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17、The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History  时 间：December, 2015 作 者：Dingxin Zhao 出版单位：New York: Oxford University Press 内容简介： Part I. Empirical and Theoretical Considerations Introduction Chapter 1: A Theory of Historical Change Part II. The Historical Background of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty Chapter 2: The Western Zhou (ca. 1045-771 BCE) Order and Its Decline Chapter 3: The Historical Setting of Eastern Zhou, an Age of War Part III. War-driven Dynamism in Eastern Zhou Chapter 4: The Age of Hegemons (770-546 BCE) Chapter 5: The Age of Transition (545-420 BCE) Chapter 6: In the Age of Total War (419-221 BCE): (1) Philosophies and Philosophers Chapter 7: In the Age of Total War: (2) Absolutism Prevailing Chapter 8: In the Age of Total War: (3) Qin and the Drive toward Unification Chapter 9: Western Han and the Advent of the Confucian-Legalist State Part IV. The Confucian-Legalist State and Patterns of Chinese History Chapter 10: Pre-Song Challenges to the Confucian-Legalist Political Framework and Song Responses Chapter 11: Relations between Nomads and Settled Chinese in History Chapter 12: Neo-Confucianism and the Advent of a Chapter 13: Market Economy under the Confucian-Legalist State Concluding Remarks 18、Gendered Bodies: Toward a Women’s Visual Art in Contemporary China  时 间：December, 2015 作 者：Shuqin Cui 出版单位：Honolulu: University Of Hawaii Press 内容简介： Gendered Bodies introduces readers to women’s visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic experiment, they reveal a wealth of noncanonical approaches to art. The insertion of women’s narratives into Chinese art history rewrites a historiography that has denied legitimacy to the woman artist. The gendering of sexuality reveals that the female body incites pleasure in women themselves, reversing the dynamic from woman as desired object to woman as desiring subject. The gendering of pain demonstrates that for those haunted by the sociopolitical past, the body can articulate traumatic memories and psychological torment. The gendering of space transforms the female body into an emblem of landscape devastation, remaps ruin aesthetics, and extends the politics of gender identity into cyberspace and virtual reality. The work presents a critical review of women’s art in contemporary China in relation to art traditions, classical and contemporary. Inscribing the female body into art generates not only visual experimentation, but also interaction between local art/cultural production and global perception. While artists may seek inspiration and exhibition space abroad, they often reject the (Western) label “feminist artist.” An extensive analysis of artworks and artists—both well- and little-known—provides readers with discursively persuasive and visually provocative evidence. Gendered Bodies follows an interdisciplinary approach that general readers as well as scholars will find inspired and inspiring. About the Author Shuqin Cui is professor of Asian studies and cinema studies at Bowdoin College. 19、On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems  时 间：October, 2015 作 者：Paul Rouzer 出版单位：Seattle: University of Washington Press 内容简介： In this first serious study of Hanshan (“Cold Mountain”), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618-907). Hanshan’s poems gained a large readership in English-speaking countries following the publication of Jack Kerouac’s novel The Dharma Bums (1958) and Gary Snyder’s translations (which began to appear that same year), and they have been translated into English more than any other body of Chinese verse. Rouzer investigates how Buddhism defined the way that believers may have read Hanshan in premodern times. He proposes a Buddhist poetics as a counter-model to the Confucian assumptions of Chinese literary thought and examines how texts by Kerouac, Snyder, and Jane Hirshfield respond to the East Asian Buddhist tradition. About the Author Paul Rouzer is professor of Asian languages and literatures at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese and Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts. 20、The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu  时 间：October, 2015 作 者：Wilt L. Idema 出版单位：Amherst: Cambria Press 内容简介： Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Precious Scroll of the Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven Chapter 3. The Precious Scroll of Liu Quan Presenting Melons Chapter 4. The Precious Scroll of the Parrot Chapter 5. The Precious Scroll of the Mouse Chapter 6. The Precious Scroll of Kalpa Survival Chapter 7. The Precious Scroll of the Wedding Scams of Hu Yucui Bibliography 21、Chinese Ethnic Minority Oral Traditions: A Recovered Text of Bai Folk Songs in a Sinoxenic Script  时 间：May, 2015 作 者：Jingqi Fu, Zhao Min, Xu Lin, Duan Ling 出版单位：Amherst: Cambria Press 内容简介： In 1958 while conducting fieldwork in Yunnan, a professor came across a ricepaper booklet with strange script created from Chinese characters. This turned out to be a folksong booklet in Old Bai script. She safeguarded it carefully through the tumultuous Mao years until the 1990s, when the political environment had relaxed enough for her to conduct full-scale ethnographic research. Very few such texts remain, and what makes this booklet even more valuable is that it records songs that have already disappeared, including some with sexually explicit content. In this unprecedented book on the oral traditions of the ethnic minority of China, representing decades of painstaking research, the Old Bai script has not only been transcribed and translated in both English and Chinese but each page from the original booklet has also been reproduced. The introduction begins with a process of textualization, recounting the origin of the written song text. Details are supplied about the chain of collectors and researchers working on the project since the early 1950s. This is an excellent example of textual provenience. A brief but useful introduction to the Bai people and history, noting some issues with ethnic identity and contact with Han Chinese culture, is also included. There is a helpful, succinct discussion of the linguistic placement of Bai, followed by a more comprehensive introduction to the Yunlong dialect of Bai—the dominant dialect which the text reflects. Mention is also made of the Great Volumes Tradition, which was also sometimes written in a special register of Chinese characters. Emphasis is placed on “created characters” utilized in the Bai/Han Chinese script. The next section is on Bai folklore and culture, with a discussion on traditional performance genres, in particular antiphonal singing, of which these songs are a part. The book delves into the possibilities of how the songs got into the written form in relation to behavior of Bai local elites. The authors also note the decline of the local song tradition in recent years. The following section introduces the Bai song format in a clear and useful fashion, followed by a section covering the use of Chinese Character-based Bai writing, giving more than two hundred examples—this section will be of most use to linguists. The authors note the use of 150 “created characters” in the text out of approximately 500 “individual characters” in the text, and included are the opinions of Chinese linguists on the phenomenon along with a discussion of how this text of the 1930s utilizes some “simplified” characters, anticipating developments in script reform after 1949. The songs are presented in a multilinear format that includes the Bai text, an IPA version of the sound, a word-for-word Chinese line, a word-for-word English line, and vernacular (Standard) Chinese line and vernacular English translation. Although this is easy to follow by linguists, the book also includes a very helpful appendix with only the vernacular English for easier access to the songs for other groups of readers (e.g., teachers of folklore classes). This book will be an important, if not essential, addition for scholars and students of Asian studies, ethnic studies, folklore, and linguistics. Author Bio Jingqi Fu is Professor of Chinese at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a Nouveau Doctorat from Université de Paris III (Sorbonne), and a BA in French from the Beijing Institute of Languages. She has published in English, French, and Chinese in the areas of Chinese syntax, Bai syntax, nominalization, language contact, and syntax-morphology interface. Her research interests include typology, Tibeto-Burman languages, language preservation, and documentation. Zhao Min is a literary historian and a native of Yunlong County, Yunnan. He is the director of the Research Institute of Nationality Cultures at Dali University in Yunnan. He has been the leading researcher in several state-funded research projects and authored numerous articles and books, including Salt and Horse Caravan Routes and Ethnic Societies on the Yunnan Southern Borders. Xu Lin (1921–2005) was a Bai linguist and a pioneer in Bai language studies. As a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, she was part of the Ethnic and Linguistic Survey of the early 1950s. She coauthored two standard Bai reference books, The Survey Grammar of the Bai Language and Bai-Chinese Dictionary. She has published numerous articles on Bai and Lisu languages and folklore. Duan Ling (1939–2012) was a folkorist, musician, and linguist with wide-ranging publications on Bai dialects and other minority languages such as Lisu, Nu, and Dulong; Bai tunes and poetry; and Bai rituals. He was the author of On the Rhyme and Structure of the Bai Tunes and Primitive Religious Practices of Lemo Bai and coauthor of Dialects of Dali Bai Autonomous Region. 22、China’s Agrarian Transition: Peasants, Property, and Politics  时 间：December, 2015 作 者：Rene Trappel 出版单位：New York: Rowman & Littlefield 内容简介： Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Theoretic Framework and Research Design Chapter 3: Collective Land and Household Responsibility System Chapter 4: Peasant Differentiation and Smallholder Frustration Chapter 5: Local State and Agrarian Transition Chapter 6: The Commodification of Farmland Chapter 7: Conclusion 23、The Rise of Tea Culture in China: The Invention of the Individual  时 间：November, 2015 作 者：Bret Hinsch 出版单位：New York: Rowman & Littlefield 内容简介： Introduction Chapter One: The Rise of Tea Chapter Two: Power Chapter Three: Lu Yu Chapter Four: Connoisseurship Chapter Five: Morality Chapter Six: Transcendence Chapter Seven: Manhood 资料来源：台北《汉学研究通讯》、台北《国家图书馆电子报》等 陈友冰辑 (责任编辑：admin) |