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The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ: Volume 1

The present work is a study on the formation of the Shih-ching. The author poses the hypothesis that this collection of poems, as the standard music and literature passed down to later generations, initially incorporated different cultural heritages through a process which moved from ritualization to secularization, as well as standardization to localization.

In aiming to find the origins of the division of the Shih-ching into sections and subsections and their titles, as "Nan," "Feng," "Ya," and "Sung," the author employs an interdisciplinary methodology, combining ethno-musicological methods with paleography, philology, and archaeology. He draws on new archaeological data of the past two decades that has shed new light on the Shih-ching.

Die intensive Beschäftigung der Gelehrtenbeamten (shidafu) in der nördlichen Song-Dynastie - vor allem der Vertreter des entstehenden Neokonfuzianismus - mit den Staatsriten erfuhr in der westlichen Forschung bisher kaum eine angemessene Würdigung. Diese Studie integriert verschiedene Ritendiskussionen samt ihrem institutionellen Rahmen und den dabei von den Hauptdiskutanten vertretenen Positionen in den Kontext der intellektuellen Prägungen der Beteiligten, wie auch der Reform- und Parteistreitigkeiten jener Periode, v.a. jener zwischen den Anhängern und Gegnern Wang Anshis (1021-1086) sowie innerhalb der konservativen Partei in der Yuanyou-Periode (1086-1093). Kristallisationspunkte dieser Diskussionen bildeten die Reformen der Ritenmusik (yayue) und Fragen zur Durchführung der vom Kaiser selbst vollzogenen Opfer - Mingtang sowie Nanjiao und Beijiao. Das komplexe Zusammenwirken der verschiedenen Dimensionen des chinesischen Ritenbegriffs (li), der gelehrte, soziale, aber auch politische und Machtaspekte in sich vereint, veranschaulicht besonders die Analyse der Debatten der Jahre 1064-1066 über die korrekte Form der posthumen Verehrung Zhao Yunrangs (995-1059), des Fürsten von Pu, durch seinen leiblichen Sohn, Kaiser Yingzong (1032-1067), in dessen doppelter Rolle als Adoptivsohn und Nachfolger Kaiser Renzongs (1010-1063).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Einleitung

Teil IDie ritologischen Voraussetzungen der Song-Dynastie

Teil IIRekonstruktion der ritologischen Problemstellungen und des amtlichen Diskussionsverlaufs 1034-1093

Teil IIIStruktur, Kontext und Analyse der Ritendiskussionen im 11. Jahrhundert

Teil IVDer Ritendiskurs als Kontext des entstehenden Neokonfuzianismus: Studien zu ausgewählten Repräsentanten verschiedener Strömungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Puyi-Falls: Ouyang Xiu, Sima Guang, Cheng Yi

Teil VErgebnisse - Anhänge - Literaturverzeichnis

The papers in this volume go back to a conference held September 14-15, 2002, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., in honour of Prof. Daniel L. Overmyer on his retirement. The contributions pay tribute to this renowned scholar of Chinese religious traditions, whose work is a constant reminder to look beyond text to context, beyond idea to practice, to study religion as it was and is lived by real people rather than as an abstract system of ideas and doctrines.

Contents

PHILIP CLART: Introduction

RANDALL L. NADEAU: A Critical Review of Daniel L. Overmyer’s Contribution to the Study of Chinese Religions.

I. Popular Sects and Religious Movements

HUBERT SEIWERT: The Transformation of Popular Religious Movements of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: A Rational Choice Interpretation

SHIN-YI CHAO: The Precious Volume of Bodhisattva Zhenwu Attaining the Way. A Case Study of the Worship of Zhenwu (Perfected Warrior) in Ming-Qing Sectarian Groups

CHRISTIAN JOCHIM: Popular Lay Sects and Confucianism: A Study Based on the Way of Unity in Postwar Taiwan

SOO KHIN WAH: The Recent Development of the Yiguan Dao Fayi Chongde Sub-Branch in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand

PHILIP CLART: Merit beyond Measure. Notes on the Moral (and Real) Economy of Religious Publishing in Taiwan

JEAN DEBERNARDI: "Ascend to Heaven and Stand on a Cloud." Daoist Teaching and Practice at Penang’s Taishang Laojun Temple.

II. Historical and Ethnographic Studies of Chinese Popular Religion

JOHN LAGERWEY: The History and Sociology of Religion in Changting County, Fujian

KENNETH DEAN: The Growth of Local Control over Cultural and Environmental Resources in Ming and Qing Coastal Fujian

PAUL R. KATZ: Religion, Recruiting and Resistance in Colonial Taiwan: A Case Study of the Xilai An Incident, 1915

WANG CHIEN-CH’UAN. Transl. PHILIP CLART: The White Dragon Hermitage and the Spread of the Eight Generals Procession Troupe in Taiwan

TUEN WAI MARY YEUNG: Rituals and Beliefs of Female Performers in Cantonese Opera

JORDAN PAPER: The Role of Possession Trance in Chinese Culture and Religion: A Comparative Overview from the Neolithic to the Present.

III. The Religious Life of Clerics, Literati, and Emperors

JUDITH BOLTZ: On the Legacy of Zigu and a Manual on Spirit-writing in Her Name

STEPHEN ESKILDSEN: Death, Immortality, and Spirit Liberation in Northern Song Daoism. The Hagiographical Accounts of Zhao Daoyi

ROBERTO K. ONG: Chen Shiyuan and Chinese Dream Theory

BAREND J. TER HAAR: Yongzheng and His Buddhist Abbots.

Glossary – Index

The present study on ancient Chinese philosophy invites us to meet a challenging task in philosophical understanding. The so-called "School of Names" (mingjia 名家) is a label for a diverse group of thinkers in the Warring States period (479–221 B.C.) that has sometimes been accused of dabbling in flippant linguistic and conceptual puzzles, paradoxes, or sophistries. Bernard Solomon analyzes the works of its two main representatives, namely Huizi 惠子 (Master Hui, or Hui Shi 惠施, 380–305 B.C.?) and Gongsun Long 公孫龍 (b. 380 B.C.?).

The Chapter One deals with the ten "paradoxes" of Huizi as recorded in the Zhuangzi 莊子. Chapters Two to Six are devoted to five texts attributed to Gongsun Long that have been called cryptic or even a mixture of banality and nonsense. Among them is also found the "White-Horse Dialogue" with its famous dictum "A white horse is not a horse." The aim of Solomon’s investigation is the discovery of the rules of "language games" in the School of Names and of the key to solve their linguistic and conceptual puzzles and paradoxes. His analysis shows in all the texts he interprets an "evidence of an interest in language qua language" (p. 12), which is unique for Chinese thought in the classical era.

Bernard S. Solomon holds a Ph.D. in Far Eastern Languages of Harvard University (1952) and was a long-time Professor of Chinese in the Department of Classical and Oriental Languages at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY).

Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, May 10-12, 2012.  This volume consists of selected papers from a cross-disciplinary symposium, held by the Ostasien-Institut (OAI, East Asia Research Institute) as part of the project "Europe meets China - China meets Europe." It presents studies on the early encounters between two highly heterogeneous groups, European missionaries and Chinese literati, employing a cultural-psychological framework. Based on research in primary sources, the contributions elaborate on the cultural conditions and psychological interactions which influenced these encounters, thus providing new insights into the history of the Jesuit mission in China.

Contents: BERNHARD FÜHRER: Preface. ALOIS OSTERWALDER: Introduction. ISAIA IANNACCONE: The Challenge of Accommodation: The Case of Niklaas Trigault and Johannes Schreck-Terrentius. GREGORY BLUE: The Multifaceted Xu Guangqi: A Composite Sketch Based on the Current Western Literature. HUI-HUNG CHEN: A Chinese Treatise Attributed to Xu Guangqi (1615): How the Jesuits in China Defined "Sacred Images". LIAM MATTHEW BROCKEY: From Coimbra to Beijing, via Madurai: Andre Palmeiro, S.J. (1569-1635) in Maritime Asia. MANJUSHA KURUPPATH: Caught in Confessional Crossfire: Representations of Johann Adam Schall von Bell in Dutch Sources in the 1660s. SHU-JYUAN DEIWIKS: Some Cultural and Psychological Aspects of the Trial of Johann Adam Schall before the Supreme Court of Peking - According to the Secret Manchu Documents. CLAUDIA VON COLLANI: Kangxi's Mandate of Heaven and Papal Authority. Index.

Shortlisted in the German Language Edition category of the ICAS book prize 2017.

Christianity was initially a “foreign religion” in China, nevertheless it took roots over the course of several centuries through the process of evangelisation, negotiation, conversion, and contextualization. Therefore, it constitutes a rather complex cultural phenomenon in China. It has been, and still is, viewed from several perspectives and embedded into various, sometimes mutually exclusive, master narratives of Chinese history, e.g., Cultural exchanges between China and the West, Imperialism in China, Modernisation of China and Chinese religious history. Each of these narratives entails a different evaluation of the history of Christianity in China. As this study in German points out, changes in this field of research are an apt indicator for shifts in the conception of national and cultural identity/alterity in Mainland China. They also reflect different perceptions of the relationship between Christianity/Christian groups and Chinese culture/non-Christian population as well as between China and the West.

Based on an analysis of discourses on the historiography of Christianity in China, the author demonstrates the interplay of historical research with Mainland Chinese debates on meta-topics such as paths of modernisations and identity. The focus of this research is on the contributions of Liang Qichao (1873–1929), Hu Shi (1891–1962), and Chen Yuans (1880–1971) for the early 20th century. For the late 20th and 21st century relevant articles from the leading historical journals Jindaishi yanjiu (Modern Chinese History Studies), Lishi yanjiu (Historical Reserarch) and Zhongguoshi yanjiu (Studies in Chinese History) are discussed. In the evaluation of these articles a special emphasis is put on the influence of the historian Zhang Kaiyuan as a pioneer of a new research perspective.