Lynn A Struve
Biographic Data
| ID | 3830480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn A Struve |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn A |
| FAMILY NAME | Struve |
| SIGNATURE | STRUVE L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Indiana University, [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World
From the mid-sixteenth through the end of the seventeenth century, Chinese intellectuals attended more to dreams and dreaming-and in a wider array of genres-than in any other period of Chinese history. Taking the approach of cultural history, this ambitious yet accessible work aims both to describe the most salient aspects of this "dream arc" and to explain its trajectory in time through the writings, arts, and practices of well-known thinkers, r…
Song Maocheng’s Matrixes of Mourning and Regret
Through the many poems of loss and commemorative essays in the collected works of Song Maocheng (1569-1620), we can discern three matrixes of association among the author and his deceased loved ones: (1) a patrilineal matrix in which the salient theme is the rupture or felt-failure of paternal and avuncular care and guidance of male children in the patriline; (2) a female-domestic matrix in which losses engendered feelings of guilt, either for pa…
Signs in a Reinterpretation of His Autobiography
In a groundbreaking, much-cited book, The Confucian’s Progress: Autobiographical Writings in Traditional China by Pei-yi Wu 吳百益 (1927–2009), the annalistic autobiography (nianpu 年譜) of the eminent late-Ming 明 monk Hanshan Deqing 憨山德清 (1546–1623) earns an entire chapter, culminating Part II on self-accounts of life-defining spiritual struggles and awakenings. In that chapter, which is the only study in any language that squarely addresses Deqing’s…
Time, temporality, and imperial transition
Time is basic to human consciousness and action, yet paradoxically historians rarely ask how it is understood, manipulated, recorded, or lived. Cataclysmic events in particular disrupt and realign the dynamics of temporality among people. For historians, the temporal effects of such events on large polities such as empires—the power projections of which always involve the dictation of time—are especially significant. This important and intriguing…
The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time
Ruling from Sedan Chair
Ruling from Sedan Chair:Wei Yijie (1616-1686) and the Examination Reform of the "Oboi" Regency Lynn A. Struve, Professor in the Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures The political history of the first nine years of the Kangxi reign is the most difficult to penetrate of any period in the Qing era. It is defined temporally and thematically by two dramatic, "book-end" events. On one end is the premature death of the Shunzhi em…
Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm
This fascinating book presents eyewitness accounts of a turbulent period in Chinese history: the fall of the Ming dynasty and the conquest of China by the Manchus in the mid-seventeenth century. Lynn Struve has translated, introduced, and annotated absorbing testimonies from a wide range of individuals-Chinese and Europeans, missionaries and viceroys, artists and merchants, Ming loyalists and Qing collaborators, maidservants and eunuchs-all telli…
Not 'Conversant'? William James and Huang Zongxi on Being and Knowing
At the Sixth East-West Philosophers' Conference (Honolulu, 1989), Alasdair Maclntyre significantly advanced the debate over whether legitimate grounds exist, or can be established, for valid comparison or genuine communication between different, large-scale systems of thought, such as are found in different cultures or civilizations. In his paper, Incommensurability, Truth, and the Conversation between Confucius and Aristotelians about the Virtue…
Chen Que Versus Huang Zongxi
Early Qing Officials as Chroniclers of the Conquest
Vol. 10, No. 1 Late Imperial ChinaJune 1989 EARLY QING OFFICIALS AS CHRONICLERS OF THE CONQUEST Lynn A. Struve Early in my work with primary materials on the Ming resistance to the Qing conquest, a principle occurred to me, to wit: Ming officials left memoirs; Qing officials left memorials. Through several more years of my attempts to clarify the basic record of the Ming-Qing struggle, this principle has held true. There are almost no private acc…
The Southern Ming, 1644–1662
As rebel forces overran Shansi, Pei Chihli, and Shantung in the spring of 1644, communications between north and south China were severely disrupted. Confusion, dilatoriness, and lack of direction prevailed among Ming military authorities south of the Yellow River. Most of the regular personnel along the usual postal and transport routes had abandoned their stations, and roads were clogged with refugees who brought southward pestilence, hysteria,…
Huang Zongxi in Context
Too often the thought and scholarship of Huang Zongxi (1610-95), a prominent Chinese intellectual and political activist of the Ming-Qing transition period, are treated in isolation, as though the man stood in a sphere above and apart from most other thinkers of his day. The greatness of his scholarly achievements and the incisiveness of his ideas are stressed, with little attempt to relate those to the accomplishments and ideas of his mentors an…
The Southern Ming, 1644-1662
A Complete Book concerning Happiness and Benevolence
The Hsu Brothers and Semiofficial Patronage of Scholars in The K'ang-hsi Period
The Hsu Brothers and Semiofficial Patronage of Scholars in The K'ang-hsi Period
A Complete Book concerning Happiness and Benevolence
The Southern Ming, 1644-1662
The Southern Ming, 1644–1662
As rebel forces overran Shansi, Pei Chihli, and Shantung in the spring of 1644, communications between north and south China were severely disrupted. Confusion, dilatoriness, and lack of direction prevailed among Ming military authorities south of the Yellow River. Most of the regular personnel along the usual postal and transport routes had abandoned their stations, and roads were clogged with refugees who brought southward pestilence, hysteria,…
Huang Zongxi in Context
Too often the thought and scholarship of Huang Zongxi (1610-95), a prominent Chinese intellectual and political activist of the Ming-Qing transition period, are treated in isolation, as though the man stood in a sphere above and apart from most other thinkers of his day. The greatness of his scholarly achievements and the incisiveness of his ideas are stressed, with little attempt to relate those to the accomplishments and ideas of his mentors an…
Early Qing Officials as Chroniclers of the Conquest
Vol. 10, No. 1 Late Imperial ChinaJune 1989 EARLY QING OFFICIALS AS CHRONICLERS OF THE CONQUEST Lynn A. Struve Early in my work with primary materials on the Ming resistance to the Qing conquest, a principle occurred to me, to wit: Ming officials left memoirs; Qing officials left memorials. Through several more years of my attempts to clarify the basic record of the Ming-Qing struggle, this principle has held true. There are almost no private acc…
Chen Que Versus Huang Zongxi
Not 'Conversant'? William James and Huang Zongxi on Being and Knowing
At the Sixth East-West Philosophers' Conference (Honolulu, 1989), Alasdair Maclntyre significantly advanced the debate over whether legitimate grounds exist, or can be established, for valid comparison or genuine communication between different, large-scale systems of thought, such as are found in different cultures or civilizations. In his paper, Incommensurability, Truth, and the Conversation between Confucius and Aristotelians about the Virtue…
Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm
This fascinating book presents eyewitness accounts of a turbulent period in Chinese history: the fall of the Ming dynasty and the conquest of China by the Manchus in the mid-seventeenth century. Lynn Struve has translated, introduced, and annotated absorbing testimonies from a wide range of individuals-Chinese and Europeans, missionaries and viceroys, artists and merchants, Ming loyalists and Qing collaborators, maidservants and eunuchs-all telli…
The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time
Ruling from Sedan Chair
Ruling from Sedan Chair:Wei Yijie (1616-1686) and the Examination Reform of the "Oboi" Regency Lynn A. Struve, Professor in the Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures The political history of the first nine years of the Kangxi reign is the most difficult to penetrate of any period in the Qing era. It is defined temporally and thematically by two dramatic, "book-end" events. On one end is the premature death of the Shunzhi em…
Time, temporality, and imperial transition
Time is basic to human consciousness and action, yet paradoxically historians rarely ask how it is understood, manipulated, recorded, or lived. Cataclysmic events in particular disrupt and realign the dynamics of temporality among people. For historians, the temporal effects of such events on large polities such as empires—the power projections of which always involve the dictation of time—are especially significant. This important and intriguing…
Signs in a Reinterpretation of His Autobiography
In a groundbreaking, much-cited book, The Confucian’s Progress: Autobiographical Writings in Traditional China by Pei-yi Wu 吳百益 (1927–2009), the annalistic autobiography (nianpu 年譜) of the eminent late-Ming 明 monk Hanshan Deqing 憨山德清 (1546–1623) earns an entire chapter, culminating Part II on self-accounts of life-defining spiritual struggles and awakenings. In that chapter, which is the only study in any language that squarely addresses Deqing’s…
Song Maocheng’s Matrixes of Mourning and Regret
Through the many poems of loss and commemorative essays in the collected works of Song Maocheng (1569-1620), we can discern three matrixes of association among the author and his deceased loved ones: (1) a patrilineal matrix in which the salient theme is the rupture or felt-failure of paternal and avuncular care and guidance of male children in the patriline; (2) a female-domestic matrix in which losses engendered feelings of guilt, either for pa…
The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World
From the mid-sixteenth through the end of the seventeenth century, Chinese intellectuals attended more to dreams and dreaming-and in a wider array of genres-than in any other period of Chinese history. Taking the approach of cultural history, this ambitious yet accessible work aims both to describe the most salient aspects of this "dream arc" and to explain its trajectory in time through the writings, arts, and practices of well-known thinkers, r…
Chinese history and philosophy (15 works) · History (13 works) · Japanese History and Culture (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · China (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)