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Marie de Rugy, Aux confins des empires: cartes et constructions territoriales dans le nord de la péninsule indochinoise (1885-1914)
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Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda L. Fields-Black, and Dagmar Schafer (eds.), Rice: Global Networks and New Histories
Full text linkThe Emergence of New Grids for Viewing the History of Medicine in Korea beyond “Koreanness”
Full text linkReview article on Soyoung Suh, Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century
Tao Hongjing and the Reading of Daoist Geography
Full text linkThis article studies ways in which Daoist writers in early medieval China represented sacred lands. It goes beyond the descriptions of Daoist sacred geography to analyze ways in which these texts were tools to disseminate new revelations about the ancient history and ownership of temple lands. It begins by looking at Han dynasty conceptions of mountains, in particular the role of individuals who were privy to the hidden, esoteric knowledge of land formations. The second part of the article focuses on the writings of the fifth century polymath Tao Hongjing. These commentaries provide valuable insight into the kinds of social exchanges that underpin the writing of Daoist geography. These writings about religious geography reflect the interests of a new clerical class of individuals who developed and recreated sacred sites on behalf of royal benefactors
Obituary — Peter J. Golas (1937-2019)
No full textPeter Golas, historian of Chinese technology best known as the author of the volume on mining in Joseph Needham’s monumental Science and Civilisation in China series, passed away on 21 December 2019
Texts and Technologies in Chinese Silver Metallurgy, Twelfth to Nineteenth Centuries
Full text linkThe silver metallurgy of late imperial China has rarely been the subject of specific studies because silver exploitation has long been considered of minor importance and traditional sources are scarce. This article is an attempt at filling the research gap of the period from the Song to the late Qing. With a focus on the silver mines of the Southwest and the adjoining borderlands and employing an approach that combines textual analysis with the study of remains and oral histories, it presents a systematic discussion of process steps and traces technological transformations
Storax, Benzoin, and the Chinese Anxi xiang
Full text linkThe Chinese term Anxi xiang 安息香 is now usually applied to benzoin, an aromatic resin obtained from species of the genus Styrax native to Southeast Asia. However, it appears from Chinese records that this aromatic originally was imported into China from western Asia. What this early Anxi xiang was has never been ascertained. It is here suggested that, like benzoin, it was produced from a species of Styrax, and was the storax of the ancient Mediterranean region. A complication is that storax was obtained from more than one plant source. Another issue is that a different substance, known to the Chinese as suhe 蘇合, has often been identified with storax. The available evidence is assessed and probable solutions are proposed