• 중국학논총
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• no.71
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• pp.169-194
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• 2021

"經學"不僅爲中國文化奠定了基礎發揮了重要作用, 也是爲國家生存提供依據的重要因素。因此, 爲了對中國文化進行全面硏究, 必須硏究中國經學史。本稿中以德國傳教士花之安(Ernst Faber)的儒學觀和他的經學著作爲中心, 瞭解了19世紀末中國傳統經學和知識集團的瓦解過程。此外, 藉此瞭解了延續數千年的"知識權力"的變遷和知識集團的共存和對立情況。花之安在中國生活了30多年, 硏究了中國傳統經學。儘管他從事經學研究的目的在於傳教基督教, 但他在經學硏究領域所取得的成就並不少。他不僅對儒學經典和基督教經典進行了比較硏究, 摸索出了通曉的方法, 而且在中國經學史的發展過程中留下了很大的足跡。

• Acta Via Serica
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.87-120
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• 2020

This article introduces the texts of Manchu shamanistic prayers recorded in a manuscript by Sergei A. Polevoi, a Russian and an American Sinologist from the first part of the twentieth century. The Manchu original text of these prayers (but not the Polevoi's variant) was recently published by Ye (2018), which, however lacks detailed linguistic analysis. Polevoi's texts are in the slightly outdated romanization of Manchu with no linguistic analysis, translation, and commentary that are provided below by the author. While this publication will be of minor interest to the specialists on Manchu shamanism, it would be important to linguists specializing in the Manchu and Tungusic languages and philology, as the text reflects in all probability the eighteenth century Manchu preserved in romanization, and, therefore priceless for the linguistic analysis.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2019

Models of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are still difficult to grasp from the view of a Western-cultural background. For proper integration into science and clinical research, it is vital to think "out of the box" of classical sciences. Modern sciences, such as quantum physics, system theory, and information theory offer new models, that reveal TCM as a method to process information. For this purpose, we apply concepts of information theory to propose a "Chinese black box model," that allows for a non-deterministic, bottom-up approach. Considering a patient as an undeterminable complex system, the process of getting information about an individual in Chinese diagnostics is compared to the input-process-output principle of information theory and quantum physics, which is further illustrated by Wheeler's "surprise 20 questions." In TCM, an observer uses a decision-making algorithm to qualify diagnostic information by the binary polarities of "yang" (latin activity) and "yin" (latin structivity) according to the so called "8 principles" (latin 8 guiding criteria). A systematic reconstruction of ancient Chinese terms and concepts illuminates a scattered scientific method, which is specified in a medical context by Latin terminology of the sinologist Porkert [definitions of the Latin terms are presented in Porkert's appendix [1] (cf. Limitations)].