Table of Contents

Illustrations Table of Dynasties Acknowledgments Contributors A Note on Romanization Foreword Herbert Franke Introduction Hoyt Cleveland Tillman and Stephen H. West I. Politics and Institutions 1. An Overview of Chin History and Institutions Hoyt Cleveland Tillman 2. The Jurchen-Sung Cogitation: Some Overlooked Points James T. C. Liu 3. Public Schools in the Chin Dynasty Tao Jing-shen II. Religion and Thought 4. Cofucianism under the Chin and the Impact of Sung Confucian Tao-hsueh Hoyt Cleveland Tillman 5. Chao Ping-wen (1159-1232): Foundation for Literati Learning Peter K. Bol 6. Buddhism and Taoism under the Chin Yao Tao-chung III. Literature and Art 7. Five Paintings of Animal Subjects or Narrative Themes and Their Relevance to Chin Culture Susan Bush 8. Jurchen Literature under the Chin Jin Qicong 9. Satire and Allegory in All Keys and Modes Wilt Idema 10. Chilly Seas and East-Flowing Rivers: Yuan Hao-wen's Poems of Death and Disorder, 1233-35 Stephen H. West Glossary Bibliography Index

About the Author

Hoyt Cleveland Tillman is Professor of History at Arizona State University, where he is also on the faculty of the Humanities Graduate Program, as well as a member of the Center for Asian Studies and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is the author of Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy, and Utilitarian Confucianism: Ch'en Liang's Challenge to Chu Hsi. Stephen H. West is Professor of East Asian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Vaudeville and Narrative: Aspects of Chin Literature, and co-author of Chinese Theater from 1100-1450: A Source Book and The Moon and the Zither: Wang Shifu's Story of the Western Wing.

Reviews

Only since the 1960s has the study of the Jurchen Chin gradually become a subfield of academic inquiry, with particularly significant strides having been made since the late 1980s. This present volume is the first in any language to demonstrate the importance of cultural developments under the Chin both for their continuation of earlier northern patterns and for their own contributions in such areas as literature, art, Confucian thought, and Buddhist and Taoist religious practices. As Herbert Franke observes in his Foreword: "It is now possible to perceive more clearly the contours of a distinctly northern cultural identity in the 12th and 13th centuries, a period that can henceforth no longer be regarded as an unproductive transitional phase between Sung and Yuan." "I believe that this multifaceted approach to the Chin ultimately illuminates a dim and undervalued segment of Chinese cultural history and that this book will contribute significantly to Sinology overall." - Cynthia Ning, University of Hawaii