Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10656p02
L. Raphals
Medical texts especially of the Huangdi neijing 黃帝內經 tradition provide an important counterpoint to philosophical debates about the relation of body and mind in early China and in particular to the understanding of the “mind” (xin 心), since medical texts must address the role of the xin-heart as one of the visceral systems. This paper surveys accounts of both “mind” and “spirit” (shen 神) in the Huangdi neijing and proposes a view of a person in which cognitive and affective faculties are decentralized and corporeal, rather than being centered in the mind.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10656p04
Y. Xiaodong
Commonly referred to in Chinese by the term jinglu, scriptural catalogs constitute a specific sort of Sinitic bibliographical literature that deals primarily with texts accepted in East Asian Buddhist circles as authoritative in matters of religion. The role that these catalogs played in the history of the Chinese Buddhist canon has become the subject of various important studies, but still oft-neglected are the functional places that such texts filled in the sphere of Buddhist devotional practice. To try to redress the balance, this essay brings into focus a small but significant group of Southern Song (1127-1279) Buddhist monuments in the Sichuan basin. Not only do these monuments allow us a rare glimpse into the devotional uses and symbolic functions of scriptural catalogs, but they offer a vantage point from which to view at least a part of what premodern Buddhists in the Sichuan basin actually believed and practiced.
{"title":"Inscribing Scriptural Catalogs: Apropos of Two Southern Song Pagodas and Related Buddhist Monuments in the Sichuan Basin","authors":"Y. Xiaodong","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10656p04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10656p04","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Commonly referred to in Chinese by the term jinglu, scriptural catalogs constitute a specific sort of Sinitic bibliographical literature that deals primarily with texts accepted in East Asian Buddhist circles as authoritative in matters of religion. The role that these catalogs played in the history of the Chinese Buddhist canon has become the subject of various important studies, but still oft-neglected are the functional places that such texts filled in the sphere of Buddhist devotional practice. To try to redress the balance, this essay brings into focus a small but significant group of Southern Song (1127-1279) Buddhist monuments in the Sichuan basin. Not only do these monuments allow us a rare glimpse into the devotional uses and symbolic functions of scriptural catalogs, but they offer a vantage point from which to view at least a part of what premodern Buddhists in the Sichuan basin actually believed and practiced.","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"34 1","pages":"602-660"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82025400","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 : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10656p07
Vincent Goossaert
{"title":"Guan Yu: The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero, written by Barend J. ter Haar, 2017.","authors":"Vincent Goossaert","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10656p07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10656p07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"79 1","pages":"721-725"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78737079","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 : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10656p05
Nancy Park
This article examines the law of officials during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), focusing on the body of statutes, substatutes, and regulations pertaining to the organization and operations of the imperial Chinese bureaucracy. The general objective of the article is to draw attention to the law of officials and its significance within the Qing legal system. A more specific goal is to examine how official wrongdoing was defined, differentiated, and dealt with in Qing law, highlighting the crucial distinction between the two main categories of official wrongdoing: “public wrongdoing” (gongzui 公罪) and “private wrongdoing” (sizui 私罪). Part I analyzes the legal distinction between public and private wrongdoing; Part II examines the historical antecedents of the public-private distinction, as expressed in the philosophical writings and the codified law of earlier dynasties; and Part III analyzes the substantive and procedural consequences of the public-private distinction on Qing officials.
{"title":"Officials and Chinese Justice: Public and Private Wrongdoing in Qing Law","authors":"Nancy Park","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10656p05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10656p05","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines the law of officials during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), focusing on the body of statutes, substatutes, and regulations pertaining to the organization and operations of the imperial Chinese bureaucracy. The general objective of the article is to draw attention to the law of officials and its significance within the Qing legal system. A more specific goal is to examine how official wrongdoing was defined, differentiated, and dealt with in Qing law, highlighting the crucial distinction between the two main categories of official wrongdoing: “public wrongdoing” (gongzui 公罪) and “private wrongdoing” (sizui 私罪). Part I analyzes the legal distinction between public and private wrongdoing; Part II examines the historical antecedents of the public-private distinction, as expressed in the philosophical writings and the codified law of earlier dynasties; and Part III analyzes the substantive and procedural consequences of the public-private distinction on Qing officials.","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"35 1","pages":"661-713"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90788664","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 : 2020-09-04DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10634p08
Sukhee Lee
{"title":"State Power in China, 900-1325, edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Paul Jakov Smith, 2016","authors":"Sukhee Lee","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10634p08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10634p08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"28 1","pages":"473-476"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75552044","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 : 2020-09-04DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10634p06
J. Bourgon
{"title":"Law, State and Society in Early Imperial China: A Study with Critical Edition and Translation of the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan Tomb no. 24, written by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low and Robin D.S. Yates, 2015","authors":"J. Bourgon","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10634p06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10634p06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"27 1","pages":"459-465"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87202883","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 : 2020-09-04DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10634p09
Isabelle Landry-Deron
{"title":"Jesuits and Matriarchs, Domestic Worship in Early Modern China, written by Nadine Amsler, 2018","authors":"Isabelle Landry-Deron","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10634p09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10634p09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"9 1","pages":"477-479"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84988900","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 : 2020-09-04DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10634p10
Hui Wu
{"title":"Translating China as Cross-Identity Performance, written by James St. André, 2018","authors":"Hui Wu","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10634p10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10634p10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"25 1","pages":"480-486"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81653172","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 : 2020-09-04DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10634P04
Daniel Burton-Rose
In recent years the Suzhou literatus Peng Dingqiu (1645-1719) has attracted scholarly attention as a figure embodying the rich diversity of elite religiosity in the early Qing dynasty Yangzi delta. The present article employs Peng Dingqiu’s previously neglected manuscript autobiography Shijiang gong nianpu to hone in on a prophecy he claimed to have received in 1674 of his two-fold optimus success in 1676. It provides detail on the social conventions of verification of spirit-altar communications and probes the challenges Peng Dingqiu’s solitary method of communicating posed to communal verification. Concurrently, the article establishes a baseline of historically plausible events and identifies the narrative elements most likely modified by Peng Dingqiu and his admirers after the achievement of the prophecy.
{"title":"Establishing a Literati Spirit-Writing Altar in Early Qing Suzhou: The Optimus Prophecy of Peng Dingqiu (1645-1719)","authors":"Daniel Burton-Rose","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10634P04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10634P04","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In recent years the Suzhou literatus Peng Dingqiu (1645-1719) has attracted scholarly attention as a figure embodying the rich diversity of elite religiosity in the early Qing dynasty Yangzi delta. The present article employs Peng Dingqiu’s previously neglected manuscript autobiography Shijiang gong nianpu to hone in on a prophecy he claimed to have received in 1674 of his two-fold optimus success in 1676. It provides detail on the social conventions of verification of spirit-altar communications and probes the challenges Peng Dingqiu’s solitary method of communicating posed to communal verification. Concurrently, the article establishes a baseline of historically plausible events and identifies the narrative elements most likely modified by Peng Dingqiu and his admirers after the achievement of the prophecy.","PeriodicalId":23193,"journal":{"name":"T'oung Pao","volume":"10 1","pages":"358-400"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76276047","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}