EACS-2016. Book of Abstracts

Section 11 21st Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies 123 genre, whose origins are to be found in the “judgements of the gentleman” (junzi yue 君子曰 ) which are to be found in the Zuozhuan 左傳 . Two questions may be raised: that of the reasons why disquisitions and eulogies were so important to Fan Ye’s eyes, and that of the reasons why he considered them as his most successful piece of writing. Relying on the analysis of a few specific examples (especially the “Rulin liezhuan” 儒林 列傳 and the “Kuli liezhuan” 酷吏列傳 ), I will try to characterize the style and the purpose of his lun zan. Lin Yu-ju (Academia Sinica) Conflict and the Aboriginal-boundary Policy of the Qing Empire Key words: aboriginal-boundary, frontier, Lin Dan Incident, cadastral survey, Purple Aboriginal- boundary Map Once Taiwan was incorporated into the Qing Empire in 1684, there was a massive influx of Han immigrants from the Chinese mainland. They invaded the living space of the aborigines, resulting in constant disputes. There were even incidents of major social unrest and anti-Qing rebellions involving the aboriginal regions. To exercise its ruling authority and to maintain law and order, the Qing court delineated clear boundaries between the Han settlers and the aborigines, in an attempt to separate their living areas and prevent further Han encroachment onto aboriginal territories. During the reign of the Qianlong emperor, four cadastral surveys were conducted on the lands outside the aboriginal frontier. Four maps were thus drawn up, each using lines of different colors, namely red, blue, purple and green. With reference to one of these maps, this paper describes why fighting in Taiwan led the Qing Empire to constantly revise its aboriginal-boundary policy and the demarcation of the aboriginal frontier. It thus provides an overall image of the frontier scene of Qing Taiwan in 1784 and the imperial territorial policy during the reign of Qianlong. Lycas Alexis (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes) Northern vs. Southern Barbarians: Aspects of the Representation of Non Chinese People in Fan Ye’s Hou Han shu Key words: Non Chinese people, representation, imperial integration, ethnography, edges As we compare Early Imperial accounts of non Chinese people living on the edges of the Empire, Fan Ye’s depictions of culturally foreign others appear striking in many ways. Contrary to Ban Gu’s 班固 geographical account (dili zhi 地理志 ), which is based on reports written by some government agents such as Zhu Gong’s 朱 贛 own examinations of the Chinese oikoumene, Fan Ye uses earlier texts and not first hand information when describing distant lands and populations. Still, this fact doesn’t make it less of a valuable source of information for us. By geographically replacing the subgroups of the populations under scrutiny here, we will try to understand how Fan Ye conceptually organises them on the scale of the cultural representation and the imperial integra- tion of the foreign other, depending on their customs and geographical origins. Some groups appear either well integrated, or well organized into polities, while others seem to be denied any form of civilization. Translating relevant portions of the “ethnographical accounts” (zaiji 載記 ) dedicated to foreign peoples, and deconstructing the formal structure of these chapters will bring forth the differences between northern and southern peoples, and what those differences entail for our understanding of Early Medieval Chinese foreign relations. Nienhauser William (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Perspectives onWarring States History: a Reading of the “Wei shijia” 魏世家 (Hereditary House of Wei) Key words: intertextuality, historiography, Shiji, Sima Qian, local history Sima Qian’s 司馬遷 (145-ca. 86 BCE) portrayal of Qin’s conquest of the other so-called Warring States is presented not only in his “Qin benji” 秦本紀 (Basic Annals of Qin) but also in the accounts of the hereditary