西方中国史研究文献讲读
研究生课程，2009-2010 春季学期。复旦大学历史系
孙英刚
021-55665043(O)
syg@fudan.edu.cn
光华西主楼 2817 室
周三，3，4 节。教室 2112A。
课程介绍
通过研读西方中国史研究的代表性著作，引导学生熟悉西方主要的研究套路、理论、潮
流，结合自身的研究，提高学术素质。本课程围绕历史与社会，宗教与信仰，思想与文化等
方面，从影响中国史研究的重要词汇入手，将其返回到西方学术潮流中去，揭示其自身学术
背景和脉络。引导学生以批判的眼光，对现在中国史研究中的一些理路重新审视。
要求：
1） 一周阅读 1 本书加几篇文章，或者两本书。写出 1 本书或者 1-2 篇文章的读书报告。
最晚在下个周二的晚上 12 点之前通过电子邮件提交老师。可在所有课题中选择 10
个，每个读书报告满分 5 分。总共占最后成绩的 50%。读书报告单倍行距，不得超
过 1200 字。
2） 最后提交一份自己相关领域的 Proposal，可模仿开题报告形式。阐述自己将来的毕
业论文（或课题申请）如何对旧有知识有所增益。自己的研究对于西方中国学研究
理论与潮流，有如何的批评和增补，或者如何受其启发。要求单倍行距 15-20 页。
需提交正式文本。占最后成绩的 30%。
3） 课堂讨论，占 20%。
Week 1: Organizational meeting and Introduction
2: The Problem of “Medieval”
Harbans Mukhia, “Medieval India：An Alien Conceptual Hegemony?” The Medieval History
Journal, 1, 1, (1998), pp. 91-105.
Peter Raedts, “Representations of the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Historiography”, The
Medieval History Journal, 5, 1(2002), pp. 1-20.
Kan’ichi Asakawa, The Early Institutional Life of Japan: A Study in the Reform of 645 A.D, 1903,
reprinted by Paragon Books, New York, 1963.
R. von Glahn, “Imagining Pre-modern China”, P. J. Smith, and R. von Glahn eds., The
Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History.
Stephen Owen, 初唐诗，盛唐诗，中唐诗.
Timothy Brook, “Capitalism and the Writing of Modern History in China”, in Gregory Blue et al.,
China and Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge, Cambridge, 1998.
Timothy Brook, “Medievality and the Chinese Sense of History”, The Medieval History Journal, 1,
1 (1998), 145-164, 147.
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Arthur Hummel, “What Chinese Historians are Doing in their Own History”, AHR, 34(4),
1929:717.
3: Intellectual Transition
James Liu, China Turning Inward：Intellectual-Political Changes in the Early Twelfth Century，
Harvard Univesity Press，1974.
Robert M. Hartwell, “Demographic, Political, and Social Transformations of China, 750-1550”,
HJAS, December, 1982, pp. 365-442.
Robert Hymes, Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou，Chiang-his，in northern and
southern sung, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press，1986.
Peter Bol, This Culture of Ours：Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China, Stanford:
Stanford University press, 1992.
Chen Jo-shui, “Culture as Identity during the T’ang-Song Transition: The Ch’ing-he Ts’uis and the
Po-ling Ts’uis,” Asia Major (third series), 9: 1-2 (1996; actually published in 1998), pp. 103-38.
陈弱水《唐代文士与中国思想的转型》，桂林：广西师范大学出版社，2009 年。
Beverly Bossler, Powerful Relations: Kinship Status and the State in Song China (960-1279),
Harvard: Council on East Asian Studies, 1998.
Smith and Von Glahn, The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History, Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2003.
Benjamin Elman, From Philosophy to Philology: Social and Intellectual Aspects of Change in
Late Imperial China, Cambridge: Harvard Univ., Council on East Asian Studies, 1984.
Willard J. Peterson, Bitter Gourd: Fang-I-chih and the Impetus for Intellectual Change, New
Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979.
Benjamin Elman, “Japanese scholarship and the Ming-Ch'ing intellectual transition” Ch'ing-shih
wen-t’i 4.1 (1979), pp. 1-22.
4: Local History, Local Elite, Local Religion and Local Identity
Denis Twitchett, “The composition of the T’ang ruling class: new evidence from Tunhuang”, in
Perspectives on the T’ang, ed. Arthur F. Wright and Denis Twitchett (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1973).
Robert. Hymes, Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and
Modern China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Valerie Hansen, Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276, Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1990.
Peter K. Bol, “The rise of local history: history, geography, and culture in Southern Song and Yuan
Wuzhou”, HJAS, 61, no. 1 (Jun., 2001), pp. 37-76
Peter Bol, “The ‘Localist Turn’ and ‘Local Identity’ in Later Imperial China”, Late Imperial China
24, no. 2(2003), pp. 1-50.
Susan Mann, Local merchants and the Chinese bureaucracy, 1750-1950, Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 1987.
Timothy Brook, Praying for power: Buddhism and the formation of gentry society in late-Ming
China, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Terry Kleeman, “Sources for Religious Practice in Zitong: The Local Side of a National Cult”,
Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, 10 (1998), pp.341-355,
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5: Social Mobility
John W. Chaffee. The Thorny gates of Learning in Sung China: A Social History of Examinations.
Albany: University of New York Press, 1995.
Ho Ping-ti, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China, New York: Columbia University, 1964.
Timothy Brook, Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming
China, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Chang Chung-li，The Chinese Gentry：Studies on Their Role in Nineteenth Century Chinese
Society，Seattle，University of Washington Press，1955．
Benjamin Elman, A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China, Berkeley,
University of California Press, 2000.
Benjamin Elman, “Political, Social, and Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service Examinations in
Late Imperial China”, JAS 50.1 (1991), p.7-28.
Cameron Campbell and James Lee, Kin Networks, Marriage, and Social Mobility in Late Imperial
China, Duke University Press, 2007.
Joseph W. Esherick, and Mary Backus Rankin eds., Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of
Dominance, University of California Press, 1990.
6: Sinification
Kenneth Chen, Buddhism in China; A Historical Survey, Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1964.
E. Zürcher, The Buddhist Conquest of China: the Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early
Medieval China, Leiden: Brill, 1972.
Peter N. Gregory, Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism, Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1991.
Alan. Cole, Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Chün-fang Yü, Kuan-yin: the Chinese Transformation of Avalokiteśvara, New York: Columbia
University Press, 2001.
John Kieschnick, The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2003.
John Jorgensen, “The ‘Imperial’ Lineage of Ch’an Buddhism: The Role of Confucian Ritual and
Ancestor Worship in Ch’an’s Search for Legitimation in the Mid-T’ang Dynasty”, Papers on Far
Eastern History 35: 89-133, 1987.
John R. McRae, The northern school and the formation of early Ch'an Buddhism, Honolulu, HI:
University of Hawai'i Press, 1987.
7: Gods and Ghosts
Arthur P. Wolf, “Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors”, in Studies in Chinese Society, ed. Arthur P. Wolf,
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978, pp. 131-182.
Prasenjit Duara, “Superscribing Symbols: The Myth of Guandi, Chinese God of War”, JAS, 47.4
(1988), PP. 778-795.
David L. Johnson, “The City-God Cults of Tang and Sung China”, HJAS, 45.2 (Dec. 1985), pp.
363-457.
Szonyi, Michael, “The Illusion of Standardizing the Gods: The Cult of the Five Emperors in Late
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Imperial China”, JAS vol. 56. no. 1 (Feb 1997), pp. 113-135.
Michael Szonyi, “The Illusion of Standardizing the Gods: The Cult of the Five Emperors in Late
Imperial China”, in JAS, 56.1 (1997), pp. 113-35.
Terry F. Kleeman, A God’s Own Tale: The Book of Transformations of Wenchang, the Divine Lord
of Zitong, SUNY Press, 1994.
James L Watson, “Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of T’ien Hou (‘Empress of Heaven’)
along the South China Coast, 960-1960”, Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, ed. David
Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan, and Evelyn S. Rawski (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1985), pp. 292-324.
Paul R. Katz, Demon Hordes and burning boats: the cult of Marshal Wen in late Imperial
Chekiang, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
Richard Von Glahn, The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture,
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
James L. Watson and Evelyn S. Rawski, eds., Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China,
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Yu Ying-shih, “O Soul, Come Back! A Study of Changing Conceptions of the Soul in
Pre-Buddhist China”, HJAS 47, no.2 (Dec 1987), pp. 363-95.
Mu-chou Poo, “The completion of an ideal world: the human ghost in early-medieval China”, AM
(Taipei) 10, pts 1-2 (1997), pp. 69-94.
Meir Shahar and Robert Weller eds, Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China, Honolulu:
University of Hawai’i Press, 1996.
Richard Von Glahn, “The enchantment of wealth: the God Wutong in the social history of
Jiangnan”, HJAS 51.2, pp. 651-711.
8: The Problem of Popular religion
Catherine Bell, “Religion and Chinese culture: toward an assessment of ‘popular religion’”,
History of Religion, 29.1(1989), pp.35-57。
Judith B. Farquhar and James Hevia, “Culture and Postwar American Historiography of China”,
Positions 1.2 (1993), pp. 486-525.
David Johnson, “Communication, Class, and Consciousness in Late Imperial China”, in David
Johnson et al., ed., Popular Culture in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 1985),
pp. 34-72.
Stephen F. Teiser, “Chinese religions: the state of the field: Popular Religion”, JAS, 54.2 (1995),
pp. 378-395.
Stephan Feuchtwang, The imperial metaphor: popular religion in China, London; New York:
Routledge, 1992.
Kang, Xiaofei, The cult of the fox: power, gender, and popular religion in late imperial and
modern China, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Peter Nickerson, Taoism, bureaucracy, and popular religion in early medieval China,
Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
Prasenjit Duara, “Knowledge and Power in the Discourse of Modernity: The Campaigns against
Popular Religion in Early 20th Century China”, JAS, 1995.
Prasenjit Duara, Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China,
Chicago University Press, 1995. Chapter 3.
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9: Hagiography and Other Religious Writing
Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara, Speaking of Monks: Religious Biography in India and
China, Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1992.
Barbara Hendriksche, “The virtue of conformity: The religious re-writing of political biography”,
in Religion and Biography in China and Tibet, ed. Benjamin Penny, Richmond: Curzon Press,
2002,pp. 30-48.
John Kieschnick, The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Historiography,
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
Poo Mu-chou, “The Images of Immortals and Eminent Monks: Religious Mentality in Early
Medieval China (4-6 c. A.D.).” Numen 42: 172-196.
Benjamin Penny, ed. Religion and biography in China and Tibet, Richmond, Surrey: Curzon,
2002.
Robert Ford Campany, Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China, Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1996.
Glen Dudbridge, Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China: A Reading of Tai Fu's
Kuang-i Chi, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Donald E. Gjertson, Miraculous retribution: a study and translation of T'ang Lin's Ming-Pao
Chi, Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley, Centers for South & Southeast Asia
Studies, 1989.
Barend J. Ter Haar, Telling Stories: Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History, Leiden,
Netherlands, and Boston: Brill, 2006.
Philip Kuhn, Soulstealers: the Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768, Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1990.
10: Politics as History
Anna Seidel, “The Image of the Perfect Ruler in Early Taoist Messianism: Lao-tzu and Li Hung”,
History of Religions 9 (1969-70), pp. 216-47.
Stanley Weinstein, Buddhism under the T'ang, Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1987.
T. H Barrett, Taoism under the T’ang: Religion and Empire during the Golden Age of Chinese
History, London: the Wellsweep Press 1996.
Chen, Jinhua, Monks and Monarchs, Kinship and Kingship: Tanqian in Sui Buddhism and
Politics,Kyoto: Italian School of East Asian Studies, 2002.
Antonino Forte, Political propaganda and ideology in China at the end of the seventh century:
inquiry into the nature, authors and function of the Tunhuang document S.6502, followed by an
annotated translation, Napoli : Istituto universitario orientale, Seminario di studi asiatici, 1976.
Antonino Forte, “Fazang and Šākyamitra, A Seventh-century Singhalese Alchemist at the Chinese
Court”, Regional Culture, Culture and Arts before the Seventh Century, Taipei: Institute of History
and Philology, Academia Sinica, 2002.
Charles D Orzech, Politics and Transcendent Wisdom: The Scripture for Humane Kings in the
Creation of Chinese Buddhism, University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
Atwell, William S, “From Education to Politics: The Fu She,” De Bary Wm. Theodore The
Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism, 1975, pp. 333-367.
John W. Dardess, Blood and history in China: The Donglin faction and its repression, 1620-1627.
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Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.
Fresderic Wakeman, JR., “The Price of autonomy: intellectuals in Ming and Ch’ing politics”,
Daedalus, Vol. 101, N 0 2 (Spring 1972), pp. 35-70.
11: Public Space/Public Sphere/Civil Society/The Third Realm
Wong, R.Bin, “Great expectation: the ‘public sphere’ and the search for modern times in Chinese
history”, Studies in Chinese History, No.3 (October 1983), pp. 7-50.
Susan Naquin, Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900, Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2000.
William Skinner, ed. The city in late Imperial China, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977.
Richard Von Glahn, “Municipal Reform and Urban Social Conflict in Late Ming Jiangnan”, JAS
50:2 (May 1991), pp.280-307
William T. Rowe, Hankou: Commerce and Society, 1796-1889, Stanford University Press, 1984.
William T. Rowe, Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese city, 1796-1895, Stanford
University Press, 1989.
Philip Huang, Paradigmatic issues in Chinese studies, III, Modern China, 19.2 (April 1993)
Frederic Wakeman, JR, “The Civil Society and Public Sphere Debate: Western Reflections on
Chinese Political Culture”, Modern China 19(1993), pp.108-138.
William T. Rowe, “The Problem of ‘Civil Society’ in Late Imperial China”, Modern China
19(1993), pp. 139-157.
Mary Backus Rankin, “Some Observations on a Chinese Public Sphere”, Modern China 19(1993),
pp. 158-182.
Richard Madsen, “The Public Sphere, Civil Society and Moral Community: A Research Agenda
for Contemporary China Studies”, Modern China 19(1993), pp. 183-198.
Heath B. Chamberlain, “On the Search for Civil Society in China”, pp. 199-215.
Philip C.C. Huang, “‘Public Sphere’/‘civil Society’ in China?: The Third Realm between State and
Society”, pp. 2160240.
Timothy Brook and B. Michael Frolic ed., Civil Society in China, Armonk, New York: M. E.
Sharpe, 1997.
12: Feminism and Gender History
Bernhardt, Kathryn, Women and Property in China, 960-1949, Law, Society, and Culture in China
Series, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Victoria Cass, Dangerous Women, Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming, Lanham:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
Dorothy Ko, Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-century China,
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Gisela. Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, in
Robert Shoemaker & Mary Vincent, eds., Gender and History in Western Europe. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1998.
Joan Wallach Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”, in Joan Wallach Scott,
ed., Feminism and History, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Susan Mann and Yu-yin Cheng ed., Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese
History, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001
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Bernard Faure, The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality, Princeton University Press,
1998.
Bernard Faure, The Power of Denial. Buddhism, Purity and Gender, Princeton University Press
2003.
Bettine Birge, Women, property, and Confucian reaction in Sung and Yuan China (960-1368),
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Francesca Bray, Technology and gender: Fabrics of power in late imperial China, Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1997.
Patricia B. Ebrey, The inner quarters: marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung
Period, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
Patricia B. Ebrey, Confucianism and family rituals in imperial China: a social history of writing
about rites, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Women and the family in Chinese history, New York: Routledge, 2003.
13: Material Culture
Craig Clunas, Superflous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China,
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
Sarah E. Fraser, Performing the Visual, Buddhist Wall Painting Practice in China and Central
Asia, 618-960, Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press, 2003.
Barrett, T.H., The Woman Who Discovered Printing, New Heaven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Craig Clunas, Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470-1559, Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press, 2004.
Lucille Chia, Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th-17th
Centuries), Harvard University Press, 2002.
Timothy Brook, The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China, Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1998.
14: Writing rules, journals, associations and scholars.
15: Reading period, preparing the proposal.
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