and maṇḍalas in broader geographic and cultural terms. Nonetheless, its effective articulation of key concepts and ideas also makes the book enjoyable for those who have general interests in esoteric Buddhism and Buddhist art.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"117 2-3 1","pages":"285 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89159104","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}