"At the Shores of the Sky"

Paul W. Kroll, Ph.D. (1976, Univ. of Michigan), has published widely on medieval Chinese literature and cultural history, and is the author of A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese (Brill, 2014; rev. ed. 2017). Jonathan A. Silk, Ph.D. (1994, Univ. of Michigan), has published widely, mainly on Indian and Buddhist literature, and is the founding editor of Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2 vols. to date, 2015, 2019).

Contents



List of Figures

Notes on Contributors



Albert Hoffstädt: A Tribute

 The Editors

 1 What Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex?

 Alexander Lubotsky

 2 India’s Past Reconsidered

 Johannes Bronkhorst

 3 A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ānanda’s Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha’s Teachings

 Jonathan A.Silk

 4 On the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas

 Vincent Eltschinger

 5 Size Matters: The Length of Korea’s History and the Size of Its Historical Territory

 Remco Breuker

 6 Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan

 Martin J.Heijdra

 7 Overcoming Distance

 Richard Bowring

 8 Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early China

 Martin Kern

 9 Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and Philosophy

 Jan De Meyer

 10 On Some Verses of Li Bo

 Paul W.Kroll

 11 An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the Countryside

 David R.Knechtges

 12 Lu Ji’s Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Literary Creation

 Wendy Swartz

 13 Terms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in Medieval China

 Stephen F.Teiser

 14 Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826–1880)

 Beata Grant

 15 Chinese Dualism Revisited

 John Lagerwey

 16 An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews

 Robert Ford Campany

 17 Self-Portrait of a Narcissist

 Pierre-Étienne Will

 18 The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles

 Robert E.Hegel

 19 Making Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern Zaju

 Wilt L.Idema

 20 Transgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese Poetry

 Maghiel van Crevel

 21 Horatius Sinensis

 Michael Lackner

 22 The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity

 Christoph Harbsmeier



Index