scholarly journals IN MEMORY OF A GREAT SINOLOGIST: NOEL BARNARD (FEBRUARY 23, 1922–FEBRUARY 14, 2016)

Early China ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheung Kwong-Yue (Alex)
Keyword(s):  
European American ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Bronze Inscriptions ◽  
Bronze Casting

AbstractThe primary expertise of Noel Barnard, who died on February 14, 2016, was in bronze casting, Chu silk manuscripts, and their associated research, and he was internationally renowned for his knowledge of Chinese history and archaeology. Barnard's most important academic works included his ground-breaking Metallurgical Remains of Ancient China, with Satō Tamotsu, published in 1975, and Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American, and Australasian Collections 中日歐美澳紐所見所拓所摹金文彙編, with Cheong Kwong-yue. His three-volume book manuscript, Inscriptions of Chin and the San-Chin, on which he had spent almost twenty years before its completion, will be published soon. In this obituary, the author recalls his experiences, friendship, and collaboration with him.

scholarly journals Hearts, desires and behavioural patterns: Debating human nature in ancient China

2011 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Gassmann
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Early China ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Behavioural Patterns ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

AbstractThinkers in the Zhànguó period of Chinese history debated intensely whether men were by nature “good” or “bad”. This debate has for many years been an important focus of sinological interest, but usually these properties were not attributed to men, but rather to so-called “human nature” (xìng 性) – thus, in effect, mirroring well-known (and problematic) “European” positions and discussions. The aim of this paper is, on the one hand, to redirect attention to the original Zhànguó positions and to explore the reasons for their variance by offering novel and close historical readings of relevant passages, and on the other, to propose a viable historical reconstruction of the common anthropological assumptions underlying these positions by blending it with the traces of a dominant cognitive image present in the texts. This calls for a systematic rethinking of the role of hearts (in the plural), desires, and behavioural patterns in their interplay and as elements of a concept of the psychological build of human beings current in early China.

scholarly journals Chinese Shuyuan: A Legacy in Chinese Education History, or a Solution for Modern Undergraduates in China?

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Zhen Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Education History ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Chinese Education ◽  
Residential College ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Origin Function

The paper looked into concepts claimed to be essence of Chinese residential college, an on-going institution presumed to be a solution towards undergraduates’ issues in some pioneer universities in China. It’s analyzed that Chinese residential college today in China is not a Shuyuan that was ever striving as a unique education mode in ancient China, even if it’s named after Shuyuan in Chinese, concerning on its nature, function and goal, while it’s not a conventional residential college in English speaking countries neither. By investigation and comparison of its origin, function and features among Shuyuan and Chinese residential college, the spirit of development of a human with goodness and well-being through pursuit of knowledge and culture inherited and transmitted in Shuyuan is unearthed, which is supposed to be the resource of inspiration when the pioneer universities and educators designed and operate residential college on Chinese campus, though the effects couldn’t be accounted as appealing as what Shuyuan produced in ancient China. The research aims to depict a real Shuyuan, an education legacy every being alive in Chinese history, which were featured with paramount concepts and values that should be correctly recognized and implemented when there is great concern around undergraduates.

scholarly journals Formation of the Ancient Chinese Eastern Han Empire in the Soviet historiography of 1920s – 1930s

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Anna Konstantinovna Korobitsyna
Keyword(s):  
Class Struggle ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Ideological Perspective ◽  
Prewar Period ◽  
The Ancient Chinese ◽  
Eastern Han ◽  
Soviet Historiography

This article provides an overview of the major works of the Soviet researchers of prewar period, who covered the emergence of the Eastern Han Empire (25 – 220). The period of its existence that falls on the I – II centuries AD is one of the poorly studied periods of the Ancient Chinese history. The representations on the establishment of this empire within Soviet historiography developed in the prewar period are important for further study of this state, since they have not undergone significant changes. The article employs the chronological principle with determination of the key peculiarities of historiography of 1920s – 1930s, as well as comparative-historical and typological methods. Soviet researchers of the prewar period who dealt with this topic relied on the concept of the existence of feudalism in Ancient China, and thus, the struggle between the class of feudal lords and serf peasants. The Red Eyebrows rebellion movement drew heightened attention of the scholars. The Russian researchers of prewar period, other than K. A. Harnsky (1884 – 1938), views the Red Eyebrows movement as a peasant rebellion relying on rather ideological reasons than the analysis of historical sources. The author of this article believes that the example of this rebellion movement could tell about the class struggle in Ancient China, which explains the interest of the researchers. However, the focus of researchers on the Red Eyebrows movement, which covers just the first years of the existence of Eastern Han Empire, is also the reason why the establishment of the empire is poorly studied. They also interpreted the topic from ideological perspective, omitting the inconvenient facts.

WRITING BEFORE INSCRIBING: ON THE USE OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF WESTERN ZHOU BRONZE INSCRIPTIONS

Early China ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 273-332
Author(s):  
Ondřej Škrabal
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Word Count ◽  
Technical Process ◽  
Warring States ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Display Function ◽  
Western Zhou ◽  
Bronze Inscriptions ◽  
Material Evidence

AbstractWhile research on Warring States, Qin, and Han manuscripts is flourishing, much less is known about the use of manuscripts during the earlier stages of Chinese history, for which material evidence has not been preserved. Based on the layout features and textual anomalies in the Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, this article explores the traces of use of perishable writing supports in the process of the production of bronze inscriptions in this period and reconstructs their functions and physical qualities. Based on the surveyed evidence, the article posits that two distinct exemplar manuscripts were used in the inscription-making process: an original “master copy” that was kept aside for proofreading purposes and a secondary “blueprint” that was employed directly in the technical process of inscription-making. A single blueprint would be used consecutively by several craftsmen to produce a set of inscriptions on different types of vessels. The word count and layout of many inscriptions were already carefully planned during the process of their composition, and any study of a bronze text should therefore begin with the evaluation of its visual qualities. Moreover, this probe provides unambiguous evidence for the use of tube-lining in the inscription-making process and reconstructs the complete chaîne opératoire of bronze inscription production in the Late Western Zhou period. The article also offers insights into the level of literacy and the division of labor in bronze workshops, and touches upon the display function of bronze epigraphy during the Western Zhou period.

scholarly journals Bronze Casting and Bronze Alloys in Ancient China

1963 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 394
Author(s):  
Herbert Maryon ◽  
Noel Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Ancient China ◽  
Bronze Casting

scholarly journals Bronze Casting and Bronze Alloys in Ancient China

1962 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Cyril Stanley Smith ◽  
Noel Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Ancient China ◽  
Bronze Casting
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