中国的手工业与传统工艺源远流长，先秦时期就形成了比较完备的手工业体系和匠作制度。中国工匠以精湛的技艺，为社会创造了丰厚的物质财富，我们今天见到的物质文化遗产，大多出自古代工匠之手。许多文物做工极为精巧，显示出古代工匠高超的技艺水平。伴随匠作制度和古代工艺的传承发展，形成了我国独特的匠作文化和工匠精神。工匠精神在当代的缺失，制约了...| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Technical learning is most often perceived as the result of pedagogical, scientific and experiential processes that seek efficiency and rely on clarity and transparency to guarantee success. The master makes the right gestures for an attentive apprentice who observes them in order to reproduce them. This lecture seeks to show, on the contrary, that a large part of the acquisition of technical skills is less about science, effective pedagogy and clarity than it is about magic, aesthetics and ...| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Li Li 李立 & Shi Qing 史青, Qingdai Yunnan ‘Yiren tushuo’ yanjiu 清代雲南「夷人圖說」研究 (Research on Qing Dynasty Ethnographic Albums from Yunnan Province), Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2021. ISBN 9787101153354, 164 pages, 68 RMB. Reviewed by Li Yutong 李雨桐 (Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg) This book provides a comprehensive examination of ethnographic albums in Yunnan during the Qing […]| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Typically scribes are not considered craftsmen but rather clerks or bookkeepers. This is also true for ancient Mesopotamian scribes (in Akkadian, ṭupšarrum): administration and bookkeeping fell within their everyday duties. There were, however, small groups of scribes whose tasks were very different from their colleagues: with the secret knowledge of the divine world transmitted for generations, they maintained the world order at whose center, the king stood as the ultimate intermediatory ...| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Cao Xinyu 曹新宇, Zushi de zupu—Ming Qing Bailianjiao shehui lishi diaocha 祖師的族譜—明清白蓮教社會歷史調查 (A genealogy of the patriarchs: A social historical investigation of the White Lotus Teachings in the Ming and Qing dynasties), Beijing: Shangwu Yinshuguan, 2023. ISBN: 978-7-1001-8416-8, 316 pages, 128 RMB. Reviewed by Barend J. ter Haar (University of Hamburg) Everybody working in the […]| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Abstract: Lacquer is a natural secretion of the lacquer tree, mainly containing lacquer phenol, laccase, gum and water. At room temperature, it is oxidised and polymerised into a film by the action of laccase. Lacquer film is hard, glossy, water and moisture resistant, resistant to chemical media and soil corrosion. It is one of China’s major specialties, and world-famous with its long history. The flute is a popular wind instrument in China, and the flute made of bamboo is called ‘bamboo...| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Crafting Legacy: Tracing the Threads of Traditional Craftsmanship The making of things to fulfill daily and luxury needs is probably as old as mankind. However, it was only the emergence of industrial mass production that led to the separation between craft object and machine-made object and thus the concept of traditional craftsmanship in contrast to […]| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Cite this blog postMJF (2024, May 13). Books on Chinese History from China: Bibliography for 2023. European Research Centre for Chinese Studies. Retrieved May 14, 2024, from https://erccs.hypotheses.org/2236| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Wang Rui 王锐, Geming rusheng: Zhang Taiyan zhuan 革命儒生：章太炎传 (The Revolutionary Confucian Scholar. A Biography of Zhang Taiyan), Guangxi shifan daxue chubanshe, 2022. ISBN 9787559855367; 344 pages; 88 RMB. Reviewed by Fabian Hiller (PhD candidate @ University of Tübingen) Wang Rui’s new biography of Zhang Taiyan, entitled The Revolutionary Confucian Scholar, is part of a […]| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Jia Liying 賈麗英. Chutu jiandu yu Qin Han shehui shenfen zhixu yanjiu 出土簡牘與秦漢社會身份秩序研究 (Unearthed Manuscripts and the Study of the Order of Social Identities during the Qin and Han Dynasties). Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe, 2023. ISBN: 978-7-5227-1694-7, xiii+447 pages, 218 RMB. Chun Fung Tong 唐俊峰 (Heidelberg University) Since the seminal work by Nishijima Sadao […]| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Wang Yongping 王永平, Xinyang yu xisu: shehui wenhua shi shiye xia de Tang dai daojiao 信仰與習俗—社會文化史視野下的唐代道教 (Beliefs and Customs: Tang Dynasty Daoism from the Perspective of Socio-Cultural History), Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 2023. ISBN 9787522811406, 725 pages, 128.80 RMB. Reviewed by Franciscus Verellen (EFEO) Wang Yongping is a Professor of History at the Capital […]| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Zhang Xiang 张翔, Datong lijiao: Kang Youwei zhengzhi sixiang yanjiu 大同立教——康有为政教思想研究 (Establishment of Confucianism on Datong: A Study of Kang Youwei’s Political and Religious Philosophy), Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 2023. ISBN 9787520185844, 356 pages, 128 RMB. Reviewed by Federico Brusadelli (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) Since the beginning of the 21st century, studies on Kang […]| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Zhang Xiping 张西平, Zhongguo he Ouzhou zaoqi sixiang jiaoliushi 中国和欧洲早期思想交流史 (History of the Intellectual Exchange between China and Europe in the Early Modern Period), Beijing: Beijing Daxue Chubanshe 北京大学出版社, 2021. ISBN: 978-7-301-32228-4, 531 pages, 138 RMB. Reviewed by Zhou Yuping 周宇平 (Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg) This monograph by Zhang Xiping, distinguished professor at Beijing Language […]| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
