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Exploring the cultural perception of animals in early Chinese thought, this careful reading of Warring States and Han dynasty writings analyzes how views of animals were linked to human self perception and investigates the role of the animal world in the conception of ideals of sagehood and socio-political authority. Roel Sterckx shows how perceptions of the animal world influenced early Chinese views of man s place among the living species and in the world at large. He argues that the classic Chinese perception of the world did not insist on clear categorical or ontological boundaries between animals, humans, and other creatures such as ghosts and spirits. Instead the animal realm was positioned as part of an organic whole and the mutual relationships among the living species both as natural and cultural creatures were characterized as contingent, continuous, and interdependent."
- Sales Rank: #2791993 in Books
- Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
- Published on: 2002-04-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.90" h x .82" w x 6.02" l, 1.12 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 375 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
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With his [Sterckx s] enormous knowledge and meticulous arguing he provides us with a unique work that will remain standard in the field for many years, an immense source of information full of stimulating new insights and interpretations dealing with the subject of the mutual relations between man and animal. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
a fascinating study of animals as metaphors for human behaviour and character, as well as of the anthropomorphism of animals thought subject to moral laws and human virtue. Archives of Natural History
Sterckx s study deserves wide attention, for it broadens one s perspective of the historical, crossing disciplinary boundaries to suggest a fuller, more complete Chinese universe. Journal of Asian History
This book provides a sumptuous and detailed typology of an important theme in early Chinese thought. It adumbrates the ways in which the animal world was appropriated by the early Chinese to create some of the most fundamental ideals concerning the spiritual, social, and political aspects of sagehood in Warring States and Han China. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of the way in which the early Chinese perceived the natural world and how such perceptions reflected on and shaped their views of the human world and what it meant to be human. Sarah A. Queen, author of From Chronicle to Canon: The Hermeneutics of the Spring and Autumn, According to Tung Chung-Shu
I know of no other book, either in a European language or in Chinese or Japanese, which provides such a fascinating portrait of early Chinese interpretations of animals. I suspect that it will be a major reference work for everyone who deals with the intellectual and religious world of early China. John H. Berthrong, author of Concerning Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and Neville"
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Exploring the cultural perception of animals in early Chinese thought, this careful reading of Warring States and Han dynasty writings analyzes how views of animals were linked to human self perception and investigates the role of the animal world in the conception of ideals and of sagehood and socio-political authority. Roel Sterckx shows how perceptions of the animal world influenced early Chinese views of man's place among the living species and in the world at large. He argues that the classic Chinese perception of the world did not insist on clear categorical or ontological boundaries between animals, humans, and other creatures such as ghosts and spirits. Instead the animal realm was positioned as part of an organic whole and the mutual relationships among the living species-both as natural and cultural creatures-were characterized as contingent, continuous, and interdependent.
About the Author
Roel Sterckx is University Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge and a former Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.
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What Confucius said about tigers
By Vladimir Menkov
If you've read a book or a magazine article about traditional or modern Chinese art, you most likely have encountered at least one picture or sculpture with animals in it, and a cultural explanation - something like, for example, "a crane and a tortoise traditionally symbolized longevity". Now, when you read a casual explanation like this, you sometimes want to ask - does this meaning really exist, and if so, how and when was it actually attested historically? The "when" is particularly interesting, since China has 2,500 years of fairly well recorded history and literature - plus archaeological data (turtle-shell inscriptions, bronze vessels, other art, etc) going back for another millenium beyond that - and a typical Chinese text could use the word "ancient" ("gudaide") for anything that's 300 or 3,000 years old.
If you have ever asked this kind of question, Roel Sterckx's book is for you. It is a detailed analysis of references to animals in literature of ancient China, and the meaning behind them. The author intentionally limits his scope both chronologically and with respect to the kind of material he looks at. The focus of his research is on recorded literature, as opposed to oral folklore, art, or archaeological data. Moreover, he looks primarily at the writings preserved from the Han Dynasty (ca. 200 BC - 200 AD), plus whatever writing reached us from earlier centuries (such as the works ascribed to Confucius - in reality, probably, in Han-era editions anyway). Thus he primarily tries to reconstruct the view of the animal world held by the Chinese scholars and writers of ca. 2000 years ago.
Looking carefully at the material within the scope so defined, Dr. Sterckx concludes that the Chinese literati of old were concerned primarily with the cultural meaning of animals, as opposed to, say, trying to create early biological science (as Needham perhaps would have suggested). As the examples Sterckx has assembled suggest, among main reasons for ancient authors to mention animals was to describe a (real, mythical, or allegorical) wise ruler, whose benevolence is attested by assorted creatures who come to dwell at his court, or to praise a sage capable of understanding the beasts and birds. Looking at various animal allegories the author mentions, one can't help thinking of the mediaeval European bestiaries, which, after all, also were more about moral stories than about real creatures.
Many of the "animal stories" Sterckx mentions in his book have given rise to metaphors that are still alive today. Here we have Confucius encountering a woman living in a remote area who had lost all her male relatives to tigers, but who still does not want to move elsewhere, "because there is no oppressive government here". (And people still talk about Laws Harsh As Tigers). (p. 151). Here we have two mythical beasts, the "jue" and the "qiongqiong juxu", one of which has long hind legs and short front paws and the other, long forelegs and short hind legs, so the two have to cooperate to get around, and to share their food (p. 156); and people in China today still refer to "lang bei" (the wolf ("lang") and the mythical "bei" creature with short front paws) when they talk about criminals acting "hand in glove" with each other.
And on top of this, the book is full of little fascinating stories that you'd have to read the "Shanhaijing", "Huainanzi", and lots of other more obscure books to find out. How do you like, for example the "Spirit tortoise" that a fish farmer should let live in his ponds, so that it would prevent his carps from becoming immortal dragons and flying away? (p. 155).
Overall, the book is a fascinating reading for a lay reader interested in the "animal lore" of ages past, and, I suppose, a treasure trove for an expert who actually reads _wenyan_ and can make use of the sources listed in the 100+ pages of the notes and bibliography.
If the author thinks of producing a new edition of this wonderful book, and making it more appealing to a wider audience (or at least to public libraries throughout the English-speaking world), he may consider doing what van Gulik did in his delightful treatise on The Gibbon in China (1967), or to what Sarah Allan did in The Shape of the Turtle (1991), and to illustrate the book with some of the surviving animal art from the period of his study - or even from much later ages, when appropriate. The present edition has only one illustration - the one on its cover, so a reader may be tempted to read it in parallel with an illustrated edition of "Shanhaijing" or some other such treatise.
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