A better English rendering would be: “Since I grew up in a prestigious family, I could not help but have a haughty disposition, and so I viewed things in the world as being beneath (my) notice.” This is a minor problem. The writing in the book, with only a handful of exceptions, is well formed, clear, and concise. Chiu’s book is a valuable introduction in English to a heretoforesomewhat-overlooked but important genre of late imperial folksong. The case she makes on the hybridity of Manchu society during the Qing dynasty will add much to the ongoing debate on Sinification of the Manchus.
{"title":"Forming the Early Chinese Court: Rituals, Spaces, Roles by Luke Habberstad (review)","authors":"C. Sanft","doi":"10.1353/jas.2020.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2020.0010","url":null,"abstract":"A better English rendering would be: “Since I grew up in a prestigious family, I could not help but have a haughty disposition, and so I viewed things in the world as being beneath (my) notice.” This is a minor problem. The writing in the book, with only a handful of exceptions, is well formed, clear, and concise. Chiu’s book is a valuable introduction in English to a heretoforesomewhat-overlooked but important genre of late imperial folksong. The case she makes on the hybridity of Manchu society during the Qing dynasty will add much to the ongoing debate on Sinification of the Manchus.","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"80 1","pages":"228 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jas.2020.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47467425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan by Bryan D. Lowe (review)","authors":"Torquil Duthie","doi":"10.1353/jas.2020.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2020.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"80 1","pages":"253 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jas.2020.0015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48542409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion by Peter Jackson (review)","authors":"M. Rossabi","doi":"10.1353/jas.2020.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2020.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"80 1","pages":"244 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jas.2020.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42709164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 80.1 (2020): 258–264 iteration, thus generating new possibilities for individual and social transformation. As Lowe demonstrates in this study, Buddhist ritual and ritualized writing transformed eighth-century Japanese society in profound and dynamic ways. Although this brief review cannot really do justice to such an extraordinarily accomplished book, I would like to conclude by emphasizing what I think its main strengths are. First, I should note that the exhaustive research into sources is extraordinary—nothing Lowe says is ever unfounded, and this level of rigor is all the more impressive for a book that makes broad theoretical and historical arguments and articulates powerful critiques of previous approaches. Second, the book is interdisciplinary in the true sense of the word. Lowe is a master of his own discipline of religious studies in both its doctrinal and sociological aspects, but just as inspiring is the generous way he also speaks to the concerns of historians and literary scholars. He is deeply sensitive to historical context, and the ability with which he moves from bird’s eye macroscopic views of the Nara period down to a microhistorical level would serve as a model for any premodern historian. As a literary scholar myself, I am both impressed by and grateful for his sensitivity to the literary and rhetorical aspects of religious texts and to the ways in which Buddhist texts and Buddhism were deeply intertwined with literary culture. As the kind of scholarship that enriches all of our fields and disciplines, this book is certain to become a classic.
{"title":"Genshin's Ōjōyōshū and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan by Robert F. Rhodes (review)","authors":"Bryan D. Lowe","doi":"10.1353/jas.2020.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2020.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 80.1 (2020): 258–264 iteration, thus generating new possibilities for individual and social transformation. As Lowe demonstrates in this study, Buddhist ritual and ritualized writing transformed eighth-century Japanese society in profound and dynamic ways. Although this brief review cannot really do justice to such an extraordinarily accomplished book, I would like to conclude by emphasizing what I think its main strengths are. First, I should note that the exhaustive research into sources is extraordinary—nothing Lowe says is ever unfounded, and this level of rigor is all the more impressive for a book that makes broad theoretical and historical arguments and articulates powerful critiques of previous approaches. Second, the book is interdisciplinary in the true sense of the word. Lowe is a master of his own discipline of religious studies in both its doctrinal and sociological aspects, but just as inspiring is the generous way he also speaks to the concerns of historians and literary scholars. He is deeply sensitive to historical context, and the ability with which he moves from bird’s eye macroscopic views of the Nara period down to a microhistorical level would serve as a model for any premodern historian. As a literary scholar myself, I am both impressed by and grateful for his sensitivity to the literary and rhetorical aspects of religious texts and to the ways in which Buddhist texts and Buddhism were deeply intertwined with literary culture. As the kind of scholarship that enriches all of our fields and disciplines, this book is certain to become a classic.","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"80 1","pages":"258 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jas.2020.0016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42348175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Footbinding in Economic Context: Rethinking the Problems of Affect and the Prurient Gaze","authors":"Melissa J. Brown","doi":"10.1353/jas.2020.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2020.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"80 1","pages":"179 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jas.2020.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48117234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hilary A. Smith’s Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine is an extraordinary book, replete with rich and imaginative story telling and insightful analyses of materials spanning different periods and national traditions. Forgotten Disease also intervenes in a key debate among historians of Chinese medicine. Since some readers may be unfamiliar with this debate, it would be useful to situate Smith’s contribution within its historiography. Exemplified by the writings of scientists, such as Joseph Needham in his Science and Civilisation project, the older approach narrates—or, better still, measures—the history of medicine from the perspective of modern Western biomedicine.1 It privileges modern biomedical disease categories over premodern or non-Western understandings of nature and treats both premodern and non-Western understandings of the human body as incomplete or more primitive versions of science. This framework also conflates Chinese terminology for illness with modern disease categories, leading scholars to identify mafeng 麻瘋 as leprosy and nüe 瘧 as malaria. Since the 1990s, this approach has come under attack for its anachronism and its lack of sensitivity to the different ways that historical actors experienced and made sense of illness. Under the influence of postmodernism, the next generation disengages from modern biomedicine, emphasizing the incommensurability between Chinese and Western understandings of illness and the human body. Such an approach, epitomized by Shigehisa Kuriyama’s The Expressiveness of the Body and Ted Kaptchuk’s The Web That Has No Weaver, has prompted the next generation of historians to emphasize the alterity of classical Chinese understandings of illness.2 In this framework, premodern Chinese conceptions of the body and of illness could not be reduced to
Hilary A.Smith的《被遗忘的疾病：中医中的疾病转变》是一本非同寻常的书，充满了丰富而富有想象力的故事讲述和对不同时期和民族传统材料的深刻分析。被遗忘的疾病也介入了中医历史学家之间的一场关键辩论。由于一些读者可能不熟悉这场辩论，因此将史密斯的贡献置于其史学中是有益的。以科学家的著作为例，比如李约瑟在他的科学与文明项目中，旧的方法叙述——或者更好的是，措施——从现代西方生物医学的角度看医学史。1它将现代生物医学疾病类别置于前现代或非西方对自然的理解之上，并将前现代和非西方对人体的理解视为不完整或更原始的科学版本。这一框架还将中国疾病术语与现代疾病类别混为一谈，导致学者们将马峰确定为麻瘋 麻风病和努埃瘧 如疟疾。自20世纪90年代以来，这种方法因其时代错误以及对历史参与者经历和理解疾病的不同方式缺乏敏感性而受到攻击。在后现代主义的影响下，下一代脱离了现代生物医学，强调中西方对疾病和人体的理解之间的不可通约性。栗山茂久（Shigehisa Kuriyama）的《身体的表达》（The Expressivity of The Body）和特德·卡普丘克（Ted Kaptchuk
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Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 80.1 (2020): 272–278 by her ability to situate the reception of Chinese medical writings and terms within different national contexts and to conduct multilingual research in classical Chinese, modern Chinese, and Japanese. It is my hope that future generations of scholars will follow Smith’s lead and engage in imaginative storytelling and border crossing.
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Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 80.1 (2020): 300–304 details of fiction texts, particularly in the images and stories of domestic space. With masterful close readings and an impressive command of the archive, Yang draws out these details and gives her reader a clear and convincing case for researching colonial contexts through an examination of the gendering of literary narrative.
{"title":"Figuring Korean Futures: Children's Literature in Modern Korea by Dafna Zur (review)","authors":"Jin-kyung Lee","doi":"10.1353/jas.2020.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2020.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 80.1 (2020): 300–304 details of fiction texts, particularly in the images and stories of domestic space. With masterful close readings and an impressive command of the archive, Yang draws out these details and gives her reader a clear and convincing case for researching colonial contexts through an examination of the gendering of literary narrative.","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"80 1","pages":"300 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jas.2020.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46201341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:I examine the impact of Xinxue (the study of the mind), whose most celebrated teacher was Wang Yangming, not as that of a philosophical or quasi-religious movement, but as a body of editorial practices to be situated among other sixteenth-century textual practices. In the twentieth century, Chuanxi lu (Instructions for practical living) has been read for philosophical content, a category that would have been alien to its sixteenth-century creators. Examining what the editors and compilers of the prefaces and postfaces of Chuanxi lu and Wang Wencheng gong quanshu (Complete works of Wang Yangming) have to say about the construction of these texts, I posit that the content of Xinxue's teachings—especially, "knowledge and action are one"—cannot be dissociated from the agency of editors in producing these texts.摘要:本文審視明代心學的影響。不將其視為哲學性或類宗教性的運動，本文將其視為十六世紀各種文本編纂活動中的一種編輯實踐。藉由檢視《傳習錄》與 《王文成公全集》編纂者在序跋中所言，我提議：心學的內容，特別是「知行 合一」，不能與編輯們的能動性分離。
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Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 80.1 (2020): 278–282 available in English. Utilizing this Korean scholarship, Suh produces an engaging English-language monograph on the history of medicine in Korea. Her various attempts to make her study more original and more relevant to wider audiences should be well regarded. With regard to her great materials to think about any effort to name the local, I just want to add one reservation: Suh could have used much further particularizations because the political and intellectual diversities of her heroes, as well as the vastly different social contexts that they worked within and created, seem not fully articulated at times. For example, scholar-officials of the new dynasty of Chosŏn, who were building up the political legitimacy of Chosŏn upon their scholarship on Chinese Confucianism, had rather different relationships with foreign medical works when compared with medicine dealers under the colonial regime and professional psychiatrists and traditional medical doctors of postwar Korea. Even if we consider a single case, it is not clear whether one can call Hŏ’s and Yi’s evocations of “Eastern medicine” a similar regionalizing attempt to articulate their intellectual achievement within the Chinese medical tradition, given the vastly different East Asian worlds of the early seventeenth and the late nineteenth centuries and the different social status of Hŏ, a uniquely successful court doctor, and Yi, a well-versed yet quite unknown medical practitioner in northern Korea. We may have to go deeper in examining these particularities in order to understand these diverging practices of making medicine simultaneously more universal and more Korean.
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