Mu-Chou Poo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1415392 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mu-Chou Poo |
| NOMBRES | Mu-Chou |
| APELLIDO | Poo |
| FIRMA | POO M |
| AFILIACIONES | 1Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Ghosts and Religious Life in Early China
For modern people, ghost stories are no more than thrilling entertainment. For those living in antiquity, ghosts were far more serious beings, as they could affect the life and death of people and cause endless fear and anxiety. How did ancient societies imagine what ghosts looked like, what they could do, and how people could deal with them? From the vantage point of modernity, what can we learn about an obscure, but no less important aspect of …
Daily Life in Ancient China
In this volume, Mu-chou Poo offers a new overview of daily life in ancient China. Synthesizing a range of textual and archaeological materials, he brings a thematic approach to the topic that enables a multi-faceted understanding of the ideological, economical, legal, social, and emotional aspects of life in ancient China. The volume focuses on the Han period and examines key topics such as government organization and elite ideology, urban and co…
How to Steer through Life
The Taming of Ghosts in Early Chinese Buddhism
The problems that Buddhism faced when the earliest monks introduced it into China can be divided into two kinds: how to persuade the cultured elite class, including the rulers, and how to win over the trust of the commoners. As early Buddhists incorporated the Chinese conceptions of ghost by using the terms gui–guishen interchangeably in the translation of sutras when the original Indian terms were demons of nonhuman origins, it created an impres…
Old Society, New Belief
In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: in that century, missionaries started to spread the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in the Roman empire and the Buddha in China. Both were not only ancient cultures but also cultures whose elites felt no particular urgency to adopt a new religion. Yet a few centuries later, the two new faiths had become so …
Ritual And Ritual Texts In Early China
This chapter studies ritual and ritual texts in the context of early Chinese religious life from the Shang to the end of the Warring States. It first discusses a number of rituals that were performed at the court and involved mainly state affairs in the Shang and early Zhou, as these are practically all we know about rituals in this early period. It then discusses certain rituals that have more to do with daily life at the local level. It is wort…
The magnitude of ming
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate, or life. In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies…
Enemies of Civilization
The Concept of Ghost in Ancient Chinese Religion
In Search of Personal Welfare
The Use and Abuse of Wine in Ancient China
This study traces the use of wine in ancient China. Employing archaeological and literary sources, the author discusses the manufacturing of wine, the use of wine in rituals and festivities, the attitudes toward wine-drinking, and the government control of the production and consumption of wine. Wine was a prestigious drink in both religious ceremonies and secular gatherings, yet it was also a symbol of wanton behaviour when used excessively
The Art of Ancient Egypt
JAN ASSMANN, Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom, London
Wine and Wine Offering in the Religion of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian
The language of Ancient Egypt has been the object of careful investigation since its decipherment in the nineteenth century, but this is the first accessible account which uses the insights of modern linguistics. Antonio Loprieno traces Ancient Egyptian's historical development from Old Egyptian to Coptic, and, combining diachronic and synchronic viewpoints wherever possible, he looks at the hieroglyphic system and its cursive varieties (Hieratic…
The Images of Immortals and Eminent Monks
This study seeks to investigate the religious mentality in early Medieval China. By comparing two types of characters, i.e., the immortals of the Taoist tradition, and the eminent monks of the Buddhist religion, we try to discover the special nature of both these types of characters, and to delineate their similarities as well as differences. Our analysis shows that the stories about the immortals and the eminent monks reflected a common mentalit…
Popular Religion in Pre-Imperial China
Le jih-shu de Shui-hu-ti, texte de nature religieuse decouvert dans une tombe de l'epoque Ch'in (ca. 220 av. J.C.), s'apparente aux almanachs occidentaux : en effet, il contient de multiples conseils concernant les jours et heures favorables aux activites quotidiennes des paysans, des representants officiciels et des marchands. Le present article etudie les differentes questions d'ordre politique, economique ou social que souleve ce document ; en…
Paläographie der Althieratischen Gefässaufschriften aus den Grabungs-Jahren 1960 Bis 1973
L'Écriture Figurative Dans les Textes D'esna, Esna VIII
Enemies of Civilization
The Images of Immortals and Eminent Monks
This study seeks to investigate the religious mentality in early Medieval China. By comparing two types of characters, i.e., the immortals of the Taoist tradition, and the eminent monks of the Buddhist religion, we try to discover the special nature of both these types of characters, and to delineate their similarities as well as differences. Our analysis shows that the stories about the immortals and the eminent monks reflected a common mentalit…
The Use and Abuse of Wine in Ancient China
This study traces the use of wine in ancient China. Employing archaeological and literary sources, the author discusses the manufacturing of wine, the use of wine in rituals and festivities, the attitudes toward wine-drinking, and the government control of the production and consumption of wine. Wine was a prestigious drink in both religious ceremonies and secular gatherings, yet it was also a symbol of wanton behaviour when used excessively
Paläographie der Althieratischen Gefässaufschriften aus den Grabungs-Jahren 1960 Bis 1973
L'Écriture Figurative Dans les Textes D'esna, Esna VIII
Popular Religion in Pre-Imperial China
Le jih-shu de Shui-hu-ti, texte de nature religieuse decouvert dans une tombe de l'epoque Ch'in (ca. 220 av. J.C.), s'apparente aux almanachs occidentaux : en effet, il contient de multiples conseils concernant les jours et heures favorables aux activites quotidiennes des paysans, des representants officiciels et des marchands. Le present article etudie les differentes questions d'ordre politique, economique ou social que souleve ce document ; en…
The Images of Immortals and Eminent Monks
This study seeks to investigate the religious mentality in early Medieval China. By comparing two types of characters, i.e., the immortals of the Taoist tradition, and the eminent monks of the Buddhist religion, we try to discover the special nature of both these types of characters, and to delineate their similarities as well as differences. Our analysis shows that the stories about the immortals and the eminent monks reflected a common mentalit…
JAN ASSMANN, Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom, London
Wine and Wine Offering in the Religion of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian
The language of Ancient Egypt has been the object of careful investigation since its decipherment in the nineteenth century, but this is the first accessible account which uses the insights of modern linguistics. Antonio Loprieno traces Ancient Egyptian's historical development from Old Egyptian to Coptic, and, combining diachronic and synchronic viewpoints wherever possible, he looks at the hieroglyphic system and its cursive varieties (Hieratic…
The Art of Ancient Egypt
In Search of Personal Welfare
The Use and Abuse of Wine in Ancient China
This study traces the use of wine in ancient China. Employing archaeological and literary sources, the author discusses the manufacturing of wine, the use of wine in rituals and festivities, the attitudes toward wine-drinking, and the government control of the production and consumption of wine. Wine was a prestigious drink in both religious ceremonies and secular gatherings, yet it was also a symbol of wanton behaviour when used excessively
The Concept of Ghost in Ancient Chinese Religion
The magnitude of ming
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate, or life. In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies…
Enemies of Civilization
Ritual And Ritual Texts In Early China
This chapter studies ritual and ritual texts in the context of early Chinese religious life from the Shang to the end of the Warring States. It first discusses a number of rituals that were performed at the court and involved mainly state affairs in the Shang and early Zhou, as these are practically all we know about rituals in this early period. It then discusses certain rituals that have more to do with daily life at the local level. It is wort…
How to Steer through Life
The Taming of Ghosts in Early Chinese Buddhism
The problems that Buddhism faced when the earliest monks introduced it into China can be divided into two kinds: how to persuade the cultured elite class, including the rulers, and how to win over the trust of the commoners. As early Buddhists incorporated the Chinese conceptions of ghost by using the terms gui–guishen interchangeably in the translation of sutras when the original Indian terms were demons of nonhuman origins, it created an impres…
Old Society, New Belief
In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: in that century, missionaries started to spread the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in the Roman empire and the Buddha in China. Both were not only ancient cultures but also cultures whose elites felt no particular urgency to adopt a new religion. Yet a few centuries later, the two new faiths had become so …
Daily Life in Ancient China
In this volume, Mu-chou Poo offers a new overview of daily life in ancient China. Synthesizing a range of textual and archaeological materials, he brings a thematic approach to the topic that enables a multi-faceted understanding of the ideological, economical, legal, social, and emotional aspects of life in ancient China. The volume focuses on the Han period and examines key topics such as government organization and elite ideology, urban and co…
Ghosts and Religious Life in Early China
For modern people, ghost stories are no more than thrilling entertainment. For those living in antiquity, ghosts were far more serious beings, as they could affect the life and death of people and cause endless fear and anxiety. How did ancient societies imagine what ghosts looked like, what they could do, and how people could deal with them? From the vantage point of modernity, what can we learn about an obscure, but no less important aspect of …
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