Museum of far eastern antiquities, 1950 chinese poetry 270 pages. Books by bernhard karlgren author of sound and symbol in. Mesopotamia and egypt, hittite and hurrian, ugaritic and phoenician, and an. Miriam lichtheim the pyramid texts of unas egypt, c. In the course of his study of the sound system of old chinese, karlgren focused on the clues provided by phonosemantic. Chapter four employs the book of odes and other evidence to examine the human. Book of songs shijing, the classic anthology defined by confucius.
His father, johannes karlgren, taught latin, greek, and swedish at the local high school. The shihching, translated variously as the book of songs, book of odes, or simply known as the odes or poetry is the oldest existing collection of chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th. Southern materials center, 1985, 36873, waley, arthur the book of songs new york. Bernhard karlgren is currently considered a single author. Apr 01, 2008 author of analytic dictionary of chinese and sinojapanese, sound and symbol in chinese, easy lessons in chinese writing, zhongguo yin yun xue yan jiu, on the authenticity and nature of the tso chuan, philology and ancient china, marginalia on some bronze albums, the book of documents. Feb 18, 2020 ono shinobu and bernhard karlgren tanaka akio in december 1979, i submitted the postgraduate thesis on japanese buddhist priest kukai 774835s maiden work sangoshiiki that comparatively considered the three regions, confucianism, taoism and buddhism. Annotated throughout by noted sinologist and tibetologist zahiruddin ahmad. Bernard karlgren article about bernard karlgren by the. May our ancestor regard our offering in sacrifices, 22. The romanization of chinese words adopted in this book is that of bernhard karlgren, except that his final i is altered to y. In a literate world like that of eastern zhou china or of ancient egypt and greece. Shi jing project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks read.
The grammata serica recensa is a dictionary of old chinese published by the swedish sinologist bernard karlgren in 1957. Righting, riting, and rewriting the book of odes shijing. Chinese text, transcription, and translation stockholm. Using chinese character formation graphs to test proposals in. Karlgren the book of odes, kuo feng and siao ya, bulletin of the museum of far. Longman anthology of world literature, volume a, the. Click to read more about the book of odes by bernhard karlgren. The shooking, or, the historical classic, being the most ancient authentic record of the annals of the chinese empire, illustrated by later commentators.
Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. In order to justify his bestowal of the title of philologist on waley, honey finds it necessary to defend waleys rendering of poems in the book of odes against the criticism of bernhard karlgren, who really was a philologist and who, while acknowledging that waley had conscientiously made use of the critical work of qing scholars, felt that he had too often failed to explain why he chose one interpretation over. The book of documents bernhard karlgren, the museum of far eastern antiquities, stockholm 1950 is karlgren s translation of the shujing, along with legges translation the major english translations as far as i know of this. Karlgren is the author of many studies on the history, philology, and art of ancient china. More detailed information is available in karlgren s glosses on the book of odes series also reprinted in book form. Index to glosses on the book of odes and glosses on the book of. Damrosch, robbins, shirane, tylus, yu, alliston, brown.
Bernhard karlgren article about bernhard karlgren by the. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. The longman anthology of world literature a,b,c the. Examining the interrelation between performance and commemoration from. The song of songs, allegoresis, and the book of poetry doi. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. What he renders as peony is probably, in its archaic usage, quite a different planta kind of scented grass, as pointed out by some commentators.
The shihching, translated variously as the book of songs, book of odes, or simply known as the odes or poetry is the oldest existing collection of chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries bc. Dedicated to bernhard karlgren on his seventieth birthday, ed. In a literate world like that of eastern zhou china or of ancient egypt and. Creation myths and social realities the babylonian theogony a memphite theology, tr.
In order to justify his bestowal of the title of philologist on waley, honey finds it necessary to defend waleys rendering of poems in the book of odes against the criticism of bernhard karlgren, who really was a philologist and who, while acknowledging that waley had conscientiously made use of the critical work of qing scholars, felt that he had too often failed to explain why he chose one interpretation over another and had even altered the text for the sake of a more attractive poetic. Ono shinobu and bernhard karlgren 2015 sekinan view. Classics in english translation chin 342 542 classical. Legends and cults in ancient china, the bulletin of the museum of far eastern antiquities, stockholm, 1946. I have taken rhymes from the same source, and also from karlgren, grammata serica recensa stockholm.
Annotated throughout by noted sinologist and tibetologist zahiruddin. A list of works by bernhard karlgren, bo sommarstrom. Some chinese paintings in the ernest erickson collection. Bernhard karlgren has 24 books on goodreads with 123 ratings. Some recent developments in chinese textile studies, else glahn. The book of documents, the bulletin of the museum of far eastern antiquities, stockholm, 1950. Loan characters in prehan texts ii 1 bernhard karlgren. Those by karlgren on the same topic are karlgren 19151926 and karlgren s analytic dictionary 1923.
Chinese text, transcription and translation bernhard karlgren on. Annotated throughout by noted sinologist and tibetologist zahiruddin ahmad paperback january 1, 1950 by bernhard karlgren author. Maspero initiated and supervised, until 1920, the vast efeo collection of indochinese documents, a unique repository of the history of this region. Cranmerbyng was originally published in 1908 description. Selected examplesfrom the jade exhibition at stockholm 1963. The book of odes open collections the university of british. In the early 1900s, karlgren conducted large surveys of a number of chinese dialects and studied historical information on rhyming in ancient chinese poetry, then used them to create the first ever. Pdf principal translations of the thirteen classics into. Masperos two works on middle chinese are maspero 1916 and maspero 1920. The chinese elements in annamese led him, before bernhard karlgren, to the study of ancient chinese phonology. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. A collection of 305 poems which were originally probably sung, thus the english title book of songs dating from around the 10th to 7th centuries bc i. It is one of the five classics traditionally said to have been compiled by confucius. Bernhard karlgren was born on 15 october 1889 in jonkoping, sweden.
Ode 209 says we make the representative of the dead sit at ease, we assist him encourage him to eat and the august representative of the dead then rises, the drums and bells by their sound escort away. The longman anthology of world literature offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the ancient world to the early modern period. More detailed information is available in karlgrens glosses on the book of odes series also reprinted in book form. Environmental change and the rise of the qin empire academic. Karlgrens beliefs regarding old chinese phonology stressed the importance of the laws of phonetic alternation.
He employed linguistic methods to demonstrate the authenticity of the ancient chinese literary monuments tso. This paper shows that both tibetan and old chinese preserve lexicalized traces of several. Bulletin no 36, the museum of far eastern antiquities, stockholm ostasiatiska museet, ostasiatiska samlingarna bernhard karlgren. Museum of far eastern antiquities, 1950 and glosses on the book of odes stockholm.
Grammatica serica recensa bernhard karlgren download. He employed linguistic methods to demonstrate the authenticity of the ancient chinese literary monuments tso chuan and chou li. Annotated throughout by noted sinologist and tibetologist zahiruddin ahmad paperback january 1, 1950 by bernhard karlgren author see all formats and editions. Maspero, henri 18831945, french sinologist and pioneer of daoist studies. Weaving metaphors and cosmopolitical thought in early china. Longman anthology of world literature, volume i a,b,c. The longman anthology of world literature a,b,c the ancient. Bernard karlgren made fundamental contributions to the study of the phonology of middle and old chinese, which he called ancient and archaic chinese respectively.
Index to glosses on the book of odes and glosses on the book of documents 107 desmond gure. Annotated throughout by noted sinologist and tibetologist zahiruddin ahmad by bernhard karlgren jan 1, 1950. Swedish sinologue, member of the swedish academy of sciences 1934 and of academies and scholarly societies of a number of countries. He has also done scholarly translations, with commentaries, of the ancient chinese books shih ching and shu ching. Book of odes, by confucius free ebook global grey ebooks. Selected examples from the jade exhibition at stockholm, 1963. Index to glosses on the book of odes and glosses on the book of documents d. The book of odes kuo feng and siao ya bernhard karlgren is a translation of the first parts of the shijing, with minimal notes. For characters that do not occur as rhyme words in the odes, the xiesheng. A literature election plus volume and local a but the were thriven although rows underneath. Chinese text, transacription and translation by bernhard karlgren. Karlgren s translation is included here only to show the meaning of the chinese text.
Sound and symbol in chinese bernhard karlgren download. Chinese literature begins with shijing book of odes, an anthology of songs, poems, and hymns. Karlgren published his glosses on book of odes in three separate issues 14, 16, 18 of the bulletin of the museum of far eastern antiquities from 1942 to 1946, and his complete translation of the 305 poems appeared in volumes 16 1944 and 17 1945 of the bulletin. This is the first portion of the couplet written by guo feng from the odes of bei, a. Karlgren himself first published many of his own major works in this annual journal, or as books in the monograph series of the museum. Published by museum of far eastern antiques stockholm. However that may be, the original term is a concrete object, used as a symbol. Qi xiang, literally seven displacements, refers to the seven doublehours that elapse between dawn and dusk in midsummer. Author of analytic dictionary of chinese and sinojapanese, sound and symbol in chinese, easy lessons in chinese writing, zhongguo yin yun xue yan jiu, on the authenticity and nature of the tso chuan, philology and ancient china, marginalia on some bronze albums, the book of documents. Aschbergs own, descriptive and fully illustrated catalogue of his collection of.
Chinese language, an essay on its nature and history. Bernhard karlgren explains why zheng xuansreading should be rejected in glosses on the ta ya and sung odes, bulletin of the museum offar eastern antiquities 18 1946. Glosses on the ta ya and sung odes, the bulletin of the museum of far eastern antiquities, stockholm, 1946. The book of songs is a volume of 305 poems which has been divided into three or. Cognate words in the chinese phonetic series, pauline simmons. Shi personator occurs fourteen times in two pairs of consecutive shijing odes 209210 and 247248, tr. Karlgren showed ability in linguistics from a young age, and was interested in swedens dialects and traditional folk stories. Damrosch, robbins, shirane, tylus, yu, alliston, brown, hafez.
Some of this material served him for comparative studies on modern thai and ancient chinese religion, studies that confirmed the results of marcel granets epochmaking work 1919 on the book of odes. The longman anthology of world literature, volume a offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the ancient world the editors of the anthology have sought to find economical ways to place texts within their cultural contexts, and have selected and grouped materials in ways intended to foster connections and conversations across the. Karlgrens translation is included here only to show the meaning of the chinese text. Bernhard karlgren s most popular book is the most venerable book shang shu. Grove weidenfeld, 1988, 209 11, and karlgren, bernhard the book of odes, kuo feng and siao ya, bulletin of the museum of far eastern antiquities 16 1944, 246 47, as well as to the widely read modern japanese and chinese versions. In 1914, on a study mission to china, maspero began an investigation of contemporary chinese religious life, which he continued among chinese expatriates in france during world war i. Index to glosses on the book of odes and glosses on the book of dokuments sic. Karlgren called this language, of the sui 581618 and tang 681907 periods, ancient chinese. In the early 1900s, karlgren conducted large surveys of a number of chinese dialects and studied historical information on rhyming in ancient chinese. Bernard karlgren project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks.
Fossil nominalization prefixes in tibetan and chinese in. Klas bernhard johannes karlgren 15 october 1889 20 october 1978 was a swedish sinologist and linguist who pioneered the study of chinese historical phonology using modern comparative methods. The longman anthology of world literature, volume a. In 1946, karlgren began a farreaching attack on the then rather loosely argued historiography of ancient china. W hen i first read the song of solomon in the quaint and melodious.
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