Das vergessene Gedächtnis : die jesuitische mnemotechnische Abhandlung Xiguo Jifa : Übersetzung und Kommentar /  Michael Lackner.

Chiefly German with text in Chinese and Italian.
Includes text of Xiguo Jifa 西國記法 by M. Ricci and Trattato della memoria locale by F. Panigarola.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes facsimile of Chinese manuscript. and German translation 'Xiguo jifa' by Matteo Ricci, and facsimile of manuscript 'Trattato della memoria locale', by Francesco Panigarola.

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Handbook of divination and prognostication in China / edited by Michael Lackner, Zhao Lu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Introduction to the field of Chinese prognostication --

1 Introduction to Thought and Mantic Arts / Zhao Lu
2 Divination in BCE China according to Newly-Recovered and Excavated Texts: An Overview / Constance Cook
3 Prognostication in Premodern China : Issues of Culture and Class / Richard J. Smith
4 Typology and Classification of the Mantic Arts in China  / Marc Kalinowski
5 Prophecies and Prognostication / Stephen R. Bokenkamp
6 Divination and Its Institutionalization in Pre-modern China / Lü Lingfeng
7 Critique and Recognition: Mantic Arts and Their Practitioners in the Writings of Song Literati / Liao Hsien-huei
8 Popular Religion and Prognostication / Philip Clart
9 Daoism and Divination / Fabrizio Pregadio
10 Chinese Buddhism and Divination / Esther-Maria Guggenmos
11 Fiction and Divination / Andrew Schonebaum
12 The Living Traditions of Divination / Stéphanie Homola

"This is the first comprehensive book that presents the manifold aspects of divination and prognostication in traditional and modern China, from the early period of oracle bones to present-day fortune-tellers. It introduces what is out there in the field of Chinese divination and prognostication, and how we can further explore it especially through different disciplines. Eminent specialists outline the classifications of divination, recently excavated texts, the relationship between practitioners and clients, the place of the "occult" arts in cosmology, literature and religion, and the bureaucratic system. Contributors are: Constance Cook, Richard J. Smith, Marc Kalinowski, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Lü Lingfeng, Liao Hsien-huei, Philip Clart, Fabrizio Pregadio, Esther-Maria Guggenmos, Andrew Schonebaum, and Stéphanie Homola"-- Provided by publisher.

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Mapping meanings : the field of new learning in late Qing China / edited by Michael Lackner and Natascha Vittinghoff.
Collection of contributions to the international conference "Translating Western Knowledge into late Imperial China," held at the ... University of Gottingen University in Dec. 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Mapping Meanings is essentially a broad-ranged introduction to China's intellectual entry into the family of nations. Written by a fine selection of experts, it guides the reader into the terrain of China's (late Qing) encounter with Western knowledge and modern sciences, and at the same time connects convincingly to the broader question of the mobility of knowledge. The late Qing literati's pursue of New Learning was a transnational practice inseparable from the local context. "Mapping Meanings therefore attempts to highlight what the encountered global knowledge could have meant to specific social actors in the specific historical situation. Subjects included are the transformation of the examination system, the establishment of academic disciplines, and new social actors and questions of new terminologies. Both an introduction and a reference work on the subject."--OCLC note.

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New terms for new ideas : Western knowledge and lexical change in Late Imperial China / edited by Michael Lackner, Iwo Amelung and Joachim Kurtz.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-447) and index.
Contents: So Clumsy a Medium ...Chinese Terminologies: On Preconceptions / Viviane Alleton -- Language Contact and Lexical Innovation / Benjamin K. T'sou -- Language in the Modernization Process: The Integration of Western Concepts and Terms into Chinese and Japanese in the Nineteenth Century / Wolfgang Lippert -- The Politics of Names: 'Liberty', 'Democracy', 'President': The Translation and Usage of Some Political Terms in Late Qing China / Xiong Yuezhi -- Yi, Yang, Xi, Wai and Other Terms: The Transition from 'Barbarian' to 'Foreigner' in Late Imperial China / Fang Weigui -- The Notions of 'Power' and 'Rights' in Chinese Political Discourse / Rune Svarverud -- Negotiating Equivalence: Coming to Terms with Logic: The Naturalization of an Occidental Notion in China / Joachim Kurtz -- An Inquiry into the History of the Chinese Terms Jiqi (Machine) and Jixie (Machinery) / Zhang Baichun -- Weights and Forces: The Introduction of Western Mechanics into Late Qing China / Iwo Amelung -- On Their Own Terms: Yan Fu and the Tasks of the Translator / David Wright -- Natural Philosophy, Physics and Metaphysics in the Thought of Tan Sitong: The Concepts of Qi and Yitai / Ingo Schäfer -- A New Inquiry into the Translation of Chemical Terms by John Fryer and Xu Shou / Wang Yangzong -- Competing Nomenclatures: The Creation of Technical Terms in English-Chinese Dictionaries from the Nineteenth Century / Shen Guowei -- On Mathematical Terminology: Culture Crossing in Nineteenth-Century China / Andrea Bréard -- The Formation of Botanical Terminology: A Model or a Case Study? / Georges Métailié -- Grammars of Alterity: Some Reflections on the Sources of the Mashi wentong / Alain Peyraube -- Circumnavigating the Unfamiliar: Dao'an (314-385) and Yan Fu (1852-1921) on Western Grammar / Michael Lackner – Epilogue: May Fourth Linguistic Orthodoxy and Rhetoric: Some Informal Comparative Notes / Christoph Harbsmeier.

This volume is about the lasting impact of new (Western) notions on the 19th and early 20th century Chinese language; their invention, spread and standardization. Reaching beyond the mere cataloguing of the thousands of lexical innovations in this period of change, the essays explore the multiple ways in which initially alien notions were naturalized in Chinese scientific and political discourse.
Topics examined range from preconceptions about the capacity of the Chinese language to accommodate foreign ideas, the formation of specific nomenclatures and the roles of individual translators, to Chinese and European attempts at coming to terms with each other’s grammar.
By systematically analysing and assessing the lexical adaptation of Western notions in Chinese contexts, the book will serve as a valuable reference work for all those interested in the historical semantics of modern China.

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