Monumenta SericaPub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1080/02549948.2023.2263294
He Jianjun 何建軍
{"title":"Reading Politics in Calligraphy","authors":"He Jianjun 何建軍","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2023.2263294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2023.2263294","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the 1965 debate over the authenticity of Wang Xizhi’s “Preface to the Lanting Collection” (Lanting ji xu). It argues that the seemingly academic debate in fact provided an opp...","PeriodicalId":501087,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica","volume":"81 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138494619","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}
Monumenta SericaPub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1080/02549948.2023.2263304
Gad C. Isay
{"title":"Thy Kingdom Come: Rev. Dr. Ernst Faber’s (Hua Zhi’an, 1839–1899) Intercultural-missionary Vision of Chinese Spirituality","authors":"Gad C. Isay","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2023.2263304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2023.2263304","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies (Vol. 71, No. 2, 2023)","PeriodicalId":501087,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica","volume":"82 s359","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138494615","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}
Monumenta SericaPub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1080/02549948.2023.2263300
Albert Kozik
{"title":"Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China","authors":"Albert Kozik","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2023.2263300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2023.2263300","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies (Vol. 71, No. 2, 2023)","PeriodicalId":501087,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica","volume":"82 S357","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138494617","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}
Monumenta SericaPub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1080/02549948.2023.2263275
Bony Schachter
{"title":"Portrait of a Divine King","authors":"Bony Schachter","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2023.2263275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2023.2263275","url":null,"abstract":"From the late Ming onwards, scholars have paid great attention to Zhu Quan’s (1378–1448) relationship with Daoism. They tend to explain the phenomenon with reference to the taohui hypothesis, which...","PeriodicalId":501087,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica","volume":"82 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138494612","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}
Monumenta SericaPub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1080/02549948.2023.2263282
Fan Jiani 范佳妮
{"title":"La Stimmung du paysage dans l’esthetique allemande et les concepts esthetiques chez Wang Fuzhi et Wang Guowei","authors":"Fan Jiani 范佳妮","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2023.2263282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2023.2263282","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the concept of qingjing (sentiment-landscape) and its related aesthetic notions, such as qingjing (sentiment-scene) and yijing (idea-scene) in Wang Fuzhi’s and Wang Guowei’s a...","PeriodicalId":501087,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138494621","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}
Monumenta SericaPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02549948.2023.2263273
Anne Schmiedl
{"title":"“A Living Tradition”","authors":"Anne Schmiedl","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2023.2263273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2023.2263273","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces one method of divination, Chinese character divination, from imperial China to contemporary Taiwan. The article proves that many of the techniques used in character divination today originally stem from imperial Chinese sources. It thus shows the continued significance of this method as a living tradition in contemporary Chinese-speaking countries. The article first gives a concise overview of early sources of character divination. It then focuses on three important works from late imperial China, namely the Zichu (Realising a Character’s True Meaning), parts of the Gujin tushu jicheng (Complete Collection of Old and Contemporary Diagrams and Writings), and the Cezi midie (Secret Documents on Fathoming Chinese Characters). In these materials, the treatment of character divination gradually changed from a loose description in short narratives to rigidly defined rules and regulations. Finally, the article juxtaposes these findings with the reality of Chinese character divination in contemporary Taiwan by analysing the results of fieldwork carried out in 2014 and 2015.","PeriodicalId":501087,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica","volume":"2 1","pages":"303 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363621","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}
Monumenta SericaPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02549948.2023.2263283
Paul Kua 柯保羅
{"title":"Students of the Anglo-Chinese College of Malacca, 1818–1843","authors":"Paul Kua 柯保羅","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2023.2263283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2023.2263283","url":null,"abstract":"Missionaries Robert Morrison and William Milne founded the Anglo-Chinese College (ACC) in 1818 in Malacca, and it continued to operate there until 1843, when it relocated to Hong Kong. As the first Protestant school for Chinese and Europeans in Asia founded by the first two missionaries to China from the London Missionary Society, it has attracted much interest in cross-disciplinary missiological and historical studies, in the West and in the East, then and now; though few focus on its students, often giving scant details. This article provides an overview of the three types of ACC students from these earliest years, highlighting some prominent ones, including Walter Henry Medhurst, James Legge, Leang Fah and Ho Tsun-sheen. Drawing on many primary and secondary sources, it explores the activities and lives of these people in school and after graduation, in the hope of gaining new insights into the roles they played in Sino-Western cultural exchanges, dissemination of Christianity, and development of parts of Asia in the nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":501087,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica","volume":"42 1","pages":"453 - 488"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363824","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}
Monumenta SericaPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02549948.2023.2263281
Albert Kozik
{"title":"What Exactly is a Sum Xu?","authors":"Albert Kozik","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2023.2263281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2023.2263281","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to resolve the academic debate over the identity of the mysterious animal Sum Xu described in Michał Boym’s Flora sinensis. Through examining various Chinese sources published in the seventeenth century and the vocabulary they used to characterize creatures belonging to the Rodentia and Carnivora orders, the essay demonstrates that the animal at stake was most likely a weasel (Mustela), either Siberian (M. sibirica) or Japanese (M. itatsi), and that it was commonly known under the name song shu, even though in modern Mandarin this term is reserved for the squirrel. Additionally, the article investigates methodological problems arising from studying the import of Chinese terminology into the European context and suggests that scholars should consider the unstable linguistic diversity of Ming China when discussing the transfer of knowledge from the East to the West in the early modern period.","PeriodicalId":501087,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica","volume":"32 1","pages":"415 - 436"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364318","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}
Monumenta SericaPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02549948.2023.2263279
Tian Shufeng 田书峰
{"title":"The Earliest Transmission of Aristotle’s De anima in China in Lingyan lishao of Francesco Sambiasi S.J.","authors":"Tian Shufeng 田书峰","doi":"10.1080/02549948.2023.2263279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2023.2263279","url":null,"abstract":"Western psychology, as introduced by Aristotle’s De anima in China, can be traced back to Lingyan lishao (Short Treatise on Matters Pertaining to the Soul), written by the Italian Jesuit Francesco Sambiasi (1582–1649) in 1624 in China. The aim of this article is to figure out the most important characteristics of Lingyan lishao by analyzing some fundamental metaphysical concepts which Sambiasi used to describe the soul and shed light on the question of how Sambiasi used the Aristotelian hylomorphic framework and the Coimbra Commentaries to rewrite Western psychology in Chinese. The first part provides a brief introduction of the sources which Sambiasi used in his Lingyan lishao. The second part considers immortality and the essence of the soul, and the capacities or faculties of the soul will be treated in the third part. Finally, in the fourth part, the transcendental goal of the soul will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":501087,"journal":{"name":"Monumenta Serica","volume":"41 1","pages":"397 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363827","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}