Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies最新文献

{"title":"Namen- und Titelregister zu den Jahresberichten über ostasiatische Neuerwerbungen der Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1912–1941","authors":"H. Walravens","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1910168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1910168","url":null,"abstract":"The Library of Congress owns one of the largest and most important collections of East Asian books. Owing to the support of the farsighted Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, every effort was made to build a model collection that covered all fields of knowledge and that excelled all other Western libraries. What most scholars do not realize is that during Putnam’s time in office regular annual reports were published on new acquisitions, which included careful bibliographic descriptions of books and manuscripts, among them many rare items. While Walter Swingle and Michael Hagerty were responsible for the presentation of publications from the fields of materia medica, medicine, botany, agriculture, Naxi manuscripts, encyclopedias, as of 1928 A.W. Hummel signed the annual reports while descriptions of natural history items still continued in a parallel fashion. These texts, their style and their meticulous research remind the reader of the fabulous Eminent Chinese of the Ch‘ing period (1943–1944) whose editor was no other than A.W. Hummel. These reports were usually not found in seminars or in the East Asians sections of university libraries and thus remained widely unknown to East Asian experts. Now, after more than eighty years some people may consider this material “archival” and “outdated” but the researcher will find much information not detected easily otherwise. The indices of book titles (Part 1) and personal names (Part 2), with the Chinese and Japanese characters added by the editor – as far as possible – 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":"16 1","pages":"201 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75260537","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 Yi River Commentary on the Book of Changes.","authors":"Rickard Gustavsson","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1910197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1910197","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"270 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73781117","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":"What is Confucian Meritocracy?","authors":"Ouyang Xiao 欧阳霄","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1910174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1910174","url":null,"abstract":"Daniel A. Bell’s searching for possible alternatives to liberal democracy in light of the political progress in the Asian countries spans two decades, culminating in his proposal of the so-called Chinese political meritocracy or xianneng zhengzhi. This article indicates the conceptual asymmetry between xianneng zhengzhi and “meritocracy” in three aspects. Firstly, in their respective cultural traditions, xianneng zhengzhi remains at the brighter end of the spectrum of political ideas while “meritocracy” is bogged down in a highly polarized reception. Secondly, “meritocracy” lacks the quintessence of xianneng zhengzhi, namely, an explicit stress on priority of moral worthiness. Thirdly, “meritocracy” is built upon foundational individualism and focuses on the individual performance and achievement. Although Confucian political tradition and the Western conception of meritocracy share some functional similarities, using the synthesized term “Confucian meritocracy” to introduce the Confucian political tradition may commit a cross-cultural hermeneutic fallacy.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"243 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83018617","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":"Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland.","authors":"Veronika Veit","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1910194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1910194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"267 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88519826","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":"Nachruf auf Prof. Chiao Wei 喬偉 (1926–2021)","authors":"K. Pohl","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1910183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1910183","url":null,"abstract":"In Trier gab es immer wieder Berichte von Kollegen, die Prof. Chiao gesehen hatten, wie er seine QigongÜbungen im Freien verrichtete und die davon in hohem Maße beeindruckt waren. So vermuteten wir, als seine Kollegen und Mitarbeiter, dass er, als Kenner der Philosophie und Religion des Daoismus, mit entsprechenden, wenn auch nicht Unsterblichkeitsdann doch daoistischen Langlebigkeitspraktiken vertraut war. Wir legten ihm nahe, diese Erkenntnisse, die ja durchaus eine hohe Aktualität in der wissenschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit haben würden – also gleichsam im Trend liegen, wenn nicht sogar eine zeitlose Relevanz besitzen – doch im Rahmen eines interdisziplinären Forschungsprojektes zu teilen. Denn, so die Argumentation, wenn man bei Forschungsaktivitäten auf die Unterstützung des Zeitgeistes zählen kann (wie etwa bei Klimaoder Geschlechterstudien), könne man leicht zum Drittmittelkönig an einer Universität werden. Aber er zog es vor, dieses Wissen für sich zu behalten. Es hat ihm offenbar genutzt, denn es hat ihm ein langes, 95jähriges Leben beschert: Zwei Tage nach seinem 95. Geburtstag ist Prof. Chiao in Trier friedlich entschlafen. Aber wenn wir von seinem 95. Geburtstag sprechen, so treffen wir gleich auf eine „Unbestimmtheitsstelle“ in seinem Lebenslauf. In seinem Pass steht, er sei am 22. Februar 1926 geboren. Seinen Vertrauten gegenüber bestand er jedoch immer darauf, dass dies der 22. Tag des 2. Monats nach dem traditionellen chinesischen Kalender sei, und an diesem Tag hat er auch immer seinen Geburtstag begangen. Dass man diesen Hintergrund bei seiner Einbürgerung verstanden hatte, ist eher unwahrscheinlich, und so hat man möglicherweise kurzerhand das einfache Äquivalent des Gregorianischen Kalenders genommen. Berechnet man das Datum des chinesischen Kalenders auf unseren Kalender um, wäre er am 4. April 1926 geboren – und so wäre er doch keine 95 Jahre alt geworden, sondern nur 94...Aber da man nichts Genaues weiß, lassen wir das im Dunkeln. Nicht völlig aufklären lässt sich auch sein bewegter Lebenslauf, der ihn von China über Taiwan, Spanien und Österreich schließlich nach Deutschland führte. Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies, 69. 1, 257–266, June 2021","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"257 - 266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76454614","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":"Espousing Protestant Christian Citizenship","authors":"Sun Zexi 孫澤汐","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1910146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1910146","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to outline struggles of self-understanding for Chinese Protestant Christians during the decades of great transition between the late Qing and the early Republic, and view how such understanding anticipated later nationalist discourses on state sovereignty. Using both existing scholarship on statism and Chinese Christianity, as well as primary texts from historical journals and Christian newspapers, the article argues for a consistent tension as many Chinese Christians strived to close the gap between their religious and political identities. In doing so, they ended up espousing and practicing a synthesis of piety, progress and patriotism which, though later subjected to state regulations, may have contributed to the statist claim over religion before the heightened political mobilization in the late 1920s.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"97 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84575301","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":"Wang Lianming, Jesuitenerbe in Peking: Sakralbauten und transkulturelle Räume, 1600–1800.","authors":"D. E. Mungello","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1910233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1910233","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"216 1","pages":"288 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74169750","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":"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":"The Original Meaning of the Yijing: Commentary on the Scripture of Change.","authors":"J. Adler","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1910287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1910287","url":null,"abstract":"that is so hard to translate into other languages, especially East Asian, where it is commonly understood as simply meaning “common knowledge” (Chin. changshi; Jap. jōshiki). Secondly, how can pages of common knowledge, such as the “extremely popular” (p. 27) vocabulary lists, on their own be judged “creative”? I have the same reservations about claims for creativity for the overwhelmingly formulaic apologia copybooks, and the matching couplets. When people purchased a herbal doctor’s prescription, what they paid for was not “creativity.” Surely, they wanted the tried and tested prescription, that is, the formulaic formula, not a crackpot’s “creative” herbal cocktails. As a result, I suspect that whatever creativity the ordinary Chinese imparted to these manuscripts can be found mainly in their use of them, that is, in their work or some performance. And, a record of such work or performances (often part of an oral culture) is precisely what we do not have in the copybooks used for the study of these manuscripts. The difficulties of provenance and dating these manuscripts further compound the problem of unearthing and identifying their copyist’s or owner’s “creativity.” In fact, despite my sympathy with an effort to use manuscripts to observe Chinese society “from below,” the manuscripts discussed in this book most often strike me as pages of phrases and passages filtered from the very elite literary tradition that present-day social historians of China are so anxious to supplement, neglect, or even supplant. They are less the musings of ordinary people on their life or their culture than the droppings they have gleaned from that “elite” literary tradition. In the end, I feel forced to wonder if they are best read as adoptions and adaptations rather than as creations by ordinary people in a society shaped profoundly by the use of texts. It thus was a society in which literacy was attained and its attendant bodies of knowledge used at very varying levels by its “ordinary people,” even when they were not considered “literate.” The manuscripts reflect then the gap between these different literacies as well as the bodies of knowledge on which these literacies took shape and survived like barnacles through centuries of change.","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"57 1","pages":"303 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89850454","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":"Contributions to the International Workshop “Sinology – Chinese/China Studies – Guoxue: Their Interrelation, Methodologies, and Impact” Siegburg, Germany, 21–22 October 2019","authors":"Barbara Hoster, D. Kuhlmann","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2021.1910147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2021.1910147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41653,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica-Journal of Oriental Studies","volume":"80 1","pages":"115 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83854032","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}