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1449 Resurrected Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Aaron Throness
The Tumu Crisis of 1449 was consequential for the developmental trajectory of the Ming court in almost every domain. Studies have shown that militarily, the Ming actively pursued defensive retrench...
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La Stimmung du paysage dans l’esthetique allemande et les concepts esthetiques chez Wang Fuzhi et Wang Guowei Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Fan Jiani 范佳妮
This article examines the concept of qingjing (sentiment-landscape) and its related aesthetic notions, such as qingjing (sentiment-scene) and yijing (idea-scene) in Wang Fuzhi’s and Wang Guowei’s a...
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Politics, Leadership, and Wisdom Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Hon Tze-ki 韓子奇, Andreas Günter Weis
In this article, we examine the German context within which Richard Wilhelm (1873–1930) completed his translation of the Yijing (Book of Changes). Particularly we focus on the decades-long partners...
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Reading Politics in Calligraphy Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-11-22 He Jianjun 何建軍
This article examines the 1965 debate over the authenticity of Wang Xizhi’s “Preface to the Lanting Collection” (Lanting ji xu). It argues that the seemingly academic debate in fact provided an opp...
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Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Roderich Ptak
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Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Albert Kozik
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The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Zbigniew Wesołowski
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Thy Kingdom Come: Rev. Dr. Ernst Faber’s (Hua Zhi’an, 1839–1899) Intercultural-missionary Vision of Chinese Spirituality Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Gad C. Isay
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Fateful Fashions Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Olivia Milburn
In the early medieval period, a number of mantic texts were produced which discussed the issue of portents expressed through fashions in clothing. It was the contention of these authors that changi...
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Portrait of a Divine King Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Bony Schachter
From the late Ming onwards, scholars have paid great attention to Zhu Quan’s (1378–1448) relationship with Daoism. They tend to explain the phenomenon with reference to the taohui hypothesis, which...
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Zhuangzi: A New Translation of the Sayings of Master Zhuang as Interpreted by Guo Xiang Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Manuel Rivera Espinoza
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Sound, Meaning, Shape: The Phonologist Wei Jiangong (1901–1980) between Language Study and Language Planning Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Cornelia Schindelin
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The Functional and Managerial Network of the Imperial Parks (Yuyuan) in the Southern Song Capital Lin’an (Hangzhou) Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Silvia Freiin Ebner von Eschenbach
As Hangzhou became the capital of the Southern Song Empire, new villas and palaces with parks were built for the imperial family in the city and on the shores of the West Lake. Emperors bestowed the parks and villas on important politicians, some related to the imperial family or to the empresses’ families. When politicians were downgraded or died, the emperors confiscated the parks and retransferred
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Thomas Zimmer, Der Fremde in der Mitte: Ein Ideen- und kulturgeschichtlicher Abriss der Raumvorstellung Chinas in der späten Kaiserzeit. Köln – Wien: Böhlau, 2023. 2 vols. 1429 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. 180 € (HB). ISBN 978-3-412-52535-4 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 D.E. Mungello
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Jin Guoping 金国平, “Zhongguo dafanchuan” yu “Siyin zhi lu”: “Parián” yanjiu “中国大帆船”与“丝银之路”——“Parián”研究. Aomenxue yanjiu congshu, 2 澳门学研究丛书・第二辑. Macau – Guangzhou: Aomen jijinhui – Jinan daxue Aomen yanjiuyuan, 2022. 4+2+20+157 pp. Illustrations. MOP (澳门元) 298 (HB). ISBN 978-99937-1-324-1 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Roderich Ptak
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Noel Golvers, Johann Schreck Terrentius, SJ: His European Network and the Origins of the Jesuit Library in Peking. De diversis artibus, 107 (N.S. 70). Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 648 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Bibliography, Index. € 124 (HB). ISBN 978-2-503-58143-9 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Michela Cigola
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Hartmut Walravens (ed.), Stanislas Julien – Wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz über China mit Schilling von Canstadt, Klaproth, Endlicher, Gabelentz, und A. von Humboldt. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2021. 110 pp. Illustrations, Indices. € 12.99 (PB). ISBN 978–3-7526–4182–0 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Li Xuetao
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On the Jingjiao Text Zhixuan anle jing Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Bai Yu 白宇
This article investigates the Jingjiao text Zhixuan anle jing, composed by Jingjing (fl. late 8th to early 9th century) under the Tang dynasty. Focusing on the contact between Jingjing and his contemporary Prajña (fl. late 8th to early 9th century), a Buddhist translator, it compares the Zhixuan anle jing and Prajña’s Dasheng bensheng xindi guan jing in terms of their shared imagery, suggesting that
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Giovanni Stary (1946–2022) in memoriam Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Hartmut Walravens
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Michael Lackner (ed.), Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia. Sinica Leidensia, 138. Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2017. xv, 586 pp. Figures, Tables, Bibliographies, Index. € 153. ISBN 978-90-04-34653-6 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Tiziana Lippiello
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Richard VanNess Simmons (ed. and trans.), The Sōushén hòujì: Latter Notes on Collected Spirit Phenomena Attributed to Táo Yuānmíng (365–427). American Oriental Series, 100. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 2022. xv, 132 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. US$ 39.50 (PB). ISBN 978-1-955357-01-2 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Sheng Yang 盛洋
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Chiara Bocci, On Feathers and Furs: The Animal Section in Duan Chengshi’s 段成式 Youyang zazu 酉陽雜俎 (ca. 853). An Annotated Translation. Maritime Asia, 30. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021. vii, 225 pp. Introduction, Index, List of Abbreviations, Bibliography. € 58 (PB). ISBN 978-3-447-11759-3 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Paolo De Troia
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Matteo Nicolini-Zani, The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xviii, 399 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. US$ 99 (HB). ISBN 978-0-19-760964-4 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Mark Dickens
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Hugo Pinto and Duarte Drumond Braga (coordinators), A Abelha da China nos seus 200 Anos. Casos, Personagens e Confrontos na Experiência Liberal de Macau. Coleção História. Lisbon – Macau: Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau – Universidade de Macau, 2022. 111 pp. [no price given] (PB). ISBN 978-972-8586-61-4 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Roderich Ptak
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Wan Zhaoyuan, Science and the Confucian Religion of Kang Youwei (1858–1927): China before the Conflict Thesis. Ideas, History, and Modern China, 26. Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2021. iv, 279 pp. Table, Figures, Bibliography, Index. €141,24 (HB). ISBN 978-90-04-46821-4 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Zbigniew Wesołowski SVD
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Werner Meiẞner, Zur Rezeption der Philosophie Henri Bergsons in Europa und Asien. Deutsche Ostasienstudien, 15. Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag, 2021. iii, 112 pp. Bibliography. € 19.80 (PB). ISBN 978-3-940527-48-6 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Joseph Ciaudo
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Taiwan Maritime Landscapes from Neolithic to Early Modern Times Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Roderich Ptak
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Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Paul U. Unschuld
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Shen Gua’s Empiricism Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Dagmar Schäfer
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All Mine! Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Monika Motsch
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Han Feizi and the Earliest Exegesis of Zuozhuan Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Yuri Pines
The chapter “Objections 4” (“Nan 4”) occupies a peculiar position in Han Feizi. It comprises four historical anecdotes, each of which is centered on a speech or a short utterance that summarizes its moralizing message. Then an objector refutes this message by confronting it with a broader historical perspective, and a second debater refutes his predecessor’s views. In my essay I argue that not only
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The Ludibrium of Living Well Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Robbert Zandbergen
In the present article a new case will be made for the philosophical and religious merit of the Xiang’er commentary to the Laozi. Throughout the text there is a normative emphasis on reaching sagehood and the levels of obedience and cultivation that this entails. The Xiang’er prescribes a preparatory morality that readies Daoist practitioners for the eventual return to the Dao from which everything
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Queshi Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Filippo Ugolini
The article examines a little-studied work of medieval literature, Queshi (The Missing History). Written by an otherwise unknown author between the ninth and tenth century AD, this collection of short stories records minor historical events of the last decades of the Tang dynasty (618–907). Scholars have long suspected the book to be incomplete, a hypothesis the first part of this article will explore
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An Annotated Translation of Fang Yizhi's Commentary on Zhuangzi's “Butterfly Dream” Story Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 John R. Williams
A glimpse is provided into the Zhuangzi (Master Zhuang) commentary of Fang Yizhi (1611–1671), Yaodi pao Zhuang (Monk Yaodi Distills the Essence of the Zhuangzi), by providing the first translation of all the remarks on the famous butterfly story from the end of the “Qiwulun” (Discourse on Equalizing Things) chapter. The bricolage (pinzhuang) structure of Fang’s text, with layer upon layer of intertextuality
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The World's Countability Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Viatcheslav Vetrov
Academic discussions of the count/mass distinction in Chinese feature three general problems, upon which this essay critically reflects: 1) Most studies focus either on modern or on classical Chinese, thus representing parallel discussions that never intersect; 2) studies on count/mass grammar are often detached from reflections on count/mass semantics, which results in serious theoretical and terminological
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Donald Daniel Leslie (1922–2020) Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Hartmut Walravens
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Bernsteinglanz und Perlen des Schwarzen Drachen: Die Geschichte der chinesischen Weinkultur Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Anthony Hu (Hu Baozhu)
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The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought: How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Yegor Grebnev
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The Aura of Confucius: Relics and Representations of the Sage at the Kongzhai Shrine in Shanghai Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Susan Naquin
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Jesuit Mission and Submission: Qing Rulership and the Fate of Christianity in China, 1644–1735 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 D. E. Mungello
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P. Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. und die Geheimakten zum Gerichtsprozeß der Jahre 1664–1665 in China Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Hartmut Walravens
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The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in China Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Wojciech Rybka
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The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Zbigniew Wesołowski SVD
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The Making of the Human Sciences in China: Historical and Conceptual Foundations Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Iwo Amelung
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Indes néerlandaises et culture chinoise: Deux traductions malaises du Roman des Trois Royaumes (1910–1913) Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Tom Hoogervorst
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Richard Wilhelm: Der Sinologe und seine Kulturmission in China und Frankfurt Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Thomas Zimmer
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Politics and Calligraphy at the Courts of the Early and Middle Tang Dynasty Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Xie Chen
This article examines the Tang calligraphic collection from a socio-political perspective. Issues of the monumentality of Wang Xizhi’s calligraphy, the materiality of calligraphic works in the Inner Storehouse, the vicissitudes and accessibility of the imperial calligraphic collection are addressed here. This study demonstrates that the political implication of the imperial calligraphic collection
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On the Civil Transformation of the Southern Tang (937–976) Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Ng Pak-sheung
This article aims to elaborate on the efforts made by Xu Zhigao and his descendants to implement a new practice that recruited local literati to positions of power as well as the extent to which the practice helped facilitate civil transformation and civil administration for their regime. One important way to achieve civil transformation was to bureaucratize the local administration, which involved
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Huang Chin-shing, Confucianism and Sacred Space: The Confucius Temple from Imperial China to Today. Translated by Jonathan Chin with Huang Chin-shing. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xii, 333 pp. 8 Illustrations, 2 Tables, Bibliography, Index. US$ 120 (HB). ISBN 978-0-231-19896-7 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Julia K. Murray
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Rina Marie Camus, Archery Metaphor and Ritual in Early Confucian Texts. Lanham – Boulder – New York – London: Lexington Books, 2020. xii, 109 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. US$ 90 (HB). ISBN 978-1-4985-9720-3 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Lukáš Zádrapa
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Jonas Polfuẞ, Brief. Kontakt. Netz: Soziale Vernetzung in der Tang-Zeit am Beispiel der Briefliteratur Han Yus und Liu Zongyuans. Deutsche Ostasienstudien, 23. Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag, 2017. xi, 391 pp. € 48.50 (PB). ISBN 978-3-940527-91-2 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Monika Motsch
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David E. Mungello, This Suffering Is My Joy: The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China. Lanham – Boulder – New York – London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. xii, 6, 174 pp. Map, Figures, Bibliography Index. US$ 85 (HB). ISBN 978-1-5381-5029-0 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Gianni Criveller
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Henning Klöter – Li Xuetao (Hrsg.), Von Lindenblättern und verderbten Dialekten: Neue Studien zu Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893). Veröffentlichungen des Ostasien-Instituts der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 70. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020. viii, 196 S. 1 Abb., Index der Personennamen. € 48 (PB). ISBN 978-3-447-11524-7 Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Els Elffers
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Local Uses of Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Alexis Lycas, Hasegawa Masato 長谷川正人, Chen Shih-Pei 陳詩沛
(2021). Local Uses of Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China. Monumenta Serica: Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 349-352.
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Writing Memories Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Griet Vankeerberghen
A longstanding debate on whether the capital should be located in Chang’an or Luoyang culminated in Ban Gu’s “Western Capital fu” (Xidu fu) and Zhang Heng’s “Western Metropolis fu” (Xijing fu); this debate, and other descriptions of Chang’an preserved in the histories of the early imperial period, led to an image of Chang’an as a city that violates classical ritual. This article reads the Sanfu huangtu
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Knowledge, Power, and Technology Monumenta Serica Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Lin Fan 林凡
This article examines the epistemological nature, material forms, and social functions of zhentu (diagrams of troop formation) in the context of early Northern Song history. The first two sections contextualize the concept of zhentu in the new political and military institutions during this period. In the early Northern Song, the diagrams and geographic knowledge came to be incorporated into the imperial