EACS-2016. Book of Abstracts

Cross-sectional 21st Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies 226 and suggest the period of the hoard concealment. Based on the topography of findings and semantics of the binomial dachao, it was hypothesized that the coins with the legend dachao tongbao were cast in the Qa’an’s camp in Liupanshan (now in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region) during the period of its active usage in the Möngke Qa’an’s reign. It is suggested that additional countermarking of the coins by tamghas of Möngke and Arĭq Böke was made by Qunduhai the Mongolian corps commander in the Liupanshan area after the death of the Möngke Qa’an. In addition, the fallacy of the interpretation of the few countermarks, wellknown from previous publications of different authors, is shown. Chen Beichen (University of Oxford) Mysterious Neighbour(s) of Chu: Recent Perspectives of Zeng / Sui Key words: bronze inscriptions, Sui, Wenfengta cemetery, Zeng The state of Zeng 曾 known from paleographic sources and the state of Sui 隨 known from the transmitted texts were both closely related to the state of Chu 楚 . A newly excavated Spring-and-Autumn cemetery at Wenfengta 文峰塔 , Suizhou 隨州 (Hubei 湖北 Province) extends our understanding of the state of Zeng in many respects, such as its lineage history, burial traditions, and so on. One of its ruler’s tombs —Wenfengta M1 — yielded a set of large musical bells with long narrative inscriptions. The inscriptions suggest that as a client state of Chu, Zeng had provided crucial assistance to the Chu king during the war with Wu 吳 . This may be related to the records in the transmitted texts (e. g., Zuo Zhuan 左傳 [Ding 4]) about the state of Sui which saved the Chu king from the Wu invaders. This brings again into spotlight the age-old debate about “whether or not Zeng and Sui refer to the same state” (also known as the question of the “mystery of Zeng/ Sui,” raised by Li Xueqin in 1978). The current paper aims to review this debate, using new archaeological materials to further discuss their relevance to the arguments of the debaters. Chen Yanrong (KU Leuven) Iconographical Reading of a Biblical Text in the Encounter of European and Chinese Book History Key words: History of books; words and images; Jesuits in China; cultural exchange; Tianzhu jiangsheng chuxiang jingjie and its European prototype The various relationships between word, image, text and writing are not only cast along the literary tradition in China but also developed in other cultures, such as the biblical tradition in Europe. During the encounter and interaction of the Jesuits with their Chinese collaborators in the seventeenth century, a series of biblical works were produced with a combination of images and words. They constitute a distinctive group in Chinese book history. Tianzhu jiangsheng chuxiang jingjie ( 天主降生出相經解 , 1637, attributed to the Italian Jesuit Giulio Aleni) is one of these products. This well-known book has given rise extensive scholarship, yet many questions remain unsolved. This paper proposes a minute comparative study of this Chinese book and its European prototype, namely Evangelicae Historiae Imagines (1593) by Jeronimo Nadal, and a further explo- ration on the development of the European prototype itself. Based on the analysis of textual elements such as an emblematic arrangement of word and image, this paper makes two points. First, it situates the particularity of the biblical work in the history of Chinese illustrated books in the seventeenth century. Second, it identi- fies the communicable aspects between Chinese and European textual and iconographical traditions, so as to further understand the patterns of cultural exchange between Europe and China in the early modern time. Cook Constance A. (Lehigh University) Geopolitics, Religion, and the Chu Origin Myth in the Chu Ju Key words: Chu, kings, genealogy, mythology, Shang, Zhou