Constance A Cook
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 476342 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Constance A Cook |
| PRENOMES | Constance A |
| SOBRENOME | Cook |
| ASSINATURA | COOK C A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lehigh University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7956-4789 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Matters of the Heart in Early Chinese Manuscripts
Manuscripts dating from the second-century bce to the first-century ce , recently recovered from tombs and other ancient sites, provide new details on the transmission of medical knowledge and practices in the early imperial era in China. The texts show that the correlative cosmology reflected in the transmitted medical canons was not fully formed in the early imperial era and that the definitions for illnesses and for parts of the inner body rem…
Myth and the Making of History
The Tricks of Jing (Jing jue 荆決)
The Chinese genre of text named jue 訣 dates back to the Han dynasty. It encompassed esoteric Daoist manuals and medical handbooks, translated as “tricks,” “methods,” “instructions,” “secret instructions,” and “rhymes.” This essay translates “tricks” and “secrets” for its early use, referring to “writings” ( shu 書 ) linked to privately transmitted technical information, such as divination tricks, alchemical techniques, or medical recipes. Initiall…
Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia
This Element first discusses the creation of transmitted medical canons that are generally dated from early imperial times through the medieval era and then, by way of contrast, provides translations and analyses of non-transmitted texts from the pre-imperial late Shang and Zhou eras, the early imperial Qin and Han eras, and then a brief discussion covering the period through the 11th-c. CE. The Element focuses on the evolution of concepts, illne…
The First Documented Experience of Qi and an Account of Healing Failure
This essay will review the earliest case that documents a patient’s experience of qi , one found on a bamboo text buried with the patient who died in the 318 BCE. Details of the healing encounter and of concepts of illness show how non-transmitted documents hidden from later editors in tombs preserve an older layer of medical understanding than that in transmitted canons, such as the Huang Di Nei Jing ( Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor ). The 4t…
Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao
"Traces the rise of poetry from eulogies in BCE excavated texts and outlines the evolution of musical performance within and away from the context of ancestor worship. Compares the rhetoric of bronze inscriptions with later uses of similar terms in newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring States period"...
Ancient China
Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region – the geographical area that eventually became known as China – from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the medieval period in the third century CE. For most of that long span of time there was no such place as "China"; the vast and varied territory of the Heartland Region was home to many diverse cultures th…
Ancestor Worship During The Eastern Zhou
Sacrifice and divination records, both material and textual, show that the practice of ancestor worship-a ritual practice involving the deification of select human spirits-was linked to maintaining a stable political and social hierarchy in an agrarian Zhou society. This chapter documents the fall of the Zhou-style system and the ceremonies used to uphold the system, with an emphasis on regional variations and the manipulation of iconic Zhou cere…
Death in Ancient China
This richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated bamboo texts. The point of departure is the textual and material evidence found in one tomb of an elite man buried in 316 BCE near a once wealthy middle Yangzi River valley metropolis. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of cosmological symbolism and …
Moonshine and Millet
The social role of food in Bronze Age China (the first two millennia BCE) is defined both by the relationship of a person to the supernatural and by the control of the bronze industry to produce vessels for sacrifice. Food production and human fertility were seen as gifts from Heaven—the realm of the High God and their ancestors. The descendants returned the gifts through sacrifices. The "cuisine of sacrifice" in ancient China united all generati…
Defining Chu
Scholars agree that the "southern" culture of China, roughly identifiable with the state of Chu during the period between 700 and 200 B.C.E., is of great importance in the subsequent development of Chinese culture. Early Han artists and writers from the first century B.C.E. were encouraged to preserve "exotic" and "barbaric" Chu images and songs as an antidote to the harsh laws of the Qin. This somewhat disparaging view of the Chu has persisted t…
Foundations of Confucian Thought
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 30, Issue 1 p. 133-136 Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period Constance A. Cook, Constance A. Cook Lehigh UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Constance A. Cook, Constance A. Cook Lehigh UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 September 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6253.t01-2-00110Citations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest p…
The Shan-fu Liang Kuei and Associated Inscribed Vessels 善夫梁其簋及其他闗系諸器研穵
Myth and Fragments of a Qin Yi text A Research Note and Translation
Wealth and the Western Zhou
In stratified societies, accumulated material goods-be they made of metal, stone, cloth, bone, or even foodstuffs-represent the wealth and privilege of the élite within a social hierarchy. Anthropologists have shown that goods symbolic of wealth generally fall between two absolutes: alienable goods (items not tied to social membership and produced for giving, trading, or selling), and inalienable goods (items tied to social membership and imbued …
Scribes, Cooks, and Artisans
Bronze Inscriptions of the Western Zhou period show how ritualists were once dedicated to maintaining the ritual apparatus supporting the divine authority of the royal Zhou lineage. Bronze and bamboo texts of the Eastern Zhou period reveal, on the other hand, that ritualists able to manipulate local rulers reliant on their knowledge subsequently subverted power into their own hands. Ritualists such as scribes, cooks, and artisans were involved in…
Spring and Autumn Period
In the history of chinese religions the Ch'un-ch'iu or Spring and Autumn period (eighth to fifth centuries B.C.E.) was a time of transition between the court rituals of the Western Chou gift-giving society and the private or local cult practices evident in the later Eastern Chou market economy (Cook 1993a). This was the time when the local lords usurped the Chou king's ritual "power" (te) to "charge" (ming) and the Chou lineage lost its authority…
Three High Gods of Chu
L Tong, Zhu Rong, and X~Yinwere remote fonner ones, or ancestors (xian), of the state of Chu. In the bamboo divinatory texts from the Baoshan tomb number 2, dating to around 290 B.C., this triad of ancestral spirits was the object of sacrifice and prayer.l Their aid was sought panicularly in matters concerning physical well ..being. Lao Tong, &lOId Boy, and Zhu Rong, Invoking Melter, appear in the received textural tradition, but X..Yin has no ob…
Myth and Authenticity
(Res.d'A.). Scholars have traditionally regarded this inscription as the earliest paleographical text from the ancient state of Chu. But historical mystique, beginning with the bell's discovery in the Song dynasty, has prevented proper critical appraisal of the inscription. This text is here completely translated for the first time. The language of the text and the indentity of the vessel-maker, Chu Gong Ni, is analyzed in terms of modern archaeo…
Western Chou Civilization
Wealth and the Western Zhou
In stratified societies, accumulated material goods-be they made of metal, stone, cloth, bone, or even foodstuffs-represent the wealth and privilege of the élite within a social hierarchy. Anthropologists have shown that goods symbolic of wealth generally fall between two absolutes: alienable goods (items not tied to social membership and produced for giving, trading, or selling), and inalienable goods (items tied to social membership and imbued …
Defining Chu
Scholars agree that the "southern" culture of China, roughly identifiable with the state of Chu during the period between 700 and 200 B.C.E., is of great importance in the subsequent development of Chinese culture. Early Han artists and writers from the first century B.C.E. were encouraged to preserve "exotic" and "barbaric" Chu images and songs as an antidote to the harsh laws of the Qin. This somewhat disparaging view of the Chu has persisted t…
Western Chou Civilization
Myth and Authenticity
(Res.d'A.). Scholars have traditionally regarded this inscription as the earliest paleographical text from the ancient state of Chu. But historical mystique, beginning with the bell's discovery in the Song dynasty, has prevented proper critical appraisal of the inscription. This text is here completely translated for the first time. The language of the text and the indentity of the vessel-maker, Chu Gong Ni, is analyzed in terms of modern archaeo…
Three High Gods of Chu
L Tong, Zhu Rong, and X~Yinwere remote fonner ones, or ancestors (xian), of the state of Chu. In the bamboo divinatory texts from the Baoshan tomb number 2, dating to around 290 B.C., this triad of ancestral spirits was the object of sacrifice and prayer.l Their aid was sought panicularly in matters concerning physical well ..being. Lao Tong, &lOId Boy, and Zhu Rong, Invoking Melter, appear in the received textural tradition, but X..Yin has no ob…
Scribes, Cooks, and Artisans
Bronze Inscriptions of the Western Zhou period show how ritualists were once dedicated to maintaining the ritual apparatus supporting the divine authority of the royal Zhou lineage. Bronze and bamboo texts of the Eastern Zhou period reveal, on the other hand, that ritualists able to manipulate local rulers reliant on their knowledge subsequently subverted power into their own hands. Ritualists such as scribes, cooks, and artisans were involved in…
Spring and Autumn Period
In the history of chinese religions the Ch'un-ch'iu or Spring and Autumn period (eighth to fifth centuries B.C.E.) was a time of transition between the court rituals of the Western Chou gift-giving society and the private or local cult practices evident in the later Eastern Chou market economy (Cook 1993a). This was the time when the local lords usurped the Chou king's ritual "power" (te) to "charge" (ming) and the Chou lineage lost its authority…
Wealth and the Western Zhou
In stratified societies, accumulated material goods-be they made of metal, stone, cloth, bone, or even foodstuffs-represent the wealth and privilege of the élite within a social hierarchy. Anthropologists have shown that goods symbolic of wealth generally fall between two absolutes: alienable goods (items not tied to social membership and produced for giving, trading, or selling), and inalienable goods (items tied to social membership and imbued …
Myth and Fragments of a Qin Yi text A Research Note and Translation
The Shan-fu Liang Kuei and Associated Inscribed Vessels 善夫梁其簋及其他闗系諸器研穵
Foundations of Confucian Thought
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 30, Issue 1 p. 133-136 Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period Constance A. Cook, Constance A. Cook Lehigh UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Constance A. Cook, Constance A. Cook Lehigh UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 September 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6253.t01-2-00110Citations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest p…
Defining Chu
Scholars agree that the "southern" culture of China, roughly identifiable with the state of Chu during the period between 700 and 200 B.C.E., is of great importance in the subsequent development of Chinese culture. Early Han artists and writers from the first century B.C.E. were encouraged to preserve "exotic" and "barbaric" Chu images and songs as an antidote to the harsh laws of the Qin. This somewhat disparaging view of the Chu has persisted t…
Moonshine and Millet
The social role of food in Bronze Age China (the first two millennia BCE) is defined both by the relationship of a person to the supernatural and by the control of the bronze industry to produce vessels for sacrifice. Food production and human fertility were seen as gifts from Heaven—the realm of the High God and their ancestors. The descendants returned the gifts through sacrifices. The "cuisine of sacrifice" in ancient China united all generati…
Death in Ancient China
This richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated bamboo texts. The point of departure is the textual and material evidence found in one tomb of an elite man buried in 316 BCE near a once wealthy middle Yangzi River valley metropolis. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of cosmological symbolism and …
Ancestor Worship During The Eastern Zhou
Sacrifice and divination records, both material and textual, show that the practice of ancestor worship-a ritual practice involving the deification of select human spirits-was linked to maintaining a stable political and social hierarchy in an agrarian Zhou society. This chapter documents the fall of the Zhou-style system and the ceremonies used to uphold the system, with an emphasis on regional variations and the manipulation of iconic Zhou cere…
Ancient China
Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region – the geographical area that eventually became known as China – from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the medieval period in the third century CE. For most of that long span of time there was no such place as "China"; the vast and varied territory of the Heartland Region was home to many diverse cultures th…
Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao
"Traces the rise of poetry from eulogies in BCE excavated texts and outlines the evolution of musical performance within and away from the context of ancestor worship. Compares the rhetoric of bronze inscriptions with later uses of similar terms in newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring States period"...
Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia
This Element first discusses the creation of transmitted medical canons that are generally dated from early imperial times through the medieval era and then, by way of contrast, provides translations and analyses of non-transmitted texts from the pre-imperial late Shang and Zhou eras, the early imperial Qin and Han eras, and then a brief discussion covering the period through the 11th-c. CE. The Element focuses on the evolution of concepts, illne…
The First Documented Experience of Qi and an Account of Healing Failure
This essay will review the earliest case that documents a patient’s experience of qi , one found on a bamboo text buried with the patient who died in the 318 BCE. Details of the healing encounter and of concepts of illness show how non-transmitted documents hidden from later editors in tombs preserve an older layer of medical understanding than that in transmitted canons, such as the Huang Di Nei Jing ( Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor ). The 4t…
Myth and the Making of History
The Tricks of Jing (Jing jue 荆決)
The Chinese genre of text named jue 訣 dates back to the Han dynasty. It encompassed esoteric Daoist manuals and medical handbooks, translated as “tricks,” “methods,” “instructions,” “secret instructions,” and “rhymes.” This essay translates “tricks” and “secrets” for its early use, referring to “writings” ( shu 書 ) linked to privately transmitted technical information, such as divination tricks, alchemical techniques, or medical recipes. Initiall…
Matters of the Heart in Early Chinese Manuscripts
Manuscripts dating from the second-century bce to the first-century ce , recently recovered from tombs and other ancient sites, provide new details on the transmission of medical knowledge and practices in the early imperial era in China. The texts show that the correlative cosmology reflected in the transmitted medical canons was not fully formed in the early imperial era and that the definitions for illnesses and for parts of the inner body rem…
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