Year: 2018
Type: editorial
Abstract: written by Christopher Foster.This complements the review last year by Olivier Venture of the Qin jiandu heji 秦簡牘合集.The study of Early China in China is much too large a field for Early China to include systematic book reviews, but reviews of works of major importance that our readers would like to know about are welcome.Early China 41 also includes two innovations.One is a research note responding to an article in the previous issue and a rejoinder by the original author.This lively debate between Jonathan Smith and Adam Smith-on the evolution of the graph shun 舜-is ostensibly about technical issues, but the argument goes beyond the immediate question and helps to clarify methodological problems in analyzing graphic change that will be of interest to anyone who uses excavated texts.We hope that this practice will continue.The other innovation is an exhibition review by Martin Powers of the Mirroring China's Past exhibition curated by Tao Wang at the Art Institute of Chicago (February 25-May 13, 2018).This exhibition took the role of bronzes in the Chinese imagination throughout history as its theme.It focused primarily on bronzes in historic collections but included related materials up to contemporary times.Most importantly, it included many the most famous bronzes from historic collections that are now in the Imperial Palace and the Shanghai Museum collections.These are rarely exhibited and this was an exceptional event; but there are many exhibitions of early Chinese art and archaeology in the West, and we invite reviews of future exhibitions.As the "Annual Bibliography," compiled by Wen-Yi Huang, attests, there is an ever-increasing number of publications in our field.One reason is the increasing number of English-language journals and books published as collaborations between Chinese institutions and Western publishing houses.For about a decade, Brill has been publishing a series of journals with titles including "Frontiers of [academic discipline] in China" that include primarily articles translated from Chinese.Those devoted to History, Philosophy, and Literary Studies sometimes have articles of relevance to Early China studies.
Source: Early China
DOI: 10.1017/eac.2018.14
Author: Sarah Allan
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4229963046