At the Shores of the Sky

Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43298-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 151, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kroll, Paul W

Silk, Jonathan A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Albert Hoffstädt: A Tribute

The Editors

1 What Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex?

Alexander Lubotsky

2 India’s Past Reconsidered

Johannes Bronkhorst

3 A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ananda’s Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha’s Teachings

Jonathan A.Silk

4 On the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas

Vincent Eltschinger

5 Size Matters: The Length of Korea’s History and the Size of Its Historical Territory

Remco Breuker

6 Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan

Martin J.Heijdra

7 Overcoming Distance

Richard Bowring

8 Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early China

Martin Kern

9 Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and Philosophy

Jan De Meyer

10 On Some Verses of Li Bo

Paul W.Kroll

11 An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the Countryside

David R.Knechtges

12 Lu Ji’s Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Literary Creation

Wendy Swartz

13 Terms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in Medieval China

Stephen F.Teiser

14 Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826–1880)

Beata Grant

15 Chinese Dualism Revisited

John Lagerwey

16 An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews

Robert Ford Campany

17 Self-Portrait of a Narcissist

Pierre-Étienne Will

18 The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles

Robert E.Hegel

19 Making Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern Zaju

Wilt L.Idema

20 Transgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese Poetry

Maghiel van Crevel

21 Horatius Sinensis

Michael Lackner

22 The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity

Christoph Harbsmeier

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).