名家介绍 | 美国中国史专家陆威仪（Mark Edward Lewis）

目录

⊙个人简介

⊙研究兴趣

⊙最新研究计划

⊙教学课程

⊙著作和论文

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个人简介：

Mark Edward Lewis was born on September 25, 1954. His dissertation, entitled “The Imperial Transformation of Violence in Ancient China,” was written under the Chinese-American historian Ho Ping-ti 何炳棣. He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows.

He was a Humboldt Research Award Fellow for one year at the University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.

Mark Edward Lewis is Kwoh-matchting Li Professor in Chinese Culture (李国鼎中国文化讲座教授) in the Department of History and Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. From 1986-2002 he was Lecturer and Reader in Early Chinese History at Cambridge University. He did his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, and was a junior fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows.

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研究兴趣：

Mark Edward Lewis’s research deals with many aspects of Chinese civilization in the late pre-imperial, early imperial and middle periods (contemporary with the centuries in the West from classical Greece through the early Middle Ages), and with the problem of empire as a political and social form.

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最新研究计划：

Lewis is currently writing a monograph on the emotions in early China. It will examine how emotions, such as anger, love, joy, and sorrow, were defined and how they were incorporated into all aspects of society. Topics examined will include the emotional foundations of political authority; emotions in medical practice and ideas about the body; emotions as constitutive of human relations; emotions as the origin of ritual, poetry, and music; and the role of emotions in military action.

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教学课程：

Chinese Philosophical Texts

This classical Chinese course is free and open to all, and can be studied at one's own pace. It is intended for people who would like to learn how to read classical Chinese philosophy and history as expeditiously as possible. The professor, Mark Edward Lewis, is a specialist in early Chinese history. He is not a linguist, and offers no more discussion of grammatical particles and structures than is strictly necessary.

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著作：

序号	著作及出版等信息
1	China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
2	China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
3	The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Awarded the  (儒莲奖) by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institut de France, 2009.
	In addition to these specialist monographs, Lewis has written the first three volumes of a six-volume survey of the entire history of imperial China: The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han, China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties, and China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty.  These volumes serve as introductions to the major periods of Chinese history for non-specialists, and as background readings to introductory surveys.  In addition to recounting the major political events, they devote chapters to the most important aspects of the society of each period: geographic background, cities, rural society, kinship, religion, literature, and law.
4	The Flood Myths of Early China. State University of New York Press, 2006.
5	The Construction of Space in Early China. State University of New York Press, 2006.
His third book, The Construction of Space in Early China, examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units: the human body, the household, the city, the region, and the world.  It shows how each higher unit—culminating in the empire—claimed to incorporate and transcend the units of the preceding level, while in practice remaining divided and constrained by the survival of the lower units, whose structures and tensions they reproduced.  A companion volume, The Flood Myths of Early China, shows how these early Chinese ideas about the constituent elements of an ordered, human space—along with the tensions and divisions therein—were elaborated and dramatized in a set of stories about the re-creation of a structured world from a watery chaos that had engulfed it.
6	Writing and Authority in Early China. State University of New York Press, 1999. Awarded the Prix Budget by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institut de France, 2002.
His second book, Writing and Authority in Early China covers the same period from a different angle.  It traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority.  The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, including divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, collective writings of philosophical traditions, speeches attributed to historical figures, chronicles, verse anthologies, commentaries, and encyclopedic compendia.  It shows how these writings in different ways served to form social groups, administer populations, control officials, invent new models of intellectual and political authority, and create an artificial language whose mastery generated power and whose graphs become potent, almost magical, objects.
7	Sanctioned Violence in Early China. State University of New York Press, 1990.
His first book, Sanctioned Violence in Early China, studies the emergence of the first Chinese empires by examining the changing forms of permitted violence—warfare, hunting, sacrifice, punishments, and vengeance.  It analyzes the interlinked evolution of these violent practices to reveal changes in the nature of political authority, in the units of social organization, and in the defining practices and attitudes of the ruling elites.  It thus traces the changes that underlay the transformation of the Chinese polity from a league of city-states dominated by aristocratic lineages to a unified, territorial state governed by a supreme autocrat and his agents.

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论文

1. “Early Imperial China, from the Qin and Han through the Tang.” In Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States. Ed. Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

2. “Mothers and Sons in Early Imperial China.” In Extrême Orient, Extrême Occident. 2012.

3. “Swordsmanship and the Socialization of Violence in Early China,” in From Athens to Beijing: West Meets East in the Olympic Games. Ed. Susan Brownell. New York: Athlone. 2012.

4. “Historiography and Empire,” in Oxford History of Historical Writing, Vol 1. Ed. Grant Hardy and Andrew Feldherr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

5. “Evolution of the Shang Calendar,” in Measuring the World and Beyond: The Archaeology of Early Quantification and Cosmology. Ed. Colin Renfrew and Iain Morley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

6. “The Mythology of Early China,” in Rituels, pantheons et techniques: Histoire de la religion chinoise avant les Tang. Ed. John Lagerwey. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009.

7. “Gift Exchange and Charity in Ancient China and the Roman Empire," in Institutions of Empire: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient Chinese and Mediterranean History. Ed. Walter Scheidel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.

8. “Writing the World in the Family Instructions of the Yan Clan.” Early Medieval China: Essays in Honor of Albert E. Dien Volumes 13-13: Part 1. 2007.

9. “The Just War in Early China,” in The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations. Ed. Torkel Brekke. London: Routledge, 2006.

10. “Writings on Warfare Found in Ancient Chinese Tombs,” Sino-Platonic Papers 158 (August 2005).

11. “Custom and Human Nature in Early China.” Philosophy East and West 53:3 (July 2003).

12. “Dicing and Divination in Early China.” Sino-Platonic Papers. 121 (July 2002).

13. “The Han Abolition of Universal Military Service,” in Warfare in Chinese History. Ed. Hans van de Ven. E. J. Brill, 2000.

14. “The City-State in Spring-and-Autumn China,” in A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures. Ed. M. H. Hansen. Historisk-filosofiske Skrifter 21. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2000.

15. “The Feng and Shan Sacrifices of Emperor Wu of the Han,” in State and Court Ritual in China. Ed. Joseph McDermott. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

16. “Political History of the Warring States,” in The Cambridge History of Ancient China. Ed. Michael Loewe and Edward Shaughnessy. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

17. The Ritual Origins of the Warring State.” Bulletin de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient 84:2 (1997).

18. “The Warring State in China as Institution and Idea,” in War: A Cruel Necessity? Ed. Robert A. Hinde. I. B. Tauris, 1995.

19. “Les rites comme trame de l'histoire,” in Changement et idées de changement en Chine. Ed. Vivienne Alton. Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 1994.

20. “The Suppression of the Sect of the Three Stages: Apocrypha as a Political Issue,” in Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha. Ed. Robert Buswell, ed., University of Hawaii Press, 1990.