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The Dunhuang Chinese Sky: a Comprehensive Study of the Oldest Known Star Atlas
25/02/09JAHH/v4 1 THE DUNHUANG CHINESE SKY: A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE OLDEST KNOWN STAR ATLAS JEAN-MARC BONNET-BIDAUD Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique ,Centre de Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France E-mail: [email protected] FRANÇOISE PRADERIE Observatoire de Paris, 61 Avenue de l’Observatoire, F- 75014 Paris, France E-mail: [email protected] and SUSAN WHITFIELD The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of the star atlas included in the medieval Chinese manuscript (Or.8210/S.3326), discovered in 1907 by the archaeologist Aurel Stein at the Silk Road town of Dunhuang and now held in the British Library. Although partially studied by a few Chinese scholars, it has never been fully displayed and discussed in the Western world. This set of sky maps (12 hour angle maps in quasi-cylindrical projection and a circumpolar map in azimuthal projection), displaying the full sky visible from the Northern hemisphere, is up to now the oldest complete preserved star atlas from any civilisation. It is also the first known pictorial representation of the quasi-totality of the Chinese constellations. This paper describes the history of the physical object – a roll of thin paper drawn with ink. We analyse the stellar content of each map (1339 stars, 257 asterisms) and the texts associated with the maps. We establish the precision with which the maps are drawn (1.5 to 4° for the brightest stars) and examine the type of projections used. -
MISSION in CENTRAL CHINA
MISSION in CENTRAL CHINA A SHORT HISTORY of P.I.M.E. INSTITUTE in HENAN and SHAANXI Ticozzi Sergio, Hong Kong 2014 1 (on the cover) The Delegates of the 3rd PIME General Assembly (Hong Kong, 15/2 -7/3, 1934) Standing from left: Sitting from left: Fr. Luigi Chessa, Delegate of Kaifeng Msgr. Domenico Grassi, Superior of Bezwada Fr. Michele Lucci, Delegate of Weihui Bp. Enrico Valtorta, Vicar ap. of Hong Kong Fr. Giuseppe Lombardi, Delegate of Bp. Flaminio Belotti, Vicar ap. of Nanyang Hanzhong Bp. Dionigi Vismara, Bishop of Hyderabad Fr. Ugo Sordo, Delegate of Nanyang Bp. Vittorio E. Sagrada, Vicar ap. of Toungoo Fr. Sperandio Villa, China Superior regional Bp. Giuseppe N. Tacconi, Vicar ap. of Kaifeng Fr. Giovanni Piatti, Procurator general Bp. Martino Chiolino, Vicar ap. of Weihui Fr. Paolo Manna, Superior general Bp. Giovanni B. Anselmo, Bishop of Dinajpur Fr. Isidoro Pagani, Delegate of Italy Bp. Erminio Bonetta, Prefect ap. of Kengtung Fr. Paolo Pastori, Delegate of Italy Fr. Giovanni B. Tragella, assistant general Fr. Luigi Risso, Vicar general Fr. Umberto Colli, superior regional of India Fr. Alfredo Lanfranconi, Delegate of Toungoo Fr. Clemente Vismara, Delegate ofKengtung Fr. Valentino Belgeri, Delegate of Dinajpur Fr. Antonio Riganti, Delegate of Hong Kong 2 INDEX: 1 1. Destination: Henan (1869-1881) 25 2. Division of the Henan Vicariate and the Boxers’ Uprising (1881-1901) 49 3. Henan Missions through revolutions and changes (1902-1924) 79 4. Henan Vicariates and the country’s trials (1924-1946) 125 5. Henan Dioceses under the -
A Sphere Unto Itself: the Death and Medieval Framing of the History of Chinese Cosmography Daniel Patrick Morgan
A Sphere unto Itself: the Death and Medieval Framing of the History of Chinese Cosmography Daniel Patrick Morgan To cite this version: Daniel Patrick Morgan. A Sphere unto Itself: the Death and Medieval Framing of the History of Chi- nese Cosmography. First International Workshop on Traditional Sciences in Asia, Kyoto University, Jun 2015, Kyoto, Japan. halshs-01333724 HAL Id: halshs-01333724 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01333724 Submitted on 7 Jul 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike| 4.0 International License A Sphere unto Itself: the Death and Medieval Framing of the History of Chinese Cosmology Daniel Patrick Morgan* ERC Project SAW (CNRS-Université Paris Diderot) 17–19 June 2015 for the International Workshop on Traditional Sciences in Asia 2015, Kyoto University Abstract: This paper attempts to explain the lack of dialogue between Indian and Chinese cos- mologies in the astral sciences of the Six Dynasties and Tang. The history of cosmology in China, we are told, died in the eighth century, the final blow having been delivered by the monk Yixing. Almost everything we know about this history derives from three sources: Shen Yue and Li Chunfeng’s respective ‘heavenly patterns’ monographs (5th & 7th cent.) and Gautama Siddhārtha’s Kaiyuan zhanjing (729). -
Ancient Greece and China Compared
Ancient Greece and China Compared Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologi- cally sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that the sustained critical comparison and con- trast between ancient societies can bring to light significant aspects of each that would be missed by focusing on just one of them. The topics tackled include key issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences (including gender studies), in agriculture, city planning and institutions. The volume also analyses how to go about the task of comparing, including finding viable comparanda and avoiding the trap of interpreting one culture in terms appropriate only to another. The book is set to provide a model for future collaborative and interdisciplinary work exploring what is common between ancient civilisations, what is distinctive of particular ones, and what may help to account for the latter. g. e. r. lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge, Former Master of Darwin College, Cambridge, and Senior Scholar in Residence at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge. He is the author of twenty-two books and editor of four, and was knighted for ‘services to the history of thought’ in 1997. jingyi jenny zhao is Lloyd-Dan David Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute and at Darwin College, Cambridge. qiaosheng dong is currently affiliated to the Cambridge Peking University China Centre at Jesus College. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. National University of Singapore (NUS), on 12 Sep 2018 at 08:19:58, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. -
Omen Watching, Mantic Observation, Aeromancy, and Learning to 'See': the Rise and Messy Multiplicity of Zhanhou 占候 in L
EASTM 50 (2019): 67-131 Omen Watching, Mantic Observation, Aeromancy, and Learning to ‘See’: The Rise and Messy Multiplicity of Zhanhou 占候 in Late Han and Medieval China* Stephan N. Kory [Stephan N. Kory is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Florida, where he teaches literary Chinese and ancient and medieval Chinese literature and culture in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He has a Ph.D. in Chinese Language and Culture from Indiana University and an MA in Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Colorado. Author of a number of articles and book reviews in scholarly journals, much of his current research focuses on interstices between medieval Chinese religion and literature, particularly as they are manifested in narrative and technical records of mantic and medical practices and practitioners. Contact: [email protected]] * * * Abstract: This article investigates the early history of a Chinese mantic practice unattested before the late first century CE known as zhanhou 占候 (lit., omen watching; divination through observation; divination of atmo- spheric or meteorological conditions). While early occurrences of the term primarily present it as a learned form of divination used to forecast human fortune through the interpretation of anomalous emanations of qi 氣 in heaven-and-earth (e.g., wind; clouds; rain; rainbows), zhanhou is also variously classified as an astrological, Five Agents, or military technique; and variously identified as a hemerological, medical, and contemplative- visualization practice by the end of the Tang. I not only contend that zhanhou’s inherent polysemy and its multiple identities helped broaden and perpetuate its transmission during the first millennium of the * Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Michael Stanley-Baker and Pierce Salguero for organizing the 2014 Penn State Abington College Symposium on Science and Religion in China that inspired this article, as well as all of the participants who helped shape early versions of it. -
Hairstyle and Headgear Transgressions, and the Concept of Fuyao (Ornamentation Anomaly) in Early China
ornamentation anomaly in early china Asia Major (2019) 3d ser. Vol. 32.1: 1-51 rebecca doran Hairstyle and Headgear Transgressions, and the Concept of Fuyao (Ornamentation Anomaly) in Early China abstract: Fuyao 服妖, or “ornamentation anomaly,” is a historical category of disaster (anom- aly) that emerged during the Han period. It is a rich example of the perceived connection between sumptuary transgression and political disorder in the Chi- nese cosmological and historical traditions. Due to the importance of hairstyle and headgear in the performance of state ritual ideology and hierarchical stratification, discussions of hairstyle and hair ornamentation represent an especially intriguing in- carnation of apprehension about improper personal appearance. The present paper approaches an understanding of the emergence and uses (historical and narrative) of fuyao mainly in the Han through Tang period through an examination of fuyao examples involving hairstyle and headgear. An analysis of hair-related fuyao within the rubrics provided by appearance or demeanor (mao 貌) as a moral and political marker and the ritual significance of headgear in the Chinese tradition indicates the use of fuyao as a medium of historical evaluation that becomes interwoven, in theory if not in practice, with the creation, promulgation, and subversion of culturally de- fined identities. keywords: hairstyle, headgear, fuyao, guan, sumptuary regulations, Treatise on the Five Phases y the third decade of the first century ad, Wang Mang’s 王莽 (ca. B 45 bc–23 ad) Xin 新 (9–23 ad) dynasty was swiftly unraveling, and new contenders for power emerged.1 One of the most prominent early figures who seemed poised to fill the power vacuum left by the demise of the Xin was Liu Xuan 劉玄 (d. -
Numbers with Histories: Li Chunfeng on Harmonics and Astronomy Daniel Patrick Morgan, Howard L
Numbers with Histories: Li Chunfeng on Harmonics and Astronomy Daniel Patrick Morgan, Howard L. Goodman To cite this version: Daniel Patrick Morgan, Howard L. Goodman. Numbers with Histories: Li Chunfeng on Harmonics and Astronomy. Monographs in Tang Official Historiography: Perspectives from the Technical Treatises of the History of Sui (Sui shu), 2019. halshs-01423329 HAL Id: halshs-01423329 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01423329 Submitted on 29 Dec 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives| 4.0 International License Chapter 5 Numbers with Histories: Li Chunfeng on Har- monics and Astronomy Daniel Patrick Morgan Howard L. Goodman* Abstract Focusing on Li Chunfeng’s 李淳風 (602–670) Sui shu 隋書 “Lü-li zhi” 律 曆志 (Monograph on Harmono-metrology & Mathematical Astronomy) and its predecessor in the Han shu 漢書, this chapter questions the universality of the mar- riage between these fields in Chinese thought, arguing instead that it is the product of specific compilers’ grappling with generic conventions and the messy course of history. The joint monograph appears first in the Han shu, a natural consequence of its reliance on Liu Xin’s 劉歆 (46 BCE – 23 CE) synthetic writings, and culminates in Li Chunfeng’s monographs, after which subsequent histories abandon the model. -
Monographs in Tang Official Historiography
Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter 3 Daniel Patrick Morgan Damien Chaussende Editors Monographs in Tang Official Historiography Perspectives from the Technical Treatises of the History of Sui (Sui shu) With the collaboration of Karine Chemla Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter Volume 3 Series Editors Karine Chemla, Laboratoire SPHERE UMR 7219, Université Paris 7—CNRS, Paris, France Agathe Keller, Laboratoire SPHERE UMR 7219, Université Paris 7—CNRS, Paris, France Christine Proust, Laboratoire SPHERE UMR 7219, Université Paris 7—CNRS, Paris, France The book series provides a platform for the publication of studies on sciences in the ancient worlds that bring innovative methods into play and address new theo- retical issues. It is predicated on the conviction that the history of ancient sciences raises theoretical questions and requires new methodologies in a way that can inspire many other felds. For instance, with the help of innovative methods, ancient mathematical documents allow us to shed a unique light on the manuscript cultures, in the context of which they were composed. Such research is essential to offer new ways of interpreting our sources. Ancient mathematical documents also offer new types of evidence allowing historians of ancient economies to develop new forms of analysis and tread new ground. Ancient mathematical sources from all parts of the world compel us to rethink notions such as quantities, numbers, and measurement units, in ways that reopen these questions for the History and Philosophy of Science at large. More generally, the book series aims to show how ancient science can be a vector pollinating research in anthropology, linguistics, science education, and other felds in the humanities. -
Ke-Xin Au Yong
The Ten Mathematical Classics: The Mathematics and Mathematical Education of Pre-Modern China by Ke-Xin Au Yong A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History Department of History and Classics University of Alberta © Ke-Xin Au Yong, 2018 Abstract The Ten Mathematical Classics were the only imperially prescribed mathematics textbooks in pre-modern China. They were used during the Sui (581 – 618), Tang (618 – 906), and Northern Song (960 – 1127) dynasties at the imperial academy to structure the mathematical training of students. This dissertation explores the contents as well as information about the writers and commentators of these texts in order to arrive at a better understanding of Chinese mathematics and mathematical writers. It also analyzes how mathematical education actually took place, presenting a new perspective on why state-run mathematical education only existed at specific times. Lastly, this dissertation examines the circulation and transmission of the Ten Mathematical Classics. My thesis consists of three central points. Firstly, the history of Chinese mathematics should take into serious account the entire corpus of knowledge and endeavours, such as divination, that historical actors associated indivisibly with what we would consider pure mathematical knowledge. Secondly, the known writers, commentators, and readers of the Ten Mathematical Classics were all highly educated, many of whom were also government officials, so it is over-simplistic to attribute the lack of long-term state-run mathematical education to a general disdain among the Chinese literati for technical subjects. Thirdly, I argue that the state’s decisions to institute or drop mathematical education should be understood within the broader context of the state’s needs at the time, and were directly related to the availability of suitable mathematically skilled candidates who could be recruited into the bureaucracy. -
The Dunhuang Chinese Sky: a Comprehensive Study of the Oldest Known Star Atlas
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 12(1), 39-59 (2009). THE DUNHUANG CHINESE SKY: A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE OLDEST KNOWN STAR ATLAS Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Centre de Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. E-mail: [email protected] Françoise Praderie Observatoire de Paris, 61 Avenue de l’Observatoire, F-75014 Paris, France. and Susan Whitfield The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of the star atlas included in the medieval Chinese manuscript Or.8210/S.3326 discovered in 1907 by the archaeologist Aurel Stein at the Silk Road town of Dunhuang and now housed in the British Library. Although partially studied by a few Chinese scholars, it has never been fully displayed and discussed in the Western world. This set of sky maps (12 hour-angle maps in quasi-cylindrical projection and a circumpolar map in azimuthal projection), displaying the full sky visible from the Northern Hemisphere, is up to now the oldest complete preserved star atlas known from any civilisation. It is also the earliest known pictorial represent- ation of the quasi-totality of Chinese constellations. This paper describes the history of the physical object—a roll of thin paper drawn with ink. We analyse the stellar content of each map (1,339 stars, 257 asterisms) and the texts associated with the maps. We establish the precision with which the maps were drawn (1.5-4° for the brightest stars) and examine the type of projections used. -
Volume Five August 1994 Number One July 6, 1995
Volume Five August 1994 Number One July 6, 1995 Dr. Suzanne Cahill University of California, San Diego Department of History, C-004 La Jolla, CA 92093 Dear Dr. Cahill: We recently ran out of copies of Taoist Resources 5.2 in which your photographs were used. When I went to the file for our printer's originals to order reprints, I discovered that your photo originals were still in the file. Please accept my sincere apology for the delay in returning these to you. That issue was published right at the change over from one Editorial Assistant to another, and returning your photos simply got overlooked. Again, I am deeply sorry for the delay and hope that it has not created too many problems for you. Sincerely, Benita G. Brown Office Coordinator Enc. ~ , ), ~~ ;J\1{ ~~ ~:~ x 3::. L if{. j1.S{ 7\~ f-- ~*?5. ~ , ..,.......',.' . 11 {~it - ( ~'3'; t~- c:::::- 11 • 7= --- .~ ~- - J{!!tE. ?~ .~ 17t *~;ffi ±'d:. ;rt it -,to1( r;qiX{ :3= -- " .z<:.. ~ c:=?--- - ~ ~,~ ~'f( ~- "" ~ - ~I ~? ~- J§{ ~€ ~ ~'3' ~ ).2 ,~A *-~ J\lJ\l *';=1f; ~ m~ l:1$~ E/r.· 1-11 .Wt~· :.:%:.::1: ~ 7C[l:..-- 7Jt -111 /~ - - ~ ;;Z~ E..:ti_ ~~ R1 L.( '~ ~.~ ~ Jt\Jt\ I~!® 7f.:~ 4 ~ j~ ~ ~~ ~~ ~~ 3::. ~* E- . )p-{( ;:l:: ~M. -'l)"~' ~7l'JK .f.5·I~ ' j,;k 2?- - .-.....;.,. - - ""'-~I - ;/Ejc ~2 {1~1}:;:f -1t1 ~~ £ . t -' ~3t 5f:Z: 7E.7t. ~ ~ ~~ ~~ }t ~3' m ,,~ ~}\ JJr !it t1 ~......)."".,. Volume Four .~ February 1993 Number One ~ I ~li- 11~ ~.,...., ...... jFl ro~ ~ ~ .,. ~. x~ ~ , X1{ ~~ :s~ l ~ifC J7C ( -- *~ .x3::. .......: 7\~ f ~ J ~~ 11 4 {~~ -- 11 ~5' t~- c::: • ~ .~ ~ - '~ ~ ~trt .tl!!~ c -~ r; ~~ -,l<:>l( ±~ jT1 *-txrEq 3= Z<...-- E]5 c;:?..- f: - - ~~ ~- :}§{ M~ ~x ~ ~ ~5' tlI( ~ ..».~ AJ\l *-tK. -
Forgery, Banditry, and Advanced Mathematics: the Curious Academic Lineage of Kong Yingda (574–648) in the Sui and Northern Dynasties Daniel Patrick Morgan
Forgery, Banditry, and Advanced Mathematics: The Curious Academic Lineage of Kong Yingda (574–648) in the Sui and Northern Dynasties Daniel Patrick Morgan To cite this version: Daniel Patrick Morgan. Forgery, Banditry, and Advanced Mathematics: The Curious Academic Lin- eage of Kong Yingda (574–648) in the Sui and Northern Dynasties. Early Medieval China Workshop, INALCO, Nov 2019, Paris, France. halshs-02335042 HAL Id: halshs-02335042 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02335042 Submitted on 28 Oct 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Forgery, Banditry, and Advanced Mathematics: The Curious Academic Lineage of Kong Yingda (574–648) in the Sui and Northern Dynasties Daniel Patrick Morgan (墨子涵)* Talk presented at The Early Medieval China Workshop, INALCO, Paris 15–16 November 2019 Abstract Lead editor of the Orthodox Meaning of the Five Classics (Wujing zhengyi 五經正義) and Chan- cellor of the Tang Directorate of Education, it is hard to think of a Confucian scholar more influential or ‘orthodox’ than Kong Yingda 孔穎達 (574–648). The same cannot be said of his schoolmasters, Liu Zhuo 劉焯 (544–610) and Liu Xuan 劉炫 (c.546–c.613).