Sarah Allan
Biographic Data
| ID | 173270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Allan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Allan |
| SIGNATURE | ALLAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2157-1681 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Luminosity, Spirit, and the Role of Clapper-Bells in the Formation of a Chinese Metallurgical Tradition
This article explores the manner in which the Eurasian metallurgical tradition was transformed into an indigenous tradition on the Chinese Central Plains. It argues that the association of luminosity with the divine has a cognitive foundation, which accounts for the use translucent stones and shiny metals, including copper, bronze, silver, and gold as mediums for religious artifacts throughout the world. In China, this association was the primary…
What does Southeast Asia want from Australia
In recent times Australia has been giving increasing priority to its relations with Southeast Asia.Just two years ago the Pacific Step-up was taking resources from Southeast Asia to the extent that some bemoaned that it had caused a Southeast Asian 'Step Down'.There were calls for Australia to 'Step Up in Southeast Asia 'as the protective membrane for Australia's own prosperity and security.'Then in 2020 Australia announced its largest funding co…
Domestic groundwater abstraction in Lagos, Nigeria
The rapid development of groundwater systems as part of urban water supplies around the globe is raising critical questions regarding the sustainable management of this essential resource. Yet, in many major cities, the absence of an effective policy regime means that the practice of groundwater exploitation is driven by the actions of domestic households and drilling contractors. Understanding what shapes the decisions and practices of these act…
Remembrances of Li Xueqin (1933–2019)
I first met Li Xueqin in 1981, when he was a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and I was teaching at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Paul Thompson and I took a train to Cambridge to invite him to London for a few weeks-Paul said we should pay a scholar of his caliber the courtesy of going in person rather than writing to him. In London, Li spent an hour or so every morning happily working his way through all of the galleries of …
What Kind of Brexit do Voters want? Lessons from the Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit
The Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit was a major exercise in deliberative public engagement conducted in autumn 2017. It brought together fifty randomly selected members of the public for two carefully structured weekends of listening, learning, reflecting and discussing. Assembly members considered what post‐Brexit arrangements the UK should pursue, focusing on trade and migration. On trade, most members wanted the UK to pursue a bespoke arrangement…
The Analects
For the first time in one volume, The Analects illustrated by bestselling cartoonist C. C. TsaiC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over twenty languages. This volume presents Tsai's delightful graphic adaptation of The Analects, one of the most influential books of all time and a work that continues to inspire countless readers today.Tsai's express…
David Noel Keightley (1932–2017)
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The Jishi Outburst Flood of 1920 bce and the Great Flood Legend in Ancient China
On August 5, 2015, Science published an article by Wu Qinglong and a team of distinguished archaeologists that reported on the discovery of evidence for a massive outburst flood in the upper reaches of the Yellow River c. 1920 bce . The archaeologists identified this flood with the one brought under control by Yu 禹, who was traditionally regarded as the founder of the Xia dynasty. They further argue that since Erlitou culture originated around 19…
The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture
"China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. In modern times, the communist government frequently referred to Nationalists as "running dogs," and President Xi Jinping, vowing to quell corruption at all levels, pledged to capture both "the tigers" and "the flies." Sple…
Violence prevention and municipal licensing of indoor sex work venues in the Greater Vancouver Area
Using a socio-ecological, structural determinants framework, this study assesses the impact of municipal licensing policies and related policing practices across the Greater Vancouver Area (Canada) on the risk of violence within indoor sex work venues. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 46 migrant/immigrant sex workers, managers and owners of licensed indoor sex work establishments and micro-brothels. Findings indicate that policing pract…
When Red Pigeons Gathered on Tang's House”
“When Red Pigeons Gathered on Tang's House” ( Chi jiu zhi ji Tang zhi wu 赤 之集湯之屋 ) is a Warring States period bamboo manuscript written in the script of the Chu state. It concerns figures that are well known in historical legend: Tang 湯 , the founder of the Shang dynasty; his wife; his minister Yi Yin 伊尹 , here called by the title xiaochen 小臣 [minor servitor]; and the last king of the Xia dynasty, here called simply the Xia Lord ( xia hou 夏后 ). T…
Criminalisation of clients
OBJECTIVES: To explore how criminalisation and policing of sex buyers (clients) rather than sex workers shapes sex workers' working conditions and sexual transactions including risk of violence and HIV/sexually transmitted infections (STIs). DESIGN: Qualitative and ethnographic study triangulated with sex work-related violence prevalence data and publicly available police statistics. SETTING: Vancouver, Canada, provides a unique opportunity to ev…
On Shu 書 (Documents) and the origin of the Shang shu 尚書 (Ancient Documents) in light of recently discovered bamboo slip manuscripts
In light of the recent discovery of Warring States period bamboo slips, now in the collection of Tsinghua University, inscribed with texts described as shu, “documents” or “similar to shu” , this article explores the question of “what were shu ?” It suggests that shu can be understood as a literary form apart from the history of the Confucian classic, the Shang shu 尚書 (Ancient Documents) or Shu jing 書經 (Book of Documents) and the Yi Zhou shu 逸周書.…
Not the Lun yu
This article includes a line-by-line translation and textual analysis of the Warring States period Chu script bamboo slip manuscript, Zigao 子羔. It argues that the manuscript differs from the transmitted Confucian tradition, but would have been considered a ru 儒 ("Confucian") text. Unusual features include: (1) The disciple is Zigao, who is described negatively in the Lun yu. (2) The term tian zi 天子, "son-of-sky/heaven" is used literally, to refer…
On the Identity of Shang Di and the Origin of the Concept of a Celestial Mandate ( Tian Ming )
This article reexamines the hypotheses of Guo Moruo and H.G. Creel that Shang Di was the high god of the Shang and Tian, that of the Zhou. It proposes that Shang Di was originally the spirit of the pole star. As such, it was the one celestial body which was higher than the ten suns, with whom the Shang ancestors were identified. Tian was not a high god, but quite literally, the sky. The sky was the location of the Shang Di and the other ancestral…
Erlitou and the Formation of Chinese Civilization
This paper offers an alternative paradigm to dynastic history and state formation with which to understand the formation of Chinese civilization: cultural hegemony. It argues that an elite culture first crystallized in the early second millennium BCE at Yanshi Erlitou in Henan Province in which bronze was associated with a set of religious practices centered on ancestral offerings. It established a cultural hegemony over the Chinese continental r…
The Great One, Water, and the Laozi
In 1993, when Chinese archaeologists excavated a Warring States Period (475-222 B.C.) tomb atJingmen Guodian jr[9Jin Hubei Province, they discovered a cache of philosophical texts written on some 800 bamboo slips. In 1998, transcriptions of these texts prepared under the auspices of the Jingmen City Museum by Peng Hao ~A , Liu Zuxin glrJiL and Wang Chuanfu TE{IW, with additional notes by Qiu Xigui iSf, were published under the title Guodian Chu m…
The Cambridge History of Ancient China
The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the cultural history of pre-imperial China. Fourteen leading specialists on early Chinese history and archaeology cover more than one thousand years. There are two chapters for each time-period - Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States: one on institutional history, based on both traditional and palaeographic literature, and one on material culture, based on archaeolog…
The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue
The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue
The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue
Ouzhou suocang Zhongguo qingtongqi yizhu (Chinese Bronzes
Shamanism, History, and the State
The Shape of the Turtle
The Guodian Laozi
Shamanism, History, and the State
What Kind of Brexit do Voters want? Lessons from the Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit
The Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit was a major exercise in deliberative public engagement conducted in autumn 2017. It brought together fifty randomly selected members of the public for two carefully structured weekends of listening, learning, reflecting and discussing. Assembly members considered what post‐Brexit arrangements the UK should pursue, focusing on trade and migration. On trade, most members wanted the UK to pursue a bespoke arrangement…
Erlitou and the Formation of Chinese Civilization
This paper offers an alternative paradigm to dynastic history and state formation with which to understand the formation of Chinese civilization: cultural hegemony. It argues that an elite culture first crystallized in the early second millennium BCE at Yanshi Erlitou in Henan Province in which bronze was associated with a set of religious practices centered on ancestral offerings. It established a cultural hegemony over the Chinese continental r…
The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue
The myth of the Xia Dynasty
Was there a Xia Dynasty? By the mid-nineteen thirties, the works of Henri Maspero and other scholars in the West and of Gu Jiegang and his compatriots in China had clearly established the originally mythological character of the founder of the Xia Dynasty (traditionally ca. 2200–1760 B.C.) and of the rulers who preceded him in traditional Chinese historiography. The excavations near Anyang of late Shang palaces, tombs and inscribed oracle bones h…
Drought, human sacrifice and the Mandate of Heaven in a lost text from the Shang shu
In the following, I will analyse a lost text from the Shang shu the 'Ancient documents '. The story recorded in this text that of an ominous portent-seven years of drought which occurred at the beginning of the Shang Dynasty, of a divination in which human sacrifice was demanded of the Shang founder Tang, and of the ritual in which he offered himself as a sacrifice to the Lord on High. I will argue that this text provides a conceptual link betwee…
Sons of suns
The 'problem of myth' for Western philosophers is a problem of interpreting the meaning of myths and explaining the phenomenon of myth making. The 'problem of myth' for the sinologist is one of finding any myths to interpret and explaining why there are so few-for myth-making is generally assumed to be a universal faculty of mankind. One explanation for the paucity of myth in the traditional sense of stories of the supernatural in ancient Chinese…
When Red Pigeons Gathered on Tang's House”
“When Red Pigeons Gathered on Tang's House” ( Chi jiu zhi ji Tang zhi wu 赤 之集湯之屋 ) is a Warring States period bamboo manuscript written in the script of the Chu state. It concerns figures that are well known in historical legend: Tang 湯 , the founder of the Shang dynasty; his wife; his minister Yi Yin 伊尹 , here called by the title xiaochen 小臣 [minor servitor]; and the last king of the Xia dynasty, here called simply the Xia Lord ( xia hou 夏后 ). T…
On Shu 書 (Documents) and the origin of the Shang shu 尚書 (Ancient Documents) in light of recently discovered bamboo slip manuscripts
In light of the recent discovery of Warring States period bamboo slips, now in the collection of Tsinghua University, inscribed with texts described as shu, “documents” or “similar to shu” , this article explores the question of “what were shu ?” It suggests that shu can be understood as a literary form apart from the history of the Confucian classic, the Shang shu 尚書 (Ancient Documents) or Shu jing 書經 (Book of Documents) and the Yi Zhou shu 逸周書.…
The Identities of Taigong Wang 太公望 in Zhou and Han Literature
Four thousand years of Chinese history
Sons of suns
The 'problem of myth' for Western philosophers is a problem of interpreting the meaning of myths and explaining the phenomenon of myth making. The 'problem of myth' for the sinologist is one of finding any myths to interpret and explaining why there are so few-for myth-making is generally assumed to be a universal faculty of mankind. One explanation for the paucity of myth in the traditional sense of stories of the supernatural in ancient Chinese…
The myth of the Xia Dynasty
Was there a Xia Dynasty? By the mid-nineteen thirties, the works of Henri Maspero and other scholars in the West and of Gu Jiegang and his compatriots in China had clearly established the originally mythological character of the founder of the Xia Dynasty (traditionally ca. 2200–1760 B.C.) and of the rulers who preceded him in traditional Chinese historiography. The excavations near Anyang of late Shang palaces, tombs and inscribed oracle bones h…
Drought, human sacrifice and the Mandate of Heaven in a lost text from the Shang shu
In the following, I will analyse a lost text from the Shang shu the 'Ancient documents '. The story recorded in this text that of an ominous portent-seven years of drought which occurred at the beginning of the Shang Dynasty, of a divination in which human sacrifice was demanded of the Shang founder Tang, and of the ritual in which he offered himself as a sacrifice to the Lord on High. I will argue that this text provides a conceptual link betwee…
Myth and Meaning in Shang Bronze Motifs
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The Heir and the Sage
The Shape of the Turtle
Many Chinese philosophic concepts derive from an ancient cosmology. This work is the first reconstructions of the mythic thought of the Shang Dynasty (ca. 1700- 1100 B.C.) which laid the foundation for later Chinese patterns of thought. Allan regards the myth, cosmology, divination, sacrificial ritual, and art of the Shang as different manifestations of a common religious system and each is examined in turn, building up a coherent and consistent …
The Shape of the Turtle
Ouzhou suocang Zhongguo qingtongqi yizhu (Chinese Bronzes
Shamanism, History, and the State
The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue
The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue
The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue
The Cambridge History of Ancient China
The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the cultural history of pre-imperial China. Fourteen leading specialists on early Chinese history and archaeology cover more than one thousand years. There are two chapters for each time-period - Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States: one on institutional history, based on both traditional and palaeographic literature, and one on material culture, based on archaeolog…
The Great One, Water, and the Laozi
In 1993, when Chinese archaeologists excavated a Warring States Period (475-222 B.C.) tomb atJingmen Guodian jr[9Jin Hubei Province, they discovered a cache of philosophical texts written on some 800 bamboo slips. In 1998, transcriptions of these texts prepared under the auspices of the Jingmen City Museum by Peng Hao ~A , Liu Zuxin glrJiL and Wang Chuanfu TE{IW, with additional notes by Qiu Xigui iSf, were published under the title Guodian Chu m…
On the Identity of Shang Di and the Origin of the Concept of a Celestial Mandate ( Tian Ming )
This article reexamines the hypotheses of Guo Moruo and H.G. Creel that Shang Di was the high god of the Shang and Tian, that of the Zhou. It proposes that Shang Di was originally the spirit of the pole star. As such, it was the one celestial body which was higher than the ten suns, with whom the Shang ancestors were identified. Tian was not a high god, but quite literally, the sky. The sky was the location of the Shang Di and the other ancestral…
Erlitou and the Formation of Chinese Civilization
This paper offers an alternative paradigm to dynastic history and state formation with which to understand the formation of Chinese civilization: cultural hegemony. It argues that an elite culture first crystallized in the early second millennium BCE at Yanshi Erlitou in Henan Province in which bronze was associated with a set of religious practices centered on ancestral offerings. It established a cultural hegemony over the Chinese continental r…
Not the Lun yu
This article includes a line-by-line translation and textual analysis of the Warring States period Chu script bamboo slip manuscript, Zigao 子羔. It argues that the manuscript differs from the transmitted Confucian tradition, but would have been considered a ru 儒 ("Confucian") text. Unusual features include: (1) The disciple is Zigao, who is described negatively in the Lun yu. (2) The term tian zi 天子, "son-of-sky/heaven" is used literally, to refer…
On Shu 書 (Documents) and the origin of the Shang shu 尚書 (Ancient Documents) in light of recently discovered bamboo slip manuscripts
In light of the recent discovery of Warring States period bamboo slips, now in the collection of Tsinghua University, inscribed with texts described as shu, “documents” or “similar to shu” , this article explores the question of “what were shu ?” It suggests that shu can be understood as a literary form apart from the history of the Confucian classic, the Shang shu 尚書 (Ancient Documents) or Shu jing 書經 (Book of Documents) and the Yi Zhou shu 逸周書.…
Criminalisation of clients
OBJECTIVES: To explore how criminalisation and policing of sex buyers (clients) rather than sex workers shapes sex workers' working conditions and sexual transactions including risk of violence and HIV/sexually transmitted infections (STIs). DESIGN: Qualitative and ethnographic study triangulated with sex work-related violence prevalence data and publicly available police statistics. SETTING: Vancouver, Canada, provides a unique opportunity to ev…
Violence prevention and municipal licensing of indoor sex work venues in the Greater Vancouver Area
Using a socio-ecological, structural determinants framework, this study assesses the impact of municipal licensing policies and related policing practices across the Greater Vancouver Area (Canada) on the risk of violence within indoor sex work venues. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 46 migrant/immigrant sex workers, managers and owners of licensed indoor sex work establishments and micro-brothels. Findings indicate that policing pract…
When Red Pigeons Gathered on Tang's House”
“When Red Pigeons Gathered on Tang's House” ( Chi jiu zhi ji Tang zhi wu 赤 之集湯之屋 ) is a Warring States period bamboo manuscript written in the script of the Chu state. It concerns figures that are well known in historical legend: Tang 湯 , the founder of the Shang dynasty; his wife; his minister Yi Yin 伊尹 , here called by the title xiaochen 小臣 [minor servitor]; and the last king of the Xia dynasty, here called simply the Xia Lord ( xia hou 夏后 ). T…
The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture
"China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. In modern times, the communist government frequently referred to Nationalists as "running dogs," and President Xi Jinping, vowing to quell corruption at all levels, pledged to capture both "the tigers" and "the flies." Sple…
David Noel Keightley (1932–2017)
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