Ari Daniel Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 1252626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ari Daniel Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ari Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5715-3049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Poisoned Meals
This article examines case studies and anecdotal narratives in which murderers used poisoned food as a weapon, and government officials used their epistemic authority to solve these crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. Drawn from Zheng Ke’s 鄭克 (fl. 1124–1149) legal compendium Tortoise and Mirror for Judging Cases ( Zheyu guijian 折獄龜鑑) and Hong Mai’s 洪邁 (1123–1202) anecdote collection Record of the Listener ( Yijian zhi 夷堅志), these narrat…
Introduction
La dynastie des Song
Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600
Bronze and Stone
Everlasting Empire
The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China. By Yuri Pines. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. vii + 245. $39.50
Powerful Arguments
The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, from the Song through the Qing dynasties. The fourteen case studies analyze concrete arguments defended or contested in areas ranging from historiography, philosophy, law, and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system. By examining uses of evidence, habits of…
A Performance of Transparency
Divided by a Common Language
Between 1044 and 1104, ideological disputes divided China's sociopolitical elite, who organized into factions battling for control of the imperial government. Advocates and adversaries of state reform forged bureaucratic coalitions to implement their policy agendas and to promote like-minded colleagues. During this period, three emperors and two regents in turn patronized a new bureaucratic coalition that overturned the preceding ministerial regi…
Court and Country
The Northern Song Empire (960–1127) was the most spatially integrated and bureaucratically centralized polity in the late medieval world, and its rulers articulated ideological claims to unitary and universal sovereignty. Both its monarchs and ministers shared a discourse of authority that postulated the throne as the only legitimate source of authority, which was not openly challenged by organized blocs of aristocratic, religious, or urban elite…
Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Emperor Huizong
In Emperor Huizong, Patricia Buckley Ebrey has projected the history of the late Northern Song dynasty upon a wide screen, building an epic narrative around the eponymous monarch and his court during a reign of epochal importance. Not since Ray Huang's 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (1981) has a major scholar attempted to write a Chinese monarch's biography for a broader audience of non-specialists. This will be esse…
Stages of Decline
After the fall of the Northern Song [Formula: see text] (960–1127) capital of Kaifeng [Formula: see text] to Jurchen invaders in 1127, diasporic literati of the Southern Song dynasty [Formula: see text] (1127–1279) recreated and revisited its lost sites through textual commemoration, especially in memorabilia literature (biji [Formula: see text], lit. ‘brush notes’). As knowledge of the city passed from communicative memory into cultural memory, …
Walls and Gates, Windows and Mirrors
Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song (960-1127) dynasty, boasted sophisticated siege defence installations, which were ultimately breached by the Jurchen invasion of 1126-1127. According to both the archaeological and textual evidence, its concentric city walls and militarized gates with barbicans and bastions represented a crucial stage in the militarization of urban form in early-modern China, as well as a more open approach to planning. W…
Welcome to the Occupation
Aside from the few envoys dispatched to the Jin court in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, Southern Song subjects seldom experienced the occupied north after the Jurchen conquest of 1127. Passing through the former Northern Song capital of Kaifeng, ambassadors found a neglected, depopulated, and impoverished city, and described its destroyed and reconstructed urban spaces as metaphors for the Jurchen occupation of the homeland. The…
The Age of Confucian Rule
(2010). The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China. The Chinese Historical Review: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 117-120
Che-tsung’s Reign (1085–1100) and the Age of Faction
As Emperor Shen-tsung (1048–85, r. 1067–85) lay dying at the age of thirty-seven, an era of relative political stability was fading along with him. Long held dormant by the force of Shen-tsung's will, the personal and political animosities of his past and present ministers were stirring, now that their emperor's untimely death would effect a new political alignment. Since his heir apparent was an eight-year-old boy, after the emperor's passing ex…
The Reigns of Hui-tsung (1100–1126) and Ch’in-tsung (1126–1127) and the Fall of the Northern Sung
Ensconced within his palace pleasure gardens, a dissolute aesthete-emperor paints exquisite birds and flowers, even as the empire rots from corruption within and succumbs to invasion from without. Such is the classical historiographic image of Emperor Hui-tsung (1082–1135, r. 1100–26), the penultimate monarch of the Northern Sung. Occupying a tantalizingly ambiguous position in history, he has been simultaneously celebrated as a magnificent patro…
Walls and Gates, Windows and Mirrors
Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song (960-1127) dynasty, boasted sophisticated siege defence installations, which were ultimately breached by the Jurchen invasion of 1126-1127. According to both the archaeological and textual evidence, its concentric city walls and militarized gates with barbicans and bastions represented a crucial stage in the militarization of urban form in early-modern China, as well as a more open approach to planning. W…
The Age of Confucian Rule
(2010). The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China. The Chinese Historical Review: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 117-120
Che-tsung’s Reign (1085–1100) and the Age of Faction
As Emperor Shen-tsung (1048–85, r. 1067–85) lay dying at the age of thirty-seven, an era of relative political stability was fading along with him. Long held dormant by the force of Shen-tsung's will, the personal and political animosities of his past and present ministers were stirring, now that their emperor's untimely death would effect a new political alignment. Since his heir apparent was an eight-year-old boy, after the emperor's passing ex…
The Reigns of Hui-tsung (1100–1126) and Ch’in-tsung (1126–1127) and the Fall of the Northern Sung
Ensconced within his palace pleasure gardens, a dissolute aesthete-emperor paints exquisite birds and flowers, even as the empire rots from corruption within and succumbs to invasion from without. Such is the classical historiographic image of Emperor Hui-tsung (1082–1135, r. 1100–26), the penultimate monarch of the Northern Sung. Occupying a tantalizingly ambiguous position in history, he has been simultaneously celebrated as a magnificent patro…
The Age of Confucian Rule
(2010). The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China. The Chinese Historical Review: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 117-120
Welcome to the Occupation
Aside from the few envoys dispatched to the Jin court in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, Southern Song subjects seldom experienced the occupied north after the Jurchen conquest of 1127. Passing through the former Northern Song capital of Kaifeng, ambassadors found a neglected, depopulated, and impoverished city, and described its destroyed and reconstructed urban spaces as metaphors for the Jurchen occupation of the homeland. The…
Stages of Decline
After the fall of the Northern Song [Formula: see text] (960–1127) capital of Kaifeng [Formula: see text] to Jurchen invaders in 1127, diasporic literati of the Southern Song dynasty [Formula: see text] (1127–1279) recreated and revisited its lost sites through textual commemoration, especially in memorabilia literature (biji [Formula: see text], lit. ‘brush notes’). As knowledge of the city passed from communicative memory into cultural memory, …
Walls and Gates, Windows and Mirrors
Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song (960-1127) dynasty, boasted sophisticated siege defence installations, which were ultimately breached by the Jurchen invasion of 1126-1127. According to both the archaeological and textual evidence, its concentric city walls and militarized gates with barbicans and bastions represented a crucial stage in the militarization of urban form in early-modern China, as well as a more open approach to planning. W…
Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Emperor Huizong
In Emperor Huizong, Patricia Buckley Ebrey has projected the history of the late Northern Song dynasty upon a wide screen, building an epic narrative around the eponymous monarch and his court during a reign of epochal importance. Not since Ray Huang's 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (1981) has a major scholar attempted to write a Chinese monarch's biography for a broader audience of non-specialists. This will be esse…
Court and Country
The Northern Song Empire (960–1127) was the most spatially integrated and bureaucratically centralized polity in the late medieval world, and its rulers articulated ideological claims to unitary and universal sovereignty. Both its monarchs and ministers shared a discourse of authority that postulated the throne as the only legitimate source of authority, which was not openly challenged by organized blocs of aristocratic, religious, or urban elite…
Divided by a Common Language
Between 1044 and 1104, ideological disputes divided China's sociopolitical elite, who organized into factions battling for control of the imperial government. Advocates and adversaries of state reform forged bureaucratic coalitions to implement their policy agendas and to promote like-minded colleagues. During this period, three emperors and two regents in turn patronized a new bureaucratic coalition that overturned the preceding ministerial regi…
Powerful Arguments
The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, from the Song through the Qing dynasties. The fourteen case studies analyze concrete arguments defended or contested in areas ranging from historiography, philosophy, law, and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system. By examining uses of evidence, habits of…
A Performance of Transparency
Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600
Bronze and Stone
Everlasting Empire
The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China. By Yuri Pines. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. vii + 245. $39.50
La dynastie des Song
Introduction
Poisoned Meals
This article examines case studies and anecdotal narratives in which murderers used poisoned food as a weapon, and government officials used their epistemic authority to solve these crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. Drawn from Zheng Ke’s 鄭克 (fl. 1124–1149) legal compendium Tortoise and Mirror for Judging Cases ( Zheyu guijian 折獄龜鑑) and Hong Mai’s 洪邁 (1123–1202) anecdote collection Record of the Listener ( Yijian zhi 夷堅志), these narrat…
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