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Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791482353
Explores the rewriting of early Chinese texts in the wake of new archaeological evidence.
Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0791466442
Explores the rewriting of early Chinese texts in the wake of new archaeological evidence.
Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438495231
Archaeological discoveries over the past one hundred years have resulted in repeated calls to "rewrite ancient Chinese history." This is especially true of documents written on oracle bones, bronze vessels, and bamboo strips. In Writing Early China, Edward L. Shaughnessy surveys all of these types of documents and considers what they reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China. Opposed to the common view that most knowledge was transmitted orally in ancient China, Shaughnessy demonstrates that by no later than the tenth century BCE scribes were writing lengthy texts like portions of the Chinese classics, and that by the fourth century BCE the primary mode of textual transmission was by way of visual copying from one manuscript to another.
Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231161848
In recent years, three ancient manuscripts relating to the Yi jing (I Ching), or Classic of Changes, have been discovered. The earliest—the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi—dates to about 300 B.C.E. and shows evidence of the text’s original circulation. The Gui cang, or Returning to Be Treasured, reflects another ancient Chinese divination tradition based on hexagrams similar to those of the Yi jing. In 1993, two manuscripts found in a third-century B.C.E. tomb at Wangjiatai contained almost exact parallels to the Gui cang’s early quotations, supplying new information on the performance of early Chinese divination. Finally, the Fuyang Zhou Yi was excavated from the tomb of Xia Hou Zao, lord of Ruyin, who died in 165 B.C.E. Each line of this classic is followed by one or more generic prognostications similar to phrases found in the Yi jing, indicating exciting new ways in which the text was produced and used in the interpretation of divinations. This book details the discovery and significance of the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi, the Wangjiatai Gui cang, and the Fuyang Zhou Yi, including full translations of the texts and additional evidence that constructs a new narrative of the Yi jing’s writing and transmission in the first millennium B.C.E.
Author : Hanmo Zhang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501505133
This book is a timely response to a rather urgent call to seek an updated methodology in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts in light of newly discovered early writings. For a long time, the concept of authorship in the formation and transmission of early Chinese texts has been misunderstood. The nominal author who should mainly function as a guide to text formation and interpretation is considered retrospectively as the originator and writer of the text. This book illustrates that although some notions about the text as the author’s property began to appear in some Eastern Han texts, a strict correlation between the author and the text results from later conceptions of literary history. Before the modern era, there existed a conceptual gap between an author and a writer. A pre-modern Chinese text could have had both an author and a writer, or even multiple authors and multiple writers. This work is the first study addressing these issues by more systematically emphasizing the connection of the text, the author, and the religious and sociopolitical settings in which these issues were embedded. It is expected to constitute a palpable contribution to Chinese studies and the discipline of philology in general
Author : Thuy Van Ha
Publisher : Nhan Anh Publisher
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1989993680
Dear friends, You are reading the first few lines of the book that will shake faith and awaken your conscience.So far, not only you but the whole world believe that Westerners bring civilization to China. Then, the Chinese brought civilization down to the Annamite people. Vietnamese language borrows 70% of Chinese. Vietnamese culture is the borrowing of Chinese culture imperfectively.That is the great lie imposed becoming dogma throughout the last century!From the knowledge of the new century, this book will tell you the opposite truth.Thousands of years ago, when most of humanity was still alive in the ice, Vietnamese brought the stone ax - the superior tool of ancient time - to the China. Then also from Vietnam, the next migrants brought rice, millet, chicken breed, dog breed etc to build a brilliant agricultural civilization on the Mainland. Chinese language is born from Vietnamese. The iconography of the Chinese text was created by the Viet people. Y jing, Shi jing, Shu jing etc is also the creativity of the Viet people. If the history of a country is the history of the major population communities that make up that country, then Chinese history is the history of the Viet people who have been living in China.You wonder, you doubt? No wonder many are as skeptical as you! What a moment to overturn the dogmahidden over two thousand years! Yes, two thousand years of pervert! The reason is that in the past, the Vietnamese lost land, lost the written words, it should lose its history. From the owner of the brilliant Oriental civilization, the Vietnamese were deprived of everything to become a bunch of ignorant people have to learn from others. Fortunately, into the new century, human science has illuminated the forgotten past, returning justice to history. The booklet in your hand will be the first lines, the first chapters of every Chinese history book in the future.Finally, I would like to thank Dr. Nguyen Duc Hiep for writing precious introduction.Thank my friend Do Ngoc Thanh by permission to use very valuable material for this book.Lastly, thank the translator Đang Thi Huong and especially thank Mr Alan J. Patterson for his dedication to editing this book.Sai Gon. The Winter 2020Ha Van Thu
Author : Robert Ford Campany
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781684176427
Dreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common dreamscape—an array of ideas about what dreams are and what responses they should provoke—that underlies texts of diverse persuasions and genres over several centuries. These writings include manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, essays, treatises, poems, recovered manuscripts, histories, and anecdotes of successful dream-based predictions. In these many sources, we find culturally distinctive answers to questions peoples the world over have asked for millennia: What happens when we dream? Do dreams foretell future events? If so, how might their imagistic code be unlocked to yield predictions? Could dreams enable direct communication between the living and the dead, or between humans and nonhuman animals? The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE – 800 CE sheds light on how people in a distant age negotiated these mysteries and brings Chinese notions of dreaming into conversation with studies of dreams in other cultures, ancient and contemporary. Taking stock of how Chinese people wrestled with—and celebrated—the strangeness of dreams, Campany asks us to reflect on how we might reconsider our own notions of dreaming.
Author : Michael Hunter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231553995
The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other so-called “Masters” of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry, and the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) in particular, in the formation of the philosophical tradition. Through a new reading of its ideology and poetics, Hunter reestablishes the Shijing as a work of major intellectual-historical significance. The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought demonstrates how Shi poetry weaves a vision of society united at every level by the innate and universal impulse to come home. The Shi immersed early thinkers in a world of movement and flow in order to teach them that the most powerful current of all was the gravitational pull of a virtuous king, without whom people can never truly feel at home. Hunter traces the profound influence of the Shi ideology across numerous sources of classical Chinese thought, which he recasts as a network centered on the Shi. Reframing the tradition in this way reveals how poetry shaped ancient Chinese thinkers’ conception of the world and their place within it. This book offers both a sweeping critique of how classical Chinese thought is commonly understood and a powerful new way of studying it.
Author : Jörg B. Quenzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110753349
This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of ‘manuscripts’ to the larger perspective of ‘written artefacts’.
Author : Shirley Chan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030046330
This volume covers the philosophical, historical, religious, and interpretative aspects of the ancient Guodian bamboo manuscripts (郭店楚簡) which were disentombed in the Guodian Village in Hubei Province, China, in 1993. Considered to be the Chinese equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls, these manuscripts are archaeological finds whose importance cannot be underestimated. Many of the texts are without counterparts in the transmitted tradition, and they provide unique insights into the developments of Chinese philosophy in the period between the death of Confucius (551-479 BCE) and the writings of Mencius (c.372-289 BCE), and beyond. Divided into two parts, the book first provides inter-textual contexts and backgrounds of the Guodian manuscripts. The second part covers the main concepts and arguments in the Guodian texts, including cosmology and metaphysics, political philosophy, moral psychology, and theory of human nature. The thematic essays serve as an introduction to the philosophical significance and the key philosophical concepts/thought of each text contained in the Guodian corpus. Each chapter has a section on the implications of the texts for the received tradition, or for the purpose of comparing some of the text(s) with the received tradition in terms of the key philosophical concepts as well as the reading and interpretation of the texts. The volume covers most of the texts inscribed on the 800-odd slips of the Guodian corpus dated to the fourth century BCE.
Author : William D. Fleming
Publisher : Harvard East Asian Monographs
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Chinese imprints
ISBN : 0674293800
In Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan's engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period, including large-scale analyses of the record of the circulation of Chinese texts in Japan. He also traces the hidden history of Pu Songling's Liaozhai zhiyi (Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio) in Japan.
Author : Frank Herring Chalfant
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1290779902
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Frank Herring Chalfant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : OCLC:43882801
Author : Chunlan Jin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9811523398
This book systematically depicts the theory of textual patterns (chengshi) of the eight-part essays and logic in ancient Chinese texts. With the rare materials, it covers all the basic and important aspects of the whole process and values of chengshi, such as the transformation of different parts and the coherent expression of the doctrines, the planning of writing, and the application to the aesthetic and pedagogic fields. It also explores the similarities and disparities of logical patterns between ancient Chinese and Western texts. Though entirely fresh and tentative, the contrastive studies get new insights into the logic and philosophical concepts hidden in the writings for better understanding of the uniqueness and richness implied in Chinese culture.
Author : Burton Watson
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : 1258182297