Luke Waring
Biographic Data
| ID | 1439264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Waring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Waring |
| SIGNATURE | WARING L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
New Sources of Han Verse
Manuscripts excavated and looted from tombs in recent decades have greatly enriched our understanding of Western Han verse. Some of these documents have been designated by scholars as poems, and a few have even been assigned to particular poetic genres. In this article, however, I am less concerned with sorting texts into neat formal or generic categories and more interested in exploring the range of texts and contexts in which verse was employed…
Some “Han” Fu on Things
Though poets had always been preoccupied by things, according to literary tradition it was only from the Han onward that yongwu fu 詠物賦 (literally, “fu celebrating things”) were written in large numbers. These poems have been largely neglected or dismissed, however, while problems of dating and authorial attribution confound attempts to write a neat history of the fu in the Eastern Han. Though scholars may not be able to say for sure who wrote the…
From Stone Canal to Orchid Terrace
Recent scholarship has advanced our understanding of the Han dynasty’s most important textual repositories, including the distinctions between libraries and archives and the roles they played in early manuscript culture. There is no comprehensive survey in English, however, of the main facilities where different manuscripts were stored in the two Han capitals, Chang’an and Luoyang. This article seeks answers to key questions: Where were these fac…
Making Sense of the Odes
Prior to the emergence of the formalized commentarial traditions of the Early Imperial era (221 BCE-220 CE), the Odes seem typically to have been encountered "in motion" or "in use" as quoted speech in early historical and philosophical works. By studying the way the Odes are used in an understudied text-the Guoyu 國語 (Discourses of the states), probably compiled in the late Warring States era (ca. 475-221 BCE)-this article explores how historical…
Who Said There Was a Classic of Music
For almost a thousand years, Chinese scholars have debated the existence of a Classic of Music in pre-Qin times. Some say the text once existed but was later lost; others say it was incorporated into other works, or that it only existed as a collection of musical scores. Some say it never existed at all. Though Western scholars have tended to sidestep the issue, most have at least assumed that it was believed during Han that a music classic had o…
Han Emperors and Their Male Favorites
A close reading of the “Ningxing” (Male favorites) chapters of the Shiji (Archivist’s records) and Hanshu (History of the Han) reveals numerous important differences between the visions of male favoritism advanced by Sima Qian (ca. 145-86 BCE ) and Ban Gu (32-92 CE ), as well as certain similarities. The present essay thus seeks tentative answers to the following questions: What did Sima Qian and Ban Gu mean by the terms ning and ningxing ? What …
Introducing the * Wu Ze You Xing Tu Manuscript From Mawangdui
The * Wu ze you xing tu 物則有形圖 silk manuscript was discovered inside a lacquer case in Mawangdui Tomb 3. This little-known manuscript of unusual design contains a philosophical text on the relationships between things ( wu 物), forms ( xing 形), names ( ming 名), and speech ( yan 言), and the text is arranged on the surface of the silk in the form of a densely clustered spiral within a ring inside a square. The writing on the manuscript is also accomp…
What the Single Bamboo Slip Found in Mawangdui Tomb M2 Tells Us about Text and Ritual in Early China
A single bamboo slip was found at Mawangdui tomb M2 inside the passageway leading to the pit where Li Cang (d. ca. 186 BCE), the Marquis of Dai and Prime Minister of Changsha, was buried. Though almost entirely unnoticed in previous scholarship, the M2 slip has much to tell us about the overlapping textual, ritual, administrative, and funerary practices of early Western Han China. I offer a description of the slip, translations of its contents, a…
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Introducing the * Wu Ze You Xing Tu Manuscript From Mawangdui
The * Wu ze you xing tu 物則有形圖 silk manuscript was discovered inside a lacquer case in Mawangdui Tomb 3. This little-known manuscript of unusual design contains a philosophical text on the relationships between things ( wu 物), forms ( xing 形), names ( ming 名), and speech ( yan 言), and the text is arranged on the surface of the silk in the form of a densely clustered spiral within a ring inside a square. The writing on the manuscript is also accomp…
What the Single Bamboo Slip Found in Mawangdui Tomb M2 Tells Us about Text and Ritual in Early China
A single bamboo slip was found at Mawangdui tomb M2 inside the passageway leading to the pit where Li Cang (d. ca. 186 BCE), the Marquis of Dai and Prime Minister of Changsha, was buried. Though almost entirely unnoticed in previous scholarship, the M2 slip has much to tell us about the overlapping textual, ritual, administrative, and funerary practices of early Western Han China. I offer a description of the slip, translations of its contents, a…
Who Said There Was a Classic of Music
For almost a thousand years, Chinese scholars have debated the existence of a Classic of Music in pre-Qin times. Some say the text once existed but was later lost; others say it was incorporated into other works, or that it only existed as a collection of musical scores. Some say it never existed at all. Though Western scholars have tended to sidestep the issue, most have at least assumed that it was believed during Han that a music classic had o…
Han Emperors and Their Male Favorites
A close reading of the “Ningxing” (Male favorites) chapters of the Shiji (Archivist’s records) and Hanshu (History of the Han) reveals numerous important differences between the visions of male favoritism advanced by Sima Qian (ca. 145-86 BCE ) and Ban Gu (32-92 CE ), as well as certain similarities. The present essay thus seeks tentative answers to the following questions: What did Sima Qian and Ban Gu mean by the terms ning and ningxing ? What …
From Stone Canal to Orchid Terrace
Recent scholarship has advanced our understanding of the Han dynasty’s most important textual repositories, including the distinctions between libraries and archives and the roles they played in early manuscript culture. There is no comprehensive survey in English, however, of the main facilities where different manuscripts were stored in the two Han capitals, Chang’an and Luoyang. This article seeks answers to key questions: Where were these fac…
Making Sense of the Odes
Prior to the emergence of the formalized commentarial traditions of the Early Imperial era (221 BCE-220 CE), the Odes seem typically to have been encountered "in motion" or "in use" as quoted speech in early historical and philosophical works. By studying the way the Odes are used in an understudied text-the Guoyu 國語 (Discourses of the states), probably compiled in the late Warring States era (ca. 475-221 BCE)-this article explores how historical…
Some “Han” Fu on Things
Though poets had always been preoccupied by things, according to literary tradition it was only from the Han onward that yongwu fu 詠物賦 (literally, “fu celebrating things”) were written in large numbers. These poems have been largely neglected or dismissed, however, while problems of dating and authorial attribution confound attempts to write a neat history of the fu in the Eastern Han. Though scholars may not be able to say for sure who wrote the…
New Sources of Han Verse
Manuscripts excavated and looted from tombs in recent decades have greatly enriched our understanding of Western Han verse. Some of these documents have been designated by scholars as poems, and a few have even been assigned to particular poetic genres. In this article, however, I am less concerned with sorting texts into neat formal or generic categories and more interested in exploring the range of texts and contexts in which verse was employed…
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