China Under Jurchen Rule: Essays on Chin Intellectual and Cultural History - Paperback

by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman (Editor), Stephen H. West (Editor)

Illustrations

Table of Dynasties

Acknowledgments

Contributors

A Note on Romanization

Foreword

Herbert Franke

Introduction

Hoyt Cleveland Tillman and Stephen H. West

I. Politics and Institutions

1. An Overview of Chin History and Institutions

Hoyt Cleveland Tillman

2. The Jurchen-Sung Cogitation: Some Overlooked Points

James T. C. Liu

3. Public Schools in the Chin Dynasty

Tao Jing-shen

II. Religion and Thought

4. Cofucianism under the Chin and the Impact of Sung Confucian Tao-hsüeh

Hoyt Cleveland Tillman

5. Chao Ping-wen (1159-1232): Foundation for Literati Learning

Peter K. Bol

6. Buddhism and Taoism under the Chin

Yao Tao-chung

III. Literature and Art

7. Five Paintings of Animal Subjects or Narrative Themes and Their Relevance to Chin Culture

Susan Bush

8. Jurchen Literature under the Chin

Jin Qicong

9. Satire and Allegory in All Keys and Modes

Wilt Idema

10. Chilly Seas and East-Flowing Rivers: Yüan Hao-wen's Poems of Death and Disorder, 1233-35

Stephen H. West

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Author Biography

Hoyt Cleveland Tillman is Professor of History at Arizona State University, where he is also on the faculty of the Humanities Graduate Program, as well as a member of the Center for Asian Studies and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is the author of Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy, and Utilitarian Confucianism: Ch'en Liang's Challenge to Chu His. Stephen H. West is Professor of East Asian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Vaudeville and Narrative: Aspects of Chin Literature, and co-author of Chinese Theater from 1100-1450: A Source Book and The Moon and the Zither: Wang Shifu's Story of the Western Wing.