Roel Sterckx
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 516015 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Roel Sterckx |
| PRENOMES | Roel |
| SOBRENOME | Sterckx |
| ASSINATURA | STERCKX R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Fish Farming in Pre-modern China
This article examines two rare sources on fish farming in pre-modern China: a text fragment entitled Taozhu gong Yang yu jing 陶朱公養魚經 (Lord Taozhu’s Classic on Fish Farming) preserved in Jia Sixie’s 賈思勰 (fl. 6th cent CE ) Qimin yaoshu 齊民要術 (Essential Techniques for the Peasantry), and a treatise similarly entitled Yang yu jing 養魚經 (Classic on Fish Farming) by Ming scholar Huang Xingzeng 黃省曾 (1490–1540). The essay explores the history of managed aq…
Penser l'agriculture dans la Chine ancienne
Excreted and Left Untreated? Human and Animal Waste
Texts from pre-imperial and early imperial China are replete with dietary information, regimens for nourishing the body and instructions on how not to soil its inner purity. Sources have far less to say about the body’s effluvia and the waste and muck that is shed and excreted by human and non-human animals. This article studies references to excreta and excretion in early China. It shows how human and animal faeces as well as the locus of excret…
Agrarian and Mercantile Ideologies in Western Han
This paper questions the conventional scholarly view that early Chinese economic thought simply conceived of farming and commerce as mutually opposing forces. It argues that during Western Han times there existed a significant distance between court rhetoric and economic reality and suggests that, in reading official discourse, one should be cautious not to emphasize the economic over the political. The paper re-examines a series of well-known co…
Knowing Animals in China’s History
Animals through Chinese History
This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, the essays explore not only developments in the human-animal relationship but the ways in which the Chinese have thought about the world with and through animals. This title is also available as Open Access
Ritual, Mimesis, and the Nonhuman Animal World in Early China
Early Chinese texts frequently link the origins of ritual, play, dance, and music to patterns of behavior observed in the nonhuman animal world. Moralizing readings of animal behavior proliferate in texts and iconography from the classical age of the Warring States and early empires (fifth century bc to first century ad ), when China’s masters of philosophy were drawing up the contours of their ethical theories. The animal world inspired models f…
Ideologies of the Peasant and Merchant in Warring States China
Alcohol and Historiography in Early China
This paper examines the moral ambiguity that surrounded alcohol consumption in early China and the ways in which the use and abuse of alcohol served as a measure to judge the past. Rule-guided drinking was part of social life, but, importantly, it was also a corner stone in sacrificial ritual and therefore an important measure to please the spirit world. In assessing the past, early Chinese writers often judged rulers and their regimes based on t…
Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China
Mozi 31
One prominent feature associated with Mozi and Mohism in scholarship of early Chinese thought is his so-called unwavering belief in ghosts and spirits. It is striking that they seem to begin from two assumptions: first, that views on the spirit world across the received Mozi are unitary and internally uncontested; second, that Mozi’s views on the spirit world should invariably be seen as conversant with or pitched against a countercurrent, the so…
Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
In ancient China, the preparation of food and the offering up of food as a religious sacrifice were intimately connected with models of sagehood and ideas of self-cultivation and morality. Drawing on received and newly excavated written sources, Roel Sterckx's book explores how this vibrant culture influenced the ways in which the early Chinese explained the workings of the human senses, and the role of sensory experience in communicating with th…
The Limits of Illustration
This paper examines the relationship between text and illustration in Chinese pharmacopeia in the bencao tradition by focusing on depictions of animals. It explores to what extent such illustrations served a practical—read medical or pharmaceutical—purpose. The first part of the paper discusses the contexts in which animal species have been depicted in traditional China leading up to the emergence of bencao literature. The second part analyses th…
Searching for Spirit
Sterckx Roel. Searching for Spirit : Shen and Sacrifice in Warring States and Han Philosophy and Ritual. In: Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, 2007, n°29. De l'esprit aux esprits. Enquête sur la notion de shen. Of self and spirits : exploring shen in China, sous la direction de Romain Graziani et Roel Sterckx. pp. 23-54.
Sages, Cooks, and Flavours in Warring States and Han China
(2006). SAGES, COOKS, AND FLAVOURS IN WARRING STATES AND HAN CHINA. Monumenta Serica: Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 1-46
Food and Philosophy in Early China
Discussions of food, the exchange of food, commensality, and food sacrifice pervade the dialogues and treatises of philosophers, persuaders, and ritualists in late Zhou and early imperial China. Meticulous care was invested in the preparation and serving of food in sacrificial rituals and banquets. Ritual codes suggest that the presentation of food reflected a host's integrity toward the human or otherworldly guests that were to be feasted. Ritua…
Animal Classification in Ancient China
Establishing the ways in which the ancient Chinese understood the internal relationships between animal species and the biological workings of the animal realm at large is a thorny undertaking as scholars find themselves confronted with textual sources that remain remarkably silent on the issue.1 To be sure, the ancient Chinese interacted in many ways with their surrounding wild and domesticated fauna. Records of animals, reports of animal activi…
Of Tripod and Palate
Attitudes toward food and commensality constituted a central fiber in the social, religious, and political fabric of ancient Chinese society. The offering of sacrifices, the banqueting of guests, and
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 31, Issue 2 p. 309-312 The Animal and the Daemon in Early China Paul R. Goldin, Paul R. Goldin University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaSearch for more papers by this author Paul R. Goldin, Paul R. Goldin University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 13 May 2004 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0301-8121.2004.155_4.xCitations: 5Read the full tex…
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
Ancient China and Its Enemies
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
Transforming the Beasts
A salient feature of the discourse on animals in texts from the Warring States, Qin and Han periods is the absence of a tendency to analyse and discuss the animal world as the object of a distinct realm of knowledge. With the exception of a small number of text fragments which evince what approximates a “biological” interest in the animal world and a series of lexicographic entries organised according to proto-zoological headings in early diction…
An Ancient Chinese Horse Ritual
This article examines a section in the Shuihudi 睡虎地 Rishu 日書 (Daybooks) entitled “Horses” ( ma 馬) which describes the instructions for the performance of a ritual to propitiate a horse spirit. The text is one of the earliest transmitted ritual liturgies involving the treatment of animals. It reveals a hitherto little known aspect of the role of animals in early Chinese religion; namely, the ritual worship of tutelary animal spirits and the perfor…
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
Ritual, Mimesis, and the Nonhuman Animal World in Early China
Early Chinese texts frequently link the origins of ritual, play, dance, and music to patterns of behavior observed in the nonhuman animal world. Moralizing readings of animal behavior proliferate in texts and iconography from the classical age of the Warring States and early empires (fifth century bc to first century ad ), when China’s masters of philosophy were drawing up the contours of their ethical theories. The animal world inspired models f…
Alcohol and Historiography in Early China
This paper examines the moral ambiguity that surrounded alcohol consumption in early China and the ways in which the use and abuse of alcohol served as a measure to judge the past. Rule-guided drinking was part of social life, but, importantly, it was also a corner stone in sacrificial ritual and therefore an important measure to please the spirit world. In assessing the past, early Chinese writers often judged rulers and their regimes based on t…
An Ancient Chinese Horse Ritual
This article examines a section in the Shuihudi 睡虎地 Rishu 日書 (Daybooks) entitled “Horses” ( ma 馬) which describes the instructions for the performance of a ritual to propitiate a horse spirit. The text is one of the earliest transmitted ritual liturgies involving the treatment of animals. It reveals a hitherto little known aspect of the role of animals in early Chinese religion; namely, the ritual worship of tutelary animal spirits and the perfor…
Transforming the Beasts
A salient feature of the discourse on animals in texts from the Warring States, Qin and Han periods is the absence of a tendency to analyse and discuss the animal world as the object of a distinct realm of knowledge. With the exception of a small number of text fragments which evince what approximates a “biological” interest in the animal world and a series of lexicographic entries organised according to proto-zoological headings in early diction…
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
Ancient China and Its Enemies
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 31, Issue 2 p. 309-312 The Animal and the Daemon in Early China Paul R. Goldin, Paul R. Goldin University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaSearch for more papers by this author Paul R. Goldin, Paul R. Goldin University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 13 May 2004 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0301-8121.2004.155_4.xCitations: 5Read the full tex…
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
Food and Philosophy in Early China
Discussions of food, the exchange of food, commensality, and food sacrifice pervade the dialogues and treatises of philosophers, persuaders, and ritualists in late Zhou and early imperial China. Meticulous care was invested in the preparation and serving of food in sacrificial rituals and banquets. Ritual codes suggest that the presentation of food reflected a host's integrity toward the human or otherworldly guests that were to be feasted. Ritua…
Animal Classification in Ancient China
Establishing the ways in which the ancient Chinese understood the internal relationships between animal species and the biological workings of the animal realm at large is a thorny undertaking as scholars find themselves confronted with textual sources that remain remarkably silent on the issue.1 To be sure, the ancient Chinese interacted in many ways with their surrounding wild and domesticated fauna. Records of animals, reports of animal activi…
Of Tripod and Palate
Attitudes toward food and commensality constituted a central fiber in the social, religious, and political fabric of ancient Chinese society. The offering of sacrifices, the banqueting of guests, and
Sages, Cooks, and Flavours in Warring States and Han China
(2006). SAGES, COOKS, AND FLAVOURS IN WARRING STATES AND HAN CHINA. Monumenta Serica: Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 1-46
Searching for Spirit
Sterckx Roel. Searching for Spirit : Shen and Sacrifice in Warring States and Han Philosophy and Ritual. In: Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, 2007, n°29. De l'esprit aux esprits. Enquête sur la notion de shen. Of self and spirits : exploring shen in China, sous la direction de Romain Graziani et Roel Sterckx. pp. 23-54.
The Limits of Illustration
This paper examines the relationship between text and illustration in Chinese pharmacopeia in the bencao tradition by focusing on depictions of animals. It explores to what extent such illustrations served a practical—read medical or pharmaceutical—purpose. The first part of the paper discusses the contexts in which animal species have been depicted in traditional China leading up to the emergence of bencao literature. The second part analyses th…
Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
In ancient China, the preparation of food and the offering up of food as a religious sacrifice were intimately connected with models of sagehood and ideas of self-cultivation and morality. Drawing on received and newly excavated written sources, Roel Sterckx's book explores how this vibrant culture influenced the ways in which the early Chinese explained the workings of the human senses, and the role of sensory experience in communicating with th…
Mozi 31
One prominent feature associated with Mozi and Mohism in scholarship of early Chinese thought is his so-called unwavering belief in ghosts and spirits. It is striking that they seem to begin from two assumptions: first, that views on the spirit world across the received Mozi are unitary and internally uncontested; second, that Mozi’s views on the spirit world should invariably be seen as conversant with or pitched against a countercurrent, the so…
Ideologies of the Peasant and Merchant in Warring States China
Alcohol and Historiography in Early China
This paper examines the moral ambiguity that surrounded alcohol consumption in early China and the ways in which the use and abuse of alcohol served as a measure to judge the past. Rule-guided drinking was part of social life, but, importantly, it was also a corner stone in sacrificial ritual and therefore an important measure to please the spirit world. In assessing the past, early Chinese writers often judged rulers and their regimes based on t…
Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China
Ritual, Mimesis, and the Nonhuman Animal World in Early China
Early Chinese texts frequently link the origins of ritual, play, dance, and music to patterns of behavior observed in the nonhuman animal world. Moralizing readings of animal behavior proliferate in texts and iconography from the classical age of the Warring States and early empires (fifth century bc to first century ad ), when China’s masters of philosophy were drawing up the contours of their ethical theories. The animal world inspired models f…
Knowing Animals in China’s History
Animals through Chinese History
This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, the essays explore not only developments in the human-animal relationship but the ways in which the Chinese have thought about the world with and through animals. This title is also available as Open Access
Agrarian and Mercantile Ideologies in Western Han
This paper questions the conventional scholarly view that early Chinese economic thought simply conceived of farming and commerce as mutually opposing forces. It argues that during Western Han times there existed a significant distance between court rhetoric and economic reality and suggests that, in reading official discourse, one should be cautious not to emphasize the economic over the political. The paper re-examines a series of well-known co…
Excreted and Left Untreated? Human and Animal Waste
Texts from pre-imperial and early imperial China are replete with dietary information, regimens for nourishing the body and instructions on how not to soil its inner purity. Sources have far less to say about the body’s effluvia and the waste and muck that is shed and excreted by human and non-human animals. This article studies references to excreta and excretion in early China. It shows how human and animal faeces as well as the locus of excret…
Fish Farming in Pre-modern China
This article examines two rare sources on fish farming in pre-modern China: a text fragment entitled Taozhu gong Yang yu jing 陶朱公養魚經 (Lord Taozhu’s Classic on Fish Farming) preserved in Jia Sixie’s 賈思勰 (fl. 6th cent CE ) Qimin yaoshu 齊民要術 (Essential Techniques for the Peasantry), and a treatise similarly entitled Yang yu jing 養魚經 (Classic on Fish Farming) by Ming scholar Huang Xingzeng 黃省曾 (1490–1540). The essay explores the history of managed aq…
Penser l'agriculture dans la Chine ancienne
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