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"At the Shores of the Sky"
Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt
Series: - Sinica Leidensia, Volume: 151
Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During that time he has shepherded over 700 books into print and has distinguished himself as a figure of exceptional discernment and insight in academic publishing. He has also become a personal friend to many of his authors. A subset of these authors here offers to him in tribute and gratitude 22 essays on various topics in Asian Studies. These include studies on premodern Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean literature, history, and religion, extending also into the modern and contemporary periods. They display the broad range of Mr. Hoffstädt's interests while presenting some of the most outstanding scholarship in Asian Studies today.
Paul W. Kroll, Ph.D. (1976, Univ. of Michigan), has published widely on medieval Chinese literature and cultural history, and is the author of A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese (Brill, 2014; rev. ed. 2017).
Jonathan A. Silk, Ph.D. (1994, Univ. of Michigan), has published widely, mainly on Indian and Buddhist literature, and is the founding editor of Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2 vols. to date, 2015, 2019).
Jonathan A. Silk, Ph.D. (1994, Univ. of Michigan), has published widely, mainly on Indian and Buddhist literature, and is the founding editor of Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2 vols. to date, 2015, 2019).
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Albert Hoffstädt: A Tribute
âThe Editors
â1âWhat Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex?
âAlexander Lubotsky
â2âIndiaâs Past Reconsidered
âJohannes Bronkhorst
â3âA Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Änandaâs Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddhaâs Teachings
âJonathan A.Silk
â4âOn the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas
âVincent Eltschinger
â5âSize Matters: The Length of Koreaâs History and the Size of Its Historical Territory
âRemco Breuker
â6âPolyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan
âMartin J.Heijdra
â7âOvercoming Distance
âRichard Bowring
â8âBeyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early China
âMartin Kern
â9âTaking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and Philosophy
âJan De Meyer
â10âOn Some Verses of Li Bo
âPaul W.Kroll
â11âAn Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the Countryside
âDavid R.Knechtges
â12âLu Jiâs Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Literary Creation
âWendy Swartz
â13âTerms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in Medieval China
âStephen F.Teiser
â14âWomen in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826â1880)
âBeata Grant
â15âChinese Dualism Revisited
âJohn Lagerwey
â16âAn Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews
âRobert Ford Campany
â17âSelf-Portrait of a Narcissist
âPierre-Ãtienne Will
â18âThe Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles
âRobert E.Hegel
â19âMaking Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern Zaju
âWilt L.Idema
â20âTransgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese Poetry
âMaghiel van Crevel
â21âHoratius Sinensis
âMichael Lackner
â22âThe Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity
âChristoph Harbsmeier
Index
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Albert Hoffstädt: A Tribute
âThe Editors
â1âWhat Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex?
âAlexander Lubotsky
â2âIndiaâs Past Reconsidered
âJohannes Bronkhorst
â3âA Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Änandaâs Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddhaâs Teachings
âJonathan A.Silk
â4âOn the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas
âVincent Eltschinger
â5âSize Matters: The Length of Koreaâs History and the Size of Its Historical Territory
âRemco Breuker
â6âPolyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan
âMartin J.Heijdra
â7âOvercoming Distance
âRichard Bowring
â8âBeyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early China
âMartin Kern
â9âTaking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and Philosophy
âJan De Meyer
â10âOn Some Verses of Li Bo
âPaul W.Kroll
â11âAn Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the Countryside
âDavid R.Knechtges
â12âLu Jiâs Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Literary Creation
âWendy Swartz
â13âTerms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in Medieval China
âStephen F.Teiser
â14âWomen in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826â1880)
âBeata Grant
â15âChinese Dualism Revisited
âJohn Lagerwey
â16âAn Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews
âRobert Ford Campany
â17âSelf-Portrait of a Narcissist
âPierre-Ãtienne Will
â18âThe Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles
âRobert E.Hegel
â19âMaking Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern Zaju
âWilt L.Idema
â20âTransgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese Poetry
âMaghiel van Crevel
â21âHoratius Sinensis
âMichael Lackner
â22âThe Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity
âChristoph Harbsmeier
Index
All interested in Asian humanities, premodern or modern.