The Great Song Transition

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1 The Great Song Transition I. Course description The transformation of Chinese civilization during the "Song renaissance" ( ) is our major concern for the spring semester. China mentally realigned itself, first because it had to acknowledge other players in the world such as the powerful nomad states along its own northern borders and second because those nomads would occupy the northern half of China during what is called the "Southern Song" ( ). Buddhism, a foreign religion though it had been introduced to China many centuries before the Song period, flourished alongside the indigenous popular pantheon. Furthermore China underwent internal changes such as the emergence of a vibrant urban culture. Self-representation changed in tandem with the rise of a new social stratum, the shidafu, and the literati culture it produced. The change rippled into the fine arts as well. We will study the new contexts of Chinese civilization through travel essays, cartography, and reports and journals of diplomatic envoys. Tiantai Buddhism, Chan Buddhism and indigenous popular religion will be examined through their primary texts. We will hear about the changes in culture via storytelling and dramatic texts, and via Song cityscape paintings. Our study of new incarnations of Confucian teachings, xinglixue, or the "Learning of the nature and principle," and daoxue, or the "Learning of the Way," examines sophistication of philosophical discourse and China s second-most famous scholar, Zhu Xi, and his creation of a new Confucian canon. In literature, we will study Song shi- and ci-poetry. Shi-poetry showed expanded topics and the mindset of the new literati class. Ci-poetry transformed the very notion of poetics. In art, we will analyze monumental landscape painting, printed illustrations, and Song aesthetic theory. The Qin/Han unification may have laid the basic foundation of China, but many have argued that the Song gave modern China its distinctive cultural heritage. II. Course requirements 1. Reading and pondering all assigned readings before conferences. This will include regularly writing reading responses, discussion questions, poetic analyses, visual exploratories, and the like. 2. Attending all conferences, including regular, active and substantive conference participation. 3. Attending all lectures (which also means keeping 11:00-11:50 a.m. open on Wednesdays and Fridays for additional lectures or activities). All lectures meet in the Performing Arts Building, Rm 320, 11:00-11: Three short (5-7 pages) analytical papers; deadlines & format will be set by conference leaders. 5. One group project (to be designed by individual conference leaders). 1

2 III. Faculty Ken Brashier Lecturer ETC 203 x 7377 Alexei Ditter Conference leader E 423 x 7348 Douglas Fix Lecturer E 423 x 7422 Jing Jiang Chair & Conference leader E 119 x 7376 Hyong Rhew Lecturer E 122 x 7392 Michelle Wang Lecturer Lib 323 x 7730 IV. Texts available for purchase in the book store The Lotus Sutra. Burton Watson, trans. New York: Columbia University Press, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch. Translated from the Chinese of Tsung-pao. John R. McRae, trans. Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, Note: This is also available online from Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai ( Chu, Hsi [Zhu Xi]. Learning to be a sage. Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, arranged topically. David Gardner, trans. Berkeley: University of California Press, Tung, Chieh-yüan [Dong Jieyuan]. Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance. Chen Li-li, trans. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, c A god's own tale: The Book of transformations of Wenchang, the Divine Lord of Zitong. Terry Kleeman, trans. Albany: SUNY Press, VI. Weekly course schedule: Week One: Handscroll introduction and Song dynasty shi-poetry Introduction to the Qingming shanghe tu handscroll During the first week of the semester, we will introduce a famous panoramic depiction of the Northern Song capital, Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng), the Qingming shanghe tu. This handscroll is one of several artistic monuments to be viewed and analyzed during the semester. Early introduction of this particular work of art will enable the kind of interdisciplinary study that Chinese humanities promotes. Thus, we have scheduled the following two introduction sessions during this first week of classes: Wednesday, 27 January, 11:00-11:50, ETC TBA (both sections) 2

3 Week One: Tang & Song shi-poetry. Lecture: Monday, 25 January, 11:00-11:50 am: Hyong Rhew Schirokauer, Conrad and Miranda Brown. "China during the Song: " A brief history of Chinese civilization. Belmont: Thomson Wadsworth, Pp Course moodle & Library Reserves: DS721 S , 1 copy "The Song Dynasty: Period introduction." An anthology of Chinese literature: Beginnings to Stephen Owen, ed. & trans. New York: Norton, Pp Course moodle & Library Reserves: PL2658 E1 A , 8 copies Selections from Song poets: Mei Yaochen (, ), Ouyang Xiu (, ), Wang Anshi (, ), Su Shi (, ), Huang Tingjian (, ), Yang Wanli (, ), Lu You (, ). Hyong Rhew, et al., trans. Course moodle Ouyang, Xiu. "Remarks on poetry: Shih-hua." Readings in Chinese literary thought. Stephen Owen, trans. Cambridge: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, Pp Course moodle & Library Reserves: PL R (2) ***Second Lecture: Friday, 29 January, 11:00-11:50 am: Ken Brashier Week Two: Tiantai Buddhism Lecture: Monday, 1 February, 11:00-11:50 am: Ken Brashier Gregory, Peter. "The vitality of Buddhism in the Sung." Buddhism in the Sung. Peter Gregory and Daniel Getz, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: BQ640 B , 1 copy. The Lotus Sutra. Burton Watson, trans. New York: Columbia University Press, Chapters 1-7, 10-14, 20, 23, Text * Lotus Sutra frontpieces: Week Three: Chan Buddhism Lecture: Monday, 8 February, 11:00-11:50 am: Ken Brashier Schlütter, Morten. "Chan Buddhism in the Song: Some background." How Zen became Zen: The dispute over enlightenment and the formation of Chan Buddhism in Songdynasty China. Honolulu: University of Hawai i Press, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: BQ C5 S (1) The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch. Translated from the Chinese of Tsung-pao. John R. McRae, trans. Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, Reserves: BQ9299 H854 L , 4 copies. Note: This is also 3

4 available online from Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai ( * The Blue Cliff record: Translated from the Chinese Pi yen. Thomas and J.C. Cleary, eds. Boulder: Shambhala, Pp (only the first two cases). Course moodle & Reserves: BQ 9289 Y823 Y , 1 copy * The origins of Buddhist monastic codes in China: An annotated translation and study of the Chanyuan qinggui. Yifa, trans. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, Pp , Reed e-book BQ9295 Z653 Y eb Week Four: Monumental landscapes Lecture: Monday, 15 February, 11:00-11:50 am, Hui-shu Lee (Guest Lecturer) Image gallery: Sirén, Osvald. "Kuo Hsi [Guo Xi] and his treatise on landscape painting." A history of early Chinese painting. Vol 2, From the Sung to the end of the Yuan dynasty. London: The Medici Society, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: ND1043 S v.2 (1) Foong, Ping. "Ink landscape as cultural capital at court." The efficacious landscape: On the authorities of painting at the Northern Song court. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: ND F , 1 copy Hay, Jonathan. "Interventions: The mediating work of art." The Art Bulletin 89, iii (2007): JSTOR Barnhart, Richard. "Figures in landscape." Archives of Asian Art 42 (1989): JSTOR * Han, Cho [Han Zhuo]. "Shan-shui ch'un-ch'üan chi ( )." Two Sung texts on Chinese painting and the landscape styles of the 11th and 12th centuries. Robert Maeda, ed. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: ND T (1) * "The landscape texts." Early Chinese texts on painting. Susan Bush & Hsio-yen Shih, eds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Pp Reserves: ND1500 E (6) * Kuo Jo-hsü [Guo, Ruoxu]. Kuo Jo-hsu s experiences in painting (T u-hua chien-wen chih). Alexander Soper, trans. Washington: American Council of Learned Societies, Pp. ix-xii, 1-2, Course moodle * Foong, Ping. "Guo Xi s intimate landscapes and the case of old trees, level distance." Metropolitan Museum Journal 35 (2000):

5 * Barnhart, Richard. "The Five Dynasties and the Song period." Three thousand years of Chinese painting. Richard Barnhart, James Cahill, and Wu Hung, eds. New Haven: Yale University Press, Pp Reserves: ND1040 T (5) Week Five: Song-Liao relations Lecture: Monday, 22 February, 11:00-11:50 am: Douglas Fix Image gallery: Maps useful for understanding Song-Liao, Song-Jin relations. Course moodle Wright, David. "Embassy reports." From war to diplomatic parity in eleventh-century China. Leiden: Brill, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: DS751.3 W (1) Lau, Nap-yin. "Waging war for peace? The peace accord between the Song and the Liao in AD 1005." Warfare in Chinese history. Hans van de Ven, ed. Leiden; Boston: Brill, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: DS738.W , 1 copy Lu, Chen [Lu, Zhen]. "Ch'eng-yao lu." The Ambassadors records: Eleventh-century reports of Sung embassies to the Liao. David Wright, trans. Papers on Inner Asia, No. 29. Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: DS751 W (3) Tackett, Nicholas. "The Great Wall and conceptualizations of the border under the Northern Song." Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 38 (2008): Course moodle Lou, Yue ( ). "A diary of my journey to the north." Stephen West, trans. De Weerdt, Hilde. "Maps and memory: Readings of cartography in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Song China." Imago Mundi 61, ii (2009): Available online via the Library's electronic journals Week Six: Travel writing Lecture: Monday, 29 February, 11:00-11:50 am: Douglas Fix "Accounts of visits (you-ji)," and "Account of Stone Bell Mountain." An anthology of Chinese literature: Beginnings to Stephen Owen, ed. & trans. New York: Norton, Pp , Course moodle & Reserves: PL2658 E1 A (8) Su, Shi. "The poetic exposition on Red Cliff," and "The second poetic exposition on Red Cliff." An anthology of Chinese literature: Beginnings to Stephen Owen, ed. & trans. New York: Norton, Pp , Course moodle & Reserves: PL2658 E1 A (8) 5

6 Zhang, Cong Ellen. "Introduction." Transformative journeys: Travel and culture in Song China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: DS751.3 Z (1) Fan, Chengda. Diary 2: Register of mounting a simurgh (Canyuan lu). On the road in twelfth century China: The travel diaries of Fan Chengda ( ). James M. Hargett, trans. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, Pp , Course moodle & Reserves: PL2687 F3 H (1) Lu, Yu ( ). Great Canal, Great River: The Travel Diary of a Twelfth-century Chinese Poet. Translated with a commentary by Philip Watson. London: Frances Lincoln; 1 edition. Course moodle & Reserves: PL2687.L8 Z (1) * Lu, Yu ( ). "Book two," and "Book four." South China in the twelfth century: A translation of Lu Yu's travel diaries, July 3 - December 6, Chang Chun-shu and Joan Smythe, trans. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, Pp , Course moodle & Reserves: PL2687 L8 Z (1) Egan, Ronald. "When there is a parallel text in prose: Reading Lu You's 1170 Yangzi River journey in poetry and prose." Reading medieval Chinese poetry: Text, context, and culture. Paul Kroll, ed. Leiden: Brill, Pp Course moodle Week Seven: Song cities, cityscapes, and capital journals. Lecture: Monday, 7 March, 11:00-11:50 am: Michelle Wang Image archive: The Qingming shanghe tu handscroll: Note: Login and password will be provided by your conference leader. Meng, Yuanlao. "Preface." A record of dreaming of splendors past in the Eastern Capital. Stephen West, trans. Course moodle Meng, Yuanlao. "Recollections of the Northern Song capital" [from Dongjing meng Hua lu]. West, Stephen, trans. Hawai'i reader in traditional Chinese culture. Victor Mair, et al, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: DS721 H , 2 copies Preface to "The attractions of the capital." Moule, A.C. "'The wonders of the capital' roughly translated." New China Review 3, i (1921): Course moodle "The attractions of the capital" [from Ducheng jisheng]. Chinese civilization: A sourcebook. 2nd ed. Patricia Ebrey, ed. New York: The Free Press, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: DS721 C (5) Tsao, Hsingyuan. "Unraveling the mystery of the handscroll 'Qingming shanghe tu'." Journal of Song and Yuan Studies 33 (2003): Course moodle 6

7 * Zhang, Zeduan. Qing ming shang he tu [A riverside scene at Qingming festival]. Yang Dongsheng, ed. Tianjin: Tianjin Renmin Meishu, Reserves: ND1049 C4525 Z (1) Week Eight: Song ci-poetry Lecture: 14 March, 11:00-11:50 am: Hyong Rhew "Song ci-poetry selections." Hyong Rhew, trans. Course moodle Li Qingzhao ( ?). "On the song-lyric (Lun ci)." John Wixted, trans. Women writers of traditional China: An anthology of poetry and criticism. Chang Kang-i Sun, et al, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Pp Electronic resource (via Library catalog): Pl2278 W eb; also Reserves: PL2278 W (1) Egan, Ronald. ""Song lyrics, part 1." The poet Li Qingzhao and her history in China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: PL2682.Z5 E , 1 copy * Owen, Stephen. "Meaning the words: The genuine as a value in the tradition of the Song lyric." Voices of the Song lyric in China. Pauline Yu, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: PL2336 V (1) * Ashmore, Robert. "The banquet's aftermath: Yan Jidao's ci poetics and the high tradition." T'oung Pao 87 (2002): JSTOR Spring break Week Nine: Literati aesthetics Lecture: Monday, 28 March, 11:00-11:50 am: Michelle Wang Image gallery: Mi, Fu ( ). Sailing on the Wu River. ca Handscroll. Ink on paper x cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Wang, Shen. Misty river, layered peaks. Handscroll. Ink and color on silk. ca x 166 cm. Shanghai Museum. Qiao, Zhongchang (attributed). Rhapsody on the Red Cliff. Prior to Handscroll. Ink on paper x 560 cm. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. 7

8 Su, Shi. "The poetic exposition on Red Cliff," and "The second poetic exposition on Red Cliff." An anthology of Chinese literature: Beginnings to Stephen Owen, ed. & trans. New York: Norton, Pp , Course moodle & Reserves: PL2658 E1 A (8) Bush, Susan. "The views of Northern Sung literati. Su Shih." The Chinese literati on painting: Su Shih (1037) to Tung Ch'i-ch'ang ( ). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Pp Course moodle Sturman, Peter. "Silencing the cry of the cold insects: Meaning and design in the exile calligraphy of Huang Tingjian and Su Shi." Oriental Art 46, v (2000): Course moodle Silbergeld, Jerome. "Back to the Red Cliff: Reflections on the narrative mode of early literati painting." Ars Orientalis 25 (1995): JSTOR Barnhart, Richard. "Landscape painting around 1085." The power of culture: Studies in Chinese cultural history. Willard Peterson, et al., eds. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: DS721 P (1) Yen, Yü (Yan Yu). "Ts'ang-lang's remarks on poetry." Readings in Chinese literary thought. Stephen Owen, trans. Cambridge: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, Pp Reserves: PL R (2) * Sturman, Peter. "Landscape and calligraphy." Mi Fu: Style and the art of calligraphy in Northern Song China. New Haven: Yale University Press, Pp Course moodle * Edwards, Richard "Painting and poetry in the late Sung." Words and images: Chinese poetry, calligraphy, and painting. Alfreda Murck and Fong Wen, eds. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: NK3634 A2 W (2) * Silbergeld, Jerome. "On the origins of literati painting in the Song dynasty." A Companion to Chinese Art. Martin Powers and Katherine Tsiang, eds. London: Wiley Blackwell, Pp Week Ten: Book and print culture Lecture: Monday, 4 April, 11:00-11:50 am: Alexei Ditter Image gallery #1: "Interlude: Li Qing-zhao's epilogue to Records on metal and stone." An anthology of Chinese literature: Beginnings to Stephen Owen, trans. New York: Norton, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: PL2658 E1 A (8) 8

9 Chia, Lucille. "The physical appearance of Jianyang woodblock imprints." Printing for profit: The commercial publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th 17th centuries). Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, Pp , Course moodle & Reserves: Z244.6 C6 C (2) McDermott, Joseph. "Book collecting in Jiangxi during the Song dynasty." Knowledge and text production in an age of print: China, Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt, eds. Leiden: Brill, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: Z186 C5 F (1) Image gallery #2, Lotus Sutra frontpieces: Huang, Shih-shan Susan. "Early Buddhist illustrated prints in Hangzhou." Knowledge and text production in an age of print: China, Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt, eds. Leiden: Brill, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: Z186 C5 F (1) Poon, M.S. "The printer's colophon in Sung China, " The Library Quarterly 43, i (1973): JSTOR * Zhang Xiuming. The history of Chinese printing. Revised by Han Qi; translated by Chen Jiehua, et al. Paramus: Homa & Sekey Books, Reserves: Z186 C5 Z (1) * Da guan: Song ban tu shu te zhan [Grand view: Special exhibition of Sung dynasty rare books]. Taipei: National Palace Museum, [2006] Reserves: Oversize Z1029 G (2) Week Eleven: Reading and Sageliness Lecture: Monday, 11 April, 11:00-11:50 am: Alexei Ditter "Ouyang Xiu: 'Essay on fundamentals'." Sources of Chinese tradition. New and revised edition. T. debary & I. Bloom, comp. New York: Columbia University Press, Pp in Vol 1. Course moodle & Reserves: DS721 D , v. 1 (6) Chu, Hsi [ZHU Xi]. Learning to Be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically. Daniel K. Gardner, trans. Berkeley: University of California Press, Text * "Neo-Confucianism: The philosophy of human nature and the way of the sage." Sources of Chinese tradition. New and revised edition. T. debary & I. Bloom, comp. New York: Columbia University Press, Pp in Vol 1. Reserves: DS721 D , v. 1 (6) * Bol, Peter. "Introduction," and "The transformation of the shih." 'This culture of ours : Intellectual transitions in T ang and Sung China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Pp (with notes). Reserves: DS B (6) 9

10 Week Twelve: Stories and performance literature Lecture: Monday, 18 April, 11:00-11:50 am: Jing Jiang Yuan, Zhen. "Ying-ying's story." An anthology of Chinese literature: Beginnings to Stephen Owen, ed. & trans. New York: Norton, Pp Course moodle & Reserves: PL2658 E1 A (8) [ ] TUNG, Chieh-yüan [Dong Jieyuan]. Master Tung's Western chamber romance (Tung hsi-hsiang chu-kung-tiao): A Chinese chantefable. Li-li Ch'en, trans. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, c1976. Text * "Yingying zhuan: Yuan Zhen, 'Biography of Yingying'." Ways with words: Writing about reading texts from early China. Pauline Yu, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, Pp Reserves: Z C45 W (7) Week Thirteen: Song popular religion Lecture: Monday 25 April, 11:00-11:50 am: Jing Jiang A god's own tale: The Book of transformations of Wenchang, the Divine Lord of Zitong. Terry Kleeman, ed. New York: State University of New York Press, Pp , Text 10