Lecturer: Colin Jeffcott. tel (02) (6125) 3190. e-mail: colin.jeffcott@anu.edu.au
Room E4.31, Asian Studies Building (Baldessin Precinct Building)
This guide is designed to provide help in finding reading which will contribute to youir understanding of the history and nature of Confucian thought and practice. It tries to point you to work directly concerned with Confucianism itself, but also to the varying contexts which are essential to any full understanding of its nature.
The first item is list of books and articles directly on Confucianism itself, covering its history in China down to the Song dynasty, on the internet:
1. Confucianism: a bibliography
http://asia.anu.edu.au/confbib.html
For more general books, and some articles, the first reference to use is:
2. The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, Third edition, edited by Mary Beth Norton, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995.
This is in the Reference Section of the Chifley Library. In order to avoid damaging it (too much photocopying is very destructive) I have made copies of the relevant sections. These copies may be borrowed from the Asian History Centre Administrator, Linda Poskitt (Asian Studies Room 4.38).
The entries include brief, useful notes, and cover most of the standard works in their respective fields. Note, though, that the coverage runs only up to 1992, so that you need to look elsewhere for books published in the last five or six years.
Section 10, " China to 1644", is edited by Patricia Ebrey. There is a listing on page 286 of the headings under which entries in this section are arranged. Particularly useful, aside from the general history entries, is:
Religion, Philosophy and Thought (pages 289 -295): this section includes:
General Studies (pages 289-290)
Pre-Han Thought (pages 291-292)
Sung Neo-Confucianism (pages 293-294).
Yüan-Ming Neo-Confucianism (pages 294-295)
Section 11, " China since 1644", is edited by James H. Cole. The headings for this section are on page 312. The main divisions are arranged chronologically, and each of the sections (on the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, the Republic, 1912-1949, the People's Republic, since 1949; as well as sections on Taiwan, and on Hong Kong and Macao) includes a sub-section on "Intellectual and Cultural History".
Section 12, "Premodern Japan", is edited by Martin Collcutt. The headings for this section are on page 361. Aside from the sections on Reference Works and General Studies, the section is arranged chronologically. The earlier periods have sub-sections which are not further divided by topic. The sub-section on the Muromachi period (1333-1660) contains a division on Culture and Religion.
Undoubtedly, the sub-section on the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) has the most material of relevance to this course: it has divisions on:
Status System (pages 372-373)
Education (page 376)
Religion (page 376)
Cultural History (pages 376-377)
Intellectual History (pages 377-378)
Section 13, "Modern Japan", is edited by F.G. Notehelfer. The headings for this section are on page 383. Aside from the sections on Reference Works and General Studies, the section is arranged both by chronology and by subject matter. Probably the most useful sub-sections are:
Tokugawa Roots of Modernization (pages 386-387)
Meiji Restoration, 1868-1912 (pages 387-390)
especially Thought and Culture (pages 389-390)
Taisho and early Showa Japan (pages 391-393)
especially Thought and Culture (pages 389-390)
Society, Social System, and Values (pages 403-407)
Religion (pages 408-411),
and notice especially Warren Smith, Confucianism in Modern Japan, under "Philosophy" on page 411.
Section 14, "Korea", is edited by John B. Duncan and Yong-ho Ch'oe. The headings for this section are on page 419. Each of its chronological sub-sections on periods before 1945 contains a section on "Religion, Thought and Culture": the material most directly relevant to this course is on page 421-422.
For material on the history of China, there is an unannotated listing, mainly of relatively recent works, on the Internet, in
3. Classical Chinese Historiography for Chinese History
http://www.sscnet.ucla .edu/history/elman/ClassBib/
This pointer will bring up the introduction page of the whole listing. Scroll down (or go to http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/#TOC ) to get to the table of contents. The display includes full-style Chinese characters (fanti zi), but you will only be able to display them if the computer you are using is equipped with Chinese script. Otherwise they will display as gobbledy-gook, but this does not matter to the rest of the bibliography. (The computers in the computer lab in the Asian Studies Building (BPB) are equipped with the Macintosh Chinese Language Kit: if you are using Netscape choose Traditional Chinese from the Encoding menu in Preferences or View).
The most useful section for this course is section 9: Select Bibliography of Chinese Classics and Literature in Translation With Recent Related Histories. You can reach this by using the contents page, or directly by bringing up the whole of section 9 from the following pointer:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/#9
Section 9 contains the following relevant sub-sections:
General
Chou yi or Yi ching (The Book of Changes)
The Rites etc.
Shang shu or Shu-ching (Book of History)
Ch'un ch'iu: Tso chuan (Spring and Autumn Annals and Tso Commentary)
Bibliography of Philosophers
General Introduction & Collected Translations
Confucianism
Confucius
Mencius
Hsun Tzu
Chu Hsi, Tao-hsueh , and Neo-Confucianism.
Section 10 is: Selected English Bibliography For Chinese Civilization: A Brief Historical Survey. Its pointer is:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/#10
Section 10 has separate links for its own subsections. The most important of these for this course are:
Chinese Classics: http:// www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/10hist.htm#10-7
General Philosophy: http:// www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/10hist.htm#10-8
Confucianism: http:// www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/10hist.htm#10-9
Bibliographies: http:// www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/10hist.htm#10-1
Journals: http:// www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/10hist.htm#10-2
General Works: http:// www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/10hist.htm#10-3
Patricia Ebrey, who is one of the best-informed writers on the subject of women in Chinese history, has an unannotated list of materials on this subject which you may well find useful
4 Women in Chinese History: reading list
http://h-net2.msu.edu/~asi a/bibs/bibebrey.html
Notice particularly the book by Ebrey herself on the place of women in Song dynasty society: Ebrey, Patricia, The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
Since her list was compiled, there have been two more good books published on the standing of women in late traditional Chinese society, both of which are relevant to thinking about this subject in relation to Confucianism considered broadly: Francesca Bray, Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), and Susan Mann, Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997). I have written a lengthy review of the book by Bray which I can make available to you if you are interested.
For some ideas on how the material in her booklist might be structured, see the Guide for a course of Professor Ebrey's at the University of Illinois: http://weber.u.washingt on.edu/~ebrey/EA389rev.htm
Far the most important listing of material on literature, and an invaluable reference work in its own right is the book:
5. The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, edited and compiled by William H. Nienhauser, Jr.; Indiana University Press, Blooomington, Indiana, 1986 (Second revised edition published in Taipei by the Southern Materials Center, 1988).
* This is an expensive and valuable book: please treat it with care so that future users will be able to use it in a condition as near as possible to the one you find it in.*
There are two copies in the Library. One is at +2023215 at the Reserve Desk in Chifley: it is available on two-hour loan. The other is at MENZ ASIAN reference PLZ3108.L5I53 1986 (in the Asian Reference Section in Menzies), and may be used there without restriction but not borrowed.
The Companion is meant as a guide to the study of literature as such. All the same, you will find a good deal of information in it which is relevant to a course on Confucianism. For example, the entry under "Classics" is an excellent summary of the nature and development of the works which were given this status at different times. You will also find that many of the biographical entries contain material on people whose work is of interest in the Confucian context. And it is worth simply cruising the index (under "Confucianism", for example)
On Chinese philosophy, there is a guide which is still useful though a good deal of work has been published since it came out:
6. Guide to Chinese philosophy; by Fu, Wei-hsun and Chan, Wing-tsit; Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.
(Print) MENZIES Z7129.C5.F8
Some more up-to-date materials on Chinese philosophy, including but not confined to, work on Confucianism, can be found on an internet page:
7. Chinese Philosophy Resources, by Professor Yoav Ariel of the University of Tel Aviv:
http://www2.trincoll.edu/~kiener/china1.html#Chinese Philosophy
This pointer will direct you to a number of other pages with similar content: notice especially (well down the page) "The new Chinese philosophy home page" and "The old Chinese philosophy home page": both of them are by Steven Brown of Monash University and contain useful materials, though the new one in particular is not much use if you have no Chinese. Direct links to these:
new: http://www-personal.mon ash.edu.au/~sab/index.html
old: http://www-personal. monash.edu.au/~sab/index_old.htm
On the subject of religion, the most up-to-date bibliographies are the ones on work in the last ten years, published as "Chinese Religions: the State of the Field: Part II - Living Religious Traditions: Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam and Popular Religion" in the Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 2 (May 1995). These include references to other bibliographies, as well as brief essays on the state of the field. I have included the references to other religions beside Confucianism for the sake of making a general context available:
8. "Chinese Religions: the State of the Field: Introduction" by Daniel Overmyer, Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 2 (May 1995):314-321. On the general trends in the study of Chinese religion in recent decades.
9. "Confucianism", by Rodney Taylor and Gary Arbuckle (in "Chinese Religions: the State of the Field"), Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 2 (May 1995):347-354.
10. "Taoism", by Franciscus Verellen (in "Chinese Religions: the State of the Field"), Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 2 (May 1995):322-346.
11. "Buddhism", by John R. McRae (in "Chinese Religions: the State of the Field"), Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 2 (May 1995):355-371.
12. "Popular Religion", by Stephen F. Teiser (in "Chinese Religions: the State of the Field"), Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 2 (May 1995):378-395.
In addition to these bibliographies of recent writing on religion, there is an older but fuller list of materials available in book form:
13. Guide to Chinese Religion, by Yu, David C.,with contributions by Laurence G. Thompson.; Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985. MENZIES BLZ7757.C6Y8 1985
"The Guide is concerned primarily with the religious elements indigenousto China; hence Chinese Buddhism is excluded"
See also:
14. Chinese religion in Western languages : a comprehensive and classified bibliography of publications in English, French, and German through 1980, by Laurence G. Thompson, Tucson, Ariz., 1985. MENZIES Asian reference BLZ7757.C6T55 1985
15. Chinese Religion: Publications in Western Languages 1981 through 1990, compiled by Thompson, Laurence G., Los Angeles, 1993. [Menzies: Asian reference BLZ7757.C6T556 1993 ].
On Japan, aside from the listings in the Guide to Historical Literature (number 1 in this Bibliographical Guide) there are two good recent bibliographies:
16. Japanese studies from pre-History to 1990 : a bibliographical guide, compiled by Richard Perren, Manchester, 1992. MENZIES DSZ3301.J36
17. Japanese history & culture from ancient to modern times : seven basic bibliographies, compiled by John W. Dower andTimothy S. George, 2nd updated and enlarged edition, Princeton, 1995. MENZIES new book +2024063
LAST BUT VERY IMPORTANT: A recent initiative to make scholarly journals available on the Internet is J-STOR, at the University of Michigan. As yet (February 1998) the only journal available on J-Stor in the field of Asian Studies is the Journal of Asian Studies (and its predecessor, the Far Eastern Quarterly), but it is likely that others will be added in future. In any case, the Journal of Asian Studies is without any doubt one of the major sources in the field. As of February 1998 it is possible to search or browse the entire back run of material from the Far Eastern Quarterly of 1941, through 1956 when the name was changed to Journal of Asian Studies, up to 1992, at:
18. The Journal of Asian Studies on J-Stor:
http://www.jstor.org/journals /00219118.html
The home page of J-Stor, where you can check to find out about other journals or ones that may have been added after this list was compiled, is at: http://www.jstor.org/jstor/
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