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During the Northern and Southern Song dynasties, the city of Hangzhou faced a dilemma: how to simultaneously maintain West Lake as a freshwater reservoir and as a source for the food supply of its inhabitants. Based on the Buddhist precept of abstaining from harming any living being, West Lake was declared a sacrosanct site where fishing was prohibited. Although this put the city’s fish supply at stake

To his students and academic friends, he was known as a humble and patient interlocutor. Fellow historians from around the world knew Rolf Gerhard (aka “Gary”) Tiedemann (Chin.: Di Deman 狄德滿) as a ...

The article discusses the history of the Princes of Lu of the Qonggirad lineage, which was matrimonially connected to the Chinggisid Yuan dynasty throughout generations. Using historical, epigraphic and archaeological sources, the article stresses the special position of this lineage’s members as major marriage partners of the Qubilaids with hereditary military positions and appanages strategically

This article re-examines the meaning of bu zhan er qu ren zhi bing 不戰而屈人之兵, one of the core notions of Sunzi 孫子, and discusses its practicality. The article questions the popularly pacific and defensive view on this expression and refutes the argument that it is an idealistic concept. By analyzing the context and historical background of Sunzi, this article argues that bu zhan er qu ren zhi bing is

In this bibliographical note, the author presents the first European, i.e., 1804 sales catalogue of Chinese books, provided that we do not count the booksellers catalogues of scholars’ private libraries in which Chinese language material consisted of few items only. The owner remained anonymous, but the agent was Antonio Montucci (1762–1829) – an early Sinologist who described the collection in a letter

This article traces the history of Buddhist temple bells during the Song dynasty, through bell inscriptions and records that have been preserved despite the disappearance of the majority of the bells themselves. These texts bear witness to the amounts of time, money, and effort that were spent to realise the production of a bell, making it one of the most prominent and precious objects in the context

This article analyses pieces of literature included in Fan Ye’s chapters on Zhang Heng, Ma Rong, and Cai Yong. It interprets these pieces within the context of its authors’ biographies, coming to t...

beim Wort „Philosophie“ an dieser Stelle nicht erschließt. Wenn der Autor meinen sollte, es gäbe zwar im geistigen Leben des alten China keinen relativ abgrenzbaren ideellen Bereich philosophischer Wirklichkeitsbewältigung wie in der europäischen Kulturtradition, wohl aber in Konzepte der Verhaltenssteuerung integrierte philosophische Ideen, so entspräche dies auch der Auffassung des Rezensenten. Diese

Dynastic cohesion of the Eastern Han declined from ca. 130 CE or earlier as may be seen in the absence of a decisive emperor, the treatment of his blood relatives, the growth of privately managed estates, and the cessation of measures to relieve distress and settle the population. To this we may add the growth of some types of groups of non-official influential individuals bearing various titles, and

The Gengshi emperor’s two-year-long reign (23–25) has posed a problem to historians of the Later Han dynasty (25–220). As the member of the Liu family who defeated Wang Mang (r. 9–23) became emperor and was, for some time, the superior of the later dynastic founder Guangwu (r. 25–57), Gengshi and his role in the transferal of the Mandate of Heaven needed to be explained. The official history of the

This article compares the solar eclipse records in Fan Ye’s Hou Hanshu “Benji” 本紀to those in the Dongguan Hanji (225 CE), Sima Biao’s Xu Hanshu “Wuxing zhi” 五行志, Yuan Hong’s Hou Hanji, as well as Espenak and Meeus’ Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses to comment upon the source, selection, reliability, and function of the eclipse records included in his imperial annals of the Eastern Han (25–220

In the array of biographical chapters in the Hou Hanshu, the “Danggu liezhuan” 黨錮列傳 (Biographical Chapter on the Proscribed Party) presents the specificity to be organized not around the destiny of one person, or of a group of persons gathered for thematic reasons, but around a political event, the proscription of a party of reformist literati and officials. The historian’s way of intertwining the

Though Confucian teachings might require them to subjugate themselves to the interests of their husband and his family, women of the Han period had a degree of personal autonomy, with rights to pro...

Starting from what the Hou Hanshu says about the Southern Man in Later Han times, this article aims to measure the prescriptive importance of Fan Ye’s text, through a comparison with other types of documents, mostly unearthed documents from the Middle Yangzi area. Beyond the stereotypical image of benevolent officials educating savage barbarians, it suggests that the “Man problem” was not an ethnic

print of the civil administration charged with managing the city. He would dearly like to see how this undoubted expert would summarize the current evidence for answers to a series of undeniably “modern” academic questions: 1. Which segments of the population had access to education, even rudimentary numeracy and literacy? 2. What kind of health care, if any, could Luoyang residents expect in times

Although the *Wu wang jian zuo, published in the 7th volume of the Shanghai bowuguan cang Zhanguo Chu zhushu, has been available for nine years, scholars still lack a fully annotated English translation of the manuscript that reflects the current status of philological studies. This article translates not only the *Wu wang jian zuo manuscript, but also its transmitted counterpart, the “Wu wang jian

紀念鄂法蘭 (1932–2017)鄂法蘭作為法國的蒙古學家、漢學家及伊斯蘭學家逝世於2017年7月10日。這不隻讓認識她的我們難過，而她的去世是對亞洲研究的很大損失。在學術方面，她很久前就是一個有名的人物。她的多種語言能力、各種學術研究的主題與範圍以及思維的嚴密和正確性，加上她文人的胸襟和開闊的態度，這一切使她形成獨學者風度的人格。如此，她在50年以來的寫作，學術貢獻也是很有成就的（參閱Miscellanea Asiatica, Melanges en l’honneur de Francoise Aubin / Festschrift in Honour of Francoise Aubin [亞洲雜集―紀念鄂法蘭專集], 2010, 13–74頁）。自1980年以來，鄂法蘭與德國聖 ‧ 奧古斯丁的華裔學志研究所維持良好的朋友關系。為了作比較長期的研究，她幾乎每年都到裔學志研究所的圖書館

In the famous chapters on the flaws of the Qin (221–207 BCE) dynasty, Jia Yi (200–168 BCE) deals with the reasons for the Qin’s defeat. This article, grounded in previous scholarship, will analyze Jia Yi’s discussion of the fall of the Qin and will show that the negative depiction of Qin policies was part of Jia Yi’s strategy for implementing the political agenda of the Han. Moreover I argue that the

the hundred surnames are able to stop the people from harming themselves.” Now according to Ulrich Unger’s research into Classical Chinese grammar, the particle 己 always refers back to the subject of the main clause. Moreover, Harris, obviously relying on Emerson, translates 己 as well as 其 as “themselves” (Emerson has “each other” for 己 and “themselves” for 其) which does not really make sense. Therefore

senschaftlich herausragende und materialreiche Arbeit eines wichtigen instrumentenkundlichen Teilbereiches des Yueshu zu liefern, die tiefgreifende Schlaglichter auf die Geschichte chinesisch-fremdländischer Kulturbeziehungen wirft. Die Arbeit, die auch als Basis für eine weitere Beschäftigung mit diesem herausragenden Sammelwerk dienen kann, zeugt von soliden Kenntnissen nicht nur spezifisch musikhistorischer

It is well known that Yijing symbolism was woven into alchemy. But Zhang Boduan's Wuzhen pian (an exposition of neidan in verse) also has numerical structures linked to that symbolism embedded within its structure. That presents opportunities to learn more about Daoist texts’ conveyance of meaning via esoteric symbolic interpretation. In addition, the commentator Yu Yan (1258–1314), perhaps inspired

Dieser wohl letzte Band der Reihe „Sinologica Coloniensia“ – der 1. Band der vor einiger Zeit vom Verlag aus okonomischen Grunden eingestellten Reihe, herausgegeben vom ersten Kolner Ordinarius Wal...

The publication of the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus in Paris in 1687 represented the apex of the syncretic effort between Confucianism and Catholicism started by Matteo Ricci more than one century before. The present study draws attention to the heart of the text, which is the translation of three Confucian Classics: Daxue (The Great Learning), Lunyu (The Analects) and Zhongyong (The Doctrine of the

Am 11. August 2016 ist Charles Roskelly Bawden, einer der profiliertesten Mongolisten seiner Generation gestorben. Wie er selbst meinte, war sein Leben nicht reich an äußeren Höhepunkten – er lehrte bis zu seiner Emeritierung an der School of Oriental and African Studies in London und besuchte die Mongolei auf drei Reisen. Eine dauerhafte Wirkung erzielte er durch eine Fülle von Publikationen, deren

Bei dem vorliegenden Werk handelt es sich um einen Folgeband der Studien zum Roman Sanbao taijian Xiyang ji tongsu yanyi, die aus der Forschungszusammenarbeit zwischen Roderich Ptak, Professor der ...

The book under review summarises and develops many decades of painstaking research in the early history of the pronunciation of the Chinese language. It is the result of the collaboration between two influential linguists. An examination of the methodology deployed in this book and the philological evidence it is based on reveals very serious shortcomings of many kinds that invite further discussion

The Tongzhi Regency (1861–1875), historiographically marked as the beginning of the Qing dynasty's (1644–1912) decline, also saw the emergence of a new political alliance between the Han Chinese grand councilors / Hanlin academicians and the Empress Dowagers Ci'an and Cixi, who ruled from behind the curtains with the former's support. The Hanlin academicians gained their high positions partly from

Because of the paucity of hard facts in our knowledge of early texts such as the Mozi, we inevitably have had to rely on assumptions when interpreting these texts. These assumptions have contributed to the portrayal of Mo Di as a philosopher, the founder of Mohist thought, and promoter of a coherent thought system in Ten Core Ideas. We can read the Mozi in a novel way by methodologically putting these