In the almost two decades since Prof. Deng Xiaonan published her seminal article, “Towards a Living Institutional History,” scholars have made remarkable progress toward understanding Song government institutions as dynamic, living organisms that interacted with each other and with other elements in society through interconnecting networks of “processes” and “relationships.”1 Both the article by Xiong Huei-Lan on the function of the academic agencies (guan’ge 館閣) as a career track for Song officials and Tung Yung-chang’s article on the role of informal information networks in the re-appointment process build upon and advance the practice of living institutional history. Xiong explores the “process” by which the academic agencies served as locales to foster prospective talent for top leadership positions—perhaps a Song predecessor to the American policy think tank. Tung delves into the murky “relationships” between brokers who sold information about the re-appointment process to clients eager to obtain a preferred post— perhaps a Song precursor to the modern American executive search firm. As a young scholar I once heard a titan of Western sinology complain that dynastic history biographies devoted too much space to strings of empty titles and too little to the subject’s real personality and achievements. His view reflected a common perception at the time that the arcana of the Chinese personnel system was best ignored in the interest of research into larger issues of intellectual or political history. Only later did I realize that the Song system of personnel management had, as Umehara Kaoru has written, the subtlety
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{"title":"The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order by Nicolas Tackett (review)","authors":"P. Smith","doi":"10.1353/sys.2019.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sys.2019.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Song-Yuan Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"317 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/sys.2019.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44998387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Social Networks and Elite Identity","authors":"B. Bossler","doi":"10.1353/sys.2019.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sys.2019.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Song-Yuan Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"101 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/sys.2019.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44168625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drifting Among Rivers and Lakes: Southern Song Dynasty Poetry and the Problem of Literary History by Michael A. Fuller (review)","authors":"G. Sanders","doi":"10.1353/sys.2019.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sys.2019.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Song-Yuan Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"309 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/sys.2019.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45735536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molded by Culture: Memories of the Wang Family from Taiyuan in Northern Song Genres and Networks","authors":"Amelia Ying Qin 秦穎","doi":"10.1353/sys.2017.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sys.2017.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Song-Yuan Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"33 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/sys.2017.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66351986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information, Territory, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China by Hilde De Weerdt (review)","authors":"J. Chaffee","doi":"10.1353/SYS.2017.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYS.2017.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Song-Yuan Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"219 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SYS.2017.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49313223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In Volume 46 of the Journal of Song Yuan-Studies, I published an initial essay on the importance of the southern kingdoms through the Tang-Song interregnum. This century-long period was bracketed by Huang Chao’s 黃 巢 rampage through the south that began in 878 and the 978 submission to Song authority of the last autonomous regions: the WuYue 吳越 kingdom of Liangzhe and the QuanZhang 泉漳 satrapy of southern Fujian. I argued that through the interregnum when the holistic empire had dissolved, the south experienced significant economic growth that set the stage for a transformation of its relationship to the broader empire of the reconsolidated Song.1 But the interregnum was important for more than the consolidation of the southern economies. This was also an era of social and cultural transformation across the south. Much as the economic transformation redefined the relationship between the south and the empire, so innovations in society and culture set the stage for the dramatic changes of the Song and the later imperial period. The goal of this essay, therefore, is to summarize those social and cultural innovations in order to demonstrate that premise. I first need to clarify the goals and parameters of my discussion. As I noted in my introduction to the previous essay, in a pattern that began with the History of the Five Dynasties (Wudai shi 五代史, later known as the “Old” History [Jiu Wudai shi 舊五代史]) by Xue Juzheng 薛居正 (912–981) and has continued through much of even the most recent scholarship on the Tang-Song transition,
{"title":"Why Does the Tang-Song Interregnum Matter? Part Two: The Social and Cultural Initiatives of the South","authors":"H. Clark","doi":"10.1353/SYS.2017.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYS.2017.0001","url":null,"abstract":"In Volume 46 of the Journal of Song Yuan-Studies, I published an initial essay on the importance of the southern kingdoms through the Tang-Song interregnum. This century-long period was bracketed by Huang Chao’s 黃 巢 rampage through the south that began in 878 and the 978 submission to Song authority of the last autonomous regions: the WuYue 吳越 kingdom of Liangzhe and the QuanZhang 泉漳 satrapy of southern Fujian. I argued that through the interregnum when the holistic empire had dissolved, the south experienced significant economic growth that set the stage for a transformation of its relationship to the broader empire of the reconsolidated Song.1 But the interregnum was important for more than the consolidation of the southern economies. This was also an era of social and cultural transformation across the south. Much as the economic transformation redefined the relationship between the south and the empire, so innovations in society and culture set the stage for the dramatic changes of the Song and the later imperial period. The goal of this essay, therefore, is to summarize those social and cultural innovations in order to demonstrate that premise. I first need to clarify the goals and parameters of my discussion. As I noted in my introduction to the previous essay, in a pattern that began with the History of the Five Dynasties (Wudai shi 五代史, later known as the “Old” History [Jiu Wudai shi 舊五代史]) by Xue Juzheng 薛居正 (912–981) and has continued through much of even the most recent scholarship on the Tang-Song transition,","PeriodicalId":41503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Song-Yuan Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"1 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SYS.2017.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42909069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
張元濟 (1867–1959) was based on the preface, but they do not identify the persons mentioned. Records in the gazetteer make it clear that the General Zheng who sponsored the printing of the book was Zheng Angxiao 鄭昂霄 (1270–1329), a military commander from the environs of Mt. Xicheng 析城 山 in southern Shanxi. Louis suspects that the 1247 edition might have been printed in 1306–1307 (p. 88), and now this question is settled. With clear focus, Design by the Book draws on a wide range of primary sources and incorporates scholarship from various fields. Louis has not only delineated the history of the Sanli tu lucidly, but has also translated its every item into English. Any reader interested in ancient Chinese ritual and material culture will benefit from this dedicated work.
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