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The Chu Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan Province). Volume 1, Discovery and Transmission
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- 作者： Li Ling (李零)著 , Lothar von Falkenhausen編譯
- 出版社：The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
- 出版年：2019
- ISBN：9789882370975
- EISBN：9789882370975 EPUB
- 格式：JPG
The Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan), are the only pre-Imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to-date. Dating to the turn from the 4th to the 3rd centuries BC (Late Warring States period), they contain several texts concerning basic cosmological concepts, including one manuscript (Manuscript 1) with a diagrammatic arrangement and surrounded by pictorial illustrations. As such, they constitute a unique source of information complementing and going beyond what is known from transmitted texts.
This is the first in a two-volume monograph on the Zidanku manuscripts, reflecting almost four decades of research by Professor Li Ling of Peking University. While the philological study and translation of the manuscript texts is the subject of Volume Two, this first volume presents the archaeological context and history of transmission of the physical manuscripts. It records how they were taken from their original place of interment in the 1940s and taken to the United States in 1946; documents the early stages in the research on the finds from the Zidanku tomb and its re-excavation in the 1970s; and accounts for where the manuscripts were kept before becoming the property, respectively, of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York (Manuscript 1), and the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution (Manuscripts 2 and 3). Superseding previous efforts, this is the definitive account that will sets the record straight and establishes a new basis for future research on these uniquely important artifacts.
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“The Chu Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, the oldest documents on silk with writing and images, are among the most exciting and enigmatic remnants from Chinese antiquity. Ever since their discovery in 1942 and their transferal to the US in 1946 scholars have grappled with how to interpret them. This now is the authoritative study. It is the collaborative effort of Li Ling, China’s foremost paleographer, and Lothar von Falkenhausen, the unrivalled expert on Chinese epigraphy in the US—a felicitous example of Sino-American cooperation.”
—Lothar Ledderose
Senior Professor, Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
“The 1942 discovery of the Zidanku manuscript was a seminal event in the study of early Chinese paleography and religion. Now seventy years later, Li Ling’s definitive monograph unveils the mysteries surrounding its discovery, transmission, preservation, and decipherment to an international audience. This volume compiles and assesses with immaculate accuracy and critical acumen all extant relevant material that Li Ling uncovered during his over thirty-year pursuit for answers in and out of China among archaeologists, historians, paleographers, and conservation scientists—a true model of interdisciplinary and international research, and an inspiration to all scholars in early China studies.”
—Jenny F. So
Senior Curator for Early Chinese Art (1990–2000), Freer|Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution
“This important book by Professor Li Ling is the result of a lifetime’s work of investigation into the Chu manuscripts from Zidanku, and recounts their fate from their discovery in the 1940s up to today. Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen has generously put his expertise at the service of the translation of this monumental work, perfectly reflecting one of the most valuable qualities of its author: his art of expressing the most difficult things simply and in a unique style in order to make them accessible to the greatest number of people.”
—Marianne Bujard
École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
“Professor Li Ling’s splendid book offers to the Western public the first ever comprehensive monograph on the Chu Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku in Changsha (Hunan), including the archaeological context of their discovery. This masterful research, to which he has devoted more than thirty years, is not only a minute investigation—the most extensive of its kind on the famous manuscripts—but also a very valuable contribution to our understanding of the intellectual life of the Late Warring States period.”
—Alain Thote
École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
- Introduction: The Place of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts in Chinese Paleography(第XI頁)
- (1) History of Research into “Writings on Bamboo and Silk”(第XI頁)
- (2) Methodological Principles(第XIII頁)
- (3) My Research on the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts(第XVI頁)
- (4) The Intellectual Context of This Book(第XXI頁)
- (5) Acknowledgments(第XXIII頁)
- Translator’s Preface(第XXV頁)
- Part A : The Chu Tomb at Zidanku(第3頁)
- Explanations(第3頁)
- I. Accounts of the Discovery(第4頁)
- II. The 1973 Excavation(第20頁)
- III. List of Items Unearthed from the Chu Tomb at Zidanku(第30頁)
- IV. Figures(第31頁)
- Part B : Related Documents(第61頁)
- Explanations(第61頁)
- I. Cai Jixiang, Examination and Verification of the Late Zhou Silk Manuscript(第62頁)
- II. First Preliminary Excavation Report(第100頁)
- III. Second Preliminary Excavation Report(第105頁)
- IV. “Dossier on the Removal of the Chu Silk Manuscripts to the United States”: A Posthumous Manuscript by Cai Jixiang(第113頁)
- V. Relevant Letters from Cai Jixiang to John H. Cox(第125頁)
- VI. Fu Peihe’s Interactions with John H. Cox on Behalf of Cai Jixiang(第130頁)
- VII. Wu Zhucun’s Interactions with John H. Cox on Behalf of Cai Jixiang(第135頁)
- VIII. How Frederic D. Schultheis Brought the Silk Manuscripts to the United States(第145頁)
- IX. Arthur M. Sackler’s Last Wish(第154頁)
- X. Paul Singer’s Recollections(第162頁)
- XI. Further Records Involving John H. Cox(第169頁)
- XII. The Changing Whereabouts of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts in the United States(第175頁)
- XIII. Letter to Milo Cleveland Beach Signed by Twenty-Seven International Scholars(第187頁)
- Part C : Related Photographs(第191頁)
- 1. Changsha(第192頁)
- 2. Changsha: College of Yale-in-China, Yali Middle School, and the Hsiang-Ya Medical College(第193頁)
- 3. Tomb Looting at Changsha during the 1930s(第195頁)
- 4. Cai Jixiang and His Family(第197頁)
- 5. Mingxiacun 明霞村 No. 5, Shanghai: Home of Cai Jixiang from 1937 to 1943(第199頁)
- 6. Shanghai : Wugong Hotel 吳宮大酒店, Cai Jixiang’s Place of Lodging in 1946(第200頁)
- 7. Shanghai : Gascogne Apartments, John Cox’s Place of Lodging in 1946(第201頁)
- 8. Li Ling 李零(第204頁)
- 9. Bai Rongjin 白榮金(第205頁)
- Part D : Timeline(第207頁)
- Explanations(第207頁)
- Bibliography(第218頁)
