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A Study of the Policy of Controlling Non-Chinese Tribes in Yingzhou 營州 during the First Half of the Tang Dynasty
No full textThe image of the Tang Dynasty indirectly governing non-Chinese tribes who had submitted to the Tang by making their leaders local governors, a position that became inherited, is based on the description in the Xin Tangshu. Yet, does this image really portray the form of control in general during the Tang dynasty? As a result of the increasing number of studies using epitaphs conducted in the 21st century, we need to re-examine the situation of the control of the non-Chinese tribes by the Tang government. Currently, there are more than 12, 500 Tang-dynasty epitaphs available for study. Among these, we can use at least 47 epitaphs that are related to Jimizhou 羈縻州. The study of the Tang Dynasty’s control of the non-Chinese tribes is facing great changes due to the use of these epitaphs. For example, we know that Zhechongfu 折衝府were established in the Jimizhou, and it has been pointed out that Han officials may have served there. Furthermore, Wang Yikang 王義康has also pointed out that Tang Dynasty sent bureaucrats from the central government to Jimizhou to participate in their governance. We are now at the stage of completely reexamining the traditional image of the Tang Dynasty’s control of the non-Chinese tribes and Jimizhou. However, at this stage, it is not yet possible to give a complete overview on the Tang Dynasty’s policy of control over the non-Chinese tribes and the Jimizhou. Therefore, this paper first surveys the history of the Jimizhou in Yingzhou and the state of the stone inscriptions concerning it. Next, it points out that Zhechongfu were established in the Jimizhou of the Qidan契丹and Mohe 靺鞨in Yingzhou and surmises their locations. It then points out that there were both Han and non-Han bureaucrats in the offices of the Jimizhou. It also clarifies that the Jimizhou in Yingzhou did not consist of a single ethnic group
The Sogdian Turks and Shatuo in Daibei during the Late Tang and Five Dynasties Periods
No full textThis article argues the causes of the extension of the power of the Shatuo 沙陀 who eventually established the Later Tang regime of the Five Dynasties, through an analysis of the Sogdian Turks who were active in northern China from the second half of the Tang Dynasty. The Shatuo, who settled in the northern portion of Hedong 河東 after leaving Gansu 甘肅 and crossing the Ordos early in the ninth century, were not a particularly powerful group at the time. However, with the rebellion of Huang Chao 黃巢 at the close of the Tang, the Shatuo rapidly extended their power. It has been noted that one of the causes behind the expansion was the absorption of many warriors with Sogdian names. These Sogdian warriors were the descendants of Liuzhou-Hu 六州胡, who had immigrated to Daibei 代北 in the second year of the Zhenyuan 貞元 era (786). The Liuzhou-Hu were a remnant of the Turkic people, who had been created out of the collapse of the first Eastern Turkish khanate. They were originally a Sogdian people who had submitted collectively to the Eastern Turks. Under the mutual influence of the Turks and other nomadic peoples of northern Asia, they adopted nomadic culture, acquired the techniques of equestrian archery and became a potential military force. It is in this sense that they are referred to as Sogdian Turks in this article. The Sogdian Turks appeared in Daibei in nomadic settlements called Sage 薩葛 (Suoge 索葛 and xuege 薛葛), Anqing 安慶, Jitian 鶏田, and they lived a communal nomadic existence in the Five Dynasties period. These groups responded to needs of the Shatuo dynasties such as the Later Tang 後唐 and Later Jin 後晋 by participating in the regimes as a communal group led by a chieftain. It may be surmised that they sustained the military power of the Shatuo dynasties. After the Later Jin ceded what is known as the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun 燕雲十六州 to the Khitai 契丹, the Sogdian Turks livingin the Daibei submitted to the Khitai, while others of them moved south and passed through the Yanmen 雁門 barrier seeking asylum within the Later Jin state. Following the establishment of the Song 宋 dynasty, there were also some Sogdian Turks who left Daibei seeking asylum with the Song. The Song organized these Sogdian Turks into royal guard units that were stationed in the central portion of southern Hedong as a defense against the Xixia 西夏 and the Khitai
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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