One thousand years of historical relics: the Huizhou Documents

The Huizhou Documents are a precious repository of historical memory and they have gradually been collected since 1946. This archive dates from the Southern Song period to 1949, and its content is distinguished by its continuity, specificity, accuracy, and representative nature, all of which make these documents extremely enlightening for scholars. Systematically collecting, organizing, categorizing, and utilizing these documents has not only given birth to a new field, Huizhou Studies, but has also provided valuable material in support of research on politics, the economy, law, education, and the civil examination system in late imperial China.     

Exactly As People Tell,or an Ethnography of the (In)Visible Things of Mayajigua

This paper explores some of the consequences of using archival materials produced by an anthropologist's informants. What happens when a resident from a rural area of Cuba is hired to write about the “world”, a term used by Carl L. Withers, in which he, his relatives and his neighbours live? By reading letters and other papers sent during the late 1940s, and kept by Withers for more than thirty years, my hypothesis is that his informants took seriously their capacity to create something other than a simple “testimony”. Withers's principal informant, created himself, his neighbours, strange beings and the world in which they cohabited as a certain type of artefact, as “data”.     

里耶秦简所见的阳陵与迁陵

本文将里耶秦简牍中有关阳陵、迁陵的文书记载与传世文献、考古发现相结合,考订这两个秦县的沿革与地望,并着重分析阳陵县的起源、地望和迁陵县的乡里结构等问题,指出:目前关于里耶简中阳陵地望的两种说法,均不能与传世文献完全吻合,我们认为此县既不属洞庭郡管辖,也不应在关中地区;由此提出另一假设:里耶秦简中阳陵县的前身即见于包山楚简之“阳陵”,为郑国故地,后属于楚,当在今河南许昌市西北。迁陵即今里耶古城,但非洞庭郡治所;迁陵县下辖乡,乡下辖里,与包山楚简所见县辖里的结构有所不同。     

《尚书孔传》的出现时间

学多以为《尚书孔传》始出于东晋梅赜献书,时在公元317或318年,但皇甫谧《帝王世纪》数引此书。皇甫谧生于汉建安二十年(公元215年),至西晋泰始初撰《帝王世纪》,在公元265年或稍晚,足见此书于魏晋间业已存在。     

吐魯番新出《前秦建元二十年籍》研究

本文集中探討2006年吐魯番洋海趙貨墓發現的《前秦建元二十年(384)三月高昌郡高寧縣都鄉安邑里籍》。這是敦煌吐魯番文書中現在所知最早的户籍,也是目前所見紙本書寫的最早的户籍。筆者對該户籍的書寫年代、地點、内容、格式等方面進行了分析。該户籍保存造籍的年份,有具體的郡縣鄉里名稱,登録了五户人家的家口以及户内土地、奴婢的買賣情況。《前秦建元二十年(384)三月高昌郡高寧縣都鄉安邑里籍》的發現對中國中古時期的户籍制度的研究具有重要的意義。     

夏代散文文献之总检讨

夏代散文文献可分为两类：一是书面文献,即夏代就用文字形成的文献;另一类是口述文献,即从夏代开始口耳相传,到后代才形诸文字的文献。本文即从这两个方面对夏代散文文献作了比较全面的检讨,以期对古代文献典籍的形成过程有更深入的认识。     

二十世纪蒲松龄及《聊斋志异》文献的搜集、整理与利布

文献的搜集、整理与研究是二十世纪蒲松龄及<聊斋志异>研究的重要基础,研究者为此付出了大量劳动,并取得了丰硕的成果.这些工作有其特色和价值,蒲松龄及<聊斋志异>正是在此基础上获得了较大发展.     

《旧唐书·经籍志》史部脱漏书钩沉

《旧唐书·经籍志》著录书在长期的传抄刊刻过程中有一定的脱漏 ,统计结果表明 ,今本《旧唐志》史部各类脱漏多达四十种。本文通过与《新唐书·艺文志》的对照 ,参考《隋书·经籍志》及其它目录学典籍进行分析考证 ,对今本《旧唐志》史部所脱漏的四十种史书作了初步考索     

Jerome,Alcuin and Vergil's ‘Old entellus’

In 798, Alcuin quarreled with Charlemagne's court scholars over the calculation of the lunar saltus. In Epistola 145, an important source for this argument, Alcuin called his rivals the ‘Egyptian boys’, because they wanted to follow Alexandrian custom, which began the Easter cycle on 1 September instead of the Roman 1 January. Alcuin expressed his anger with the ‘boys’ over their violation of Roman custom by quoting aptly from Jerome's letters. Jerome's warning to Augustine in Epistola 102.2, to remember Vergil's Dares and Entellus, suggested to Alcuin that his scholarly debate with the ‘boys’ should become a boxing match. Accordingly, Alcuin became ‘old Entellus’, whom Charlemagne's young scholars had hit unfairly with their criticism. In Epistola 145, Alcuin jabbed at the weak logic of the ‘Egyptians’ and satirized their ignorance. Besides revealing Alcuin's literary techniques, Epistola 145 is important for illuminating the tensions in Alcuin's relationship with Charlemagne.     

The Qingshuijiang Documents: valuable sources for regional history and cultural studies of the Miao frontier in Guizhou

The Qingshuijiang Documents, a collection of private documents written in Chinese, date from as early as the period in which the Qing government began developing the Miao frontier; these documents first appeared on the middle and lower reaches of the Qingshuijiang River and have remained there ever since. The Qing’s efforts to open new frontiers during the Yongzheng reign led to economic and social changes in the Qingshuijiang River valley in southeast Guizhou. These changes centered on the growth of forestry, ranging from planting and cutting trees to shipping and trading in timber. The Qingshuijiang Documents are original records of this historical process and a live reflection of it. Once widely kept in private hands, these documents are valuable not only for research on regional cultural change since the Qing, but also for formulating new perspectives and exploring methods for the study of private historical documents.