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This thesis discusses the development and functions of an epistolary form called chidu, focussing... more This thesis discusses the development and functions of an epistolary form called chidu, focussing on the period during which the chidu enjoyed the greatest popularity, namely the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Partly because there has been very little work done on the genre at all, and more particularly to provide background to the discussion of late Ming and early Qing chidu, I begin by examining early uses of the term chidu and by looking at those texts which later writers referred to in their writings on the genre. I will show that in fact the early development of chidu is not at all clear, and that the texts to which later writers on chidu referred were not about chidu at all, but were about the more formal form of letter-writing called shu, which achieved canonical status from quite early times. I then proceed to look at the more distinct emergence during the Song dynasty of the kind of chidu which were practised in late Ming and Qing times. In the main part of the thesis,...
Animals through Chinese History
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Culture
Although we know that honey was being consumed in China by the seventh millennium BCE, and that h... more Although we know that honey was being consumed in China by the seventh millennium BCE, and that honey hunting and beekeeping were common throughout China during the imperial period, bees are not as prominent in Chinese history and culture as they were in some other parts of the world. Bees do not begin to emerge clearly from the broader category of feng 蜂, which includes wasps, until the second century CE, and the first literary meditation upon them is a rhapsody composed in the early fourth century CE. While numerous texts mention bees, few elaborate on them, either descriptively or imaginatively. The pictorial record of bees is poor, and there are hardly any images in which bees or their hives are used symbolically. No ‘royal beekeeper’ is mentioned in theWestern Han (206 BCE–25 CE) Zhouli周禮 (Rites of Zhou) or other texts relating to governance, and there seems to have been little government interest in beekeeping; it was not until the Yuan dynasty that beekeeping was added to agr...
Ming Qing Yanjiu
This essay explores the use of autobiography to enhance symbolic capital in seventeenth-century C... more This essay explores the use of autobiography to enhance symbolic capital in seventeenth-century China as exemplified by the chronological autobiography of the writer and geomancer Peng Shiwang 彭士望 (1610–1683). Peng was one of the Nine Masters of Changes Hall, a group of Ming loyalist scholars based in Ningdu in south-eastern Jiangxi province who gained a reputation among the cultural elite of the early Qing dynasty. Peng was not a major figure in the Ming–Qing transition period, and his own active participation in the Ming resistance to the Qing conquest was slight. Nevertheless, the economic effects of the Qing conquest, and his decision not to seek employment under the new dynasty, left him and his family in a financially and socially precarious position. When, in 1666, Peng published his collected poetry, he prefaced it with a chronological autobiography remarkable for devoting about half its space to the names of people he met during his peripatetic life. These names include a s...
Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911, 2018
Survey of the representations of bees in Chinese culture from early times until the Qing dynasty.
Agricultural History, 2012
A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture, May 2015
Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 28 (2006): 127-159.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 2014
This thesis discusses the development and functions of an epistolary form called chidu, focussing... more This thesis discusses the development and functions of an epistolary form called chidu, focussing on the period during which the chidu enjoyed the greatest popularity, namely the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Partly because there has been very little work done on the genre at all, and more particularly to provide background to the discussion of late Ming and early Qing chidu, I begin by examining early uses of the term chidu and by looking at those texts which later writers referred to in their writings on the genre. I will show that in fact the early development of chidu is not at all clear, and that the texts to which later writers on chidu referred were not about chidu at all, but were about the more formal form of letter-writing called shu, which achieved canonical status from quite early times. I then proceed to look at the more distinct emergence during the Song dynasty of the kind of chidu which were practised in late Ming and Qing times. In the main part of the thesis,...
Animals through Chinese History
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Culture
Although we know that honey was being consumed in China by the seventh millennium BCE, and that h... more Although we know that honey was being consumed in China by the seventh millennium BCE, and that honey hunting and beekeeping were common throughout China during the imperial period, bees are not as prominent in Chinese history and culture as they were in some other parts of the world. Bees do not begin to emerge clearly from the broader category of feng 蜂, which includes wasps, until the second century CE, and the first literary meditation upon them is a rhapsody composed in the early fourth century CE. While numerous texts mention bees, few elaborate on them, either descriptively or imaginatively. The pictorial record of bees is poor, and there are hardly any images in which bees or their hives are used symbolically. No ‘royal beekeeper’ is mentioned in theWestern Han (206 BCE–25 CE) Zhouli周禮 (Rites of Zhou) or other texts relating to governance, and there seems to have been little government interest in beekeeping; it was not until the Yuan dynasty that beekeeping was added to agr...
Ming Qing Yanjiu
This essay explores the use of autobiography to enhance symbolic capital in seventeenth-century C... more This essay explores the use of autobiography to enhance symbolic capital in seventeenth-century China as exemplified by the chronological autobiography of the writer and geomancer Peng Shiwang 彭士望 (1610–1683). Peng was one of the Nine Masters of Changes Hall, a group of Ming loyalist scholars based in Ningdu in south-eastern Jiangxi province who gained a reputation among the cultural elite of the early Qing dynasty. Peng was not a major figure in the Ming–Qing transition period, and his own active participation in the Ming resistance to the Qing conquest was slight. Nevertheless, the economic effects of the Qing conquest, and his decision not to seek employment under the new dynasty, left him and his family in a financially and socially precarious position. When, in 1666, Peng published his collected poetry, he prefaced it with a chronological autobiography remarkable for devoting about half its space to the names of people he met during his peripatetic life. These names include a s...
Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911, 2018
Survey of the representations of bees in Chinese culture from early times until the Qing dynasty.
Agricultural History, 2012
A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture, May 2015
Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 28 (2006): 127-159.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 2014