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Reviews of Books, Esp. About China and Its Languages SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS Number 46 July, 1994 Reviews (V) by E. Bruce Brooks, et al. Victor H. Mair, Editor Sino-Platonic Papers Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA [email protected] www.sino-platonic.org SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series edited by Victor H. Mair. The purpose of the series is to make available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished. The editor actively encourages younger, not yet well established, scholars and independent authors to submit manuscripts for consideration. Contributions in any of the major scholarly languages of the world, including Romanized Modern Standard Mandarin (MSM) and Japanese, are acceptable. In special circumstances, papers written in one of the Sinitic topolects (fangyan) may be considered for publication. Although the chief focus of Sino-Platonic Papers is on the intercultural relations of China with other peoples, challenging and creative studies on a wide variety of philological subjects will be entertained. This series is not the place for safe, sober, and stodgy presentations. Sino-Platonic Papers prefers lively work that, while taking reasonable risks to advance the field, capitalizes on brilliant new insights into the development of civilization. The only style-sheet we honor is that of consistency. Where possible, we prefer the usages of the Journal of Asian Studies. Sinographs (hanzi, also called tetragraphs [fangkuaizi]) and other unusual symbols should be kept to an absolute minimum. Sino-Platonic Papers emphasizes substance over form. Submissions are regularly sent out to be refereed and extensive editorial suggestions for revision may be offered. Manuscripts should be double-spaced with wide margins and submitted in duplicate. A set of "Instructions for Authors" may be obtained by contacting the editor. Ideally, the final draft should be a neat, clear camera-ready copy with high black- and-white contrast. Sino-Platonic Papers is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Please note: When the editor goes on an expedition or research trip, all operations (including filling orders) may temporarily cease for up to two or three months at a time. In such circumstances, those who wish to purchase various issues of SPP are requested to wait patiently until he returns. If issues are urgently needed while the editor is away, they may be requested through Interlibrary Loan. N.B.: Beginning with issue no. 171, Sino-Platonic Papers has been published electronically on the Web. Issues from no. 1 to no. 170, however, will continue to be sold as paper copies until our stock runs out, after which they too will be made available on the Web at www.sino-platonic.org. _______________________________________________ Reviews (V) Sino-Platonic Papers, 46 (July, 1994) Table of Contents Review Article: The Present State and Future Prospects of Pre-Han Text Studies. A review of Michael Loewe, ed, Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Reviewed by E. Bruce Brooks, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. N.B.: The following 29 reviews are by the editor of Sino-Platonic Papers. Roger T. Ames, Chan Sin-wai, and Mau-sang Ng, eds. Interpreting Culture through Transhion: A Festschriift for D. C. h. Sau -Y.Chan. Improvisation in a Ritual Context: The Music of Cantonese Opera. CHANG Xizhen. Beijing Tuhua [Pekingese Colloquial]. CHANGlAIXINJUELUO Yingsheng [AISINGIORO *Yingsheng]. Beijing Tuhua &ng de Manyu [Manchurian in Pekingese Colloquial]. BAI Gong and JIN Shan. Jing Wei'er: Toushi Beijingren de Yuyan ["Capital Flavor": A Perspective on rhe Language of the Pekingese]. JIA Caizhu, comp. Beijinghua Erhua Cidian [Dictioruzry of Retroflex Final -r in Pekingese]. Julia Ching and R.W.L. Guisso, eds. Sages and Sons: Mythology and Archaedlogy in, Ancient China. FENG Zhiwei. Xiandai Hanzi he Jisuanji (Modern Chinese Characters and Electronic Compurers). FENG Zhiwei. Zhongwen Xinxi Chuli jfi Hanyu Yanjiu [Chinese Information Processing and Research on Sinitic]. Andre Gunder Frank The Centrality of Central Asia. HUANG Jungui. Hanzi yu Hanzi Paijian Fangfa [Sirwgraphs and Methods for Ordering and Looking up Sinographs]. W. J. F. Jenner. The Qranny ofElistory: The Roots of China's Crisis. Adam T. Kessler. Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khan.. David R. McCraw. Du Fu's Lamentsfrorn the South. Michael Nylan, tr. and comm. The Canon of Supreme Mystery, by Y ang Hsiung. R. P. Peerenboom. Low and Morality in Ancient China: The Silk Manuscripts of Hluang-Lm. Henry G. Schwarz. An Uyghur-English Dictionary. Vitaly Shevoroshkin ,ed. Dew-Sino- Caucasian Languages. Reviews (V) Sino-Plaronic Papers, 46 (July, 1994) Vitaly Shevoroshkin, ed. Nostratic, Dew-Caucasian, Aucnic and Amerind. Laurence G. Thompson, cornp. Studies of Chinese Religion: A Comprehensive and Classified Bibliography of Publicatlatlonsin English, French, and German through 1 970. Laurence G. Thompson, comp. Chinese Religion in Western Languages: A Comprehensive and Class@edBibliography of&blications in English, French, and German through 1980. Laurence G. Thompson, comp. Chinese Religion: Publications in Western Languages, 1981 through 1990. Aat Vervoorn. Men of the Cliffs and Caves: The Development of the Chinese Eremitic Tradition to the End of the Han Dynany. WANG Jiting, ZHANG Shaoting, and WANG Suorong, comp. Changjian Wenyan Shumianyu [Frequently Encountered Literary Sinitic Erpressions in Written Languange]. John Timothy Wixted Japanese Scholars of China: A Bibliographical Handbook. YU Lung-yu, ed. Chung- Yin wen-hsiieh kuan-hsi yuan-liu [The Origin and Development of Sinolndian Literary Relan'onsj. ZHANG Guangda and RONG Xinjiang. Yutian Shi Congkao [Collected Inquiries on the History of Khotan]. ZHANG Yongyan, chief ed. Shishuo Xin~uCidian [A Dictionary ofA New Account ofTales ofthe World]. Peter H. Rushton. The Jin Ping Mei and the Non-Linear Dimensions of the Traditional Chinese Novel. William H. Baxter, A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology. Reviewed by Paul Rakita Goldm, Harvard University. JI Xianlin (aka Hi&-lin Dschi). Dunhuang Tulufan Tuhuoluoyu Yanjiu Dmlun [A Guide to Tocharion Languuge Materialsfrom Dunhuang and Tufan]. Reviewed by XU Wenkan, Hmyu Da Cidian editorial offices in Shanghai. GU Zhengmei. Guishuang Fojiao Zhengzhi Chuantong yu Dasheng Fojiao [ne Political Tradition of Kushan Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhisw. Reviewed by XU Wenkan, Hanyu Da Cidim editorial offices in Shanghai. W. South Coblin, University of Iowa. A Note on the Modern Readings of o;t . Rejoinder by the Editor. Announcement concerning the inauguration of a new series in Sim-Platonic Papers entitled "Bits and Pieces." Reviews (V) Sin0 -Platonic Papers, 46 (July, 1994) Review Article: The Present State and Future Prospects of Pre-Hiin Text Studies E Bruce Brooks University of Massachusetts at Amherst LOEWE Michael (ed). Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Society for the Study of Early China (Early China Special Monograph Series No. Z), 1993. xiv + 546 pages. $35 from Publications, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley CA 94720; or £20 (or equivalent in ECU) from Sinobiblia, 15 Durham Road, Harrow, Middx, HA14PG, United Kingdom. As the British say, or as C P Snow says they say, one should "declare one's interest straight away". The present reviewer has long studied the chronology and interrelations of the Warring States texts, and is presently writing a book covering, and disputing, much of the ground treated by Loewe and collaborators. He welcomes the appearance of the Loewe volume as a much-needed tool, which also defines the consensus against which he hopes to make his own contribution. This article comprises (I) a descriptive comment on hewe and (11) on the consensus about the early texts which it reveals, plus (111-XVI) a sample of how the present writer proposes, eventually, to go beyond that consensus. This work, in a gesture of respect to the 64 hexagrams of the Yi @age x), treats 64 texts "of which the greater parts could reasonably be accepted as having reached their present form before the end of the Han dynasty"; articles thus average 7-7 pages each. Within this, in almost-standard order (a precisely-standard order would have been even more convenient for readers), are given summaries of content, sources, date, authenticity, text history, commentaries, editions, translations, and indexes. Arrangement of entries is alphabetical in Wade-Giles spelling, with Pinyin forms retained in book titles; as a step toward something more serviceable than either, I here use the Hepburn system extended to Chinese by adding "v" (the linguists' inverted v, but uninverted) for the vowel of "bug" and a few other vowel changes, plus archaic initials (and abbreviating -& as Z in book titles) to reduce the effects of Mandarin homophony. By whatever convention, phonetic arrangement increases ease of reference, though making it proportionately difficult to obtain a chronological overview. Contributors range fiorn established to eminent; two (A C Graham and Tirnoteus Pokora) did not live to see the book published. Bibliographies are at once concise and judicious, and note is taken of recent archaeology. The book is admirably set (by Birdtrack Press, in Zapf Calligraphic with characters), produced (16 signatures, hardbound without dust-jacket), and priced (US 6.2% per page). Every scholar in the field can afford to acquire the work; none can afford not to do so. Reviews 0 Sino -Platonic Papers, 46 (July, 1994) The reader may be surprised to find, in these clear and cogent entries, how much textual uncertainty attends even Han-dynasty works. But it is to the more notoriously controversial pre-Han works that a curious new owner of the book will likely first turn.
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