Western and Eastern Jin (A.D. 265-420)
a. Reference
Liu Naihe 劉乃和, ed. Jin shu cidian 晉書辤典
[Dictionary to the Jin History ].
Jinan: Shandong jiaoyu chubanshe, 2001. Dictionary of names, places and terms
in the Jin shu.
b. History
Chin, Frank Fa-ken. "The element of regionalism in medieval China: observations
on the founding of the Eastern Chin." In Chine ancienne; section
organisée par Michel Soymie, 19th International Congress of Orientalists. Paris:
L'Asiatheque, 1977, 67-71.
Crowell, William G. "Northern Émigrés and the Problems of Census Registration under the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties." In Albert E. Dien, ed. State and Society in Early Medieval China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990, 171-209.
de Crespigny, Rafe. "The Three Kingdoms and Western Jin: a History of China in
the Third Century AD," Part 1: East Asian History 1 (June 1991):1-36;
Part 2: East Asian History 2 (December 1991):143-165. These articles were
prepared as a chapter for the projected second volume for the Cambridge History
of China.
Fairbank,
Anthony Bruce. “Kingdom and Province in the Western Chin: Regional Power and the
Eight Kings Insurrection (a.d. 300–306).” M.A. thesis, University of Washington,
1986. A solid straight-forward account of events that are not well covered in
Western languages.
Hu Axiang 胡阿祥. "Qiao zhi
di yuanliu yu Dong Jin Nanchao qiaozhou, jun, xian di chansheng"
侨置的源流与东晋南朝侨州郡县的产生 [The origin and development of lodged units and the
birth of the lodged provinces, commanderies and prefectures of the
Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties]. In 郑州大学历史学院编《高敏先生八十华诞纪念文集》Beijing: Xianzhuang shuju, 2006. Electronic copy available at http://6ch.com.cn/data/articles/c08/144.html
Killigrew, John W. “The Reunification of China in AD 280: Jin’s Conquest of
Eastern Wu,” EMC 9(2003):1-34.
Rogers, Michael, trans. The Chronicle of Fu Chien: A Case of Exemplar History.
Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations no. 10. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1968. A meticulously researched study that offers the
controversial conclusion that the compilers of the Jin shu
presented the disasterous of Fu Jian (Fu Chien) as a cautionary tale to
discourage the Tang empror from undertaking an invasion of Korea. For a
counterview, see Donald Holzman's review in TP 57 (1971):182-6, and Sun Weiguo 孙卫国. “Fei shui zhi zhan: chu Tang shijiamen de xugou?” 淝水之战:初唐史家们的虚构? Hebei xuekan 河北学刊 2004.1:77-83. Cf. discussion in David Graff. Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900. London & New York: Routledge, 2002, 67-9..
Waley, Arthur. "The Fall of Lo-yang," History Today (April 1951):7-10.
Yang, Lien-sheng. "Notes on the economic history of the Chin dynasty,"
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 9 (1945-47):107-85. [Also in Yang's Studies
in Chinese Institutional History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. pp.
119-197.]
c. Government
Holcombe, Charles. "The Exemplar State: Ideology, Self-Cultivation, and Power in
Fourth-Century China." HJAS 49(1989):93-139.
Straughair, Anna. Chang Hua: A Statesman-Poet of the Western Chin Dynasty.
Faculty of Asian Studies Occasional Paper 15. Canberra: Australian National
University, 1973. Biography of an important political figure at the beginning of
the Jin.
Watanabe Yoshihiro 渡辺義浩. "Sai Gin ni okeru kokujigaku no seiritsu 西晉における國子學の設立 [Establishment of the National Academy during the Western Jin], Tōyō kenkyū 東洋研究 185 (2006.1)
d. Literature
Classics:
Shaughnessy, Edward L. Rewriting Early Chinese Texts.
Albany: SUNY Press, 2006. Discusses the the discovery and
reconstruction of Eastern Zhou texts found in A.D. 281 in the tomb of
King Aixiang of Wei (d. 299 B.C.).
Historiography:
Chittick, Andrew B. “Dynastic Legitimacy in Eastern Chin: Hsi Tso-ch’ih and the
Problem of Huan Wen,” Asia Major, 3d ser., 11.1(1998):42-42.
_______. “The Development of Local Writing in Early Medieval China,” EMC
9 (2003): 35-70.
Fairbank, Anthony Bruce. "Sima I (179-251): Wei Statesman and Chin Founder, A
Historiographical Inquiry," Ph.D. diss. University of Washington, 1994.
Farmer, J. Michael. “Qiao Zhou and the Historiography of Early Medieval
Sichuan,” EMC 7 (2002):39-78.
Lu, Yaodong 逯耀. Wei Jin shixue di sixiang yu shehui jichu 魏晋史學的思想與社會基礎 [The
Intellectual and Social Basis of Wei Jin Historiography] Taibei: Dongda tushu
gufen youxian gongsi, 2000. Collection of writings on the development of
historiography during the WJNBC period. Excellent treatment that seems to have been overlooked by recent Western studies.
_____. Wei Jin shixue ji qita 魏晋史學及其他 [Wei Jin Historiography and Others]. Taibei:
Dongda tushu gufen youxian gongsi, 1998.
Watanabe Yoshihirō 渡邊義浩. "Shiba Hyō no shūshi 司馬彪の脩史 [Sima Biao's Compilation of History], Dai tō bunka daigaku Kangakukai shi 大東文化大學漢學會誌. 45 (2006).3.
Jin shu:
Fang Xuanling 房玄齡
(578–648) et al. Jin shu 晉書
[Jin History]. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974.
Translations, Studies and Annotations on the Jin shu:
Wu Shijian 吳士鑑
and Liu Chenggan 劉承幹
. Jinshu jiaozhu 晉書斠注
[Jin History with Collated Commentary]. Taipei: Yiwen shuju, n.d. [1927].
Boodberg, Peter A. Selected Works of Peter A. Boodberg. Compiled by
Alvin P. Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
Contains translations of biographical information of a number of leading
figures from the North.
Ho Peng-yoke. The Astronomical Chapters of the Chin Shu: With Amendments,
Full Translation and Annotations. Paris, The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1966
[1967].
Mather, Richard, tr. Biography of Lü Kuang. Chinese Dynastic History
Translations, no. 7. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959.
Translation, with introduction, of biography of Lü Kuang, founder of Later
Liang, from Jin shu 122.
Straughair, Anna. Chang Hua: A Statesman-Poet of the Western Chin Dynasty.
Faculty of Asian Studies Occasional Paper 15. Canberra: Australian National
University, 1973. Translation of Zhang's biography in Jin shu 36.
Rogers, Michael, trans. The Chronicle of Fu Chien: A Case of Exemplar
History. Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations no. 10. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1968. A meticulously researched study that offers the controversial conclusion that the compilers of the Jin shu
presented the disasterous of Fu Jian (Fu Chien) as a cautionary tale to
discourage the Tang empror from undertaking an invasion of Korea. For a
counterview, see Donald Holzman's review in TP 57 (1971):182-6, and Sun Weiguo 孙卫国. “Fei shui zhi zhan: chu Tang shijiamen de xugou?” 淝水之战:初唐史家们的虚构? Hebei xuekan 河北学刊 2004.1:77-83. Cf. discussion in David Graff. Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900. London & New York: Routledge, 2002, 67-9.
_______. “The Myth of the Battle of the Fei River (A.D. 383).” TP
54.1-3(1968).
_______. The Rise of the Former Ch'in State and Its Spread under Fu Chien,
through 370 A.D. Based on Chin shu 113. (Translation Jin shu 113).
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953.
Wu, Sujane. “The Biography of Lu Yun (262-303) in Jin shu 54,” EMC
7 (2002):1-38.
Yang, L. S. “Notes on the Economic History of the Chin Dynasty.” HJAS
23(1960-1961):93-107. Contains a brief discussion of the history of the Jin shu
and a translation and discussion of the "Treatise on Food and Money (Shi huo
zhi)"
Poetry
Holzman, Donald. “A Dialogue with the Ancients: Tao Qian’s Interrogation of
Confucius.” In Scott Pearce, Audrey Spiro, and Patricia Ebrey, eds. Culture and Power in
the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600. Cambridge: Harvard
University Asia Center, 2003, 75-98.
Kwong, Charles Yim-tze . Tao Qian and The Chinese Poetic Tradition: The
Quest for Cultural Identity. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Center for Chinese
Studies, the University of Michigan, 1994. Rev. Robert Joe Cutter, HJAS 57.2
(Dec., 1997): 612-614.
Lai, Chiu-mi. "The Art of Lamentation in the Works of Pan Yue: Mourning the
Eternally Departed," JAOS 114.3 (1994):409-25.
_____. "Reinvention of the “Late Season” Motif in the Wen xuan," EMC
10-11.1 (2004):131-50. Discusses the poetry of Pan Yue, Lu Ji and Zhang Xie.
Owen, Stephen. "The Librarian in Exile: Xie Lingyun's Bookish Landscapes," EMC
10-11.1 (2004):203-26.
Prose
Farmer, J. Michael. "On the Composition of Zhang Hua's "Nüshi zhen," EMC
10-11.1 (2004):151-175.
Wells, Matthew. “Self as Historical Artifact: Ge
Hong and Early Chinese Autobiographical Writing,” EMC 9(2003): 71-104.
Zhiguai
DeWoskin, Kenneth and J.I. Crump, Jr. trs. In Search of the Supernatural:
The Written Record. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Translation of Gan Bao’s (fl. 317-322) Sou shen ji.with brief introductory
material. Unfortunately, there are very few notes.
e. Thought
Campany, Robert Ford. "Two Religious Thinkers of the Early Eastern Jin: Gan Bao and Ge Hong in Mulitiple Contexts," AM 18.1 (2005).
Holcombe, Charles . "The Exemplar State: Ideology, Self-Cultivation, and Power
in Fourth-Century China," HJAS 49.1 (June 1989): 93-139.
Knapp, Keith N. “Heaven and Death According to Huangfu Mi, A Third Century
Confucian,” EMC 6 (2000):1-31.
Tian, Xiaofei. "Seeing with the Mind's Eye," AM 3rd. series. 18.2 (2005): 67-102.
Ziporyn, Brook. The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003.
f. Society
Crowell, William G. "Social Unrest and Rebellion in Jiangnan during the Six
Dynasties." Modern China 9:3 (July 1983): 319-354.
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. The Aristocratic Families of Early imperial China:
a Case Study of the Po-ling Ts'ui Family. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1978.
Jin Fagen 金發根. Yongjia luan hou beifang di haozu
永嘉亂後北方的豪族 [Northern Magnate Clans after The Yongjia Period Upheavals].
Taibei: Zhongguo xueshu zhuzuo jiangzhu weiyuanhui, 1964.
g. Economy
Clark, Hugh R. Community, Trade and Networks: Southern Fujian Province from
the Third to the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1991.
Yang, Lien-sheng. "Notes on the Economic History of the Chin Dynasty,"
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 9 (1945-47):107-85. [Also in Yang's Studies
in Chinese Institutional History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. pp.
119-197.]
h. Art and
Archeology
Bush, Susan. "Chin Literati Painting and Landscape Traditions, " Bulletin, National Palace Museum. 21.4-5 (1986):1-25.
i. Foreign
Affairs /Frontier Peoples
Honey, David B. The Rise of the Medieval Hsiung-nu: The Biography of Liu
Yüan. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner
Asian Studies, 1990.
Mather, Richard, tr. Biography of Lü Kuang. Chinese Dynastic History
Translations, no. 7. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959.
Translation, with introduction, of biography of Lü Kuang, founder of Later
Liang, from Jin shu 122.
Rogers, Michael, trans. The Chronicle of Fu Chien: A Case of Exemplar
History. Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations no. 10. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1968.
j. Electronic
Texts of Primary Sources:
Jin shu 晉書 electronic text. Scripta Sinica (see above) searchable text and
commentary of Fang Xuanling’s Jin shu. Based on the Zhonghua shuju punctuated
edition. May be accessed through the 二十五史 link at http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3
Simplified character version
http://www.cnread.net/cnread1/lszl/f/fanye/hhs/index.html
Sou shen ji 搜神記 electronic text. Scripta Sinica searchable text of
Gan Bao's (fl. 317-322) Sou shen ji. This link opens a page with a list of
eleven texts. May be accessed on the Institute of History and Philology website http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3 Open 人文資料庫師生版1.1 and then click on 選自〔古籍十八種〕. Simplified
character version
http://www.cnread.net/cnread1/gdwx/g/ganbao/ssj/index.html
Wang Xizhi 王羲之 Lan ting xu 兰亭集序 Simplified character version.
http://www.cnread.net/cnread1/gdwx/w/wangxizi/000/001.htm
