Pub Date : 2022-02-18DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341565
Sarah Schneewind
The article centers on the celebration of Wenzhou Prefect He Wenyuan (1385–1457)’s moral integrity in a building called the “Lodge of Spurned Gold.” Building on historian Ying Zhang’s conception of late-Ming Confucian image politics, in which gentrymen and officials faced an “authenticity crisis,” the article introduces a new concept, the “authenticity dilemma.” A person faces an authenticity dilemma when his or her virtue is questioned precisely because it has been celebrated. The article shows that He rejected an illegal gift intended as a bribe, in a way that may have gone against social norms. The monument to his act accorded with orthodox encouragement of honesty in others, being based on celebrations of Han and Tang exemplars. Despite having clashed with bureaucratic colleagues and emperors, He won state recognition for his excellent service to the people of Wenzhou prefecture and until he was promoted to high office at court there was no question about his honesty. Yet his biographer worked hard to argue that He deserved the honors he won in Wenzhou, because changes in personnel policies and factional fighting meant that He was impeached at court for having “stolen a reputation,” based on the building of the Lodge. On the model of the Lodge, a number of other officials, beginning with envoys sent overseas, were honored for their honesty with “Spurned-Gold Pavilions” (que jin ting 卻金亭). Their multiplication and painter Wen Zhengming’s involvement further undermined He’s reputation, sharpening the authenticity dilemma. As a result, earlier stories of He’s life were reshaped to insist on his deep honesty, at the expense of historical details of the incident.
这篇文章主要讲述了温州知府何文渊(1385-1457)在一座名为“弃金阁”的建筑里庆祝他的道德操守。本文在历史学家应章对晚明儒家形象政治中士绅面临“真实性危机”的概念的基础上，引入了一个新的概念——“真实性困境”。当一个人的美德因为受到赞扬而受到质疑时，他或她就会面临真实性困境。这篇文章表明，他拒绝了一份非法的贿赂礼物，这种方式可能违反了社会规范。他的行为的纪念碑符合传统的鼓励诚实的人，是基于庆祝汉唐典范。尽管与官僚同僚和皇帝发生过冲突，但他为温州人做出了卓越的贡献，赢得了国家的认可，直到他被提升到朝廷的高级职位，他的诚实都是毋庸置疑的。然而，他的传记作者努力论证何鸿燊在温州获得的荣誉是他应得的，因为人事政策的变化和派系斗争意味着他在法庭上被弹劾为“窃取声誉”，这是基于小屋的建设。在这个模式下，许多其他官员，从派遣到海外的使节开始，被授予“弃金亭”(que jin ting)的荣誉。他们的倍增和画家文正明的介入进一步损害了他的声誉，加剧了真实性的困境。因此，他的早期生活故事被重新塑造，以坚持他的深刻诚实，而牺牲了事件的历史细节。
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Pub Date : 2022-02-18DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341564
Matthew R Reeder
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, royal officials in Ayutthaya—the name for both the kingdom of Siam and its principal city—increasingly deployed ethnic labels for a new political purpose: to organize and distinguish administrative categories of foreign merchants, migrants, captives, and sojourners. The ethno-administrative categories that emerged were neither disinterested nor “natural.” Rather, they were shaped and reshaped by countless acts of ethnic identification made by rulers and ruled, alike. Ayutthaya’s merchant-officials, mostly of overseas origins themselves, likely adapted this approach to social organization from other port cities in maritime Asia. Cambodia’s officials, probably viewing Siam as a model, followed suit soon after. As ethnic labels became shorthand references to administrative categories, each with its own set of privileges and responsibilities, ethnicity became politically significant as never before.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-18DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341567
Alisher Khaliyarov
This article examines the sharp increase of cash waqf endowments in the Khivan Khanate and the circumstances of their usage during the final decades of the nineteenth century. This research supports the conclusion that the rise of monetization in the economy prompted the rapid emergence of cash waqf endowments and led the administrators of such pious institutions to become personally involved in moneylending activities. Through an investigation of Khivan qāżī records, this article shows how cash waqf capital was utilized through bay‘-i jāʾiz, a type of moneylending agreement that became popular across much of the 19th-century Islamic world. It argues that the emergence of cash waqf and bayʿ-i jāʾiz agreements during this period is indicative of the influences of global industrial capitalism on the Khivan economy.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-18DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341568
A. Chatterjee
Over the course of its Anglo-Indian career, the hookah began as an archetype of colonial hybridity in eighteenth-century Bengal, before entering nineteenth-century London and its consumer sensorium as a seductive Oriental artefact, through travelogues, hookah clubs, Indian-styled diwans and a massive cataloguing of Eastern artefacts culminating in the Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851) and the Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886). Hookahs appeared simultaneously as smoking instruments, decorative artefacts and visual signs of surplus colonial enjoyment in memoirs, travelogues and paintings from the long nineteenth century. The hookah’s decline in nineteenth-century colonial culture was camouflaged by general alarm over its degenerative effects on moral and sexual codes, well after its imperiality ran its course. In its long colonial career, the hookah symbolized colonial hybridity and surplus imperial enjoyment that surpassed its materiality. Whether in Britain or India, colonial hybridity, as symbolized by the hookah, was virtualized in nonlocal and anachronistic Anglo-Indian spaces, thus marking a remarkable digression from histories of coercive militarist, economic and political control that are so closely intertwined with the East India Company and Empire.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-29DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341557
Selim Güngörürler
This study introduces and publishes an array of Ottoman archival documents on the shrines of Ahl al-Bayt imams in Iraq, the endowments dedicated to these shrines, and the Shiite-Iranian pilgrims visiting these sites as well as the Kaaba and the shrine of Muhammad in the Hejaz. Focusing on the later seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries, it discusses the political-economic function of Islamic endowments, interconfessional contacts resulting from pilgrimage by Shiites in Sunni territory, and the potential use of Ottoman archives to enrich our knowledge on trans-Ottoman themes.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-29DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341558
I. P. Petrushevskiĭ, A. Samie, J. Woods
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Pub Date : 2021-11-29DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341560
P. Sartori
This issue marks the creation of a new section within JESHO entitled ‘From the Archives of Asian History.’ This section will feature seminal works in the history of Asia from the late Antique period to the 20th century, which were originally published in languages other than English, but which unfortunately have long been forgotten and therefore tend to be underappreciated, especially by a younger generation of scholars. There are many ways to explain the peculiar phenomenon of ground-breaking scholarship falling into desuetude; but it is ironic to observe that, while major digitization projects have been now underway for a decade or more, thereby impressing upon many the idea that everything is available on-line, academic conformism remains rampant, indeed unrestrained. Time and again must JESHO’s editors and readers alike lament how manuscripts submitted for consideration tend to reproduce often uncritically the prevailing current of thought, to privilege established views over works that today are less cited, and disregard earlier scholarship that in fact contributed significantly to the advancement of historiography. While modern scholarship takes pride in the global reach of its perspectives and analyses, and almost every social science discipline reinvents itself by adding the adjective ‘global’ to its conventional name, the scholars who practice in these disciplines increasingly rely almost exclusively on anglophone literature. At the same time, we all must take stock of enduring asymmetries between national systems of higher education, which fuel a general mistrust for scholarship produced in countries outside the Anglo-Saxon world. It is an unfortunate fact that a graduate student coming from the Global South seeking to secure funding in Europe or North America will need not just to demonstrate her originality, but also her commitment to engaging with scholarship published in English rather than in, say, Portuguese or Turkish. Finally, we should all pause to reflect on the disincentive effects on multilingualism originating from the sinking quality of public education. Until the 1990s, for an undergraduate to hone multiple linguistic skills was a prerequisite for admission into schools offering courses on the histories and literatures of Asia. Nowadays, by contrast, lecturers are expected to constrain their syllabi mainly to scholarship
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Pub Date : 2021-11-29DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341559
J. Paul
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Pub Date : 2021-11-26DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341549
G. A. Nadri
In the Persianate world, a mukhtār-nāma (deed of representation or a power of attorney) was a legal instrument that enabled people to transact business through a representative or agent (mukhtār or wakīl). This is a study of one such document written in Surat in 1821. It analyses the document for its socio-cultural, legal, and commercial significance as well as to explore the transition in the adjudication of commercial disputes and civil cases from Mughal to East India Company courts. It shows that there was a strong tradition of documenting business transactions in early modern South Asia and that such practices have continued into the colonial and postcolonial periods.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-26DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341550
Mohammad Shahnawaz
The huṇḍī or Indic mercantile instrument integrated networks of merchants and bankers across Persianate bazaars from South Asia to Central Asia, Iran and East Africa. Merchants performed long-distance financial transactions by means of this instrument, catering to both private individuals and the state. While much has been written about the commercial use of huṇḍīs, this paper turns to the working of huṇḍīs at the interface of mercantile and state institutions, looking in particular at the Jaipur state’s collection of nirakh huṇḍāwan registers—which tracked the rate of discounting of huṇḍīs on a daily basis. Produced at the mercantile centre of Sanganer, and open to inspection by the Jaipur state, these registers lie at the intersection of commerce and governance, and of corporation and state. They reveal an ‘economically curious’ state, which accessed and used data collected and maintained by mercantile entities to make significant economic decisions.
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