Donald Harper
Biographic Data
| ID | 134654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Harper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Harper |
| SIGNATURE | HARPER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The third field: Tacit knowledge, algorithmic agency, and the emergence of Synexis
Traditional Chinese Medicine: Heritage and Adaptation, written by Paul U. Unschuld
The Zhoujiatai Occult Manuscripts (周家臺的數術簡)
Bamboo-slip manuscripts from Zhoujiatai tomb 30, Hubei (burial dated ca. 209 b.c.e.), provide important evidence of ancient Chinese occult manuscripts belonging to a man of modest status. One manuscript, identified as a rishu "day book" by the modern editors of the Zhoujiatai manuscripts, treats of hemerology and astrology and is the focus of this study. The bamboo slips of a calendar for years corresponding to 211-210 b.c.e. can be associated wi…
Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China: The Daybook Manuscripts of the Warring States, Qin, and Han
Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the manuscripts known as daybooks, examples of which have been found in Warring States, Qin, and Han tombs (453 BCE–220 CE). Their main content concerns hemerology, or “knowledge of good and bad days.” Daybooks reveal the place of hemerology in daily life and are invaluable sources for the study of popular culture. Eleven scholars have contributed chapters examini…
Early Chinese Medical Literature
The Textual Form of Knowledge: Occult Miscellanies in Ancient and Medieval Chinese Manuscripts, Fourth Century B.C. to Tenth Century A.D.
‘Hakutaku hi kai zu’: White Marsh Diagram to Repel Ominous Prodigies
Ancient and Medieval Chinese Recipes for Aphrodisiacs and Philters
This article surveys recipes for aphrodisiacs and philters from the medical manuscripts discovered in Mawangdui tomb 3 (burial dated 168 BCE) and Dunhuang manuscripts (seventh to tenth centuries CE). Despite medical views that defined sex as a form of physiological and spiritual cultivation, and that criticised se 'lust,' the aphrodisiac and philter recipes reveal elements of eroticism in ancient and medieval Chinese views of sex
Huang Di nei jing su wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text (review)
Reviewed by: Huang Di nei jing su wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text Donald Harper Paul U. Unschuld . Huang Di nei jing su wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text. With an Appendix, "The Doctrine of the Five Periods and Six Qi in the Huang Di nei jing su wen."Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xii + 520 pp. Ill. $75.00, £52.00 (0-520-23322-0). Huangdi neijing …
Contracts with the Spirit World in Han Common Religion: The Xuning Prayer and Sacrifice Documents of A.D. 79
Cet article est une traduction et une étude de quatorze fiches en bois datant de 79 apr. J.-C. qui se trouvent dans la collection de l'Université chinoise de Hong Kong Wenwuguan. Les fiches représentent deux sortes de contrats religieux préparés pour une femme nommée Xuning au cours de sa maladie et après son décès. Les fiches de Xuning étaient employées conjointement avec des prières et des sacrifices ; chaque fiche associe un participant du mon…
Physicians and Diviners: The relation of divination to the medicine of the Huangdi neijing (inner canon of the Yellow Thearch)
Médecins et devins : la relation de la divination à la médecine du Huangdi neijing ( Livre interne de l'Empereur Jaune ) Pour ce qui est de leur arrière-plan social et intellectuel, les médecins-auteurs du Huangdi neijing ( Livre interne de l'Empereur jaune ; compilé vers le Ier siècle avant notre ère) faisaient partie des mêmes milieux que les devins, les astrologues et les autres spécialistes de savoirs techniques. Une analyse des passages pert…
Early Chinese medical literature: The Mawangdui medical manuscripts
Religions of China in Practice
This third volume of Princeton Readings in Religions demonstrates that the three of China - Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth, folk religion, sometimes added) - are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. The volume also illustrates some of the many interactions between Han culture and the cultures designated by the current government as minorities. Selections from minority cult…
The Bellows Analogy in Laozi V and Warring States Macrobiotic Hygiene
The bamboo-slip medical manuscript entitled Yinshu (Pulling Book) from Zhangjiashan tomb 247, Hubei (burial dated ca. mid-second cen¬tury B.C.), includes a passage that uses the analogy of the bellows attested in received literature in Laozi V. In Yinshu the analogy is placed at the head of a macrobiotic technique. This article discusses the technique and argues that the bellows analogy most likely developed as part of the Warring States medical …
An Archaeological Study of Taiyi (Grand One) Worship
(1995). An Archaeological Study of Taiyi (Grand One) Worship. Early Medieval China: Vol. 1995, No. 1, pp. 1-39
Warring States, Ch'in, and Han Periods
Fundamental changes occurred in chinese civilization between the fifth century B.C.E. and the second century C.E., roughly corresponding to the Warring States (which officially commences in 453 B.C.E.) and the Ch'in and Han empires (Han rule ends in 220 C.E.). The emergence and maturation of philosophical speculation and of new sociopolitical models have traditionally constituted the ground on which other elements of the contemporary civilization…
Der chinesische Traumwald: Traditionelle Theorien des Traumes und seiner Deutung im Spiegel der ming-zeitlichen Anthologie Meng-lin hsüan-chieh
Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology
The Sexual Arts of Ancient China as Described in a Manuscript of The Second Century B.C
Wang Yen-shou's Nightmare Poem
The Analects Jade Candle: A Classic of T'ang Drinking Custom
(1986). The Analects Jade Candle: A Classic of T'ang Drinking Custom. Tang Studies: Vol. 1986, No. 4, pp. 69-89
Doctors, Diviners, and Magicians of Ancient China: Biographies of Fang-Shih
Flowers in T'ang Poetry: Pomegranate, Sea Pomegranate, and Mountain Pomegranate
Donald Harper, Flowers in T'ang Poetry: Pomegranate, Sea Pomegranate, and Mountain Pomegranate, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 106, No. 1, Sinological Studies Dedicated to Edward H. Schafer (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 139-153
A Chinese Demonography of the Third Century B. C
The Han Cosmic Board: A Response to Christopher Cullen
This article adduces additional evidence to substantiate the author's ideas regarding the cosmic board shih published in Early China 4. The most essential points in the discussion concern first the relation between the appearance of the Big Dipper on the cosmic board and the role of the Big Dipper in ancient cosmological belief and calendrical theory; and second, the influence of the cosmic board on religious belief and practice beginning in the …
Mawangdui Tomb Three – Documents: I - The Medical Documents
A surprisingly large number of texts, many heretofore lost to us, were discovered in a lacquer box in Tomb Three at Mawangdui. (For a summary of the excavation and contents of the tomb see Early China 1 [ 1975 ] :10-15.) The scrolls had fused together as a result of being tightly packed in the lacquer box; after separation, two of the scrolls were found to contain six separate treatises on medicine as well as a set of illustrations of therapeutic…
The Han Cosmic Board ( Shih )
The Warring States and Ch'in-Han periods witnessed not only an efflorescence of cosmological speculation but along with it the growth of intricate systems of divination, astrology, geomancy, and magic. The internal structure of the cosmos, elaborated in terms of Yin-Yang and Five Phase theories, was treated as something which could be manipulated to the advantage of a person who was initiated into the secret operations of the universe. Thus the Y…
The Han Cosmic Board: A Response to Christopher Cullen
This article adduces additional evidence to substantiate the author's ideas regarding the cosmic board shih published in Early China 4. The most essential points in the discussion concern first the relation between the appearance of the Big Dipper on the cosmic board and the role of the Big Dipper in ancient cosmological belief and calendrical theory; and second, the influence of the cosmic board on religious belief and practice beginning in the …
A Chinese Demonography of the Third Century B. C
The Analects Jade Candle: A Classic of T'ang Drinking Custom
(1986). The Analects Jade Candle: A Classic of T'ang Drinking Custom. Tang Studies: Vol. 1986, No. 4, pp. 69-89
Doctors, Diviners, and Magicians of Ancient China: Biographies of Fang-Shih
Flowers in T'ang Poetry: Pomegranate, Sea Pomegranate, and Mountain Pomegranate
Donald Harper, Flowers in T'ang Poetry: Pomegranate, Sea Pomegranate, and Mountain Pomegranate, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 106, No. 1, Sinological Studies Dedicated to Edward H. Schafer (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 139-153
The Sexual Arts of Ancient China as Described in a Manuscript of The Second Century B.C
Wang Yen-shou's Nightmare Poem
Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology
Der chinesische Traumwald: Traditionelle Theorien des Traumes und seiner Deutung im Spiegel der ming-zeitlichen Anthologie Meng-lin hsüan-chieh
The Bellows Analogy in Laozi V and Warring States Macrobiotic Hygiene
The bamboo-slip medical manuscript entitled Yinshu (Pulling Book) from Zhangjiashan tomb 247, Hubei (burial dated ca. mid-second cen¬tury B.C.), includes a passage that uses the analogy of the bellows attested in received literature in Laozi V. In Yinshu the analogy is placed at the head of a macrobiotic technique. This article discusses the technique and argues that the bellows analogy most likely developed as part of the Warring States medical …
An Archaeological Study of Taiyi (Grand One) Worship
(1995). An Archaeological Study of Taiyi (Grand One) Worship. Early Medieval China: Vol. 1995, No. 1, pp. 1-39
Warring States, Ch'in, and Han Periods
Fundamental changes occurred in chinese civilization between the fifth century B.C.E. and the second century C.E., roughly corresponding to the Warring States (which officially commences in 453 B.C.E.) and the Ch'in and Han empires (Han rule ends in 220 C.E.). The emergence and maturation of philosophical speculation and of new sociopolitical models have traditionally constituted the ground on which other elements of the contemporary civilization…
Religions of China in Practice
This third volume of Princeton Readings in Religions demonstrates that the three of China - Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth, folk religion, sometimes added) - are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. The volume also illustrates some of the many interactions between Han culture and the cultures designated by the current government as minorities. Selections from minority cult…
Early Chinese medical literature: The Mawangdui medical manuscripts
Physicians and Diviners: The relation of divination to the medicine of the Huangdi neijing (inner canon of the Yellow Thearch)
Médecins et devins : la relation de la divination à la médecine du Huangdi neijing ( Livre interne de l'Empereur Jaune ) Pour ce qui est de leur arrière-plan social et intellectuel, les médecins-auteurs du Huangdi neijing ( Livre interne de l'Empereur jaune ; compilé vers le Ier siècle avant notre ère) faisaient partie des mêmes milieux que les devins, les astrologues et les autres spécialistes de savoirs techniques. Une analyse des passages pert…
Contracts with the Spirit World in Han Common Religion: The Xuning Prayer and Sacrifice Documents of A.D. 79
Cet article est une traduction et une étude de quatorze fiches en bois datant de 79 apr. J.-C. qui se trouvent dans la collection de l'Université chinoise de Hong Kong Wenwuguan. Les fiches représentent deux sortes de contrats religieux préparés pour une femme nommée Xuning au cours de sa maladie et après son décès. Les fiches de Xuning étaient employées conjointement avec des prières et des sacrifices ; chaque fiche associe un participant du mon…
Ancient and Medieval Chinese Recipes for Aphrodisiacs and Philters
This article surveys recipes for aphrodisiacs and philters from the medical manuscripts discovered in Mawangdui tomb 3 (burial dated 168 BCE) and Dunhuang manuscripts (seventh to tenth centuries CE). Despite medical views that defined sex as a form of physiological and spiritual cultivation, and that criticised se 'lust,' the aphrodisiac and philter recipes reveal elements of eroticism in ancient and medieval Chinese views of sex
Huang Di nei jing su wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text (review)
Reviewed by: Huang Di nei jing su wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text Donald Harper Paul U. Unschuld . Huang Di nei jing su wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text. With an Appendix, "The Doctrine of the Five Periods and Six Qi in the Huang Di nei jing su wen."Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xii + 520 pp. Ill. $75.00, £52.00 (0-520-23322-0). Huangdi neijing …
‘Hakutaku hi kai zu’: White Marsh Diagram to Repel Ominous Prodigies
The Textual Form of Knowledge: Occult Miscellanies in Ancient and Medieval Chinese Manuscripts, Fourth Century B.C. to Tenth Century A.D.
Early Chinese Medical Literature
Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China: The Daybook Manuscripts of the Warring States, Qin, and Han
Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the manuscripts known as daybooks, examples of which have been found in Warring States, Qin, and Han tombs (453 BCE–220 CE). Their main content concerns hemerology, or “knowledge of good and bad days.” Daybooks reveal the place of hemerology in daily life and are invaluable sources for the study of popular culture. Eleven scholars have contributed chapters examini…
The Zhoujiatai Occult Manuscripts (周家臺的數術簡)
Bamboo-slip manuscripts from Zhoujiatai tomb 30, Hubei (burial dated ca. 209 b.c.e.), provide important evidence of ancient Chinese occult manuscripts belonging to a man of modest status. One manuscript, identified as a rishu "day book" by the modern editors of the Zhoujiatai manuscripts, treats of hemerology and astrology and is the focus of this study. The bamboo slips of a calendar for years corresponding to 211-210 b.c.e. can be associated wi…
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