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Book SynopsisThis pioneering work in Sino-Western exchange evinced sophisticated strategies to accommodate Christianity to the Chinese context. Featuring a critical edition of the Chinese and Latin texts, which are both translated into English for the first time. An introduction, biography, and rich annotations are provided to situate this text in its cultural and intellectual context.Trade Review'This annotated translation establishes a new milestone in scholarship on Michele Ruggieri, co-founder of the Jesuit China mission. Through a painstaking and judicious analysis of sources in multiple European and Asian languages, Canaris unveils many previously unknown or underappreciated facets of Ruggieri’s journey, character, missionary approach, and Sinological scholarship.' Qiong Zhang, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Wake Forest UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations List of Figures Introduction  Daniel Canaris  1 Rediscovering Ruggieri  2 The Composition of the Tianzhu shilu  3 Tianzu shilu and the Catechism Genre  4 The Reception of the Tianzu shilu  5 The Revised Edition Published under the Vice-Provincial Francisco Furtado  6 This Present Edition and Translation The Life of Michele Ruggieri  Wang Huiyu 王慧宇 and Daniel Canaris  1 Before China  2 China  3 Ruggieri’s Return to Europe Critical Edition of the True Record of the Lord of Heaven 新編西竺國天主實錄 / The Newly Revised True Record of the Lord of Heaven from Western India  天主實錄引 / Preface to the True Record of the Lord of Heaven  新編西竺國天主實錄目錄 / Contents of the Newly Revised True Record of the Lord of Heaven from Western India  新編天主實錄  真有一位天主 / Chapter 1: There Truly Is One Lord of Heaven  天主事情 / Chapter 2: Attributes of the Lord of Heaven  觧釋世人冐認天主 / Chapter 3: Explanation of People’s Misconceptions about the Lord of Heaven  天主制作天地人物 / Chapter 4: The Creation of the World  天人啞噹章 / Chapter 5: The Angels and Adam  論人魂不滅大異禽獸 / Chapter 6: Discussion on How the Immortal Human Soul (renhun 人魂) Differs from the Animal Soul  觧釋魂歸四䖏 / Chapter 7: Explanation of the Four Places Where the Soul Goes  自古及今天主止有降其規誡三端 / Chapter 8: The Lord of Heaven Has Only Sent Down His Law on Three Occasions from Antiquity to This Day  天主賦人第三次之規誡 / Chapter 9: The Commandments That the Lord of Heaven Gave to People the Third Time  觧釋第三次與人規誡事情 / Chapter 10: Explanation of the Third Law Given to People  觧釋人當誠信天主事實 / Chapter 11: Explanation of the Truths about the Lord of Heaven That People Must Earnestly Believe  天主十誡 / Chapter 12: The Ten Commandments of the Lord of Heaven  觧釋第一面碑文 / Chapter 13: Explanation of the First Side of the Tablet  觧釋天主第二碑文中有七條事情 / Chapter 14: Explanation of the Seven Commandments on the Other Side of the Tablet  觧釋僧道誠心修行升天之正道 / Chapter 15: Explanation of the Orthodox Way Preached by the Monk for Earnest Ascetic Practice and Ascending to Heaven  觧釋淨水除前罪 / Chapter 16: Explanation of How Cleansing Water Removes Sin Vera et brevis divinarum rerum expositio / True and Brief Exposition of Divine Things  PROOEMIUM / Introduction  Index Capitum / Index of Chapters  CAPUT PRIMUM. Ostenditur unum esse Deum / Demonstration That God Is One  CAPUT SECUNDUM. De divinis virtutibus / On the Divine Virtues  CAPUT TERTIUM. Declarantur huiusmodi errores circa Dei cognitionem / Proclamation of the Errors about the Knowledge of God  CAPUT QUARTUM. Agitur de his quae pertinent ad Deum omnium creatorem, et disseritur de rerum creatione / On the Things That Pertain to God as Creator of All Things and on the Creation of the World  CAPUT QUINTUM. Agitur de eventu angelorum, et primorum parentum / On the Fall of the Angels and of the First Parents  CAPUT SEXTUM. Ostenditur animum esse immortalem / Demonstration That the Soul Is Immortal  CAPUT SEPTIMUM. Agitur de ijs quae pertinent ad Deum legislatorem et quoties lex divina promulgata fuerit / About Those Things Pertaining to God as Legislator and How Many Times the Divine Law Has Been Promulgated  CAPUT OCTAVUM. Prosequitur Christianus tertiae legis divinae promulgationem, et Deum assumpsisse naturam humanam exponit / The Christian Continues the Proclamation of the Third Divine Law and Explains That God Assumed Human Nature  CAPUT NONUM. De articulis fidei / On the Articles of Faith  CAPUT DECIMUM. De christianae legis mandatis / On the Commandments of the Christian Law  CAPUT UNDECIMUM. De Consilijs a Christo propositis / On the Counsels Proposed by Christ  CAPUT DUODECIMUM. De Sacramentis a Christo institutis / On the Sacraments Instituted by Christ  CAPUT DECIMUMTERTIUM. Agitur de Deo quatenus remunerator est / On God as Redeemer Appendix: True Record of the Holy Religion of the Lord of Heaven  天主聖敎實錄總目 / Contents of “A True Record of the Holy Religion of the Lord of Heaven”  天主聖性章 / Chapter 7: Divine Nature of the Lord of Heaven  解釋魂歸五所章 / Chapter 8: The Five Places Where Souls Return  解釋人當誠信天主事實章 / Chapter 11: Explanation of the Truths about the Lord of Heaven That People Must Believe Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first scholarly work on the subject by leading scholars in the field, Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China examines the variety of ways in which MEP missionaries complemented and complicated Catholic Church and French engagement with Chinese society. Key players in the Church’s overseas missions in the Far East, many MEP missionaries spent their entire lives working with ordinary Chinese. This volume explores the proactive engagement of MEP missionaries in Bible translation and cultural accommodation, their evangelization efforts in local communities, and the interaction between MEP representatives and various local groups. Each study in this book responds to one or more of the major themes in the history of Christianity in China that include conflicts, accommodations, indigenization, imperialism, and nationalism. Contributors are François Barriquand, Jean Charbonnier, Yanrong Chen, Lina Guo, Zhijie Kang, Ji Li, Matthieu Masson, Jean-Paul Wiest, Qing Wu, Hongyan Xiang, Ernest Young, and Aidong Zhao.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors List of Figures and Tables Introduction: Placing the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) in Late Imperial and Modern China  Ji Li Part 1 Cultural accommodation in the 17th and 18th centuries 1 Nobis Solis Sinensibus: When Jean Basset Identified Himself as Chinese in Order to Promote the Term Shangdi  François Barriquand 2 Telling Biblical Stories in Chinese: A Case Study of Two Gospel Texts  Yanrong Chen 3 The Formulation and Implementation of Rules for Virgins and its Influence on the Historical Process of Chinese Church  Zhijie Kang and Qing Wu Part 2 Intensification of Evangelization in the Early and Mid-19th Century 4 Roman Catholic Presence in Guangdong at the Time of the Return of the MEP in the Mid-19th Century  Jean-Paul Wiest 5 La Mort d’ Auguste Chapdelaine : Prétexte d’ une Guerre, Occasion du Protectorat Religieux de la France en Chine  Matthieu Masson Part 3 Expansion of MEP Presence in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries 6 Bishop Guillemin and the Creation of MEP’s Real Estate Empire in South China  Hongyan Xiang 7 MEP Missionary Educational Endeavors in Modern Southwest China: A Case Study of Latin School and Kanghua Elementary School in Kangding  Aidong Zhao 8 Le Procès en diffamation de Paul-Hubert Perny: Un aperçu de la sinologie française dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle  Lina Guo Conclusion: Vignettes of Responses by MEP Missionaries to China, 1886–1936  Ernest P. Young Appendix: MEP in China: A Chronology from the 17th Century to the Present  Jean-Pierre Charbonnier Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an account of the development and transformations of the discourse of ancestors’ instructions in the Song period. It explains how rulers selected words and deeds of ancestors in tandem with changes in current affairs, and how they gave them different meanings to create not only an image of the ancestors that were suitable for emulation but also a talisman to safeguard their administration. Using abundant resources, exercising an economy of words and academic rigor, the author digs deep to tease apart the complex and versatile relationship between the meaning and the truth of the Song discourse on ancestors’ instructions.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Presenting the Issues  1 Regarding Research in Political History: The Song Period as a Case Study  2 Regarding the Imperial Ancestors’ Instructions during the Song Dynasty  3 About This Book 1 The Confluence of Family Instructions and National Instructions: ‘Ancestors’ and ‘Ancestors’ Family Instructions’  1 ‘Paying Respects before State Altars and the Ancestors’ Temple and Maintaining the Upright Model of the Ancestors’: Paying Homage to ‘Ancestors’ during the Han Dynasties  2 ‘Anticipating Careful Adherence to Ancestors’ Instructions’: The Emphasis on ‘Ancestors’ Rules’ during the Tang and Five Dynasties  3 ‘Ancestors’ Guidelines as Instructions for the Family’: ‘Guidelines for Rectifying Households’ and the ‘Imperial Ancestors’ Instructions’ of the Zhao Imperial Family 2 Emerging from the Five Dynasties: Transformations of the Dynastic Ruling Elites in North China during the Tenth Century  1 The Fading of Ethnic Characteristics among the Governing Elites of the Five Dynasties and Early Song  2 Towards Reformulation: The Civil Bureaucratic Elite during the Early to Mid-Tenth Century  3 A Reoriented Establishment: Desiring Martial Officials to Study Books and Employing Intellectuals 3 ‘Comprehensive Order as Precaution against Malfeasance’: Emperors Taizu and Taizong’s Establishment of Laws and Institutions, and the Key Formation of the ‘Ancestors’ Family Instructions’  1 ‘Transforming the Family into a Country’: The Formation of Governing Structures in the Early Years of the Northern Song  2 Adjustments in the Midst of Twists and Turns: The Governing Center during the Early Northern Song  3 ‘Comprehensive Order as a Precaution against Malfeasance’: The Substance of Song ‘Imperial Ancestors’ Instructions’ 4 From ‘Protecting the Ancestors’ Legacy’ to ‘Preserving the Ancestors’ Precedents’: the Transition during Emperor Zhenzong’s Reign  1 ‘The Ancestors’ Regulations Are All Extant’ and ‘Administering by Precedents’  2 The Post-Chanyuan Treaty Era and ‘Establishing Guidance from the Way of the Spirits’  3 Establishing the Principle of ‘Administering by Precedents’ 5 The Formal Presentation of the ‘Imperial Ancestors’ Instructions’: the Early Period of Renzong’s Reign  1 ‘The Ancestors’ Instructions Cannot Be Ruined’  2 Precedents and Books on ‘Precious Lessons’ and ‘Sagely Governance’  3 From ‘Following the Sacred Decrees’ to ‘Sharing Governance of the Realm’ 6 General Overview: The Influence of ‘the Ancestors’ Instructions’ on Song Dynasty Politics - From the Middle of the Northern Song to the Late Southern Song  1 ‘Follow the Model of the Ancestors’ versus ‘Do Not be Bound by Models’: The Dynamic Political Storms of the Middle and Late Northern Song  2 ‘Our Imperial Family Instructions Far Surpass the Han and Tang’: Homage to ‘Ancestors’ Instructions’ during the Southern Song  3 An Appended Discussion of the Interpretations of ‘Ancestors’ Instructions’ and the Image-Building of ‘Ancestors’: From the Middle of the Northern Song to the Late Southern Song Conclusion: A Reevaluation of ‘Ancestors’ Instructions’  1 ‘Ancestors’ Instructions’ and Song Dynasty Politics  2 Between Fact and Fiction: Further Reflections on ‘Speaking’ and ‘Doing’ Afterword Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBy looking at China from the periphery, this study shows how European sources offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette, as translated by European missionaries, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers.

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Book SynopsisNorms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing the role of local normative production. While European imperialism is often viewed as being able to shape colonial law and government to its image, this volume argues that early modern empires could never monolithically control how these processes unfolded. Examining the Iberian empires in Asia, it seeks to look at norms as a means of escaping the often too narrow concept of law and look beyond empire to highlight the ways in which law-making and local normativities frequently acted beyond colonial rule. The ten chapters explore normative production from this perspective by focusing on case studies from China, India, Japan, and the Philippines. Contributors are: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Marya Svetlana T. Camacho, Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, Patricia Souza de Faria, Fupeng Li, Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço, Abisai Perez Zamarripa, Marina Torres Trimállez, and ngela Barreto Xavier.Trade Review"The volume’s greatest strength is that while focused on one particular set of contexts in early modern Asia, it transcends its geographical and chronological limits, and invites the reader to reexamine old orthodoxies regarding the state, law and society, be they in Asia, Europe, or elsewhere". Stuart M. McManus, in Ler História, 81: 2022. (September 2022).Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Decentering Law and Empire: Law-Making, Local Normativities, and the Iberian Empires in Asia  Manuel Bastias Saavedra 2 Village Normativities and the Portuguese Imperial Order: The Case of Early Modern Goa   ngela Barreto Xavier 3 The Principales of Philip II: Vassalage, Justice, and the Making of Indigenous Jurisdiction in the Early Colonial Philippines  Abisai Pérez Zamarripa 4 Catholics and Non-Christians in the Archbishopric of Goa  Provincial Councils, Conversion, and Local Dynamics in the Production of Norms (16th–18th Centuries)  Patricia Souza de Faria 5 “Que los indios no puedan vender sus hijas para contraer matrimonio”: Understanding and Regulating Bridewealth and Brideservice in the Spanish Colonial Period of the Philippines  Marya Svetlana T. Camacho 6 The Janus Face of Normativities in a Global Mirror: Viewing 16th-Century Marriage Practices in Japan from Christian and Japanese Traditions  Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva 7 On Gentilidade as a Religious Offence: A Specificity of the Portuguese Inquisition in Asia?  Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço 8 Theology in the Dark: The Missionary Casuistry of Japan Jesuits and Dominicans during the Tokugawa Persecution (1616–1622)  Rômulo da Silva Ehalt 9 Finding Norms for the Chinese Mission: The Hat Controversy in the Canton Conference of 1667/1668  Marina Torres Trimállez 10 Time as Norm: The Ritual Dimension of the Calendar Book and the Translation of Multi-Temporality in Late Imperial China  Fupeng Li Index

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Book SynopsisThis study is the first book that explores how the Catholic Mass was introduced and propagated in late Imperial China. Its dynamic exploration reveals the tension between localized and global forms of Catholic rituals, especially the tension faced by missionaries and Chinese Catholics, who were caught up between the Chinese tradition and the Catholic one. Drawing on rich primary sources, some of which are rarely noticed in the field, this book unfolds the intriguing interactions between the Mass and various cultural expressions of Chinese society, including traditional religion, architecture, art, literature, government, and theology.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction to Ritual Interactions around Mass  1 Prologue  2 Paradigm of Ritual Interaction  3 Ite Missa Est  4 Structure and Sources 1 Object of Worship: Grand Ritual of Sacrifice to the Lord of Heaven  1 The Lord of Heaven as Object of Worship  2 Jesus as Object of Worship in Mass  3 Conclusion 2 Intention of Worship: Mass for Salvation of the Souls of the Deceased  1 Salvation of the Souls of the Deceased at Catholic Funeral  2 Relationship between Mass and Sacrifice to Ancestors  3 Salvation of Souls of the Deceased in the Communion of Merits  4 Conclusion 3 Performer of Worship: Indigenous Clergy along with Indigenous Liturgy  1 Catholic Priest’s Multiple Identities in China  2 Anticlericalism against the Teaching of the Lord of Heaven  3 Indigenous Clergy and Indigenous Liturgy  4 Conclusion 4 Place of Worship: Ritual Space and Ritual Time of Mass  1 Ritual Space of Mass  2 Ritual Time of Mass  3 Christendom in Chinese Society  4 Conclusion 5 On-Going Interactions  1 Glocalization of Catholic Rituals in Chinese Society  2 Applications of the Metaphor of Weaving  3 Tension between Inheritance and Adaptation  4 The Intermediary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCommissioned by the Qianlong emperor in 1751, the Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples (Huang Qing zhigong tu 皇清職貢圖), is a captivating work of art and an ideological statement of universal rule best understood as a cultural cartography of empire. This translation of the ethnographic texts accompanied by a full-color reproduction of Xie Sui’s (謝遂) hand-painted scroll helps us to understand the conceptualization of imperial tributary relationships the work embodies as rooted in both dynastic history and the specifics of Qing rule.

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Book SynopsisThis book centers on the history of polders and investigates the complex hydro-social relationships of the Jianghan Plain in late imperial China. Once a hydraulic frontier where local communities managed the polders, the Jianghan Plain had become a state-led hydro-electric powerhouse by the mid-twentieth century. Through in-depth historical analysis, this book shows how water politics, cultural practice, and ecology interplayed and transformed the landscape and waterscape of the plain from a long-term perspective. By touching on topics such as religious practice, ethnic tensions and local militarization, the author reveals a plain forever caught between land and water, and nature and culture.Trade Review"As a historial monograph Yangzi Waters is firmly based on a combination of clearly explained theory and well-picked, original material from local sources. This interesting study should not only be read by China specialists but should also appeal to historians interested in a comparative approach of water management within a global setting." -Leonard Blussé, Leiden University, International Journal of Maritime History, 35(1)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Introduction Water, Society and Politics  1 Theorizing Water and Politics  2 Revisiting the Relationship between Water and Society  3 The Yuan  4 What Are Yuan?  5 A Long-term View of the Yuan  6 The Jianghan Plain 1 Water-based Disasters and a Cultured Nature  1 The Amphibious Nature of the Jianghan Plain  1.1 A Flood-prone Environment  1.2 Wet-rice Cultivation and Its Significance  1.3 Amphibious Living  2 Networks, Lineages, and the Creation of Yuan  3 Temple-Yuan Relations: Seeing a Cultured Nature  4 Conclusion 2 Disordering Nature Wetlands and Empire Reconstruction (1600s–Early 1700s)  1 The Early History of the Wetlands in the Jianghan Plain  2 Crisis and Restoration  3 Migration and Opening the Plain  4 Amphibious Living: Fluidity of the Jianghan Lifestyle  5 Complexities in Administration  6 The Early Qing State and Its Laissez-faire Policy in Central China  7 Hydraulic Communities: Official and People’s Yuan  8 Enforcement on Collaboration: The Formation of Yuan Zones  9 Customs in Common: Various Solutions for Collaborations  10 Turn Sea to Land: Population Growth and Dike Proliferation  11 Conclusion 3 The Retreat of the Horse The Manchus, Pasturelands, and Water Management on the Jianghan Plain (ca. 1700s–mid-1800s)  1 Manchus and Horses  2 The Jingzhou Garrison  3 Population Growth and Land Reclamation in the Eighteenth-Century Jianghan Plain  4 The Debate over Land versus Water  5 The Dilemma for Statecraft Officials  6 The Manchus and the Local Ecology of Central China  7 Efforts to Reinforce Manchu Cultural Identity  8 The Retreat of Horses in the Jianghan Plain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries  9 Conclusion 4 Militarizing Water Forts, Polders, and Landscape in an Era of Crisis (1796–1860s)  1 The Rebels and the Jianghan Plain  2 Jianbi Qingye: The Qing State’s Counterinsurgency Agenda  3 Fort Building in the Hubei Highlands  4 Local Militarization and the Lowland Communities  5 Yuan and Tuanlian: Qianjiang County as a Case Study  6 Disruptions in the Hydraulic System with Local Militarization  7 The Rural Famine in the Jianghan Plain from the Late 1850s to the 1860s  8 Conclusion 5 Coping with Environmental Crisis in the Post-Taiping Era  1 Post-Taiping Social Distress and Environmental Crisis  2 Managing the Waters  2.1 Flood Control: Restoring, Diking, or Diverting  2.2 Sedimentation: Ban the Reclamation on Mountains  2.3 Sacrificing the South for the North  3 The Changing Nature of Conflicts over Water  3.1 First, Greater Frequency and on a Larger Scale  3.2 Second, Diversifying Stakeholders  3.3 Third, a “Plebeian Culture” in Popular Action  3.4 Case Study: The Conflicts over the Big and Small Zekou Outlets from the 1840s to the 1910s  4 Changes in Hydrotopography of the Jianghan Plain  5 Conclusion 6 Centering the Plain  1 The Jinshui Reclamation Project  2 The Social, Economic, and Hydraulic Conditions of the Plain  3 Reorganizing the Yuan System in the Early Republic  4 The Nationalist Government’s Scheme of Unifying Watersheds  5 A Divided Central Yangzi Watershed  6 Hydropower: Centering the Yangzi  7 Conclusion Conclusion  1 An Autonomous Water Regime  2 An Amphibious Water Regime  3 The Role of the State  4 Environmental Changes in the Longue Durée  4.1 Hydrogeographic Changes  4.2 Loss of Biodiversity  5 Hopes and Challenges in the Jianghan Plain Appendix: Glossary of Chinese Measurement Terms Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIn the past decades, the world has watched the rise of China as an economic and military power and the emergence of Chinese transnational elites. What may seem like an entirely new phenomenon marks the revival of a trend initiated at the end of the Qing. The redistribution of power, wealth and knowledge among the newly formed elites matured during the Republican period. This volume demonstrates both the difficulty and the value of re-thinking the elites in modern China. It establishes that the study of the dynamic tensions within the elite and among elite groups in this epochal era is within reach if we are prepared to embrace forms of historical inquiry that integrate the abundant and even limitless historical resources, and to engage with the rich repertoire of digital techniques/instruments available and question our previous research paradigms. This renewed approach brings historical research closer to an integrative data-rich history of modern China.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Networks — Elites in Transition in Modern China  Christian Henriot, Cécile Armand, and Sun Huei-min 2 Who Are Elites? Elite Distinction and Who’s Who Publications in Early 20th-Century China  Sun Huei-min 3 X-Boorman: The Biographical Dictionary of Republican China in the Digital Age  Cécile Armand and Christian Henriot 4 Middling Elites: Middle Managers and Bank Professionals at the Shanghai Bank of China on the Eve of the Communist Revolution  Brett Sheehan 5 Structures of Empowerment: A Network Exploration of Women Activists’ Collective Biographies in 20th-Century China  Henrike Rudolph 6 “Service to the Empire and to the Community”: The British Women’s Association in Shanghai, 1921–51  Ling-ling Lien 7 Revolutionary Roads: An Integrative Analysis Utilizing a Chinese Biographical Database  Marilyn Levine 8 Foreign Clubs with Chinese Flavor: The Rotary Club of Shanghai and the Politics of Language  Cécile Armand 9 The American-Returned Students: Educational Networks and New Forms of Business in Early Republican China  Peter E. Hamilton 10 Navigating between Political Authorities: Chinese Rockefeller Fellows in Biology and Chemistry and Their Career Trajectories from 1949 to 1966  Yi-Tang Lin Index

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Book SynopsisMarginalia are a variety of writings and symbols written by readers in book margins. This study focuses on marginalia and explores the reading practices and the scholarly culture of late Imperial China. Beginning in the late Ming and early Qing, more scholars devoted themselves to reading and collating ancient texts. They developed the habit of writing marginalia while reading, of transcribing other readers’ marginalia, and of printing marginalia, all of which formed a particular scholarly culture. This book explores how this culture developed, gained momentum, and shaped the styles, lives, thoughts, and mind states of scholars in late Imperial China.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Conventions Chart of Historical Periods 1 Introduction 2 Chinese Interpretive Texts: Annotations, Commentaries and Marginalia  1 Contents and Features  2 Forms and Circulation 3 The “Reading Seed”: He Zhuo and His Marginalia  1 He Zhuo: The “Reading Seed”  2 He Zhuo’s Scholarly Transition  3 A Pioneer of Textual Criticism  4 Reading He Zhuo’s Historical Comments  5 The Stigmatization of a Scholar 4 Scholarly Communities and the Transcription of Marginalia  1 He Zhuo and His Students: Transcription of the Teacher’s Marginalia  2 Scholarly Communities and the Transcription of Marginalia  3 Booksellers and Scribes and Their Role in the Marginalia Culture  4 Shaping the Text of the Classics  5 Marginalia Culture 5 The Writing of Scholarly Lives in Marginalia  1 Temporal and Spatial Records in Marginalia  2 The Artistic Lives of the Scholars  3 The Mental World of the Scholars 6 Edited Reading: The Printing of Marginalia in the Qing Dynasty  1 The Printing of the Yimen dushu ji  2 Printing Marginalia alongside the Main Text  3 The Printing of Collation Notes  4 The Flourishing of Collation Biji  5 The Merits of Printing 7 Epilogue  1 Marginalia and the Evidential Research  2 Invisible Scholars and the Intellectual History of the Qing Appendix: Books Containing He Zhuo’s Marginalia and Their Transcriptions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisQarakhanid Roads to China reconsiders the diplomacy, trade and geography of transcontinental networks between Central Asia and China from the 10th to the 12th centuries and challenges the concept of “the Silk Road crisis” in the period between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Mongols. Utilizing a broad range of Islamic and Chinese primary sources together with archaeological data, Dilnoza Duturaeva demonstrates the complexity of interaction along the Silk Roads and beyond that, revolutionizes our understanding of the Qarakhanid world and Song-era China’s relations with neighboring regions.Trade Review"Her encyclopedic knowledge and patient teasing out of her conclusions from philological sources in Chinese, Turkish, Arabic and Persian, are admirable. [...] Qarakhanid Roads to China offers a comprehensive portrait of the peoples and the activities of this little-known era of the Silk Road, and will be a valuable reference for students and scholars alike." – David Chaffetz, in Asian Review of Books (2022). "Overall, this book is an excellent example of the importance of integrating data from Chinese sources as well as archaeological, art-historical and numismatic studies to shed light into this little-studied historical period of Central Asian history, and, by extension, the aspects of global medieval trade that the Qarakhanids were part of. The revised political history of the Qarakhanids can be written only thanks to such works that bridge sources from multiple languages and disciplines. There is certainly much additional work to do in Qarakhanid studies." – Dilrabo Tosheva, in Central Asian Survey (2022), DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2110354.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments List of Maps, Tables and Figures Abbreviations Used in the Tables Note on Transliterations and Measures Introduction 1 The Qarakhanid World  Introduction  1 Notes on the Qarakhanid Image and Origin  2 The Qarakhanid Trade Partners in the West  3 The Qarakhanids and the East  Conclusion 2 Between the Islamic World and Liao China  Introduction  1 Gifting between the Qarakhanid and the Islamic World: The Ghaznavid Case  2 Gifting between the Qarakhanids and the Sinitic World: The Liao Case  Conclusion 3 Envoys and Traders to Northern Song China  Introduction  1 Names for the Qarakhanids  2 The Image of the West in China  3 Envoys and Traders to Kaifeng  4 Women Envoys and Travelers  5 Official Communication  6 Diplomatic Gifts and Trade Commodities  7 Roads, Itineraries and Maps  8 Missions to Hangzhou?  Conclusion 4 Before China: Dunhuang, Turfan and Tibet  Introduction  1 Dunhuang  2 Turfan  3 Tibet  Conclusion 5 Qarakhanid Allies and China  Introduction  1 The Liao Envoy in Ghazna and the “Persians” from Northern India in Kaifeng  2 Sultans and Rum: Saljuq Missions to Northern Song China  3 The “Uyghurs” of Khwarzm: Records on the Khwarazmshahs  Conclusion 6 The Qarakhanid Silk Roads and Beyond  Introduction  1 Silk Road Symbols and Images  2 The Amber Road and Migration of Culture  3 The Frankincense Road  4 The Qinghai Road: Tea and Horse Trade  Conclusion Conclusion Appendix 1: Records on the Qarakhanids in Song shi Appendix 2: Documents on the Qarakhanid Diplomacy and Trade Appendix 3: List of the Qarakhanid Missions to Song China Appendix 4: Glossary of Chinese Characters Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBuddhist Statecraft in East Asia explores the long relationship between Buddhism and the state in premodern times and seeks to counter the modern, secularist notion that Buddhism, as a religion, is inherently apolitical. By revealing the methods by which members of Buddhist communities across premodern East Asia related to imperial rule, this volume offers case studies of how Buddhists, their texts, material culture, ideas, and institutions legitimated rulers and defended regimes across the region. The volume also reveals a history of Buddhist writing, protest, and rebellion against the state. Contributors are Stephanie Balkwill, James A. Benn, Megan Bryson, Gregory N. Evon, Geoffrey C. Goble, Richard D. McBride II, and Jacqueline I. Stone.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Stephanie Balkwill and James Benn 1 Metropolitan Buddhism vis-à-vis Buddhism at the Metropolis: How to Understand the Ling in the Empress Dowager’s Name  Stephanie Balkwill 2 Silla King Chinhŭng Institutes State-Protection Buddhist Rituals  Richard D. McBride II 3 The Commissioner of Merit and Virtue: Buddhism and the Tang Central Government  Geoffrey C. Goble 4 Images of Humane Kings: Rulers in the Dali-Kingdom Painting of Buddhist Images  Megan Bryson 5 Buddhism and Statecraft in Korea: The Long View  Gregory N. Evon 6 Refusing the Ruler’s Offerings: Accommodation and Martyrdom in Early Modern Nichiren Buddhism  Jacqueline I. Stone Index

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Book SynopsisThirty years after the fall of Soviet power, we are beginning to understand that the experience of Muslims in the USSR continued patterns of adaptation and negotiation known from Muslim history in the lands that became the Soviet Union, and in other regions as well; we can also now understand that the long history of Muslims situating religious authority locally, in the various regions that came under Soviet rule, in fact continued through the Soviet era into post-Soviet times. The present volume is intended to historicize the question of religious authority in Muslim Central Eurasia, through historical and anthropological case studies about the exercise, negotiation, or institutionalization of authority, from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century; it thus seeks to frame Islamic religious history in the areas shaped by Russian and Soviet rule in terms of issues relevant to Muslims themselves, as Muslims, rather than solely in terms of questions of colonial rule. Contributors are Sergei Abashin, Ulfat Abdurasulov, Bakhtiyar Babajanov, Devin DeWeese, Allen J. Frank, Benjamin Gatling, Agnès Kefeli, Paolo Sartori, Wendell Schwab, Pavel Shabley, Shamil Shikhaliev, and William A. Wood.

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Book SynopsisThe history of cosmology is often understood in terms of the development of modern science, but Asian cosmological thought and practice touched on many aspects of life, including mathematics, astronomy, politics, philosophy, religion, and art. Because of the deep pervasion of cosmology in culture, many opportunities arose for transmissions of cosmological ideas across borders and innovations of knowledge and application in new contexts. Taking a wider view, one finds that cosmological ideas traveled widely and intermingled freely, being frequently reinterpreted by scholars, ritualists, and artists and transforming as they overlapped with ideas and practices from other traditions. This book brings together ten diverse scholars to present their views on these overlapping cosmologies in Asia. They are Ryuji Hiraoka, Satomi Hiyama, Eric Huntington, Yoichi Isahaya, Catherine Jami, Bill M. Mak, D. Max Moerman, Adrian C. Pirtea, John Steele, and Dror Weil.

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Book SynopsisIn Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South India. Trento analyzes a corpus of Tamil grammars and poems, chiefly Beschi’s Tēmpāvaṇi, alongside archival documents to show how, by presenting themselves as poets and intellectuals, Catholic elites gained a persuasive voice as well as entrance into the learned society of the Tamil country and its networks of patronage. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840879.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Notes to Translation and Transliteration Introduction: Catholic Literary Practices in Eighteenth-Century South India  1 Genealogies of Tamil Catholicism  2 Microstoria and the Global in the Local  3 The Beginnings of Catholic Literature in Tamil  4 The Making of an Archive  5 Chapter Outline and Threads across the Chapters Part 1 Spiritual Institutions 1 Spiritual Exercises for Tamil Saints  1 Being a Catechist: Preaching and Literature  2 Being a Catechist: Caste and Profession  3 Bringing the Spiritual Exercises to the Mission  4 Spiritual Retreats between Italy and India  5 Missionary Strategies and Tamil Locations 2 Tamil Manuals for Catholic Selves  1 Creating a Catholic Self: The Ñāṉamuyaṟci  2 Disciplining the Catholic Self: The Vētiyaroḻukkam  3 The Dangers of a Self in Transition  4 The Catholic Self and Its Other: The Vētaviḷakkam  5 Conclusions: Catholic Selves, Dangers and Discipline Part 2 Rhetorical Education 3 Catholic Poetics and Politics of Space  1 Jesuit Humanism and Devotion  2 Kaveri Delta Politics  3 A Mirror for a Tamil Christian King  4 The Ēlākkuṟicci School of Rhetoric  5 Ēlākkuṟicci as a Christian Maṭam 4 A Tamil Grammar of Persuasion  1 A Textbook of (Christian) Tamil: The Toṉṉūlviḷakkam  2 Amplificatio as Poruḷ  3 The Grammar of Society  4 Ignorant Enemies  5 Conclusions: Tamil Poetry and the Grammar of Persuasion Part 3 Catholic Poetry in a Tamil World 5 Writing for Eighteenth-Century Catechists  1 Christian Epic and Tamil Peruṅkāppiyam  2 Worldly Publics, Divine Patrons  3 Angelic Time and the Relocation of Devotion  4 Tamil Demons and Christian Wonder  5 Staged Conversions 6 Reading as an Eighteenth-Century Catechist  1 Paper and Palm-Leaf Trails  2 Catechist Dynasties  3 Śaiva Neighbors and Rivals  4 Towards the Colonial Archive  5 Conclusions: Catholic Lay Identities in the Longue durée Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUsing Inner Mongolian cases, this book explains the attenuation of inter-ethnic solidarity in the critical period of Chinese imperial transformation (1900-1930). It engages the key issues related to imperial organization, elite politics, and ethnic relationship. The book will attract a large audience in comparative sociology, empire and ethnic studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables, Maps and Figures Introduction  1 Ethnogenesis in the Near Frontier  2 The Administration of the Empire  3 The Organization of the Book 1 Mapping Out the Mongolian Identities  1 The Center-Periphery Model  2 The Frontier Space of Inner Mongolia  3 The Feudal Tradition of Mongols  4 The Mongolian Banners  5 The Mongol-Manchu Alliance  6 The Incorporation of Mongols into the Qing State  7 The Exceptional Case of Hulun Buir  8 Empires and Cross-Identifications 2 Land Reform and State Centralization  1 A Natural Erosion of Nomadic Feudalism  2 The Late Qing Land Reform  3 The Changing Utility of Land in fangken  4 Colonization or Political Consolidation?  5 The Nexuses of Ruling Powers  6 The Puzzle of Mongolian Cooperation 3 Revolution, Warlordism and Ethnic Confrontation  1 The Revolutionary Turbulence  2 Mongolian Reactions to the Revolution  3 Intrusion of Provincial Governments  4 Emerging Local Conflicts  5 The Age of Warlordism  6 Transforming the Frontier Governance Structure  7 Military Colonization 4 Ethnicizing Boundaries in the Legal Jurisdiction  1 Legal Pluralism under the Imperial Rule  2 The Motley Jurisdictions in Eastern Inner Mongolia  3 Navigating the Disparate Legal Spaces  4 Reshuffling the Mongolian Legal Jurisdiction  5 The End of Legal Pluralism? 5 The Mongolian Shift in Hulun Buir  1 Tribal Soldiers in a Mobile Garrison System  2 Territorializing the Governments in Hulun Buir  3 Territorial Administration in Hulun Buir  4 Becoming Mongols  5 Striving for Mongolian Autonomy  6 The Intellectual Construct  7 Territorialization and Ethno-Genesis Conclusion Appendix 1: Administrative Experiences of the Frontier Military Officials, 1900–1916 Appendix 2: Administrative Experiences of the Frontier Military Officials, 1917–1928 Glossary of Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEducation, the production of knowledge, identity formation, and ideological hegemony are inextricably linked in early modern and modern Korea. This study examines the production and consumption of knowledge by a multitude of actors and across languages, texts, and disciplines to analyze the formulation, contestation, and negotiation of knowledge. The production and dissemination of knowledge become sites for contestation and struggle—sometimes overlapping, at other times competing—resulting in a shift from a focus on state power and its control over knowledge and discourse to an analysis of local processes of knowledge production and the roles local actors play in them. Contributors are Daniel Pieper, W. Scott Wells, Yong-Jin Hahn, Furukawa Noriko, Lim Sang Seok, Kokubu Mari, Mark Caprio, Deborah Solomon, and Yoonmi Lee.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Knowledge Production in the Struggle for Power and State Formation in Korea, 1875–1945  Andrew Hall and Leighanne Yuh Part 1: Education and Language Issues in Late Chosŏn 1 Linguistic Modernity, Education, and Nationalizing the Vernacular in Pre-colonial Korea: Divergences between Western Missionary and Indigenous Discourses  Daniel Pieper 2 Legitimizing Literary Sinitic in Korea’s Pre-colonial Classroom: Yŏ Kyuhyŏng and the Publication of Hanmunhak kyogwasŏ  W. Scott Wells 3 Late Nineteenth-Century Modern Education in Korea: The State, Ideology, and Moral Education  Leighanne Yuh 4 Official Foreign Language Schools in Korea, 1894–1906  Yong-Jin Hahn Part 2: Japanese Colonial Education: Plans, Schools, and Textbooks 5 Japan’s Education Policies in Korea in the 1910s: “Thankful and Obedient”  Andrew Hall 6 The Construction of Elementary Education in Early Colonial Korea: Non-compulsory Education and Japan’s Dissemination of Schools  Furukawa Noriko 7 Korean Language Textbooks, 1895–1932: Mixed Script, Hanmun, and Colonization  Lim Sang-Seok 8 History Education in Colonial-Era Korea: The Rise and Fall of Chōsen Jireki as Local History  Kokubu Mari Part 3: Korean Responses to Colonial Rule 9 Korean Reactions to Japanese Education Policy under Cultural Rule, 1920–1931  Mark E. Caprio 10 “The Spirit of Our Students, Our Children!”: Korean Student Identity and the 1919 March First Movement in The Grass Roof and The Yalu Flows  Deborah B. Solomon 11 Christianity, Western Modernity, and the “Third Space” in Colonial Korea: The US-Educated Elite and the Quest for Democracy  Yoonmi Lee Index

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Book SynopsisContests over heritage in Asia are intensifying and reflect the growing prominence of political and social disputes over historical narratives shaping heritage sites and practices, and the meanings attached to them. These contests emphasize that heritage is a means of narrating the past that demarcates, constitutes, produces, and polices political and social borders in the present. In its spaces, varied intersections of actors, networks, and scales of governance interact, negotiate and compete, resulting in heritage sites that are cut through by borders of memory. This volume, edited by Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings, and with contributions from scholars across the humanities, history, social sciences, and Asian studies, interrogates how particular actors and narratives make heritage and how borders of memory shape the sites they produce.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures, Maps, and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Heritage Sites and Borders of Memory  Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings Part 1: Heritage Practices 2 Regional Language as Mnemonic Practice: Stewarding Place through Storytelling in Rural Japan  Joshua Solomon 3 The Chineseness of Chinatown in Singapore: Chinese New Year Celebrations in a Multiracial Heritage Site  Ying-kit Chan 4 Negotiating War Memories at the Edge of the Former Japanese Empire: Two Japanese Veterans’ Projects in Palau, Micronesia  Shingo Iitaka 5 Hidden Christians Made Visible: An Ethnography of Tourism in a World Heritage Property of Japan  Raluca Mateoc Part 2: Material Matters 6 Art in Former Military Sites: Spectres of Geopolitics in the South China Sea  Gabriel N. Gee 7 Framing Negative Heritage in Disaster Risk Education: School Memorials after 3.11  Julia Gerster and Flavia Fulco 8 Marketing the Semi-Colonial as Cosmopolitan: Treaty Port Heritage and the Remaking of Hakodate  Steven Ivings 9 Politics of Heritage: Karatsu’s Takatori-tei as a Meiji Status Symbol, Monument of Modernity, and Symbol of Regional Identity  Arisha Livia Satari Part 3: Layered Memories 10 At the Border of Memory and History: Kyoto’s Contested War Heritage  Justin Aukema 11 The Legacy of Shinto Shrines at the Borders of Imperial Japan  Karli Shimizu 12 Memorials to Korean Migrants in Kyushu: Overlapping Medieval and Modern Experiences in Local Communities  Jason Mark Alexander 13 Okinoshima, Universal Heritage and Borders of Memory  Edward Boyle 14 Conclusion: Borders, Heritage and What Next?  Philip Seaton Index

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Book SynopsisThe Eastern Himalaya holds perhaps the highest levels of ethnolinguistic diversity in all Eurasia, with over 300 languages spoken by as many distinct cultural groups. What factors can explain such diversity? How did it evolve, and what can its analysis teach us about the prehistory of its wider region? This pioneering interdisciplinary volume brings together a diverse group of linguists and anthropologists, all of whom seek to reconstruct aspects of Eastern Himalayan ethnolinguistic prehistory from an empirical standpoint, on the basis of primary fieldwork-derived data from a diverse range of Himalayan Indigenous languages and cultural practices. Contributors are: David Bradley, Scott DeLancey, Toni Huber, Gwendolyn Hyslop, Linda Konnerth, Ismael Lieberherr, Yankee Modi, Stephen Morey, Mark W. Post, Uta Reinöhl, Alban Stockhausen, Amos Teo, and Marion Wettstein .Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures and Maps Introduction: Ethno-linguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya: Diversity and Its Sources  Mark W. Post, Stephen Morey and Toni Huber Part 1 Cultural Practice and Prehistory 2 Reconsidering Zomia from an Eastern Himalayan Perspective  Mark W. Post 3 The Prehistory of Tangsa as Recorded in Traditional Songs and Stories  Stephen Morey 4 Ethnographic Comparison and Pre-history? A Comparison of Chamdam Status Rituals among the Dumi Rai of Eastern Nepal and the Feasts of Merit among the Ao Naga of Northeast India  Marion Wettstein and Alban Stockhausen 5 Principles of Naming in the Eastern Himalaya: What Can They Tell Us about Prehistory?  Yankee Modi 6 Puroik Sago Terminology  Ismael Lieberherr Part 2 Language and Prehistory 7 Phylogeny of Tibeto-Burman from Plants and Animals  David Bradley 8 Pre-modern Language Contact in Nagaland  Amos Teo 9 Locating Kera’a (Idu Mishmi) in Its Linguistic Neighbourhood: Evidence from Dialectology  Uta Reinoehl 10 First Person Pronominals in Kuki-Naga  Scott DeLancey 11 Sound Changes from Proto-South-Central (“Proto-Kuki-Chin”) to Monsang and Their Implications for the Classification of the Northwestern Languages within the South-Central Branch  Linda Konnerth 12 Kurtöp Verbal Morphology in the East Bodish Context: A Case Study in Ethnohistorical Morphosyntax?  Gwendolyn Hyslop

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Book SynopsisThis book highlights the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and the beginning of the mathematisation of physics in Classical Islam. Exchanges between mathematics, physics, linguistics, arts and music were a factor of creativity and progress in the mathematical, the physical and the social sciences. Goods and ideas travelled on a world-scale, mainly through the trade routes connecting East and Southern Asia with the Near East, allowing the transmission of Greek-Arabic medicine to Yuan Muslim China. The development of science, first centred in the Near East, would gradually move to the Western side of the Mediterranean, as a result of Europe’s appropriation of the Arab and Hellenistic heritage. Contributors are Paul Buell, Anas Ghrab, Hossein Masoumi Hamedani, Zeinab Karimian, Giovanna Lelli, Marouane ben Miled, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, and Roshdi Rashed.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Giovanna Lelli 1 Science in Islam and Classical Modernity  Roshdi Rashed 2 Physics and Mathematical Sciences in the Islamic Period: A Conceptual Survey  Hossein Masaoumi Hamedani 3 Ibn al-Haytham: between Mathematics and Physics  Roshdi Rashed 4 La musique parmi les sciences dans les textes arabes médiévaux  Anas Ghrab 5 Traditional and Modern Science in an Age of Transition: ʿAlī Muḥammad Iṣfahānī and the Logarithm of Numbers  Zeinab Karimian 6 Formalism and Language in the Beginnings of Arabic Algebra  Marouane ben Miled 7 Art and Mathematics, Two Different Paths to the Same Truth  Patricia Radelet-de Grave 8 The Pre-history of the Principle of Relativity  Patricia Radelet-de Grave 9 Intersections between Social and Scientific Thought: The Notion of muṭābaqa in the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldūn  Giovanna Lelli 10 Arabic Medicine in China: Content and Context  Paul D. Buell Index

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Book SynopsisThe Dutch scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936) was one of the most famous orientalists of his time. He acquired early fame through his daring research in Mecca in 1884-85, masterly narrated in two books and accompanied by two portfolios of photographs. As an adviser to the colonial government in the Dutch East Indies from 1889 until 1906, he was on horseback during campaigns of “pacification” and published extensively on Indonesian cultures and languages. Meanwhile he successively married two Sundanese women with whom he had several children. In 1906 he became a professor in Leiden and promoted together with colleagues abroad the study of modern Islam, meant to be useful for colonial purposes. Despite his considerable scholarly, political, and cultural influence in the first decades of the twentieth century, nowadays Snouck Hurgronje has been almost forgotten outside a small circle of specialists, since he mainly published in Dutch and German. The contributors to this volume each offer new insights about this enigmatic scholar and political actor who might be considered a classic proponent of “orientalism.” Their detailed studies of his life and work challenge us to reconsider common views of the history of the study of Islam in European academia and encourage a more nuanced “post-orientalist” approach with ample attention for cooperation, exchange, and hybridization. Contributors:

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Book SynopsisDrawing on Dunhuang manuscripts and the latest scholarship in Dunhuang and Buddhist Studies, this translation analyzes Buddhist monasticism via such topics as the organizational forms of Dunhuang Buddhist monasteries, the construction and operation of ordination platforms, ordination certificates and government ordination licenses, and meditation retreats, etc. Assuming a pan-Asian perspective, the monograph also made trailblazing contributions to the study of Buddhist Sinicization and Sino-Indian cultural exchanges and is bound to exert long-lasting influences on the worldwide academic study of Buddhism.Trade ReviewProf. Zhan Ru’s book Disciplinary Rituals in Dunhuang Buddhism is a major contribution to Buddhist studies and, more specifically, the history of Buddhism in Dunhuang. It is based on a careful analysis of first-hand resources and is bound to have a lasting impact on scholarship. It traces the links between Indian Buddhist institutions and their later forms in Dunhuang and China proper. The approach of looking at institutions and phenomena in a transnational manner works especially well for Dunhuang, which stood at the intersection of Chinese, Central Asian and Indic cultures. It is becoming increasingly obvious that one cannot study Dunhuang in isolation but has to consider its interactions with other regions, cultures and languages. Prof. Zhan Ru does a remarkable job in integrating often disconnected topics (e.g. Indian Buddhism, Dunhuang popular literature, lay associations, political history) into a coherent narrative. We are extremely grateful to Brill and the team of expert translators for making this book available for an international readership. -- Imre Galambos (University of Cambridge)Table of ContentsList of Figures Conventions 1 Introduction  1.1 History of Indian Buddhist Vinaya Studies  1.2 History of Chinese Buddhist Vinaya Studies  1.3 A History of the Studies of the Disciplinary Rituals of Dunhuang Buddhism 2 The Organization and Character of Dunhuang’s Buddhist Temples, Meditation Caves, and Araṇya  2.1 Preamble  2.2 Early Monastic Regulations in China  2.3 Administrators (Gangguan 綱管) of Dunhuang Monasteries  2.4 The Organizational Structure of the Three Meditation Caves  2.5 The Principle of Dhūta (Austerities) and Its Social Function Reflected in Dunhuang’s Araṇya  2.6 Characteristics of Dunhuang’s Buddhist Temples 3 Evolution of the Ordination Platform and Dunhuang’s Fangdeng Daochang 方等道場 (Vaipulya Ordination Platform)  3.1 Preamble  3.2 The Origins and Formation of the Ordination Platform  3.3 Transformation of the Ordination Platform  3.4 Dunhuang’s Fangdeng Ordination Platforms and Lintan Dade 臨壇大德 (Ordination Platform Presiders of Great Virtue)  3.5 Concluding Remarks 4 Research on Dunhuang’s Precept Certificates, Rites for Conferring Precepts, and Ordination Licenses  4.1 Preamble  4.2 The Contents of the Baguan Zhai 八關齋 (Eightfold Purificatory Observance) and Their Receipt and Upholding  4.3 Protocols for the Rites of Conferral and Receipt of the Baguan Zhai  4.4 The Composition and Characteristics of Dunhuang’s Baguan Zhai Certificates  4.5 Translation and Circulation of Scriptures on the Bodhisattva Precepts  4.6 Ritual Procedures for the Conferring and Receiving of Bodhisattva Precepts  4.7 Certificates for Bodhisattva Precepts  4.8 Ordination Licenses 5 A New Investigation of Upavasatha Texts and Upavasatha Procedures  5.1 Origins  5.2 Prātimokṣa and Upavasatha in Sectarian Buddhism  5.3 Upavasatha Texts and Upavasatha Procedures in Dunhuang Buddhism  5.4 Concluding Remarks 6 Examination of the Dunhuang Summer Retreat  6.1 Preamble  6.2 The Vinaya Piṭaka ‘Retreat Khandhaka’ and the Form of Retreat in Early Buddhism  6.3 Summer Retreat and Winter Retreat in Dunhuang Buddhism  6.4 Concluding Remarks 7 Stotra (Hymns) in Pure Land Teachings at Dunhuang  7.1 Zanwen 讚文 (Extolment), Jizan 偈讚 (Extol Verse) and the Pure Land Extolment Texts  7.2 Research on Extolment Verses of Pure Land Teachings  7.3 Concluding Remarks 8 Analysis of Dunhuang Zhaiwen, Zhai Gatherings, and Dharma Gatherings  8.1 Presenting the Problematic  8.2 The Origins and Evolution of Zhai 齋  8.3 Zhai Gatherings and Folk Beliefs in the Tang and Five Dynasties  8.4 Dunhuang Zhaiwen  8.5 Zhai Wanwen 齋琬文 (Zhai Model Texts) and Buddhist Procedures  8.6 Zhai Gatherings in Dunhuang  8.7 Dunhuang Zhai Gatherings and Folk Beliefs  8.8 Dunhuang Wuzhe (Non-Obstructing) Great Gatherings 9 General Conclusion  9.1 Features of Dunhuang Buddhist Communities  9.2 Disciplinary Rituals and the State Control  9.3 Multi-Facetted Beliefs about the Pure Land in Dunhuang  9.4 Formation of Dunhuang Buddhist Rituals Appendix 1: Translations of Dunhuang Manuscripts and Inscriptions  Appendix 2: Charts and Lists Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study in English of the Japanese hell figure Datsueba explores her evolution since her eleventh-century emergence as a terrifying old woman who strips the clothes of the dead in the afterworld. Drawing widely on literature, art, and worship practices, the author reveals how the creative utilization of Datsueba’s key attributes—including a marker of borders, a keeper of cloth, and an elderly woman—transformed her into a guardian of the human journey through life and death and shaped a figure that is diverse and multifaceted, yet also strikingly recognizable across the centuries.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction  1 Toward a More Integrated Picture  2 Theoretical Framework, Methodology, and Primary Sources  3 Structure of the Monograph 1 Conceptions of Hell in Asia: Related Texts and Imagery  1 The Six Realms and Early Representations of Hell  2 Chinese Adaptations and Visions of Hell  3 Female Deities Related to Death: Indian Goddesses, Meng Po, and Datsueba  4 Concluding Remarks 2 Datsueba in Religious and Popular Texts  1 Prototypes for Datsueba  2 Datsueba in Accounts of the Ten Kings of Hell  3 Datsueba-like Figures in Popular Stories  4 Concluding Remarks 3 Visual Representations of Datsueba: From Hell Scenes to the Popular Sphere  1 Pictorial Representations of Hell Prior to Datsueba  2 The Emergence of Datsueba in the Landscape of Hell  3 Standardization and Modification of Datsueba Iconography  4 Concluding Remarks 4 Datsueba in Pilgrimage Mandalas  1 Overview of Pilgrimage Mandalas  2 Datsueba in Ise sankei mandara: Marking the Border between Sacred and Impure  3 Datsueba in the Zenkōji sankei mandara: Bridging the Underworld and Pure Land  4 Datsueba in Tateyama mandara: Manifestation of the Mountain Goddess Ubason and Symbol of the Entrance to Hell  5 Concluding Remarks 5 Venerating Datsueba: Beliefs and Worship Practices  1 Sculptural Images of Datsueba: A Brief Overview  2 Datsueba as a Marker of the Otherworld  3 The Symbolism of Cloth in Worship Practices Devoted to Datsueba  4 Datsueba, Other Old Female Figures, and Buddhist Attitudes toward Women  5 Concluding Remarks Conclusion Chinese and Japanese Character Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChina has a long and complex history of interactions with the world around it. One of the most successful imports—arguably the most successful before modern times and the impact of the West—is Buddhism, which, since the first centuries of the Common Era, has spread into almost every aspect of Chinese life, thought and practice. Erik Zürcher was one of the most important scholars to study the history of Buddhism in China, and the ways in which Buddhism in China gradually became Chinese Buddhism. More than half a century after the publication of Zürcher's landmark The Buddhist Conquest of China, we now have a collection of essays from the top contemporary specialists exploring aspects of the legacy of Zürcher's investigations, bringing forward new evidence, new ideas and reconsiderations of old theories to present an up-to-date and exciting expansion and revision of what was arguably the single most influential contribution to date on the history of Chinese Buddhism. Contributors are Tim Barrett, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Funayama Toru, Barend ter Haar, Liu Shufen, Minku Kim, Jan Nattier, Antonello Palumbo, and Nicolas Standaert.

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Book SynopsisK. al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya is a work of adab attributed to the renowned littérateur and historian of literature Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī. The work consists of an introduction and four chapters. The first three chapters are concerned with knowledge (ʿilm): Chapter One discusses the merit and application of knowledge, Chapter Two the definition of knowledge and its true meaning, and Chapter Three the conditions of knowledge. The fourth chapter, which constitutes the bulk of the book, is concerned with occasions on which scholars and sages made speeches in the presence of rulers. It is divided into two parts: Part One presents pre-Islamic (jāhiliyya) speeches, incorporating Arab, Greek, Byzantine, Persian, and Indian traditions, and Part Two presents Islamic speeches. The work is introduced by an analytical study discussing the attribution of the work, its relation to the Maqāmāt genre, and the manuscripts used.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction  1 K. al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya  2 From Maqām to Maqāma  3 The Attribution to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī  4 Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī  5 Manuscripts Bibliography Scholarly Edition Index of Qurʾanic Verses Index of Prophetic Tradition Index of Names Index of Places Index of Poetry Index of Sources Index of Chapters

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Book SynopsisThe study of taxation is fundamental for understanding the construction of Tibetan polities, the nature of their power – often with a marked religious component – and their relationships with their subjects, as well as the consequences of taxation for social stratification. This volume takes the analysis of taxation in Tibetan societies (both under the Ganden Phodrang and beyond it) in new directions, using hitherto unexploited Tibetan-language sources. It pursues the dual objective of advancing our understanding of the organisation of taxation from an institutional perspective and of highlighting the ways in which taxpayers themselves experienced and represented these fiscal systems. Contributors are Saadet Arslan, John Bray, Kalsang Norbu Gurung, Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Berthe Jansen, Diana Lange, Nancy E. Levine, Charles Ramble, Isabelle Riaboff, Peter Schwieger, Alice Travers, and Maria M. Turek.Table of ContentsContents Note on the Transliteration and Transcription of Tibetan Names and Terms List of Figures and Maps List of Tables Introduction 1 The Tax System in Central and Far East Tibet Towards the End of the Ganden Phodrang Reign: An Outline of Its Structure and Terminology  Peter Schwieger 2 A Perspective on the Ganden Phodrang’s Administration of Taxation in the 19th and 20th Centuries Based on Archival Sources  Kalsang Norbu Gurung 3 “When You Count, Everything Is There, and When Everything Is There, Everything Vanishes” A Criticism of Tax Collecting in Ngamring District (Rdzong) during the First Half of the 20th Century  Alice Travers 4 Traditional Taxation Systems in Western Tibet: A Comparative Perspective  Nancy E. Levine 5 Lam Yig—An Official Document Granting Travel Privileges in Tibet  Saadet Arslan 6 “My Karma Selected Me to Become A Ferryman”: The Role of Waterways and Watercraft in the Corvée Tax System in Pre-1959 Tibet  Diana Lange 7 Performing Tibetan Opera As Khral in the First Half of the 20th Century: In Principle a “Tax”, in Experience a Pervasive Obligation  Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy 8 A Preliminary Investigation Into Monk-Tax: The Concept of Grwa Khral/Btsun Khral/Ban Khral and Its Meanings  Berthe Jansen 9 Monastic Obligations, Hat Change and Lhasa Encroachment Taxation Rights Among Politico-Religious Shifts in the Kingdom of Nangchen  M. Maria Turek 10 “By Ancient Custom and Engagements”: Trade, Taxes and Diplomacy in Ladakh and Western Tibet between the 17th and 20th Centuries  John Bray 11 Taxes and Corvées in the Manorial and Monastic Estates of Zangskar (Western Himalayas)  Isabelle Riaboff 12 The Fiscal Status of Buddh1ist and Bönpo Institutions in Mustang (Nepal): A Historical Overview  Charles Ramble Index

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Book SynopsisThis book compares the ways in which new powers arose in the shadows of the Roman Empire and its Byzantine and Carolingian successors, of Iran, the Caliphate and China in the first millennium CE. These new powers were often established by external military elites who had served the empire. They remained in an uneasy balance with the remaining empire, could eventually replace it, or be drawn into the imperial sphere again. Some relied on dynastic legitimacy, others on ethnic identification, while most of them sought imperial legitimation. Across Eurasia, their dynamic was similar in many respects; why were the outcomes so different? Contributors are Alexander Beihammer, Maaike van Berkel, Francesco Borri, Andrew Chittick, Michael R. Drompp, Stefan Esders, Ildar Garipzanov, Jürgen Paul, Walter Pohl, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Helmut Reimitz, Jonathan Shepard, Q. Edward Wang, Veronika Wieser, and Ian N. Wood.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Contributors Introduction: The Emergence of New Polities in the Shadows of Empire  Walter Pohl and Veronika Wieser PART 1: The Later Roman Empire and the Post-Roman Kingdoms in the West 1 When Did the West Roman Empire Fall?  Ian N. Wood 2 The Role of Peoples in the Emergence of the Post-Roman Kingdoms  Walter Pohl 3 In the Shadow of the Roman Empire: Layers of Legitimacy and Strategies of Legitimization in the Regna of the Early Medieval West  Stefan Esders PART 2: The Carolingian Empire and the Emerging Polities in Its Northern and Eastern Periphery 4 When the Bavarians Became Bavarian  The Politicization of Ethnicity and Crystallization of Ethnic Identities in the Shadow of Carolingian Rule (8th to 9th Century)  Helmut Reimitz 5 Peripheral Polities North of the Carolingian Realm: The Regnum Danorum  Ildar Garipzanov PART 3: Byzantium and Its Peripheral Powers 6 The Lagoons as a Distant Mirror: Constantinople, Venice and the Italian Romania  Francesco Borri 7 Countering Byzantium’s Shadow: Contrarianism among the Bulgars, Rus and Germans  Jonathan Shepard PART 4: Between Byzantium and the Islamic World 8 Early Medieval Armenia between Empires (Fourth-Eleventh Century CE): Dynamics and Continuities  Johannes Preiser-Kapeller 9 Strategies of Legitimation in the Shadow of Empires: Byzantine–Turkish Contact Zones in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Asia Minor  Alexander Beihammer PART 5: The Abbasid Caliphate and the Formation of New Dynasties 10 Communication between Centre and Periphery in the Early Tenth-Century Abbasid Empire  Maaike van Berkel 11 Local and Imperial Rule: Examples from Frs (9th–10th Centuries)  Jürgen Paul PART 6: Medieval China and the Foreign Dynasties 12 The Huai Frontier and the Ethnicization of Difference in Early Medieval China  Andrew Chittick 13 ‘Cultural China’ from the Eleventh Century: Legitimacy, Metanarrative and Historiography  Q. Edward Wang 14 In the Shadows of Empires: The Tuyuhun and Khitans in Late Antiquity  Michael R. Drompp 15 Post-imperial Polities: Concluding Observations  Walter Pohl Index

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Book SynopsisThe Lives and Legacy of Kim Sisŭp (1435–1493) offers an account of the most extraordinary figure of Korean literature and intellectual history. The present work narrates the fascinating story of a prodigious child, acclaimed poet, author of the first Korean novel, Buddhist monk, model subject, Confucian recluse and Daoist master. No other Chosŏn scholar or writer has been venerated in both Confucian shrines and Buddhist temples, had his works widely read in Tokugawa Japan and became an integral part of the North Korean literary canon. The nine studies and further materials presented in this volume provide a detailed look on the various aspects of Kim Sisŭp’s life and work as well as a reflection of both traditional and modern narratives surrounding his legacy. Contributors are: Vladimír Glomb, Gregory N. Evon, Dennis Wuerthner, Barbara Wall, Kim Daeyeol, Miriam Löwensteinová, Anastasia A. Guryeva, Sixiang Wang, and Diana Yüksel.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Conventions Notes on Contributors Introduction  Vladimír Glomb A Chronology of Key Biographical Events and Writings  Gregory N. Evon “Thus I May Now Dare Explain My Actual Situation without Hiding Anything”—Autobiographical and Biographical Writings  Dennis Wuerthner In the Vortex of Intellectual Change: Buddhist–Confucian Tensions in Memorializing Kim Sisŭp  Gregory N. Evon Kim Sisŭp, the Ghost Story Teller: From Obscurity to the Screen  Barbara Wall Kim Sisŭp and Daoist Schools  Kim Daeyeol Dream Narratives  Miriam Löwensteinová Commemoration in Early Chosŏn Political Culture: How Kim Sisŭp Became a Loyal Official  Sixiang Wang Art, Word and the Art of the Word in Poems by Kim Sisŭp  Anastasia A. Guryeva Kim Sisŭp: Paragon of Defiant Political Action  Diana Yüksel Kim Sisŭp and His Place in Korean Confucianism  Vladimír Glomb Index

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Book SynopsisThis work presents the complete collection of oral poetry by ad-Dindān, a bedouin poet of the Duwāsir tribe in southern Najd, transcribed and translated on the basis of taped recordings. The text is representative of a poetic tradition which has remained remarkably close to the desert poetry of the early classical age. An extensive glossary, including detailed cross-references to the classical Arabic vocabulary, completes this edition. The introduction describes Dindān's somewhat anomalous position in local society as a result of his stubborn attachment to nomadism, his fierce artistic temper, and his unreconstructed bedouin ethos. It also discusses the composition of oral poetry, the dīwān's themes and its place in the Najdi tradition, the impact of literacy on the poet's oral work, and the prosodic and linguistic features of the text.Trade Review'...extremely informative and very well produced, and [...] will be of great interest and usefulness both to the student of Arabian oral literature and to the dialectologist.' Bruce Ingham, Bulletin of the SOAS, 1995. '...of great value not only because it deals with oral tradition from a region which is not easily accessible, even to orientalists, but also because for the very first time it presents the complete diwan of the oral poetry of ad-Dindan in a competent way.' Barbara Ostafin, Folia Orientalia, 1994.

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Book SynopsisThe Story of a Desert Knight is the second volume of a trilogy entitled Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia. It is devoted to the narratives told about and the poems composed by Šlēwīḥ al-‘Aṭāwi and his brother Bxīt, both famous desert knights in the middle and second half of the nineteenth century. The principal source of this book is Šlēwīḥ's great-grandson Xālid, a sheikh of the ‘Utaybah tribe. The introduction discusses inter alia the general characteristics of Bedouin oral culture, the linguistic, prosodic and stylistic features of the text, and Xālid's use of his ancestors' oral legacy in order to enhance his position in the tribal hierarchy of prestige. In addition to the translation of the oral text this volume offers a complete transcription, based on taped records and including variants found in published Saudi sources, and a substantial glossary.Trade Review'His work should inspire others to explore the neglected field of the nineteenth century and present-day literature production from the area. This book can be recommended not only for professionals but also for readers interested in culture, tradition, literary output of to-day's living Bedouins.' Barbara Ostafin, Folia Orientalia, 1995. '...un outil exceptionnel...Un tel ouvrage...permet aussi, mieux que toutes les introductions à la poésie arabe, de se faire une idée plus précise des conditions dans lesquelles la poésie préislamique était composée...il serait souhaitable que la lecture de ces travaux soit conseillée, et même fortement recommandée à ceux qui entreprennent de s'initier à la langue et à la littérature arabes anciennes.' Bruno Paoli, Bulletin d'Etudes Orientales, 1995. 'Throughout its considerable length, this second volume displays the same literary insight, sociological acumen, and meticulous attention to scholarly detail as the first volume. It is an entertaining as well as erudite study, beautifully produced, and, like its predecessor, is frequently illuminated by flashes of a refreshing and self-deprecating humor. Would that all academic monographs were as readable as this...This book is a must for a wide variety of readers: social and cultural anthropologists of every hue, but especially of Arabia; literary historians of Arabic; and, last but not least, Arabic dialectologistss. On the strenght of these first two volumes, there seems little doubt that Kurpershoek's odyssey through the oral culture of Arabia is destined to take its place as a classic work in the field.' Clive Holes, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1998. 'The book lives up to the expectations earned by the previous volume, Kurpershoek has filled in important gaps in our knowledge of the poetry, history and dialects of the region and provided an encyclopedic reference work on the 'Utaibah, in particular, who have not up till now been treated extensively in any language and not at all in English. We look forward to the appearance of the third volume in the series.' B. Ingham, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1998.

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Book SynopsisThis third volume in the author's series Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Bedouin poets of the Dawāsir tribe in southern Najd. The introductory part discusses the poetry within the context of the Najdi oral tradition, the poets' role in tribal society, and their mirroring of this society's self-image against the background of its rapid economic, social and political transformation, and its relation with the Saudi State. It is followed by the Arabic Text of the poems in transcription, based on taped records, with the English translation on the facing page. This is complemented by a substantial glossary, cross-referenced to the Arabic Text, other glossaries and works on the Najdi dialect and poetic idiom, as well as corresponding Classical Arabic lexical materials.Trade Review'Kurpershoek's work will be of great interest and usefulness both to the students of Arabian oral literature and to the dialectologist.' Bruce Ingham, BSOAS. 'This book is a must for a wide variety of readers: social and cultural anthropologists of every hue, but especially of Arabia; literary historians of Arabic; and, last but not least, Arabic dialectologists.' Çlive Holes, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1998. 'Cet ouvrage estera un témoin précieux d'un monde qui bientôt s'en sera allé!' Claude Gilliot, Revue des Sciences Philophiques et Theologiques, 1999. 'In sum, this is another superbly executed addition to Kurpershoek's growing oeuvre on Arabian oral culture, imbued with the same understanding of how ancient literary themes and structures are subtly bent to the personalities and outlook of modern poets, and shaped by the pressures fo modern Arabian society and memories of its history.' Clive Holes, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, 2000.

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Book SynopsisThe Book of Later Han (Houhanshu) by Fan Ye (398-445) is enormously important as China’s most complete work on Eastern Han history in biographical form. For the first time in any Western language, the author introduces Fan Ye’s magnificent writings in lively translation with rich annotation and informative and insightful commentary. This first volume covers its early military history and highlights the lives and achievements of the twenty-eight generals who helped Emperor Guangwu unify China and establish the Eastern Han dynasty. Also included are images of these twenty-eight founding fathers, maps, and information related to early Eastern Han systems.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures, Plates, and Maps Reign Titles of the Western and Eastern Han Emperors Place Names Order by Province Maps Introduction Brief Individual Introductions to Each of the Twenty-Eight Yuntai Generals, Including Illustrations, Fan Ye's Conclusion, and List of Their Ranking Orders in HHS 22 1 HHS 16: Biographies of Deng and Kou 鄧寇列傳 6  1 Biography of Deng Yu 鄧禹  4 Biography of Kou Xun 寇恂 2 HHS 17: Biographies of Feng, Cen, and Jia 馮岑賈列傳 7  1 Biography of Feng Yi 馮異  2 Biography of Cen Peng 岑彭  3 Biography of Jia Fu 賈復 3 HHS 18: Biographies of Wu, Ge, Chen, and Zang 吳蓋陳臧列傳 8  1 Biography of Wu Han 吳漢  2 Biography of Ge Yan 蓋延  3 Biography of Chen Jun 陳俊  4 Biography of Zang Gong 臧宮 4 HHS 19: Biography of Geng Yan 耿弇列傳 9  1 Biography of Geng Yan 耿弇  2 Biography of Geng Guo 耿國 5 HHS 20: Biographies of Yao Qi, Wang Ba, and Zhai Zun 銚期王霸祭遵列傳 10  1 Biography of Yao Qi 銚期  2 Biography of Wang Ba 王霸  3 Biography of Zhai Zun 祭遵 6 HHS 21: Biographies of Ren, Li, Wan, Pi, Liu, and Geng 任李萬邳劉耿列傳 11  1 Biography of Ren Guang 任光  2 Biography of Li Zhong 李忠  3 Biography of Wan Xiu 萬脩  4 Biography of Pi Tong 邳彤  5 Biography of Liu Zhi 劉植  6 Biography of Geng Chun 耿純 7 HHS 22: Biographies of Zhu, Jing, Wang, Du, Ma, Liu, Fu, Jian, and Ma 朱景王杜馬劉傅堅馬列傳 12  1 Biography of Zhu You 朱祐  2 Biography of Jing Dan 景丹  3 Biography of Wang Liang 王梁  4 Biography of Du Mao 杜茂  5 Biography of Ma Cheng 馬成  6 Biography of Liu Long 劉隆  7 Biography of Fu Jun 傅俊  8 Biography of Jian Tan 堅鐔  9 Biography of Ma Wu 馬武 8 HHS 15: Biographies of Li, Wang, Deng, and Lai 李王鄧來列傳 5  1 Biography of Li Tong 李通  2 Biography of Wang Chang 王常  3 Biography of Deng Chen 鄧晨  4 Biography of Lai Xi 來歙 9 The Commentaries 論曰 and Rhymed Summaries 贊曰 by Fan Ye in Chapters 1–8  1 Introduction  2 Chapter 1 (HHS 16): Commentary  3 Chapter 2 (HHS 17): Commentary  4 Chapter 3 (HHS 18): Commentaries  5 Chapter 4 (HHS 19): Commentaries  6 Chapter 5 (HHS 20): Commentary  7 Chapter 6 (HHS 21): Commentary  8 Chapter 7 (HHS 22): Commentary  9 Chapter 8 (HHS 15): Commentaries Appendix 1: The Twenty-Eight Yuntai Generals and the Twenty-Eight Lunar Lodgings, with Notes and a Table of the Twenty-Eight Yuntai Generals and Their Corresponding Lunar Lodgings Appendix 2: Ban Gu’s Description of an Emperor’s Funeral and Images of the Burial Chamber Built with Yellow Cypress Wood 黃腸題凑 Appendix 3: Analysis and Translation of Texts on Seals and Seal-Ribbons (yin shou 印綬) in HHS zhi 志 30 B Chariots and Clothing 輿服下 Appendix 4: Metadata and Models for Eastern Han Warships, as Reconstructed and Exhibited at the People’s Military Museum in Beijing 中國人民軍事博物館 Appendix 5: An Iron Charter 鐡券, with an Introduction and an Ancient Chinese hu 斛 Measuring Device Glossary 1: Titles for Military Leaders and Civil Servants (1) English–Chinese Glossary 2: Titles for Military Leaders and Civil Servants (2) Chinese–English Glossary 3: Chinese Military Idioms, Proverbs, and Special Terms in the Book of Later Han Plates Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn In Search of Identity: The Hadhrami Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia (1900-1950) Huub de Jonge discusses changes in social, economic, cultural and national identity of Arabs originating from Hadhramaut (Yemen) in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia. Within the relatively isolated and traditionally oriented Hadhrami community, all sorts of rifts and divisions arose under the influence of segregating colonial policies, the rise of Indonesian nationalism, the Japanese occupation, and the colonial war. The internal turmoil, hardly noticed by the outside world, led to the flourishing of new ideas, orientations, loyalties and ambitions, while traditional values, customs, and beliefs were called into question.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Introduction  1 Studies on Indonesian Hadhramis  2 Data Collection  3 Outline  4 Arabs and Hadhramis 1 Discord and Solidarity among the Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies, 1900–1942  1 The Arab Minority in the Netherlands East Indies  1 Identification with the Arab World  2 Discord between Sayyid and Syekh  3 The Title Fight  4 Integration in the Wider Society  5 Conclusion 2 Dutch Colonial Policy Pertaining to Hadhrami Immigrants  1 The Quarter and Pass Systems  2 Immigration Policy  3 Conclusion 3 Abdul Rahman Baswedan and the Emancipation of the Hadhramis in Indonesia  1 Growing Up in Ampel  2 Journalist and Politician  3 Totok and Peranakan  4 Persatoean Arab Indonesia  5 The Japanese Occupation  6 Independence  7 Conclusion 4 Aliran Baroe: A Mirror of Change within the Indo-Hadhrami Community  1 Persatoean Arab Indonesia (PAI) dan Aliran Baroe  2 A New Journal, a New Direction  3 Indo-Hadhrami Nationalism and Islam  4 Hadhramaut  5 Women’s Issues  6 Stories  7 Gado-gado  8 Conclusion 5 Fatimah: Arab-Indonesian Nationalism on Stage  1 Hoesin Bafagih  2 The Story Line  3 Contested Issues  4 Reception  5 Conclusion 6 Selective Accommodation: The Hadhramis in Indonesia during World War II and the Struggle for Independence  1 The Japanese Occupation  2 Revolutionary Years  3 Concluding Remarks 7 Contradictory and against the Grain: Snouck Hurgronje on the Hadhramis in the Dutch East Indies (1889–1936)  1 Countless Extortions and Useless Bantering  2 The Danger of Pan-Islamism  3 Incompatible Ends 8 Post-War Remittances from the Netherlands East Indies to Hadhramaut Selected Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBeyond Citizenship focuses on the role of literacy in building a modern nation-state by examining the government provision of adult literacy training in early twentieth-century China. Based on untapped archives and diaries, Di Luo uncovers people’s strategic use of literacy and illiteracy in social interactions and explores the impact of daily experiences on the expansion of state power. Highlighting interpersonal and intergroup relations, Beyond Citizenship suggests a new methodology of studying literacy which foregrounds the agentive role of historical actors and so moves away from a more traditional approach that treats literacy itself as the key factor enabling social change.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps, Tables, and Figures A Note on Romanization and Chinese Characters Maps Introduction: Literacy, Identity, and Politics in Everyday China, 1900–1945  1 Modern Education, Nationalism, and State Building  2 Approaching Literacy: Process, Scale-Making, and Sociopolitical Positioning  3 Overview of the Book 1 Mapping Literacy and Illiteracy in the Early Twentieth Century  1 Scaling Literacy in Everyday Life   1.1 Literacy’s Conditional and Variable Importance   1.2 The Tactical Uses of Illiteracy and the Risks Associated with Writing  2 The Rise of the Nation-Building/Modernization Narrative of Literacy   2.1 The Constructed Dichotomy between Literacy and Illiteracy by Modernizers   2.2 “School-Age Children” and “Unschooled Elders”: The Institutionalization of Two-Tiered Literacy   2.3 Language Reform Initiatives: Alternative and Contesting Perspectives  3 Conclusion: Literacy at the Intersection of Daily Practices and the Nation-Building/Modernization Narrative 2 Identity in Morphing: Revolutionaries’ Mass Literacy Programs in 1924–1926  1 To Mingle: The GMD’s Literacy Initiatives in 1924 in Shanghai   1.1 Engaging a Variety of Social Sectors: The Design of Literacy Programs in Shanghai, 1924   1.2 Multiple Images: Adult Students and the Operation of the GMD’s Shanghai Project, 1924  2 Creating an Assertive Voice: The GMD’s Literacy Training in Guangzhou, 1925–1926   2.1 Reconciling Citizenship Training with Local Literacy Practices: Literacy Education in Guangzhou, 1925   2.2 Interdepartmental Negotiations: Implementing Literacy Training in Guangzhou in 1925   2.3 From the Local to the National: The GMD’s Literacy Program in 1926  3 Conclusion: Social Engagement in Adult Literacy Training 3 Monopolizing the Brand: Party-States’ Competition over Adult Literacy Education, 1928–1936  1 The Nationalist Brand and Local Practices   1.1 The Nationalist Brand: From Ideological Alignment to State-Regulated Schooling   1.2 Experimenting with Compulsory Mass Schooling: The Nationalist Literacy Movement in Shanghai in 1935  2 The Communist Brand and Practices   2.1 Comprehending Literacy within Intravillage Power Relations: The CCP’s Configuration in the Early 1930s   2.2 Narrating Revolutionary Stories of Literacy: The CCP’s Discursive Strategies  3 The Myth of Basic Literacy and Common Characters   3.1 Basic Characters and Nationhood: Questionable Commonality  4 Conclusion: Monopolizing the Brand 4 Beyond Nationalism: Mass Education in Wartime Chongqing, 1937–1945  1 Wartime Supplementary Education in Chongqing, 1938–1940   1.1 Learning to Behave—Wartime Literacy Training at Chongqing   1.2 The Game of Numbers: Administering Mass Literacy Training in Chongqing, 1938–1940   1.3 To Live: Mass Literacy Teachers in Exile  2 Shift to Citizens Education, 1940–1945   2.1 From Students to Teachers: Recalibrating the Administrative Focus in Citizens Education, 1940–1945   2.2 Social Categories: The System of School Reports in Chongqing, 1941–1945  3 Conclusion: Beyond Nationalism 5 Beyond Class and Nation: Identity in Motion during Literacy Training in Northwestern Shanxi, 1937–1945  1 Early Experiments with Nationalistic and Class-Oriented Literacy Training   1.1 Conceptualization of Mass Literacy Education in Northwestern Shanxi, 1940   1.2 The Limits of Nationalistic Appeals in Winter Schools in 1940   1.3 Village Election: The Limits to Using a Class Perspective to Restructure Rural Northwestern Shanxi, 1941  2 Shift to the Mass Line and Literacy by Laboring People   2.1 Working out the Mass Line: Rescaling the Purpose of Winter School, 1944   2.2 A New Social Solidarity: the Identity of the Laboring People  3 Conclusion: Beyond Class and Nation 6 Conclusion: Beyond Citizenship  1 From the Desires of Membership to the Flexibility of Scale-Making  2 From a Singular State-Society Dimension to Multiple Societal Dimensions  3 Rights, Relationality, and the Social Self in an Authoritarian State Bibliography Appendix 1: Overlapping Characters in Selected Literacy Primers Appendix 2: Lessons on How to Calculate Agricultural Tax Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1724-1726, the Dutch clergyman François Valentyn published a 5,000-page account of the Dutch East India Company’s empire. It was the first and, for a long time, the only survey of the Dutch establishments in Asia and South Africa. Shaping a Dutch East Indies analyses how Valentyn composed this work and how it largely determined the Dutch perspective on the colonies in Asia until the 1850s. It seeks to highlight both the great diversity of knowledge gathered in Valentyn’s book and its geographical spread, from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, with a focus on the Indonesian archipelago. Huigen’s book is the first in-depth study of Valentyn’s work, which is a foundational text in the history of Dutch colonialism.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 1 Describing Imperial Space  1 Advertising Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën  2 Chorographies of Imperial Space  3 Text Formats  3.1 Dagregister  3.2 Chronicle  3.3 List  3.4 Anecdote  4 Coherence through Authorial Voice  5 Alternative Entries 2 Lobbying for a Bible Translation in ‘Low’ Malay  1 Varieties of Malay  2 The Controversy over the Malay Bible Translation  3 Lobbying  4 The Question of the Malay Translation of the Bible in Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën  5 Epilogue 3 The Valentyn Case Scholarly Authorship at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century  1 The Location of Ophir as an Antiquarian Question  2 Valentyn’s Use of Rumphius’s Kruid-boek  3 A Stricter Scholarly Decorum  4 Collaborators  5 Valentyn’s Authorship Part 2 4 Natural History for liefhebbers in Valentyn’s Description of Animals from Amboina  1 An Audience of Liefhebbers  2 Images of Tropical Fish  3 Shells  4 A Rhetoric of Probability  4.1 Birds of Paradise  4.2 Sea-People  5 Herpetological Knowledge and Indigenous Collaborators  6 Repackaging East Indies Natural History 5 ‘Dutch Power in Those Territories’ Historical Representation in Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën  1 Chronicles of Conquest  2 Asian Histories  2.1 Sinhalese Histories  2.2 Malay Histories  2.3 Mughal Histories  3 Framing Dutch Hegemony  3.1 Ancients and Moderns  3.2 Martial Batavians  3.3 Staging Jan Pieterszoon Coen as a Hero  4 The Circulation of Valentyn’s Master Narrative 6 Antiquarian Ambonese Valentyn’s Comparative Ethnography and Ethnology  1 A Comparative Methodology  2 ‘Foolish Thoughts’  3 ‘Any That Pisseth against the Wall’  4 Pelimao’s Defence 7 ‘This Business of Our Nation’ The Questionable Conduct of the Dutch in Japan  1 Japan, Christianity and the Dutch  2 Valentyn’s Representation of Japan  3 New Information about Japan  4 The Abject Behaviour of the Dutch in Japan  5 Onno Zwier van Haren’s Recherches 8 ‘Waste Land’ into ‘Earthly Paradise’ The Geography of the Cape of Good Hope  1 The Cape Colony around 1700  2 Employing a Dutch Landscape Discourse  3 Expeditions into the Interior  4 Two Geographies of the Cape Part 3 9 A Paper Empire Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën as a Reference Work  1 A Tool for voc Bewindhebbers in the Netherlands  2 A Resource for voc Administrators in the East Indies  3 The Restoration of Dutch Rule in 1816  4 New Policies for Amboina  5 ‘Valentyn’ Becomes ‘Valentijn’  6 A New Edition of Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën  7 A Paper Empire  Conclusion Appendix The Text Organisation of Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant, A Critical Anthology, Robert Myers and Nada Saab provide a sense of the variety and complexity of political theater produced in and around the Levant from the 1960s to the present within a context of wider discussions about political theater and the histories and forms of performance from the Islamic and Arab worlds. Five major playwrights are studied, ʿIsam Mahfuz, from Lebanon; Muhammad al-Maghut and Saʿd Allah Wannus, from Syria; Jawad al-Asadi, from Iraq, Syria and Lebanon; and Raʾida Taha, from Palestine. The volume includes translations of their plays The Dictator, The Jester, The Rape, Baghdadi Bath and Where Would I Find Someone Like You, ʿAli?, respectively.

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Book SynopsisThe open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. From pilgrimage sites in the far west of Europe to the Persian court; from mystic visions to a gruesome contemporary “dance”; from a mundane poem on wine to staggering religious art: thus far in space and time extends the world of the Armenians. A glimpse of the vast and still largely unexplored threads that connect it to the wider world is offered by the papers assembled here in homage to one of the most versatile contemporary armenologists, Theo Maarten van Lint. This collection offers original insights through a multifaceted lens, showing how much Armenology can offer to Art History, History, Linguistics, Philology, Literature, and Religious Studies. Scholars will find new inspirations and connections, while the general reader will open a window to a world that is just as wide as it is often unseen.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Note to the Reader Academic Biography and Bibliography: Theo Maarten van Lint. A Tetragonal Scholar  Emilio Bonfiglio Armenia through the Lens of Time A 360° View  Federico Alpi, Robin Meyer, Irene Tinti and David Zakarian Part 1 Art History 1 The Iconography of the Visions of Isaiah and Ezekiel  Thomas Mathews 2 “Open My Eyes So That I May See Wonderful Things” [Ps 118 (119):18] Some Art Historical Remarks about the Consecration of a Painted Church  Christina Maranci 3 A Jacobean Shell for Šahuk, “Servant of God”  Gohar Grigoryan Savary Part 2 History 4 From Alexandria to Dvin Non-Chalcedonian Christians in the Empire of Khusrau II  Phil Booth 5 The Funerary Oration of Barseł Vardapet  Tara L. Andrews and Anahit Safaryan 6 Violence against Women in Tʽovma Mecopʽecʽi’s History of Tamerlane and his Descendants (15th c.)  David Zakarian Part 3 Linguistics and Philology 7 De la Grèce à l’Arménie, et d’Homère à la Bible Transpositions culturelles dans la version arménienne de la grammaire de Denys de Thrace  Charles de Lamberterie 8 The Cauldron of the Titans Quotations from Clement of Alexandria in the Letters of Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni (990–1058)  Federico Alpi 9 On the Indirect Tradition and Circulation of the Ancient Armenian Platonic Translations  Irene Tinti 10 Per la storia di un manoscritto armeno in Inghilterra (Londra, Wellcome Library, ms. arm. 14)  Anna Sirinian 11 Multilingualism in Poetry How to Translate Sayatʽ-Nova?  Robin Meyer Part 4 Literature 12 Come e perché scrivere un’autobiografia in Armenia, nel medioevo e più tardi  Alessandro Orengo 13 In vino consolatio A 14th-c. Armenian Dispute Poem on Wine  Sergio La Porta 14 “My City Which Is of Bronze” The City of Bronze Encroaching on the Alexander Romance  Alex MacFarlane 15 Between Gusan and Ašuł Yohannēs Xlatʽecʽi and the Porous Borders Negotiated by the Medieval Armenian Bard  S. Peter Cowe 16 “La danza” di Siamantʽō fra letteratura e arti contemporanee Da Ararat di Atom Egoyan a Defixiones, Will and Testament di Diamanda Galás  Valentina Calzolari Part 5 Religious Studies 17 Ephrem and the Persian Martyrs in the Armenian Synaxarion  Sebastian Brock 18 “Descent of the Only-Begotten Son” Contextualising the Vision of Saint Gregory  Nazenie Garibian 19 Jacob and the Man at the Ford of Jabbok A Biblical Subject in the Vine Scroll Frieze of the Church of the Holy Cross of Ałtʽamar (10th c.)  Michael E. Stone and Edda Vardanyan 20 Acrostics in Armenian Ecclesiastical Poetry  Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan Homage 21 Gemara and Memory  James Russell Index of Manuscripts Index of Places Index of People Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the role played by monastic discipline in the emergence and evolution of modern Chinese Buddhism. A central feature of the Buddhist tradition, monastic discipline has received growing attention in the contemporary Buddhist world, but little from scholars. Adopting a diachronic perspective and a multidisciplinary approach, contributions by leading scholars investigate relevant Vinaya-related practices in twentieth and twenty-first centuries China and Taiwan, including issues of monastic identity and authenticity, updated ordination procedures, recent variations of Mahāyāna precepts and rules, and original perspectives on body movement and related sport activities. The restoration and renewal of Vinaya practices and standards within Chinese Buddhist practices shed new light on the response of Buddhist leaders and communities to the challenges of modernity. Contributors are: Ester Bianchi, Raoul Birnbaum, Daniela Campo, Tzu-Lung Chiu, Ann Heirman, Zhe Ji, Yu-chen Li, Pei-ying Lin, and Jiang Wu.Table of Contents9789004533455 Acknowledgment List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Questioning Monastic Identity: Vinaya and Authenticity 1 Vinaya Master Hongyi’s 弘一 Vinaya Problem  Raoul Birnbaum 2 Retaking the Monastic Precepts: Shanghai Lay Buddhists’ Struggle for the Authenticity of Monkhood in the 1980s  Zhe Ji 汲喆 Part 2 Adjusting the Vinaya: Ordination Procedures 3 Discipline and Enlightenment: Hanyue Fazang 漢月法藏 (1573–1635) and the Spread of the Triple Platform Ordination Ceremony in Seventeenth-Century China  Jiang Wu 吳疆 4 Authenticity and Authority: Dual Ordination in Post-war Taiwan  Yu-chen Li 李玉珍 Part 3 Mahāyāna Vinaya: Bodhisattva Precepts and Chinese Monastic Codes 5 Yogācāra Bodhisattva Precepts in Twentieth Century China: Reevaluating Rules and Commitments in the Light of Modernity  Ester Bianchi 6 Changing Attitudes to the Precepts in Modern Taiwan: The Debate between Brahmā’s Net Precepts and Yogācāra Precepts  Pei-ying Lin 林佩瑩 7 Buddhist Monastic Regulations in Contemporary China: Adapting the Rules to a Changing Social and Political Context  Daniela Campo Part 4 Vinaya Specifics in the Modern World: Body Movement and Sport Activities 8 Body Movement and Sport Activities: A Buddhist Normative Perspective from India to China  Ann Heirman and Tzu-Lung Chiu 邱子倫 9 Physical Exercise and Sporting Activities in Contemporary Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Buddhist Monasteries  Tzu-Lung Chiu 邱子倫 and Ann Heirman References Index

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Book SynopsisThe notion of effortlessness is central to the self-understanding of the Tibetan contemplative tradition known as Dzogchen. This book explores this key notion from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the distinctive role it plays in the Dzogchen approach’s doctrinal architecture and meditative programme. The book’s focus is on the early development of the Dzogchen tradition, especially as codified in a set of hitherto unstudied commentaries by the 10th-century scholar and meditation master Nubchen Sangye Yeshe. A full annotated translation of the commentaries is provided, along with an edition of the Tibetan texts on facing pages.Table of Contents9789004534223 Acknowledgements Conventions Used Sigla Introduction Part 1 An Essay in Approaching Effortlessness 1 Evoking Effortlessness 2 Effortlessness as a Trope of Demarcation 3 Looking Back: A Precedent in Nyak Jñānakumāra 4 An Internal Contradiction? 5 Coalescence of the Transcendence-Immanence Relational Polarity 6 Effortlessness as Path 7 Inwardness and Spaciousness 8 The Question of Method 9 Effortlessness and Conduct 10 Encounter and Transmission Conclusion Part 2 The Texts Introductory Remarks  1 A Note on the Editions of the Orally Transmitted Injunctions of the Nyingma  2 Overview of the Root Texts in Their Various Versions  3 Categories of Variants 1 rJe btsan dam pa’i ’grel pa / Commentary on the Holy Revered One (JDG) 2 Byang chub sems bde ba ’phra bkod kyi don ’grel / Meaning Commentary on the Inlaid Jewel of Bliss, the Enlightened Mind (DPG) 3 rDo rje gzong phugs kyi ’grel pa / Commentary on the Adamantine Piercing Awl (DZG) 4 rTse mo byung rgyal ’grel pa / Commentary on the Victorious Peak (TBG) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBased on the translation of the Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (1644) by the Jesuit Manuel Dias Jr. and other late Ming Chinese Christian sources, the book reconstructs the process of interpretation and “appropriation” of the Xi’an stele and other ancient Christian relics by the Jesuit missionaries and their Chinese converts.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction 1 A Venerable Ancestor: The Appropriation of Tang Christianity by Jesuit Missionaries and Chinese Converts  1 The Context: The Tang Christian Stele and Its Interpretations  2 The Precious Stele: A Foundation Stone for the Seventeenth-Century China Mission  3 The Holy Crosses: The Xi’an Stone Confirmed by Other Ancient Traces of Christianity in China 2 A Multi-Level Commentary: The Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” by Manuel Dias Jr.  1 Between Interpretation, Instruction, and Apology: The Contents  2 A Complex Work with a Long Life: The Structure, Editions, and Reprints  3 The Man behind the Text: The Author Annotated translation Preliminary Note on the Translation “Correct Explanation of the Tang Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (Tang jingjiao beisong zhengquan 唐景教碑頌正詮) by Manuel Dias Jr., s.j.  Preface  《景教流行中國碑頌并序》  [Ancient Traces of the Heavenly Studies]  Correct Explanation of the Stele Eulogy on the Diffusion of the Luminous Teaching in China Appendix 1: “After Reading the Stele Inscription of the Luminous Teaching” (Du jingjiao beishu hou 讀景教碑書後, 1625) By Li Zhizao 李之藻 Appendix 2: “Stele Inscription for the Church of the Luminous Teaching” (Jingjiaotang beiji 景教堂碑記, between 1625 and 1627) By Xu Guangqi 徐光啓 Appendix 3: “A Clarification about an Iron Cross” (Tie shizi zhu 鐵十字著, 1627) By Xu Guangqi 徐光啓 Appendix 4: “Preface to the Stele with a Cross Unearthed in Wurong” (Wurong chudi shizijia beixu 武榮出地十字架碑序, 1633) By Zhang Geng 張賡 Appendix 5: “A Poem in Honor of Giulio Aleni, s.j.” (Late Ming dynasty) By Ke Xianshi 柯憲世 Appendix 6: “Outline of the Orthodox Way of the Lord of Heaven” (Tianzhu zhengdao jielüe 天主正道解略, 1644) By José Estevão de Almeida, s.j. and Inácio da Costa, s.j. Appendix 7: “A Study of the Luminous Teaching” (Jingjiao kao 景教考, ca. 1644) By Qian Qianyi 錢謙益 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1996 archaeologists excavated over 70,000 inscribed pieces of wood from a well in Changsha, the largest such discovery ever made in China. They are local administrative records of the state of Wu in the 230s and provide remarkable detail on the society, governance, and economy of third century central China. Although Wu was one of the famous Three Kingdoms, its administrative history was poorly known until these documents were found, so we have written this book to explain the context and content of these document to help researchers use these valuable texts to rewrite the history of South China.

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Book SynopsisAs the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and early empires, and spanning sources from philosophy, historiography, poetry, and technical literature, this study describes the whole life-cycle of multiple texts collected on a single manuscript. Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary advances and based on careful study of manuscript materiality and textuality, this book shows the importance of collections in the development of and access to text and knowledge in early China.Trade Review“Focusing on the creation of “collections” out of originally independent texts and thoughtfully situating these within their wider material and literary-historical contexts, Early Chinese Manuscript Collections is an ambitious and ground-breaking work that will prove indispensable reading for anyone with serious interest in processes of textual formation in early China.”- Scott Cook, Yale-NUS College “In this fascinating study of collections of texts in early Chinese manuscripts, Rens Krijgsman addresses a highly relevant topic almost entirely absent from previous scholarship: multi-text manuscripts. The case studies he presents embrace a wide range of genres. Through a detailed examination of the materiality of the manuscripts bearing these texts, he explores the question of different social uses of written texts and thus offers an important contribution to early Chinese book history. This timely and important study is sure to inspire productive discussions and future scholarship on early Chinese textual culture and related topics.” - Matthias L. Richter, University of Colorado at Boulder “As opposed to most studies of recently unearthed manuscripts, which take a pointillist approach to individual texts, Rens Krijgsman uses a broad brush to paint his picture of Warring States literary history, addressing dozens of different manuscripts representing virtually all of the different kinds of texts from early China. One need not agree with all of his conclusions to be struck by the great erudition on display in his discussions.“ - Edward L. Shaughnessy, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction  1 A Note on Orality  2 Collecting Text in a Manuscript Culture  3 Collections in Manuscript Form  4 The Form and Use of Collections  5 The Role of Collections in Early China  6 Sources and Caveats  7 Outline of the Study 1 Manuscript Materiality: Organizing Sayings in a Collection  1 The Unborn Laozi: Of Materiality and Building Blocks  2 Sound-based Organization: The *Yong yue 用曰  3 Visually Enhanced Organization  4 Building Blocks That Form Arguments  5 Conclusions 2 Collecting Stories: The Reformation and Integration of the Past  1 A Fragmented Past: Songs of Ancestors and Lords  2 The Rongchengshi: Forging an All-embracing Narrative about the Past  3 Warring States Developments in Representing the Past  4 Conclusions 3 Collection and Canon: The Formation of a Genre  1 Developments in the Use of Verse  2 Emergent Properties in Verse Collections  3 Shi as a Commented Collection  4 Teaching Verse as Poetry: The *Kongzi shi lun Read through the *Xing zi ming chu  5 Conclusion 4 Collecting and Disseminating: Using Technical Knowledge  1 Early Records of Divination: Baoshan, Tangweisi, and Geling  2 Warring States Prayer and Divination Collections  3 Daybooks and Related Collections of the Early Empires  4 Conclusions Conclusion: A Manuscript Culture’s Response to the Proliferation of Text Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a comparative exploration of the impact of a celebrated Chinese historical novel, the Sanguozhi yanyi (Three Kingdoms) on the popular culture of Korea since its dissemination in the sixteenth century. It elucidates not only the reception of Chinese fiction in Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910), but also the fascinating ways in which this particular story lives on in modern Korea. The author specifically explores the dissemination, adaptations, and translations of the work to elucidate how Three Kingdoms has spoken to Korean readers. In short, this book shows how a quintessentially Chinese work equally developed into a Korean work.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures 1 Introduction 2 The Importation of Chinese Fiction and Its Influence on Chosŏn Fiction  1 The Importation of Chinese Literary Works into Premodern Korea  2 Condemnation of Fiction by Yangban Literati  3 New Stories and the Development of Fictional Narratives in East Asia  4 The Dissemination and Influence of Taiping guangji in Premodern Korea  5 Selective Accommodation of Chinese Fictional Narratives 3 The Dissemination of Three Kingdoms into Chosŏn Korea  1 First Official Reference to Three Kingdoms in Historical Records  2 Ready from the Very Beginning? Background for Chosŏn’s Receptivity to Three Kingdoms  3 Notable Editions of Three Kingdoms Published in Chosŏn Korea  4 How Guan Yu Became a National Hero of Korea  5 Guan Yu as an Antidote to the Japanese 4 Three Kingdoms in Late Chosŏn Korea  1 The Fall of Ming China and the Identity Crisis of Chosŏn Korea  2 Chosŏn as the Sole Guardian of Authentic Confucian Heritage  3 Sociopolitical Background of the Dissemination of Three Kingdoms in Late Chosŏn  4 Korean Stories with the Theme of Shu-Han Legitimacy 5 The Advent of Modern Translations and Adaptations of Three Kingdoms  1 The Japanese Colonial Era as a Transitional Period for Three Kingdoms  2 Translations of Three Kingdoms in Late Chosŏn and the Early Colonial Era in sech’aek, panggakpon, and ttakchibon Editions  3 Sech’aek Editions of Three Kingdoms  4 Panggakpon Editions of Three Kingdoms  5 Ttakchibon Editions of Three Kingdoms  6 Stories Adapted from Three Kingdoms in Chosŏn Korea  7 Kwan Unjang silgi  8 Cho Charyong silgi  9 Chang Pi Ma Ch’o silgi  10 Chegal Ryang chŏn  11 Hwang puin chŏn  12 Taedam Kang Yu silgi  13 Korean Translations of Three Kingdoms by Modern Writers and Competition with Yoshikawa’s Rewriting  14 Yoshikawa Eiji’s Rewriting of Three Kingdoms and Its Impact on Korean Translations  15 Yoshikawa’s Three Kingdoms and the Tradition of the Samurai Novel 6 South Korean Authors’ Rewritings of the Three Kingdoms Text  1 South Korean Authors as Rewriters of Three Kingdoms  2 The First Immensely Sold Full-Scale Re-creation of Three Kingdoms in South Korea  3 The First Response to Yi’s Translation: Hwang Sŏgyŏng’s Return to the Original  4 Another Response to Three Kingdoms Translations: Chang Chŏngil’s Liberal and Nationalistic Version  5 The Heyday of Amateur Sinologist Translators: Ezra Pound and His Korean Counterparts  6 Errors, Omissions, and Rewritings in Translations of Three Kingdoms  7 Textual Manipulation Based on the Translator’s Ideology  8 Translation Practices of Three Kingdoms by Modern Korean Writers: The Treatment of Diaochan in Their Revisions  9 Three Kingdoms as Best Seller  10 Establishment of Three Kingdoms as a Canonical Work 7 Conclusion: Readership and Authorship of Three Kingdoms as an Interactive Text Appendix 1: Ttakchibon Editions of Three Kingdoms Translations or Adaptations Appendix 2: List of Three Kingdoms Editions in Korea Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisContrary to the usual sympathetic image of Kang Youwei found in historical studies, The Big Cheat offers a starkly negative portrayal of Kang. Its author, Huang Shizhong, a late Qing revolutionary and prolific author of over 20 novels, depicts Kang as a lifelong master fraud. His attack on Kang sheds light on the reform-revolution divide featured in every narrative about the rise of modern China. Huang’s novel stands as a period testimony to the political and ideological struggles for China’s future during the last years of the Qing dynasty before it fell in 1912. This is the first English language edition of the novel, translated by Luke S. K. Kwong, who offers an extensive introduction contextualizing Huang's novel in historical perspective.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface Notes on the Translation Translator’s Introduction Preface by Suogong [Lu Xin], Master of My Humble Abode 1 Scoundrel Kang Makes a Fool of Himself at the Academy; Savant Miao Composes His New Work at His Beijing Residence. 2 Crossing Paths with a Scoundrel Costs Miao Jiping His Manuscript; Failure to Become Academy Head Leaves Kang Youwei Distraught 3 The Phony Sage Obsessed with Fame Receives His Provincial Degree; Failed Exam Candidates Propose Banalities in Group Policy Petition. 4 Censor Yu Adamantly Rejects Any Contact with the Unbridled Scholar; The Shrewd Mama-Maid Boards the Ship to Go after the Unruly Drifter. 5 Pedant Kang Rhapsodizes about His Flight from Debt in Dreadful Poem; Censor An Bases His Impeachment of the Phony Sage on Reported Facts. 6 In Pursuit of Scholarship, Zhu Yixin Calls Attention to Historical Origins; His Life Abruptly Cut Short, Chen Qianqiu Goes Prematurely to His Grave. 7 His Commitment Shifts When He Writes a Letter to the Revolutionaries; Pretense to Transmit Doctrines Ends in a Moonlit Trek up a Barren Hill. 8 Talk of Sagely Doctrines Is Distracted by Festive Moods and Sights; For Money, Homecoming Enables the Fight to Become Bureau Chief. 9 Feud over Bureau Seal Ends in Provincial Degree-Holder Kang’s Beating; Sly Plot to Fool Master Weng Is Calculated to Get Entry into Officialdom. 10 Weng Tonghe Is Tricked into Proposing Nominations of Talented Men; The Qing Empress-Dowager Is Terrified to Hear of Talk of Policy Reform. 11 Acting on Slander, the Emperor Dismisses All Board of Ceremony Ministers; The Sorcerer Conjures Up Chaos inside Palace Chambers with His Memorial. 12 Kang Changsu Holds a Grudge in Plotting against the Empress-Dowager; Tan Sitong Is Tricked by False Pretenses into Going to the Imperial Capital. 13 An Impromptu Letter Is Written to Feign Commitment to Revolution; A Heartless Lie Is Told about the Secret Edict to Mobilize the Army. 14 He Flees from Danger Alone after Getting Others in Trouble; An Honorable Man Goes to Beijing-Tianjin for the Rescue. 15 His Actions Fuel Factional Strife and Implicate Others in a Capital Crime; Dinner Invitation Is Spoiled by Fear of an Associate’s Telling the Truth. 16 Harassing Maid-Servers at Minister’s Residence Is a Breach of Etiquette; Failure to Show Proof of Secret Edict Leads to His Expulsion from Japan. Appendix: Huang Shizhong’s Death Works Cited Glossary

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Book SynopsisImagined Racial Laboratories reveals the watermarks of science in the dynamics of racialisation in Southeast Asia, during and after the colonial period. Bringing together a set of critical histories of race sciences, it illuminates the racialised dimensions of colony and nation in the region. It demonstrates that racialisation took — and continues to take — mutable and multiple forms that often connect, perhaps more than differentiate, colonial and national periods across a variety of Southeast Asian settings. Thus, imagined races have contributed as much to the invention of modern Southeast Asia as have other fabled imagined communities.Table of ContentsContents AcknowledgementsII List of IllustrationsII Introduction: Imagined Racial Laboratories in Southeast Asia  Warwick Anderson and Ricardo Roque 1 Bilibid and Beyond: Race, Body Size, and the Native in Early American Colonial Philippines  Francis A. Gealogo 2 The Colonial Ethnological Line: Timor and the Racial Geography of the Malay Archipelago  Ricardo Roque 3 ‘Their Indonesian Forefathers’: Indonesia as the Austronesian Homeland in German-Language Theories of Ancient Pacific Migrations  Hilary Howes 4 Racialization in the Malay Archipelago during the Asia-Pacific War  Sandra Khor Manickam 5 Mixed Messages. Racial Science and Local Identity in Bali and Lombok, 1938–39  Fenneke Sysling 6 ‘The Salvational Currents of Emigration’: Racial Theories and Social Disputes in the Philippines at the end of the Nineteenth Century  Florentino Rodao 7 The Mestizos of Kisar: An Insular Racial Laboratory in the Malay Archipelago  Hans Pols and Warwick Anderson 8 Race as a Religious Destiny: The Vietnamese as “God’s Chosen People” in French Indochina  Janet Alison Hoskins Afterword: A Prelude  Bronwen Douglas Index

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Book SynopsisWho are you? Where do you come from? These two simple questions have so many answers and are sometimes even difficult to answer. This book tells the story of a Buddhist-Muslim community from Padum, in the Zangskar Valley - Indian Greater Himalayas. The author has gained a unique insight into this community during twenty years of research while the people shared doubts and joys with her. These experiences showed her that the meaning of “belonging” to a homeland or a confessional group, and therefore the transformation of the process of identity building in our modern world, is bridging the gap between tradition and modernity.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Xuduo Zhao revisits the early twentieth-century Chinese revolution by focusing on two forgotten Cantonese socialists: Chen Gongbo and Tan Pingshan. By analyzing a host of previously untapped primary sources, Zhao discovers a social democratic approach within the newly founded Chinese Communist Party and argues that its decline marked a key moment in the Chinese communist movement. The study of these two figures, and the ebbs and flows of their lives, reflects and reveals the fundamental tensions in the Chinese revolution which have shaped China’s political trajectory to contemporary times and the broader political, social, and cultural landscapes of Republican China.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements list of Abbreviations Introduction  1 The Decline of Social Democracy: a Turning Point  2 Reflections on the Origin of Twentieth-Century Chinese Radicalism  3 A Fundamental Conundrum: between Governance and Revolution  4 Political Ideas and Social Identities: a Dynamic Entanglement  5 The Structure of the Book 1 Between Province and Capital (1917–1920)  1 Tan Pingshan: Climbing the Ladder  2 Making Sense of the Education Reforms  3 Chen Gongbo: off the Track  4 PKU: a Cultural Field  5 Learning to Be an Intellectual: Tan Pingshan and Chen Gongbo at PKU  6 Reception and Reinterpretation of Marxism 2 Between Democracy and Revolution (1920–1922)  1 The Discredited Establishment  2 Zhengheng: a Prelude to Social Democracy  3 Mapping the World: the Advent of the Age of Revolution  4 Making Sense of Marxism: Cantonese Social Democracy  5 Rationality, Debate, and Socialism: Creating a Public Cultural Space 3 Between Sun and Chen (1922)  1 The June 16th Incident  2 To Choose between Sun and Chen: an Enigmatic Quarrel within the CCP  3 A Difficult Decision to Make: the Communists in Shanghai  4 A Vague Relationship: Chen Jiongming and the Cantonese Communists  5 Behind the Mystery: the Origin of the Rumor  6 The Identity Problem: Intellectual vs. Revolutionary 4 Between Revolutionary and Politician (1923–1928)  1 Transforming into a Revolutionary: the Start of the Nationalist Revolution  2 Revolutionary vs. Politician: a Dilemma in Guangzhou  3 Revolutionary vs. Politician: a Dilemma Again in Wuhan  4 Building a Revolutionary Party: a Way Out? 5 Between Communism and Nationalism (1923–1928)  1 The Rise of Materialist Historiography in China  2 The School of “New History” and Hayes’ Historical Writings  3 Chen Gongbo’s Historical Practices  4 Chen Gongbo’s Interest in British Anti-Imperialism  5 Locating Chen Gongbo’s Left-Wing GMD Program Conclusion  1 The Abandonment of Social Democracy  2 Revolution and Counter-Revolution  3 Nationalism and Socialism Appendix: Events in Republican China (1915–1920) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAfter the strikingly beautiful Peony Pavilion, how could one write about love and the ideal of emotional authenticity (qing) in the chuanqi genre? This book presents a group of creative dramatists who confronted this challenge by giving the romantic theme of chuanqi their unique comic twists. This book demonstrates how their comic articulations bring the qing ideal down to the mundane world of family obligations, political ambitions, commercial interests, and gender frustrations. By highlighting the crucial but understudied role that the comic plays, this book enriches our understanding of the intellectual depth and critical scope of the chuanqi genre.

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