Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10703007
C. Sanft
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Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10703010
W. Tse
By examining the career of a contingent of action-prone mid-level military officers and diplomats, this article aims to explore how opportunism functioned in foreign affairs during the last decades of the Former Han dynasty (202 BCE–9 CE). To safeguard and advance the empire’s interests, especially in Central Asia, these characters would carry out their missions with expediency, usually by the means of assassination and surprise attacks, and sometimes without formal authorization. Yet their successful operations always earned, if retrospectively, the endorsement of the imperial court, which in turn encouraged further ventures. The investigation of the front-line opportunists and their patrons presents a lively picture of the politics and political culture of the time.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10703011
Jessey J. C. Choo, A. Ditter
In this article we focus on the constructedness of Shangguan Wan’er’s 上官婉兒 representation in her muzhiming, moving beyond what information is communicated within a muzhiming 墓志銘 to explore how it is communicated, to whom, and why. We begin by providing an overview of Shangguan’s muzhiming and its content. We then analyze “irregularities” in her muzhiming: the unusual length of its genealogy section, discrepancies in its diction, and strange lacunae and ambiguities. Finally, we place Shangguan’s muzhiming alongside Zhang Yue’s 張說 (667–730) “Stele Elegy for Lady Shangguan” and “Preface to the Collected Works of Lady Shangguan.” Focusing on differences in how these texts framed, described, and evaluated Shangguan Wan’er’s life, we explore traces preserved in the muzhiming of negotiations surrounding the construction of her memory. We conclude with a summation of our approach’s contributions to understanding Shangguan Wan’er, broader discourse about women power-brokers in Chinese history, and practices of representation and memory in medieval China.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10703008
A. Levine
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Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10703005
P. Goldin
{"title":"Etymological Notes on Early Chinese Aristocratic Titles","authors":"P. Goldin","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10703005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10703005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378098,"journal":{"name":"T’oung Pao","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115471668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10703009
Kenneth M. Swope
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Pub Date : 2021-04-12DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10701006
M. Dykstra
historical (p. 166). Style and affect are the key. The author concludes in this chapter that in the public arena represented in the Shishuo, Xie An is given pride of place. Continuing with the question of composure, Chen turns, in chapter 6, to mourning as ritual norms in performance and argues that the Shishuo anecdotes are “parabolic commentaries” (p. 10) on persistent philosophical and ethical concerns, which offer the “possibility of a shared, communal experience” (p. 219). Overall, this volume challenges the reader to a theoretically innovative and involved re-reading of the Shishuo anecdotes. The translations are highly readable and accurate. One could make a few quibbles, but the “point” of the volume is not so much about the “point” of a selected anecdote, but how a contemporary readership may find relevance in this somewhat peculiar medieval collection of tales whose idiosyncrasy may have been rooted in a quixotic persistence on selfcultivation in an impossibly chaotic and brutal age when appearance was all that could have mattered.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-12DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10701001
Mark R. E. Meulenbeld
Though long seen uniquely from the perspective of the Chinese literary canon, Tao Qian’s 陶潛 (365?–427) famous “Record of the Peach Blossom Spring” (“Taohuayuan ji” 桃花源記) may find an even more fruitful disciplinary home in religious studies. The story refers itself to a grotto at Wuling 武陵 (present-day northern Hunan province), a site that has been associated with Daoist transcendents (shenxian 神仙) at least since the middle of the sixth century. A Daoist monastery on that same site, the Peach Spring Abbey (Taoyuan guan 桃源觀) or Peach Blossom Abbey (Taohua guan 桃花觀), became officially recognized in 748 and received imperial support not long after. This article studies the long history of Peach Spring as a sacred site, or, as Tao Qian referred to it in his poem, a “divine realm” (shenjie 神界).
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Pub Date : 2021-04-12DOI: 10.1163/15685322-10701007
Edward L. Shaughnessy
{"title":"Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography, by Yuri Pines","authors":"Edward L. Shaughnessy","doi":"10.1163/15685322-10701007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10701007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378098,"journal":{"name":"T’oung Pao","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124678483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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