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_book_id: 0 _book_language: en _book_alttitle: 0 _dedication_title: 0 _publisher_id: 0 _collection_id_series: sinl i “At the Shores of the Sky” © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2020 | doi:10.1163/9789004438200_001 This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license. ii Sinica Leidensia Edited by Barend J. ter Haar Maghiel van Crevel In co-operation with P.K. Bol, D.R. Knechtges, E.S. Rawski, W.L. Idema, H.T. Zurndorfer VOLUME 151 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/sinl iii “At the Shores of the Sky” Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt Edited by Paul W. Kroll Jonathan A. Silk LEIDEN | BOSTON iv This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. 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Identifiers: LCCN 2020029388 (print) | LCCN 2020029389 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004432987 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004438200 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Asia--History. Classification: LCC DS33.2 .A86 2020 (print) | LCC DS33.2 (ebook) | DDC 950--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020029388 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020029389 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 0169-9563 isbn 978-90-04-43298-7 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-43820-0 (e-book) Copyright 2020 by Paul W. Kroll and Jonathan A. Silk. Published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. Koninklijke Brill NV reserves the right to protect this publication against unauthorized use. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. ContentsContents v Contents Contributors VIII X Albert Hoffstädt: A Tribute 1 The Editors 1 What Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex? 5 Alexander Lubotsky 2 India’s Past Reconsidered 12 Johannes Bronkhorst 3 A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ānanda’s Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha’s Teachings 23 Jonathan A. Silk 4 On the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas 38 Vincent Eltschinger 5 Size Matters: The Length of Korea’s History and the Size of Its Historical Territory 54 Remco Breuker 6 Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan 62 Martin J. Heijdra 7 Overcoming Distance 76 Richard Bowring 8 Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early China 83 Martin Kern 9 Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and Philosophy 99 Jan De Meyer Contents Contents Figures Contributors Albert Hoffstädt: A Tribute 1 The Editors Chapter 1 What Language was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex? 5 Alexander Lubotsky vi Contents Chapter 2 India’s Past Reconsidered 12 Johannes Bronkhorst Chapter 3 10 On Some Verses of Li Bo 113 A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ānanda’s Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha’s Teachings 23 Jonathan A. Silk Chapter 4 Paul W. Kroll On the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas 38 Vincent Eltschinger Chapter 5 Size Matters: The Length of Korea’s History and the Size of Its Historical Territory 54 11 An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the Remco Breuker Chapter 6 Countryside 129 Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan 62 Martin J. Heijdra Chapter 7 David R. Knechtges Overcoming Distance 76 Richard Bowring Chapter 8 Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early China 83 12 Lu Ji’s Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Martin Kern Chapter 9 Literary Creation 142 Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and Philosophy 99 Jan De Meyer Chapter 10 Wendy Swartz On Some Verses of Li Bo 113 Paul W. Kroll Chapter 11 An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the Countryside 129 13 Terms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in David R. Knechtges Chapter 12 Medieval China 154 Lu Ji’s Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Literary Creation 142 Wendy Swartz Chapter 13 Stephen F. Teiser Terms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in Medieval China 154 Stephen F. Teiser Chapter 14 Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826–1880) 173 14 Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Beata Grant Chapter 15 Miaokong (1826–1880) 173 Chinese Dualism Revisited 185 John Lagerwey Beata Grant Chapter 16 An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews 199 Robert Ford Campany Chapter 17 Self-Portrait of a Narcissist 211 15 Chinese Dualism Revisited 185 Pierre-Étienne Will Chapter 18 John Lagerwey The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles 230 Robert E. Hegel Chapter 19 Making Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern Zaju 244 Wilt L. Idema 16 An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Chapter 20 Transgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese Poetry 262 Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews 199 Maghiel van Crevel Chapter 21 Robert Ford Campany Horatius Sinensis 280 Michael Lackner Chapter 22 The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity 292 Christoph Harbsmeier 17 Self-Portrait of a Narcissist 211 Index 309 Pierre-Étienne Will 18 The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles 230 Robert E. Hegel 19 Making Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern Zaju 244 Wilt L. Idema 20 Transgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese Poetry 262 Maghiel van Crevel Contents vii 21 Horatius Sinensis 280 Michael Lackner 22 The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity 292 Christoph Harbsmeier Index 309 viii Contributors Contributors Contributors Richard Bowring Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge Remco Breuker Professor of Korean Studies, Leiden University Johannes Bronkhorst Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, University of Lausanne Robert Ford Campany Professor of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University Jan De Meyer Independent Scholar Vincent Eltschinger Professor of Indian Buddhism, École Pratique des Hautes Études Beata Grant Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies, Washington University–St. Louis Christoph Harbsmeier Professor of Chinese, University of Oslo Robert E. Hegel Professor Emeritus of Chinese, Washington University–St. Louis Martin J. Heijdra Director, East Asian Library, Princeton University Wilt L. Idema Professor Emeritus of Chinese, Harvard University Martin Kern Professor of Chinese, Princeton University Contributors ix David R. Knechtges Professor Emeritus of Chinese, University of Washington Paul W. Kroll Professor Emeritus of Chinese, University of Colorado Michael Lackner Professor of Chinese Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen John Lagerwey Professor of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong Alexander Lubotsky Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University Jonathan A. Silk Professor in the study of Buddhism, Leiden University Wendy Swartz Professor of Chinese, Rutgers University Stephen F. Teiser Professor of Religion and Buddhist Studies, Princeton University Maghiel van Crevel Professor of Chinese, Leiden University Pierre-Étienne Will Professor Emeritus of Modern Chinese History, Collège de France x Contributors Albert Hoffstädt, holding a traditional wooden Skittles pin. _full_alt_author_running_head (neem stramien B2 voor dit chapter en dubbelklik nul hierna en zet 2 auteursnamen neer op die plek met and): 0 _full_articletitle_deel (kopregel rechts, vul hierna in): Albert Hoffstädt: A Tribute _full_article_language: en indien anders: engelse articletitle: 0 Albert Hoffstädt:Albert Hoffstädt: A Tribute A Tribute 1 Albert Hoffstädt: A Tribute Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536), the finest Latinist of Christendom, leading light in his time of the pan-European Republic of Letters, and still today one of the most famous of Dutchmen, concluded the first full edition of his Adagia in 1508 with comments about the term auris Batava, “Batavian (i.e., Dutch) ear.” Disputing Martial’s use of the phrase to caricature the Dutch as unrefined and brutish, he praises his countrymen as being the most humane and generous of all peoples, by nature straightforward and untainted by deceit or serious vices, fitted with a high level of education, as well as appreciative of good food and fine wine. Such a description would more than fairly embrace some of the fine qualities of the Dutchman whom we celebrate with this volume of essays, without by any means exhausting them; but there is much more to say about him.