Pub Date : 2016-10-03DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10213P07
Carine Defoort
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Pub Date : 2016-10-03DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10213P06
Y. Zou
This article rereads early Qing scholar-beauty novels from the perspective of a new interest in self-fashioning and resocialization right after the dynastic transition. It analyzes the particular ways in which these works reflected on the late Ming notion of qing (feelings) and moved to a new sense of self through an emphasis on innate cai (talent), and suggests that they employed romance to express a sense of community and male sociality based on talent, thereby striking a complex balance between the autonomy of elite communities and their accommodation with the new regime. The talented woman figure is both agent and product of the early Qing Han elite’s self-fashioning project in reaction to the Manchu conquest. Sexual relations are channelled into newly responsible ends. Historically, scholar-beauty novels developed a romantic discourse that helped construct personal identities, promote cultural autonomy, and eventually reintegrate literature into the new political order of the Qing dynasty. Cet article propose une relecture des romans du debut des Qing associant un lettre talentueux et une jeune beaute ( caizi jiaren ) a la lumiere de l’interet nouveau pour la construction du soi et la resocialisation apparu immediatement apres la transition entre les Ming et les Qing. Est analysee la facon particuliere dont ces ouvrages s’interrogent sur la notion de qing (sentiment) caracteristique de la fin des Ming et elaborent un nouveau sentiment du soi en mettant l’accent sur le talent inne ( cai ). Le recours a l’idylle, est-il suggere, aide a faire passer la notion d’une communaute et d’une sociabilite masculine basees sur le talent, creant du meme coup un equilibre complexe entre l’autonomie des communautes de l’elite et les compromis qui les lient au nouveau regime. Le personnage de la femme de talent est a la fois l’agent et le produit du projet de construction du soi des elites chinoises reagissant a la conquete mandchoue. Les relations amoureuses sont canalisees au service de buts nouveaux et responsables. Historiquement, le roman caizi jiaren a developpe un discours sentimental facilitant la construction d’identites individuelles, la promotion de l’autonomie culturelle, et en fin de compte la reintegration de la litterature dans l’ordre politique nouveau de la dynastie des Qing.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-03DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10213P04
A. Deblasi
Although Bianzhou (modern Kaifeng) is well known as the imperial capital of the Northern Song dynasty, its history prior to the tenth century reveals much about the political fortunes of the Tang dynasty, especially after the An Lushan rebellion. A careful analysis of the backgrounds of the Military Commissioners appointed to govern the region indicates that following an initial period of instability, the Tang court was able to maintain control over this strategically vital transportation hub late into the ninth century and to repeatedly appoint commissioners who had passed the civil-service examinations. This experience helps explain the continuing optimism of Tang elites about the dynasty’s prospects and made Bianzhou itself an important example for the educated elite of why civil values were essential to good government and the survival of the Tang dynasty. Si Bianzhou (actuel Kaifeng) est bien connu comme capitale imperiale des Song du Nord, son histoire avant le Xe siecle nous en apprend beaucoup sur le destin politique des Tang, particulierement apres la rebellion de An Lushan. L’analyse minutieuse du parcours des commissaires militaires successivement nommes a la tete de la region revele qu’apres une periode initiale d’instabilite, la cour des Tang a ete en mesure jusque tard dans le IXe siecle de maintenir son controle sur ce qui etait un nœud strategique de communications et d’y poster l’un apres l’autre des commissaires passes par la voie des examens civils. L’experience contribue a expliquer l’optimisme persistant des elites des Tang concernant l’avenir du regime, le cas de Bianzhou etant a leurs yeux un exemple important des raisons pour lesquelles les valeurs civiles demeuraient essentielles a la qualite du gouvernement et a la survie de la dynastie.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-03DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10213P14
Philip Clart
{"title":"Practicing Scripture: A Lay Buddhist Movement in Late Imperial China , written by Barend J. ter Haar, 2014","authors":"Philip Clart","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10213P14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10213P14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"30 1","pages":"258-261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2016-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73973148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-10-03DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10213p02
J. Diény
{"title":"Le Lunyu et la littérature","authors":"J. Diény","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10213p02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10213p02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"31 1","pages":"2-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2016-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82714636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-10-03DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10213P11
Stéphane Feuillas
{"title":"The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China , written by Ronald Egan, 2014","authors":"Stéphane Feuillas","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10213P11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10213P11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"1 1","pages":"241-250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2016-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91090615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-10-03DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10213P03
Xiaofei Tian
Before the fifth century, the imperial identity of a ruler seems to have disabled him as a writer rather than encouraged him to be more prolific. Literary production gradually became centered in the court by the mid-fifth century, and a distinct feature of Southern Dynasties literature is the phenomenon that emperors and princes joined with their courtiers in the act of writing poetry on social occasions. This paper focuses on a number of poems by Emperor Wen of the Song (r. 424-453), Yan Yanzhi (384-456), Xie Tiao (464-499), Shen Yue (441-513), and Liu Xiaochuo (481-539) that represent kingship and empire and thereby become a means of disseminating and implementing imperial power. In particular, it examines the physical and discursive construction of the capital Jiankang. We see thereby that Southern Dynasties court poetry was instrumental in the performance of sovereignty and the envisioning of the new, southern empire. Avant le Ve siecle, le fait d’acceder au titre d’empereur semble avoir reduit ceux a qui cela arrivait a l’incapacite en tant qu’auteurs, plutot que de les encourager a une prolixite accrue. Vers le milieu du Ve siecle en revanche, la production litteraire tendit a se concentrer sur la cour, et l’un des traits particuliers de la litterature des dynasties du Sud est de voir empereurs et princes se joindre a leurs courtisans pour composer des poemes lors de reunions amicales. Le present article se concentre sur un certain nombre de poemes de Song Wendi (r. 424-453), Yan Yanzhi (384-456), Xie Tiao (464-499), Shen Yue (441-513) et Liu Xiaochuo (481-539) qui sont autant de representations de la royaute et de l’empire, et de ce fait ont servi a propager et realiser le pouvoir imperial. Est en particulier examinee la construction physique et discursive de la capitale, Jiankang. Tout cela montre le role-cle joue par la poesie de cour sous les dynasties du Sud dans l’exercice de la souverainete et la vision d’un nouvel empire meridional.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-03DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10213P15
M. Dykstra
Book review of: The Order of Places: Translocal Practices of the Huizhou Merchants in Late Imperial China. (Sinica Leidensia vol. 119.) By Yongtao Du. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Viii + 269 p. Ill.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-03DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10213P19
Michèle Pirazzoli-t’Serstevens
{"title":"Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644-1911 , written by Claudia Brown","authors":"Michèle Pirazzoli-t’Serstevens","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10213P19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10213P19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"22 1","pages":"286-289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2016-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90811510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-10-03DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10213P16
Luca Gabbiani
{"title":"Qing Governors and their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644-1796, written by R. Kent Guy, 2010","authors":"Luca Gabbiani","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10213P16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10213P16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"20 1","pages":"270-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2016-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81828993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}