During his China voyage of 1907, the Russian sinologist Vasiliy M. Alekseyev (1881–1951) visited a small town on the banks of the grand canal, famed for its production of popular New Year prints: Yangliuqing. Here Alekseyev bought a sizeable amount of prints, becoming one of the first scholars to prolifically collect this hitherto overlooked expression of Chinese popular culture. Being fascinated with, but unable to decipher the prints’ complex symbolic language, he asked his Chinese teac...| erccs.hypotheses.org
《历史书写中的创造与想象——出土文献与顾颉刚上古史研究的再思考》 顾颉刚先生发起的“疑古”思潮已历百年，而新出土文献与考古发现的持续涌现，始终推动着学界对战国秦汉文献中上古叙事的研究。当前学界在运用这些新材料检视顾氏学说时，多聚焦于出土文献与传世文本的互证，或争论古史辨学派是否过度解构了上古史，却较少关注顾氏理论中更具启发性的面向...| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Laurent Chircop-Reyes （罗汉），法国波尔多蒙田大学语言与文明学院人类学博士、副教授。2019 年以博士论文《中国北方镖师的社会身体与身体知识民族志》（Une ethnohistoire des maîtres – escortes en Chine du Nord），开展清末至近代（18–20 世纪）中国北方镖局、商帮与武术门派社会网络研究，奠定学术根基。此后聚焦中国帝制晚期及当代特殊地理环境（黄土高原、沙漠、草原与山地）...| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
Jiang Yanwen 姜彦文. Mishi yuyi: Yangliuqing nianhua zhong de duozhong shijie 谜式寓意: 杨柳青年画中的多重世界 [Enigmatic allusions: Multiple worlds within Yangliuqing-New Year Pictures], Tianjin: Tianjin Renmin Chubanshe, 2024. ISBN: 978-7-201-19965-8, 315 pages, 198 RMB. Reviewed by Bernd Spyra (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) During his China voyage of 1907, the Russian sinologist Vasiliy M. Alekseyev (1881–1951) visited a small town […]| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
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
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