DOCSLIB.ORG

Endymion Wilkinson Chinese History a New Manual

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

Endymion wilkinson chinese history a new manual Continue A unique resource. A prerequisite for every serious student of Chinese history and culture. Victor H. Meir, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, University of PennsylvaniaAndion Wilkinson's bestselling guide to Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide for all those interested in civilization and China's history. The third edition won the Stanislas Julien Prize in 2014. Seventeen years in the making, the new guide introduces students to different types of transferred, excavated and artifact sources from the backstory to the twenty-first century. It also examines the context in which sources have been produced, preserved and received, the research and interpretation problems associated with them, and the best, most recent secondary works and digital resources. History plays a central role in Chinese politics and culture, so special attention is paid to the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese historiography. The fifth edition of Many Sections has been rewritten and updated with more than 3,000 works added. The entire text was reset in highly contrasting fonts to facilitate reading. Since the publication of the first edition in 1998, Chinese History: The Guide has become an indispensable guide to the study of civilization and the history of China. The second edition, updated before January 2000, discusses about 4,300 primary, secondary and reference works, which is 1,500 more titles than in the first edition. Temporary coverage has been expanded to include the Republican period; added sections on non-verbal greetings, weights and measures, money and furniture; chapters on language, etymology, people, geography, chronology, war, leishu, food and Chinese world order have been carefully revised; and the item index has been expanded to include 2,500 technical terms. Chinese History: New Guide, Fifth Edition (2018) ByAndimion Porter WilkinsonCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishPublisherEndymion WilkinsonPublication date2018Media typePrint978-0-998883-0-9Reprevative edition: History of Imperial China: Research Guide (1973); 1st Edition: Chinese History: A Guide (1998); 2nd Edition: Chinese History: A Guide, Revised and Expanded (2000); 3rd Edition: Chinese History: New Guide (2012); 4th Edition (2015) Chinese History: A New Guide (Chinese: q國歷史新⼿册; pinyin: Jungue lìshǐ x'n shǒucè), written by Andymione Wilkinson, is an encyclopedic guide to synology and Chinese history. The New Guide lists and describes published, excavated, artifact and archival sources from the pre-21st century, as well as a new scholarship in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages. Detailed annotations evaluate reference and research tools and outline the 25 supporting disciplines required to study Chinese history. each of the 76 chapters and interspersed with short essays give encyclopedic and often witty summaries of major themes for professionals and general readers, as well as directives on the use of history and avoiding errors in thought and analysis. The new management won the 2014 Stanislas Julien Prize. 1973 1998 2000 2012 2015 Since its first appearance in the pre-release version in 1973, Wilkinson's manual is constantly printed (sold an average of 700 copies per year). During this time, it has grown from 70,000 words to its current size of 1,302 pages and more than 1.6 million words (equivalent to twelve monographs of 400 pages apiece). The author kept him informed, releasing numerous revised editions, each of which expands the scope of its activities. But perhaps the more fundamental reason for its continued success (judging by readers' comments on Amazon.com) is that the management has established itself as nothing more than an exercise in Kellencritic (a source of criticism), posing original questions and summarizing questions. Von In an interview with Carla Nappi, a China historian at the University of British Columbia, Wilkinson discussed his experience in the field and the background of the book. He became interested in China as a student at Cambridge University in the early 1960s and then spent two years teaching English in Beijing before the Cultural Revolution. He earned a doctorate from Princeton University with a dissertation on the late markets of the Tsing Dynasty and prices, but when he started teaching, he still felt unprepared. He didn't know, he recalled, that he would tell his graduate students about the zhou or Shang dynasties, which he thought his knowledge was unlikely to fill the eye bath. On a research scholarship at Harvard University, Wilkinson mentioned to John Fairbank, a senior fellow at Harvard, that he was collecting notes on Chinese history. Fairbank offered to publish them, and in due course there was a Guide to Research in 1973. Wilkinson served in Beijing as The European Union's ambassador to China from 1994 to 2001, and in his spare time turned the 1973 research manual into the first and second editions of the manual. After he retired from the EU in 2001, Harvard invited him to teach China's history, including a graduate student's seminar on synological techniques. Since then, he has worked on a new leadership commuting between Harvard and Peking University (where he was a visiting professor). In this way, he was able to make full use of the Harvard-Yenching Library as well as all the scientific resources that Beijing has to offer. A preliminary version of the manual (1973) was published by the Harvard East Asia Research Center. From 1998 to 2015, all publications were published by Harvard University's Asian Center at Harvard-Enching Institute and distributed Harvard University Press. The fourth edition was also published in Chinese and sold 11500 11500 1st year (2016-2017). Beginning with the fifth edition (2018), Wilkinson decided as an experiment in lowering the selling price of the English edition to publish it himself and distribute it exclusively on Amazon. The fifth edition was also published digitally (on the Pleco platform in November 2017). The Fifth Edition (2018) 2018 The author explains in the foreword the main goals of the Fifth Edition as an introduction: 1. Different types of transferred, excavated, archival, artifact and ecofactory first energy from the backstory to 1949 (and in some cases to this day). Accordingly, it examines the context in which these sources were obtained, preserved and obtained, as well as related research and interpretation problems; 2. auxiliary disciplines required to study Chinese history from prehistory to 1949 (and in many cases to date), including archaeology, astronomy, bibliography, chronology and calendriki, kodicology, diplomacy, epigraphy, genealogy, historical geography, historical linguistics, numismatics, onomatics, paleography, prosopography, sigilography, statistics, text criticism, topography, transcription, translation strategies and special branches of study, such as oracle-bone, bamboo books, Dunhuang Documents, Tsinghua 3. Key secondary sources on issues that are currently concentrated and disputes in Chinese historical studies; 4. Latest electronic resources for the dissemination, sorting and analysis of Chinese historical data. In addition to the four main goals, the Fifth Edition also has five auxiliary goals (5-9), the ninth of which does not appear in previous editions: 5. To provide a sense of change over time and therefore to avoid anachronistic, ahistorical interpretations of China's past. This is easy to do because the scope of the new leadership is the full scope of Chinese history, during which long-term changes are obvious. 6. Supply readers familiar with one period a springboard to others with whom they are less familiar. 7. In order to profiling the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese hisorioographic traditions, because (i) the central role played (and continues to play) is the writing of history in Chinese politics and culture and (ii) more than is usually realized, historians rely on works produced in old historiographic traditions, even if they can ask different questions and use different conceptual frameworks. 8. Provide an English translation of key Chinese terms. 9. Illustrating the instinct of Chinese publishers to censor anything they think might contradict the official party line on Chinese history. This is achieved by glued green to about 30 or so examples of censorship in the Chinese translation of the guide's manual 2016. Most censorship passages (and no attempt has been made to show them all) are in one of four categories: (i) all that may indicate that the top leaders of the CPC are less unmistakably always right. For example, in discussing political slogans, Wilkinson mentions that during a meeting with Li Xiangnyan in 1979, the Deputy Prime Minister stressed the importance of four modernizations, but could not remember more than the first three (p. 302). The paragraphs about this episode have been erased. Equally unacceptable to the censor were comparisons of CPC-era practices with those of imperial China. For example, in the discussion of flattering imperial honorary titles (zunhao 尊號) bestowed on the emperors of China during their lifetime, The author noted that Sunhao (in frightening quotes) re-emerged with the cult of personality of Mao Tse- tung at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution (it was 20 characters: 伟的导师, 伟的领袖, 伟的统帅, 伟的舵⼿ (Great Teacher, Great Leader, Grand Commander, Great Helmsman). (2) anything concerning border issues even if this meant eliminating passage from a historical source that contradicts the current CCP lines while retaining passage from the same source that supports it (page 203). Even the author's correct observation that the history of the Ming Dynasty (1745), the official history of the dynasty, places Taiwan in a section reserved for foreign countries, has been removed (p. 953); (3) anything showing Chinese people making fun of propaganda slogans (page 302); 4) any statistical assessment, which differs from the official statistics on sensitive issues, was simply suppressed. For example, the number of people who died of starvation during the Great Chinese Famine (p. 542). The contents and structure of the Fifth edition updates, expands and corrects the fourth edition (2015).
Recommended publications
  • Was There a Xià Dynasty?

    Was There a Xià Dynasty?

    SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS Number 238 May, 2013 Was There a Xià Dynasty? by Victor H. Mair with contributions by E. Bruce Brooks 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 FOUNDED 1986 Editor-in-Chief VICTOR H. MAIR Associate Editors PAULA ROBERTS MARK SWOFFORD ISSN 2157-9679 (print) 2157-9687 (online) SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series dedicated to making 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-in-chief 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. Submissions are regularly sent out to be refereed, and extensive editorial suggestions for revision may be offered. Sino-Platonic Papers emphasizes substance over form.
  • Law, Literature, and Gender in Tang China: an Exploration of Bai Juyi's

    Law, Literature, and Gender in Tang China: an Exploration of Bai Juyi's

    NORMAN HO- PAGE PROOF (DO NOT DELETE) 7/8/2009 3:51 AM Law, Literature, and Gender in Tang China: An Exploration of Bai Juyi’s Selected Panwen on Women Norman P. Ho (侯孟沅)* I. INTRODUCTION Since the birth of the law and literature field in the 1970s,1 scho- lars working in the West have primarily focused their attention on analysis of legal issues in American and European literary master- pieces. More recently, academics have begun to explore the inter- sections between law and literature in the literary traditions of late imperial and modern China.2 However, very little scholarly atten- * J.D. candidate and Global Law Scholar (class of 2012), Georgetown University Law Cen- ter. A.M. in Regional Studies-East Asia (Chinese History), Harvard University (2009). Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellow, Department of History, Peking University (2007-2008); A.B. cum laude in History, Harvard University (2007). I would like to thank Professor Wai-yee Li for her extremely helpful comments and suggestions about my translations of Bai Juyi‘s panwen and on this paper in general, as well as her encouragement for pursuing research on this topic. Many thanks also to Professor Xiaofei Tian for first introducing me to panwen as a literary genre. 1 Most scholars credit James Boyd White, currently L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and his seminal book: THE LEGAL IMAGINATION: STUDIES IN THE NATURE OF LEGAL THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973), with creating the field. See Professor White‘s faculty website at http://cgi2.www.law.umich.edu/_FacultyBioPage/ facultybiopagenew.asp?ID=14.
  • Chinese Women in the Early Twentieth Century: Activists and Rebels

    Chinese Women in the Early Twentieth Century: Activists and Rebels

    Chinese Women in the Early Twentieth Century: Activists and Rebels Remy Lepore Undergraduate Honors Thesis Department of History University of Colorado, Boulder Defended: October 25th, 2019 Committee Members: Primary Advisor: Timothy Weston, Department of History Secondary Reader: Katherine Alexander, Department of Chinese Honors Representative: Miriam Kadia, Department of History Abstract It is said that women hold up half the sky, but what roles do women really play and how do they interact with politics and society? In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Chinese women reacted in a variety of ways to the social and political changes of the era. Some women were actively engaged in politics while others were not. Some women became revolutionaries and fought for reform in China, other women were more willing to work with and within the established cultural framework. Discussion of reforms and reformers in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries are primarily focused on men and male activism; however, some women felt very strongly about reform and were willing to die in order to help China modernize. This thesis explores the life experiences and activism of five women who lived at the end of China’s imperial period and saw the birth of the Republican period. By analyzing and comparing the experiences of Zheng Yuxiu, Yang Buwei, Xie Bingying, Wang Su Chun, and Ning Lao Taitai, this thesis helps to unlock the complex and often hidden lives of Chinese women in modern Chinese history. Lepore 1 Table of Contents Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………..……… 2 Part 1 ………………………………………………………………………………….………… 4 Historiography ……………………………………………………………………………4 Historical Context …………………………..…………………………………………… 8 Part 2: Analysis …………………………………..…………………………..……………….
  • UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara Scribes in Early Imperial

    UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara Scribes in Early Imperial

    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara Scribes in Early Imperial China A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in History by Tsang Wing Ma Committee in charge: Professor Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, Chair Professor Luke S. Roberts Professor John W. I. Lee September 2017 The dissertation of Tsang Wing Ma is approved. ____________________________________________ Luke S. Roberts ____________________________________________ John W. I. Lee ____________________________________________ Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, Committee Chair July 2017 Scribes in Early Imperial China Copyright © 2017 by Tsang Wing Ma iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to thank Professor Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, my advisor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for his patience, encouragement, and teaching over the past five years. I also thank my dissertation committees Professors Luke S. Roberts and John W. I. Lee for their comments on my dissertation and their help over the years; Professors Xiaowei Zheng and Xiaobin Ji for their encouragement. In Hong Kong, I thank my former advisor Professor Ming Chiu Lai at The Chinese University of Hong Kong for his continuing support over the past fifteen years; Professor Hung-lam Chu at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for being a scholar model to me. I am also grateful to Dr. Kwok Fan Chu for his kindness and encouragement. In the United States, at conferences and workshops, I benefited from interacting with scholars in the field of early China. I especially thank Professors Robin D. S. Yates, Enno Giele, and Charles Sanft for their comments on my research. Although pursuing our PhD degree in different universities in the United States, my friends Kwok Leong Tang and Shiuon Chu were always able to provide useful suggestions on various matters.
  • Reinventing the Traditional Guangzhou Teahouse: Caterers

    Reinventing the Traditional Guangzhou Teahouse: Caterers

    Reinventing the Traditional Guangzhou Teahouse: Caterers, Customers and Cooks in Post-Socialist Urban South China Jakob Akiba Klein School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Ph.D. Social Anthropology 2004 ProQuest Number: 10673050 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 10673050 Published by ProQuest LLC(2017). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 4 8 1 0 6 - 1346 ABSTRACT This thesis, based on ten months of field research and archival studies in Guangzhou (Canton), centres on an ethnographic portrait of a 120-year old teahouse, a state enterprise which combines the functions of teahouse and restaurant in a single establishment with the help of 180 staff. I approach the teahouse as a complex, shifting social space embedded in wider discourses and historical processes, and use the ethnographic portrait as a basis for exploration into several themes in the anthropology of urban China. The first chapter provides an historical background and deals with the rise, fall and revival of teahouse culture in the changing uses of urban space in the twentieth century.
  • CHEN-DISSERTATION-2017.Pdf (1.546Mb)

    CHEN-DISSERTATION-2017.Pdf (1.546Mb)

    Collecting as Cultural Technique: Materialistic Interventions Into History in 20th Century China The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Chen, Guangchen. 2017. Collecting as Cultural Technique: Materialistic Interventions Into History in 20th Century China. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41141785 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA Collecting as Cultural Technique: Materialistic Interventions into History in 20th Century China A dissertation presented by Guangchen Chen to The Department of Comparative Literature in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of Comparative Literature Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts May 2017 © 2017 Guangchen Chen All rights reserved. Dissertation Advisor: Professors David Damrosch and David Wang Guangchen Chen Collecting as Cultural Technique: Materialistic Interventions into History in 20th Century China Abstract This dissertation explores the interplay between the collecting of ancient artifacts and intellectual innovations in twentieth century China. It argues that the practice of collecting is an epistemological attempt or a “cultural technique,” as formulated by the German media theorist Bernhard Siegert, to grasp the world in its myriad materiality and historicity. Through experiments on novel ways to reconfigure objects and study them as media on which intangible experiences are recorded, collectors cling to the authenticity of past events, preserve memory through ownership, and forge an intimate relationship with these objects.
  • Latter Han Religious Mass Movements and the Early Daoist Church Grégoire Espesset

    Latter Han Religious Mass Movements and the Early Daoist Church Grégoire Espesset

    Latter Han religious mass movements and the early Daoist church Grégoire Espesset To cite this version: Grégoire Espesset. Latter Han religious mass movements and the early Daoist church. John Lagerwey; Marc Kalinowski. Early Chinese Religion: Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD), Brill, pp.1061-1102, 2009. halshs-00670873 HAL Id: halshs-00670873 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00670873 Submitted on 16 Feb 2012 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. Latter Han religious mass movements and the early Daoist church Grégoire Espesset* The general historical and social background against which occurred, during the second half of the Latter Han dynasty (25-220 AD), the confluence of revelations and religious mass movements, is sufficiently known for our purpose: an empire increasingly menaced by non- Chinese peoples on its outer edges; struggles between a few upper-class family clans for dominion over infant sovereigns and the actual exercise of power in the palace; remonstrance and political maneuvers of civil servants who
  • Anchors of Stability: Place-Names in Early China

    Anchors of Stability: Place-Names in Early China

    SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS Number 312 April, 2021 Anchors of Stability: Place-Names in Early China by James M. Hargett 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 FOUNDED 1986 Editor-in-Chief VICTOR H. MAIR Associate Editors PAULA ROBERTS MARK SWOFFORD ISSN 2157-9679 (print) 2157-9687 (online) SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series dedicated to making 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-in-chief 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 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. Submissions are regularly sent out for peer review, and extensive editorial suggestions for revision may be offered. Sino-Platonic Papers emphasizes substance over form. We do, however, strongly recommend that prospective authors consult our style guidelines at www.sino-platonic.org/stylesheet.doc.
  • CHINESE LEGAL THOUGHT in the HAN-TANG TRANSITION: Liu Song’S (D

    CHINESE LEGAL THOUGHT in the HAN-TANG TRANSITION: Liu Song’S (D

    Liu Song’s Theory of Adjudication CHINESE LEGAL THOUGHT IN THE HAN-TANG TRANSITION: Liu Song’s (d. 300) Theory of Adjudication Norman P. Ho* This article explores and analyzes the fourth century Chinese legal official and legal scholar Liu Song’s (d. 300) theory of adjudication through a full translation into English (the first translation of its kind) of his famous “Memorial on Adjudication,” which urged judicial and legal reforms during the reign of Emperor Hui (r. 290–306) of the Western Jin dynasty (265–316). This article argues that Liu believed that written law should reign supreme over other factors (e.g., societal needs, public opin- ion) in adjudicating cases. He was also one of the first major Chinese legal thinkers to explicitly set forth what we would today call the “legality prin- ciple.” But while Liu’s theory of adjudication was centered on written law, it was also motivated by a desire to control the power and discretion of judicial officials and preserve the authority of the emperor. Liu’s theory of adjudication is significant in the history of Chinese legal thought as it runs counter to the so-called “qing-li-fa” (QLF) theory of adjudication, which has strongly influenced contemporary theoretical accounts and descriptions of traditional Chinese law as a whole. This article also briefly considers Liu’s theory in a comparative legal theory perspective, arguing that Liu’s theory is different from key Western theories on adjudication— namely, Hart’s and Dworkin’s theories of adjudication with respect to hard cases. Finally, this article also briefly discusses the relevance of Liu Song’s legal thought to 21st century Chinese law, given the current Chinese leadership’s penchant for using traditional Chinese political and legal phi- losophy as sources and justifications for government and administration.
  • Beasts Or Humans: Pre-Imperial Origins of Sino-Barbarian Dichotomy

    Beasts Or Humans: Pre-Imperial Origins of Sino-Barbarian Dichotomy

    amitai_f4_59-102 9/22/04 1:18 PM Page 59 BEASTS OR HUMANS: PRE-IMPERIAL ORIGINS OF THE “SINO-BARBARIAN” DICHOTOMY1 Yuri Pines Only a generation ago, it was common among scholars to conceive of pre-modern Chinese identity in terms of culturalism rather than nationalism. According to this paradigm, Chineseness was defined primarily as belonging to a universalizing civilization, and sharing common, predominantly Confucian culture. This identity was inclu- sive, as those foreigners who acquired, consciously or through diffusion, Chinese cultural values became “Chinese.”2 A concept of national iden- tity conceived in ethnic or racial terms was commonly considered a modern phenomenon, closely related to China’s entrance into the world of nation-states.3 Since the 1970s many scholars have questioned this paradigm. Rolf Trauzettel and Hoyt Tillman pointed at the evidence of a “mod- ern,” exclusive kind of nationalism, which appeared as early as the 1 I am indebted to the conference participants and to the volume editors, as well as to Miranda Brown, Poo Mu-chou and Haun Saussy for their insightful com- ments on earlier drafts of this paper. 2 Needless to say, the term “Chinese” itself is controversial, particularly as it lacks an exact equivalent in the Chinese language itself. Today it refers to two distinct entities: Zhongguo ren, which applies to all citizens of China, whatever their ethnic belong is, and the (more rarely used) Hanzu, which is used to distinguish “Chinese proper” from national minorities in the People’s Republic of China. In the past “Chinese” were frequently referred to as the people of the current or the previous dynasty (e.g.
  • 2014-15 Annual Report

    2014-15 Annual Report

    EAST ASIAN STUDIES Program and Department Annual Report 2014-2015 Table of Contents Director’s Letter ...........................................................................................................................1 Department and Program News ...................................................................................................3 Department and Program News ..............................................................................................3 Graduate Awards and Prizes....................................................................................................5 Departures................................................................................................................................6 Language Programs..................................................................................................................6 Thesis Prizes.............................................................................................................................7 EAS Department Majors ........................................................................................................ 8 EAS Language and Culture Certificate Students ....................................................................9 EAS Program Certificate Students ..........................................................................................9 Graduate Students News.............................................................................................................10 Faculty News...............................................................................................................................13
  • Confucian Jurisprudence in Practice: Pre-Tang Dynasty Panwen (Written Legal Judgments)

    Confucian Jurisprudence in Practice: Pre-Tang Dynasty Panwen (Written Legal Judgments)

    Washington International Law Journal Volume 22 Number 1 1-1-2013 Confucian Jurisprudence in Practice: Pre-Tang Dynasty Panwen (Written Legal Judgments) Norman P. Ho Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wilj Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons Recommended Citation Norman P. Ho, Confucian Jurisprudence in Practice: Pre-Tang Dynasty Panwen (Written Legal Judgments), 22 Pac. Rim L & Pol'y J. 49 (2013). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wilj/vol22/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews and Journals at UW Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington International Law Journal by an authorized editor of UW Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal Association CONFUCIAN JURISPRUDENCE IN PRACTICE: PRE- TANG DYNASTY PANWEN (WRITTEN LEGAL JUDGMENTS) Norman P. Ho † Abstract: Most scholarship on Chinese legal philosophy has neglected the study of Confucian jurisprudence in practice. As a result of this incomplete portrayal, scholars predominantly view the premodern Chinese Confucian legal tradition as lacking a rule of law system, which has led to blaming Confucianism for much of China’s modern and historical rule of law problems. This article seeks to complicate this view by examining Confucian jurisprudence in practice: specifically, the development of pre-Tang dynasty panwen (written legal judgments). Through analysis of specific panwen from various Chinese primary sources—many of which have never been translated into English—this article will show that even in Chinese antiquity the legal system was not solely marked by codification or the lack of the rule of law, but was far more complex and diverse than most scholars have portrayed.