Between the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which ended in 618 C.E., Chinese authors wrote many thousands of short textual items, each of which narrated or described some phenomenon deemed "strange."Most items told of encounters between humans and various denizens of the spirit-world, or of the miraculous feats of masters of esoteric arts; some described the wonders of exotic lands, or transmitted fragments of ancient mythology. This genre of writing came to be known as zhiguai ("accounts of anomalies").
Who were the authors of these books, and why did they write of these "strange" matters? Why was such writing seen as a compelling thing to do? In this book, the first comprehensive study in a Western language of the zhiguai genre in its formative period, Campany sets forth a new view of the nature of the genre and the reasons for its emergence. He shows that contemporaries portrayed it as an extension of old royal and imperial traditions in which strange reports from the periphery were collected in the capital as a way of ordering the world. He illuminates how authors writing from most of the religious and cultural perspectives of the times--including Daoists, Buddhists, Confucians, and others--used the genre differently for their own persuasive purposes, in the process fundamentally altering the old traditions of anomaly-collecting. Analyzing the "accounts of anomalies" both in the context of Chinese religious and cultural history and as examples of a cross-culturally attested type of discourse, Campany combines in-depth Sinological research with broad-ranging comparative thinking in his approach to these puzzling, rich texts

約四百年にわたって続き、後の中国王朝の原型となった漢帝国は、どのようにして始まったのか？
秦末の社会状況と陳勝呉広の乱に代表される民衆反乱の発生から、項羽・劉邦の登場、秦帝国の滅亡、項羽の分封、そして楚漢戦争の終結に至るまでの歴史的過程を再検討し、統一王朝誕生の実像に迫る。

在六朝江南社会，“山中”这一地理空间发生了巨大的变迁。随着佛教山寺的兴起、道教洞天体系和山中修道的宫观化，一些山岳成为寺馆集中的宗教圣地，江南山岳完成“名山化”的过程，文化景观呈现出独特的面貌和地理格局。作者立足山岳，全面搜集正史以外的宗教文献、文学作品、石刻史料等，打通佛道二教，透过若干个案的“深描”，细腻地展现了山岳历史自身的发展脉络（从山神祭祀到佛道寺馆的过程），佛道与民间信仰在山岳中活动的复杂关系。名山，特别是江南洞天福地的出现与山中景观的变迁，因此得到了鲜活而饱满的解释。六朝时代，乃至秦到隋唐历史演进的丰富内涵与时代意义，从而更完整地呈现在读者面前。

杂传又称别传，区别于正史中的传记，往往杂有不经之谈，后世演化为传奇小说。整理者竭十余年心力，对盛行于汉魏六朝的杂传作了全面搜罗，汇集三百余种，为研治古代小说、中古文学甚至明清小说戏剧的重要参考书。
编辑推荐
一、辑佚全面。作者全面地辑录了从两汉到六朝见于史书、类书、史注的杂传，并能将同一条目之各书引文尽数搜罗，互为比勘，使佚文校录臻于完善。
二、编次合理。是书把完整篇段、零章短句均汇集于一人之下，加以编次，读者自可从中可以看出关于传主的材料、传说、史实，部次清晰而学术价值自明。
三、辨伪准确。史料传承时，出现的讹误、伪作，作者均能一一辨之，去伪存真，得其本原。
四、校勘精审。作者在辑录的时候，能够汇集众本，校异同，择善而从。
五、体例全面。每一人之传，标有传名、题注、作者，正文后必要时还附有述评，便于研究者使用。
内容简介
《汉魏六朝杂传集》（全四册），辑录了起西汉之始（公元前206年）讫隋亡（公元618年）的整个汉魏六朝时期的杂传作品，共分为两汉杂传、三国杂传、两晋杂传、南北朝杂传，凡三百余种，洋洋一百余万言，整个汉魏六朝时期有佚文存世的杂传作品，几乎囊括无遗。同时，《汉魏六朝杂传集》辑录杂传，篇名之下均置题注，扼述该传之历代著录、补录情况。如有旧辑本，亦说明其见载之处及得失善劣。又略及作者之生平著述，传主之生平行事。其有歧疑者，则参纳古今学者之研究，稍事考辨。所辑得的每一种杂传之佚文，均略据所叙人事，分条罗列，并于其下注明出处，书名、卷数俱列全称。至如征引之题名同异，亦一一列举，不厌其烦。凡一事而见诸多处征引者，则以某引为本，校以他引，择善而从，或同或异，或补或删或改，均出校语，条列其下。差异较大者及其他需特别说明者，则加案语，附各条之后。辑录所据之本，均以历代精校、精刻、精印之善本为主，并参校其他传本。古籍旧注尤重汉魏六朝及近于汉魏六朝之书，类书则多以南北朝唐宋所出为主，明清类书亦采，资证而已。如某传有前代辑本，亦取作参考，体例科学。

Memory and Agency in Ancient China offers a novel perspective on China's material culture. The volume explores the complex 'life histories' of selected objects, whose trajectories as ginle objects ('biographies') and object types ('lineages') cut across both temporal and physical space. The essays, written by a team of international scholars, analyse the objects in an effort to understand how they were shaped by the constraints of their social, political and aesthetic contexts, just as they were also guided by individual preference and capricious memory. They also demonstrate how objects were capable of effecting change. Ranging chronologically from the Neolithic to the present, and spatially from northern to southern mainland China and Taiwan, this book highlights the varied approaches that archaeologists and art historians use when attempting to reconstruct object trajectories. It also showcases the challenges they face, particularly with the unearthing of objects from archaeological contexts that, paradoxically, come to represent the earliest known point of their 'post-recovery lives'.

Together, and for the first time in any language, the 24 essays gathered in these volumes provide a composite picture of the history of religion in ancient China from the emergence of writing ca. 1250 BC to the collapse of the first major imperial dynasty in 220 AD. It is a multi-faceted tale of changing gods and rituals that includes the emergence of a form of “secular humanism” that doubts the existence of the gods and the efficacy of ritual and of an imperial orthodoxy that founds its legitimacy on a distinction between licit and illicit sacrifices. Written by specialists in a variety of disciplines, the essays cover such subjects as divination and cosmology, exorcism and medicine, ethics and self-cultivation, mythology, taboos, sacrifice, shamanism, burial practices, iconography, and political philosophy.
Produced under the aegis of the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine (UMR 8155) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris).

In this volume, Mu-chou Poo offers a new overview of daily life in ancient China. Synthesizing a range of textual and archaeological materials, he brings a thematic approach to the topic that enables a multi-faceted understanding of the ideological, economical, legal, social, and emotional aspects of life in ancient China. The volume focuses on the Han period and examines key topics such as government organization and elite ideology, urban and country life, practical technology, leisure and festivity, and death and burial customs. Written in clear and engaging prose, this volume serves as a useful introduction to the culture and society of ancient China. It also enables students to better understand the construction of history and to reflect critically on the nature of historical writing.

《两汉经学的历术背景》讨论三卷本《京氏易传》之例。今三卷本《京氏易传》的卦序是八官卦，其内容包括二十八宿人卦、月日人卦、五行人卦等，是前汉《易》学史的重要著作。民国徐昂《京氏易传笺》及今人卢央《京房评传》等对《两汉经学的历术背景》有专门讨论，但仍有不少问题尚待修正。如在月日入卦上，《京传》以建候积算为表征。建始之例，据问而成，故《京傅》原文“建起戊寅至癸未”当误，坎卦应“建起癸未至戊子”。徐昂、卢央等皆未指出，甚至依此起例，立论有误。又因《汉书·京房传》所载京房上封事，其说合乎六日七分说，而六日七分的卦序与八官卦序不同，故进而讨论二者之间的可能联系。在历术上，提及六日七分与《太初历》的日法八十一分不同。

日语汉字趣谈（日汉对照），ISBN：9787562815488，作者：（日）高坂登（こぅさか·のぼる）著；陈雪，金伟译