Sinology

冮树革，安晓波 (Björn Alpermann), "德国中国学研究的当代转型和未来发展趋向" (The Current Transformation and Future Development Prospects of China Studies Research in Germany), 国外社会科学 (Social Sciences Abroad), 2012/2, 17-23.

by Björn Alpermann

德国是从事中国学研究的主要国家之一，中国的历史和文化一直是德国传统汉学重要的研究领域和内容。改革开放以来，伴随着社会转型过程中中国的巨大变迁，德国传统汉学面临着学术研究的当代转型，传统汉学包容、吸纳当代中国研究并实现二者融合发展，成为重要的... more 德国是从事中国学研究的主要国家之一，中国的历史和文化一直是德国传统汉学重要的研究领域和内容。改革开放以来，伴随着社会转型过程中中国的巨大变迁，德国传统汉学面临着学术研究的当代转型，传统汉学包容、吸纳当代中国研究并实现二者融合发展，成为重要的现象和趋向。从德国中国学研究的社会历史背景变迁出发，并基于德国当代中国研究和社会科学研究的二元视角，本文从多个维度分析了目前德国中国学研究的主要特点和发展趋势，认为，德国中国学研究在稳定发展的过程中，当代中国研究的学术重要性日益增长，正在发生渐进性、适应性和结构性的变化，同时也表现出未来发展的一些新趋势。

Sigiriya 2005 Report Second Part

by Jacques Coulardeau

CES Consolidation
In consolidating the work programme, the field research base and interpretation centre at Diyakapilla in Sigiriya established under the project facilitates to promote opportunities in eco-cultural resource documentation, provide experience in Dry Zone lifeways and training in biodiversity monitoring techniques to students, researchers and other stakeholders concerned with the conservation of eco-cultural diversity.

This is the second part of the report, the final few scores of pages.
For more, go there. Get to their site and... more This is the second part of the report, the final few scores of pages.
For more, go there. Get to their site and contact Sujeewa or Sudarshani. and be my guest: I will introduce to my favorite animals: wild elephants and all kinds of mountain cats.

Book Review: Åshild KOLÅS, Tourism andTibetan Culture in Transition: A Place Called Shangrila. New York: Routledge, 2008. xii+ 154 pp., with glossary, notes, and …

by Mona Schrempf

Ethnisch-religiöse Revitalisierung und rituelle Praxis...

by Mona Schrempf

PhD thesis, Institute of Ethnology, Free University of Berlin, 2001

ethnic and religious revival through communal ritual performance of masked dances in the post-Mao era in Amdo Sharkhog... more ethnic and religious revival through communal ritual performance of masked dances in the post-Mao era in Amdo Sharkhog (Songpan Xian, NW Sichuan, PRC), ethnohistory of Bon monasteries (1850-1997), Bon and Buddhism, social changes in ethnic relations at this Sino-Tibetan borderland

Daria Berg. "Die Heilkunde Chinas im Spiegel des Romans Xingshi yinyuan zhuan aus dem 17. Jahrhundert"

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. Die Heilkunde Chinas im Spiegel des Romans Xingshi yinyuan zhuan aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. In: ChinaMed. 6. München: Cygnus. 1995. 59-61.
Reproduced with the publisher's permission.

Daria Berg. "Teachers in Traditional China: A View from Seventeenth-Century Fiction"

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. Teachers in Traditional China: A View from Seventeenth-Century Fiction. In: Ming Qing yanjiu. Napoli: Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, Istituto Universitario Orientale. 2001. 15-43.
Reproduced with the publisher's permission.
http://www.iuo.it/index2.php?content_id=3018&content_id_start=1

Daria Berg. "Wu Jinfa and the Melancholy Mountain Forests of China's Border Cultures: New Voices in Taiwanese Literature"

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. Wu Jinfa and the Melancholy Mountain Forests of China's Border Cultures: New Voices in Taiwanese Literature. In: David Faure (ed.). In Search of the Hunters and their Tribes: Studies in the History and Culture of the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples. Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines. 2001. 202-240.
Reproduced with the publisher's permission.
http://www.museum.org.tw/SYMM_en/05.htm

Daria Berg. "Bell Doctors In the Late Imperial Chinese Novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan"

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. Bell Doctors in a Late Imperial Chinese Novel. In: Monumenta Serica. 49. Nettetal: Steyler-Verlag. 2001. 57-70.
Reproduced with the publisher's permission.
http://www.monumenta-serica.de/monumenta-serica/publications/journal/Catolog/Volume-XLIX-2001.php

Daria Berg. "Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Tale of Marriage Destinies that will Bring Society to its Senses (Xingshi yinyuan zhuan)

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Tale of Marriage Destinies that will Bring Society to its Senses (Xingshi yinyuan zhuan). In: David Faure and Tao Tao Liu (eds.). Town and Country in China: Identity and Perceptions. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2002. 17-40.
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http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=263183

Daria Berg. "What the Messenger of Souls Has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture"

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. What the Messenger of Souls has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture. In: Michel Hockx and Ivo Smits (eds.). Reading East Asian Writing: The Limits of Literary Theory. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. 2003. 171-203.
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http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780700717606/

Daria Berg. "Der Kult um die Unsterbliche Tanyangzi: Biographie als Bestseller im China der späten Kaiserzeit"

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. Der Kult um die Unsterbliche Tanyangzi: Biographie als Bestseller im China der späten Kaiserzeit. In: Jianfei Kralle and Dennis Schilling (eds.). Schreiben über Frauen in China: Ihre Literarisierung im historischen Schrifttum und ihr gesellschaftlicher Status in der Geschichte. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2004. 285-310.
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Daria Berg. "Amazon, Artist, and Adventurer: A Courtesan in Late Imperial China"

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. Amazon, Artist, and Adventurer: A Courtesan in late Imperial China. In: Ken Hammond (ed.). Human Tradition in Modern China. Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield. 2007. 15-32.
Reproduced with the publisher's permission.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780742554665

Daria Berg. "Negotiating Gentility: The Banana Garden Poetry Club in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan"

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. Negotiating Gentility: The Banana Garden Poetry Club in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan. In: Daria Berg and Chloë Starr (eds.). The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations beyond Gender and Class. London: Routledge. 2007. 73-93.
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http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415545419/

Daria Berg. "Reformer, Saint, and Savior: Visions of the Great Mother In the Novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan and Its Seventeenth-Century Chinese Context"

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. Reformer, Saint and Savior: Visions of the Great Mother in the Novel Xingshi yinyuan zhuan and its Seventeenth-Century Chinese Context. In: Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China. (1999)1.2: 237-267.
Reproduced with the publisher's permission.
http://www.brill.nl/nan-nue

Daria Berg. "Miss Emotion: Women, Books and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan"

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. "Miss Emotion: Women, Books and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan." In: Love Hatred and Other Passions: Questions and Themes on Emotions in Chinese Civilization, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida. Leiden: E.J. Brill (2006): 314-330.
Reproduced with the publisher's permission.
http://www.brill.nl/love-hatred-and-other-passions

Daria Berg and Mohammed Shafiullah. "Understanding how China thinks". China Daily 29 July 2011, Chinadaily.com.cn

by Daria Berg

URL: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-07/29/content_13013576.htm

Understanding how China thinks
Updated: 2011-07-29 11:37
By Daria Berg and Mohammed Shafiullah (China Daily... more Understanding how China thinks
Updated: 2011-07-29 11:37
By Daria Berg and Mohammed Shafiullah (China Daily European Weekly)
Upholding harmony in the land is key to Chinese development

It was telling that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao opted for culture over politics for the first stop of his recent visit to Britain. Speaking from the birthplace of William Shakespeare, he told of how literature and culture could act as a bridge between nations and implicitly chided leaders that sit at the negotiating table with little understanding of the history and culture of countries they are dealing with.
China and Europe have a lengthy history of miscommunication. If this gap of understanding is to be narrowed, European politicians and people must recognize how Chinese thought differs from the beliefs that are taken for granted in the West. Europe cannot seek to comprehend China without understanding China's past and its philosophical influence on Chinese psychology. [To read more...click on link below]

Daria Berg. "Cultural Discourse on Xue Susu, a Courtesan In Late Ming China" IJAS 6.2 (2009), 171-200.

by Daria Berg

International Journal of Asian Studies, 6, 2 (2009), pp. 171–200. Reproduced with the publisher's permission.

This paper investigates perceptions of courtesans, gender and power from various perspectives, using both literary and... more This paper investigates perceptions of courtesans, gender and power from various perspectives, using both literary and non-literary sources and reconstructed lost books. Analysis focuses on representations of the celebrated courtesan, poet and painter Xue Susu (fl. 1575–before 1652) by writers of different backgrounds, gender and class. In late Ming times women participated in elite culture in unprecedented numbers. Courtesans gained prominence in the literati arts, playing a formative role in shaping cultural ideals. Late imperial Chinese discourse embeds the image of the courtesan in the formation of new beauty ideals and social negotiations of gender roles and power. Paradoxes abound, linking the courtesan with notions of chivalry, chastity and loyalism and depicting her in the context of national politics and warfare. The Ming/Qing texts reflect not only current perceptions of women and courtesans, but also the social and cultural aspirations, dreams, anxieties and desires of their authors.

Daria Berg. "Consuming Secrets: China's New Print Culture At The Turn Of The Twenty-First Century"

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. “Consuming Secrets: China’s New Print Culture at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.” In From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, ed. Cynthia Brokaw and Christopher Reeds. Leiden: E.J. Brill (2010): 315-332. Reproduced with the publisher's permission.
http://www.brill.nl/woodblocks-internet

Daria Berg's study investigates relationships between the growth of consumer culture, rise of a new kind of urban... more Daria Berg's study investigates relationships between the growth of consumer culture, rise of a new kind of urban author, and appear- ance of a new type of commercial publisher in the Deng Xiaoping– Jiang Zemin era. This study uses fictional narratives as source material in order to gain insight into changing perceptions of print culture. Analysis traces the interplay of market forces, political pressures, and artistic expression, both in traditional print and online texts.

Daria Berg. “Female Self-Fashioning in Late Imperial China: How the Gentlewoman and the Courtesan Edited Her Story and Rewrote Hi/story.”

by Daria Berg

Daria Berg. “Female Self-Fashioning in Late Imperial China: How the Gentlewoman and the Courtesan Edited Her Story and Rewrote Hi/story.” In Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse—Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge, ed. Daria Berg. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007, pp. 238-289.
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In this study Daria Berg explores the ways in which women fashioned representations of the female self by editing and... more In this study Daria Berg explores the ways in which women fashioned representations of the female self by editing and publishing their own and other women’s writings. The publishing boom in late Ming/early Qing China propelled literary women into prominence, both as producers and consumers of literature. Berg analyses the literary and cultural aspirations, social anxieties and financial motivations of two women editors from the opposite ends of the social spectrum—a gentlewoman and a courtesan—in the economically prosperous and flourishing cultural environment of seventeenth-century Jiangnan, the Yangzi delta region. As women set out to edit women’s writings, they discovered that the process of rewriting China’s literary history empowered them in new and different ways. In the role of editor, women perceived their work as a means to change the course of history and their own representations within it.

On the Act and Representation of Reading in Medieval China

by Jack Chen

Discussion of how the act of reading is represented in texts from the Zhuangzi to Tao Qian and Xie Lingyun, with a... more Discussion of how the act of reading is represented in texts from the Zhuangzi to Tao Qian and Xie Lingyun, with a focus on early representations of silent reading.