Sanping Chen is an independent scholar.
陳三平,陳橋驛先生長子,旅居加拿大。
发表于2024-12-22
Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
看完“木兰与麒麟”,合上书本,只能发呆。作者用语音系谱学知识和25史爬梳了中国中古(隋唐前后)时期外来文化/民族在中华大地上的存在,继元清被认为是外来殖民王朝后,隋唐也被加入这个行列。不过有了个新概念:鲜卑-华夏政权。胡在前,汉在后。 书里对人物,历史事件的研究...
评分我作为一个仅有大专学历的低智商理科生,长期泡在以理科生众多著称的知乎,最终被那里的皇汉(你要说“中国主义者”也无非不可)气到打起铺盖转移至Quora,但也常来豆瓣追踪西域问题的细节资料。我本觉得豆瓣跟知乎比起来文科生更多,人文素质更高,但渐渐觉得豆瓣的文科生也只...
评分我作为一个仅有大专学历的低智商理科生,长期泡在以理科生众多著称的知乎,最终被那里的皇汉(你要说“中国主义者”也无非不可)气到打起铺盖转移至Quora,但也常来豆瓣追踪西域问题的细节资料。我本觉得豆瓣跟知乎比起来文科生更多,人文素质更高,但渐渐觉得豆瓣的文科生也只...
评分我作为一个仅有大专学历的低智商理科生,长期泡在以理科生众多著称的知乎,最终被那里的皇汉(你要说“中国主义者”也无非不可)气到打起铺盖转移至Quora,但也常来豆瓣追踪西域问题的细节资料。我本觉得豆瓣跟知乎比起来文科生更多,人文素质更高,但渐渐觉得豆瓣的文科生也只...
评分看完“木兰与麒麟”,合上书本,只能发呆。作者用语音系谱学知识和25史爬梳了中国中古(隋唐前后)时期外来文化/民族在中华大地上的存在,继元清被认为是外来殖民王朝后,隋唐也被加入这个行列。不过有了个新概念:鲜卑-华夏政权。胡在前,汉在后。 书里对人物,历史事件的研究...
图书标签: 海外中国研究 社会史 历史 隋唐 历史学 内亚 英文原版 文学史
"Chen's work is a useful corrective and provides a nuanced perspective on China's history and culture in the first millennium C.E."—Peter B. Golden, Rutgers University
In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of East Asian civilization occurred during this period, although much of this multiculturalism has long been obscured due to the Confucian monopoly of written records. Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages endeavors to expose a number of long-hidden non-Sinitic characteristics and manifestations of heritage, some lasting to this very day.
Sanping Chen investigates several foundational aspects of Chinese culture during this period, including the legendary unicorn and the fabled heroine Mulan, to determine the origin and development of the lore. His meticulous research yields surprising results. For instance, he finds that the character Mulan is not of Chinese origin and that Central Asian influences are to be found in language, religion, governance, and other fundamental characteristics of Chinese culture. As Victor Mair writes in the Foreword, "While not everyone will acquiesce in the entirety of Dr. Chen's findings, no reputable scholar can afford to ignore them with impunity."
These "foreign"-origin elements were largely the legacy of the Tuoba, whose descendants in fact dominated China's political and cultural stage for nearly a millennium. Long before the Mongols, the Tuoba set a precedent for "using the civilized to rule the civilized" by attracting a large number of sedentary Central Asians to East Asia. This not only added a strong pre-Islamic Iranian layer to the contemporary Sinitic culture but also commenced China's golden age under the cosmopolitan Tang dynasty, whose nominally "Chinese" ruling house is revealed by Chen to be the biological and cultural heir of the Tuoba.
possible teaching materials: Chapter 2. From Mulan to Unicorn: Mulan is not Han Chinese; mulan=bulan or buklan,(a kind of deer), also the only native native Altaic word for "unicorn." Chapter 3 Brotherly Matters and the Canine Image: nucai=noqai/nokhai=dog
评分花姓其实是氏。木兰才是姓,是类似教名的神性森林动物,翻译过来可能相当于麒麟或者独角兽。花木兰就是来自Hephthalite的bulan/buklan。这英文写得太可怕了,一股子翻着词典对译的生涩,简直就是为了母语中文者回译时方便。通过查词典来做论文,可见作者的水平根本驾驭不了这些题目,本就是写几篇杂文出来倒还好。
评分以历史比较语言学为基才是避免把内亚研究变成搞全球史的正途.....更有趣的是书里无数典型chinglish表达方式,类似犹太人写的希腊语,这本身就是文化交流的痕迹。。。
评分以历史比较语言学为基才是避免把内亚研究变成搞全球史的正途.....更有趣的是书里无数典型chinglish表达方式,类似犹太人写的希腊语,这本身就是文化交流的痕迹。。。
评分possible teaching materials: Chapter 2. From Mulan to Unicorn: Mulan is not Han Chinese; mulan=bulan or buklan,(a kind of deer), also the only native native Altaic word for "unicorn." Chapter 3 Brotherly Matters and the Canine Image: nucai=noqai/nokhai=dog
Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书