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Bulletin of SUNG YUAN Studies
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Cllarles A. Peterson Cor nell University Editor Fr'OII the Edi tor i,
COnferf!nces . Meetings ami Visits Suna Edttorial Board Haxl_ Security In the Sung: the Facilities at SralDilIW!sllnd Brian IfcX1light 8 Klaus Flessel . Tiibingen University Taoism at t he Sung Cour t: t he Keavenly Tellt John D. Langlois, J r . Bowdoin College Afh l r of 1008 Sl.-W7IIW ~.Cahill 23 Brian E. McKnight , Unive rsity of tl.twal1 Titles of Palace Wo-n. Shiba Voshlnobu, Dsab University YO.. Stephen K. West , University of Ari~ona Currency Issues of Ylian Chi na General
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ii CO~IHRENCES. M£ET INGS AIIO VISlTS
Sino-Pmerlcan History ~ol l ogulum , Belling
The fll"St Sino-Amerlca.n history colloqulla was held In Beijing fn:- Ottobl!r 26 to November 1, 1980. Ten American scholars and twenty Chinese scholar$ presented papers on t he general theme of Chinese econOlllc and social history fro. the SOn9 to the lite 01n9. In addition there Inflation lias caught up with the Bulletin, requiring a were three An!rlcan and ten Chinese auditing participants. The !!Ieetlng. raise In ntes to S 6.00 per annum for individual subscrib· sponsored by t he Chinese Acaded1}' of Social Sciences. with the cooperation ers and S 10.00 for institutions. effective wi th no.17 (lgs1). of the CoIalttee on Schola r ly Cornnunlcatlon with the People's Republic Thts Is the first cllange In rates since 1915. The Increase of China. hopefully set a precedent for other such gather ings in the future. will not apply to subscribers already paid up through 19S1. Robert Hartwell of the University of Penl'lsylYannia and I were the two Ameri can SOng specialists. lie presented papel'$ entitled respeetlvely -Patterns Please note the enclosed questlonaire which should be of Settlement. the Structure of Government. and the Social Transfol"llllt\on comp leted and returned In order to compile a registry of of the Chinese Political Elite . ca.150- 15OO" and "Son\l Legal Privileges" . scholars working on any aspect of the history and culture Fnur Ch i nese papers on the Song were presented: "Two Topics coneernlng of the Sung. lho. Chin and YOan dynasties (or publication the Development of Song Cities" (... I.QCJ ,*tl:.f1I;f. U ilU ) by Professor In this journal. The last such registry (hrgely of Sung Cheng Ving _lIu of Shanghai NOrmlll College ; "Eleventh Cen t ury Kaffeng" scholars) was published in 1970. ( P ~.~f. t ~ tit. Rf1Jl;;.'J'tt-tl by Chen lhen of the Hona n Provlnelll Acadewrl CaJl1\lraphy (or this Issue W;JI$ again dOrM! by and under of Soclil Sciences. IIlstorical Reselrch Office ; "The FOnll of SOng Land the direction o( Teresa K. Hei. whose assistance is grateful Ta xes and thei r Evolution. and the Relationship between Land Taxes and ly acknowledged. Land Va lues" ( ~ A'\. 1t."illl) t;:.A...1t ~~ 'i. : .!!t. a- .oL f!l" " ~ fC.,~ ~ :Ji i.I: J by Professor OIl Xla of the Departllle:nt of History. Hobl!l Univer sity; and "The Professional Army System of the Northern Song and its Relationship to Growing Song lIeakness and Fiscal Olfficultles. and to the Development of Agriculture" ( 1, t n ..It. '* fI~ '* ..to: +1 It " :;. -4 " 'It .., M " it {v ;ft -t -1 ,. O~ -t It.l by Professor Deng Guang-mlng of the Departrent of I1l5tory of Beijing University. In addition to the Song papers presented, lhou Bao-zhu . Assistant Professor it Honan Nonnal Uni versity. gave us caples of his essay "The Economic Development of t he Sung Easter n Capital and its Place In t he Economic and Cultural Intercll.n9t of China .nd the Outside World" ( 11'11', J.!f.. "*.t-\.t'f.Ji;.4*;.ftIl~ )(.ft.1l. ~!i:." 'Hl-$,,";ttl..~~~,t o~ l'~ijt ). After the colloqulu .. our party re!:I " 3 ~ of the conference delegates vlsited Shanghai Nonna1 College Suzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shaoxlng, and Ulngbo. At N.njlng. Shanghai, where they conferNld with the group working under the di rection of Professor and Hangzhou we met with Interested faculty from Uanjlng University, elleng Yln9-11u IIhich Is proceeding with a punctuated edition of the Choan9- Furlan University (ShanghaI). Shangkai l'oreal Unive rsity. Shanghai NOT'lllI bian. Volwnes 2 through 8 are currently In print, while volume 1 will be a Coll e9l! , lind Hangzhou Unlyersity. In the capital and else.... here we also ~. It is hoped that the current effort can be cornpleted within the next visited archives, IllUseLllllS. and libraries, scme of .... hich. like the Zhejlang year. The group then intends to tum to punctuation of the Wenxian Ton9l1:ao. Provincial Library In Hangzhou, and the Tlanyige library In Ningbo. had Son9 studies are. in short, alive and well In China . and there Is pro not previously been visited by American scholars. !IIlse of Increasingly fruitful work in the coming years. During t~lks at tile colloquiUIII and on the tour I gathered fnfOlT.llltfon Br ian E. McKnight University of HawaII for the following preliminary assessment of the state of Song studies in the PRe. First. tllere Is a recently founded national UIl'breJJa ol"'llanization of Song scholars which at present hn about seventy members. This group is Anoelatlon for the StudY of Son9 History. Shanghai headed by II five-member steering conrnittee including Professor Cheng Ying- A (national) Association for the Study ofSon~ History (Song -.!!!iI!.!!.-lli 1111 of Sm.nghai No ...... ' College, Pl"Ofessor Deng Guang-ming of Beijing Univer M) was founded H a meeting in Shanghlll !k:tober 6-11, 19BO. It was attended sity. and Professor Chen le-suR,It.'*'. of Jlnan University. For further In by shty scholars and futured forty-one Pf.pe rs, tile authors and titles of fOnllltion on the foundill9 of this organizati on, its cOIIIPOsitfon and Its con wtllcll are list!i:l below. While the Chalnl\ln of the founding conference was cerns, see the fol1O\jing notice. Professor Deng Guang-mlng, the Director of the standing body In Professor Second, in addition to this national organization another IIItchanis. Cheng Ylng-1 iu and its headquarters are located In Shanghai. for encourllglng Song studies In the PRC is the establishment of study In addition to the papers. discussions .... ere conducted In small groups groups at various academic and research centers. We were told of such on Pf.rtlcular problem raoised by various of the Pf.pers. These discussions groups at Honan Nonwl University (where the group is headed by Professor were spirited and revealed scme very substantial differtncts of yiewpolnt Zhang Blng-ren. with Assistant Professor Zhou Sao-zhu as assistant direc limon!! scholars on some central tllemes of Song history, e.g., whether Song tor); Hangzhou University (with Professor Xu Guel as director and Assis econOlllc developMtnt resulted In a relative -loosening- of status in rural tant Professor liang Tai-chl as assistant director); at Jlnan University areas Dr rlltner II greater degree of control over rural people. Stress was laid (with Professor Chen Le- su as director); at the Honan Provincial Academy on the Importance of cljl slderlng regional variations in deyelo~nt and on of Social Sciences . Histor ical Research Section (headed by Associate studying continuities with pre- and post-Song eras. The delegates also Indi Researchers Chen Zhen and ZlIeng ~n); at Shilnghal Uonnal College (headed cated their support for defining "Song" studies broadly so as to encompass by Professor Cheng VIng - liu); at the Beijing University (headed by Profes the study of contiMllporary states such as Xlxla, Liao, and Jln. sor Deng ~ang-.lng) ; alld It the ACiidemy of Social Sciences, lIistorical Plans were made to hold conferences on Song studies every other year. Research Section. Beijing (headed by Li Jh jul. Tllese groups are gener Participants at the Shanghai meeting al so resolved to seek (I) continuing ally slq:Jly Song study groups. but the group at 8tljing University Is publication of a nNslettoer, (2) cOlllplhtion of a ilibl10graphy of works on called the Tang-Song study group, and the group at the Acade!!1Y of Sochl Sci the Song by scholars outside the PRe. (3) closer ties with foreign scllohrs, ences in Beijing is designated the Song-Llao-Jin-Yuan study 9rouP· lind (4) Incre,ned publication of scholarship on the Song. Among the Incidental news of Interest to SOng scholl1rs I should IIItntlon The authors and their pape rs: that the fine multi-volume historical atlas cu rrently circulating only wltllin the country may beCOllle generally ayallable In the coming year and that a group ••• : ( ~~*~~* •• ~.*i ) at the historical IJIUseum In Beijing Is cOlQPleting prePf.ratlon of a national _*ift:: O'i.!fi~'±J!1:. ) catalogue of rare books. ~~~ : ( ~~**ttN.ift:x~~* •• ) 4 '* .:tllt : ( !l:JlllfJtH.¥' ) ••• : ( ~ ~ **~w~~ ~± ~m* ~ M~~~. ) &II :til: ( * k t'!. .He.9-.) ••• : ( **H~a."~~~ ~~ ) tt: ;t;~: «.*:it!l:f · (f -1i "'>~ & i(!U ~ , _: ( *ft~ •• #K.P~W~** > M: .: ( :$"J!IIIAFlM ·un .~ .. : ( **.s."t/fflJtJt"*.f. > ft *': « * ~lfjil:> .,.* .t . ie. . 'JT . ) ~*~: ( ~***p~A*tt~**) ( ti~*Jt "'* •• A. Jf . :ltM. tQj¥ ) • .aiJ ; ( ifi!ilJ!tftll't .H toft l' }o * .: .tltHt. it~. : « tt*it • • *_ ) it:t.,. ., ) *" •. £,.' ( .U, ~ .:.) _additional info!"fll4tion .fifAa: ( *ftll'i .« 1I1HH provided by J~mes T .C. lIu ~ .*: *,w.~ : (it#f .t.jf -~ .~4.* ifiU Ogawa Tamaki, "L u Yu' s Poetry and His School" (in Chi nese) COnrad Sc.hir{lkauer. "Hu Hung's Rebutul of SS U-III J:uang's Cr itiqlll! of -Q-¥iII: ( M. .I at 6'l ~ ~ ~ " ~Qj"t!) MencluS" (~.";t~IlIl! if) " ,"' Sung Shee . "The Historiography of Chetung in the Southern Sung Oyn.a.lty" !I~-t. . • ilM.: (~*A) Sff; .: ( ~.*~< •• ~~.~» • Allen Wittenborn (U.S. Dept. of [nf!~11."TIM! ProbJI!II of .!J,.: lhu Xl's Eplstaology" T'ao Chin-sheng. 'Chinese Intellectuals under the Chin Dynasty· Delolel A.Gardner (Smith College), "lhu Xl's Interpretation of the (in Cninese) Oa-xue: Classical Studies during the Song" T\I Wel-..,Ing (Unherslty of California, Berkeley), " The ProbleJ11 of Wang Ch'ung, 'The Sung Preoccupation with II and the Koral Tone of Huang Ge-W\l: Zhu Xi's Perception of Reading" T'lng-chien's Poetry' (in Chinese) JOh;-Berthrong (University of ChicagO) , "The Probtell! of the Mind: Hou Zon\l-san's Critique of Zhu X," Wang Te-yi, 'A Supplement to the Sung-shih Biography of Chou lin, Demonstrat ing the Shortcomings Of That History" (in Chinese) Finally, Michael C. McGr A delegation of scholars representing the Joint Connlttee on Contl!ll Conn1ttee for !h! Study of Sung and the Conguest Dynasties at !!:!!. ~ porary Cnina of the American Council of learned Societies (AClS) and the Scholars of Sung and the conquest dynasties (Lho, Chin and YUan) Social Science Ruearch Council (SS RC) and the Conwnlttee on Studies of convened in what has beCOQle an annual session at t he 3Znd Meeting of the AAS Chinese Civilization of the ACtS undertook an Info~tlon-gatheringviSit in Washington, D.C. on Harch 21,1980. The meeting, under the chal~nshlp to the People's Republic of China fTOll December 28, 19]9 to January lB , I980. of Luc Kwanten of the University of Chicago, was attended by approximately The primary purposes of the visit were to learn about the current state of twenty-five people. After a discussion of matters of comnon interest, each research and scholarship In the social sciences and humanities; to tleet person In attendance spoke briefly about his current research interests and with Chinese scholars; and to e.plore possibilities for future elchan9l!, projects. The need was strongly expressed for publication of a new and up cooperuion, and collaboration. lhe dele~tlonwas hosted by the natio".1 dated directory of scholars working in this field , with which request this Chinese Acadelll)l of the Social Sciences In Beijing and by local social edito r promised to comply (Please note , fill out and return questionaire en science associations during its visits to other cities. closed with this issue.) The members of the deie!l4tlon were OGnald J. I+.inro and Burton Pntemak, cochairs , T..... s P. Bernstein. Cyril Birch, Kok-la. Chan. Paul A session wil l once again be held at the 1981 -.etlng of the AAS A.Cohen. Robert F. Dernberger, l-lerle Goldman, Patrick 0, Hanan, Victor in Toronto. H. LI, and ~TartinK. Whyte. Anne F. Thurston and Jason H. Parker served Papers Presented at the 32nd Meeting of the AAS In Washington ~ as starr. The group visited research institutes and universities In Bei A n~r of relevant papers were read at the Washington laeeting. jing. Chengdu, Hlnjlng, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. SOlI!!!llelllbers of the delegation also visited Suzllou and Hankal University in On the panel entitled "Hew Approaches to hng and Song China,· Patricia llanjln. Ebrey of the University of Illinois, presented a paper on · Widows and the In meetings with Chinese sctlolars, the delegation divided into Structun! of Kinship during Song.' small groups, according to dlsclpl1nes. Anthropology and sociology. eco- 00III1C5. history, law, literature, philosophy, and political science were On a panel devoted to ·Visual World of so. Chinese Poets , " Kang-i the core disciplines represented by tile group. Sun Chang of Tu(ts University took up "The Imagery in U YO's Poetry." The delegation is currently drafting a comprehensive report of the In the panel on "Regional Systems on China,· John W. Chaffee of the visit and expects to be able to lllake copies available by early 5..-r. State University of Hew York at Binghamton spoke on "Region, Subregion and Copies will be distributed at cost and can be obtained by writing Anne Exallll".tion Success in South China dur ing the Song.' F. Thurston at the SSRC. The panel"lnterpretlng Zhu Xi," chaired by Wing-tsH Chan, featured the following papers: