Chinese Annals Research Articles

Reinterpretation of Hunnic Title Ku-t’u孤涂

We don’t have much information about the language of Asian Huns who played one of the most important roles in both Turkic and world history and occupy a remerkable place in Asian history. On the other hand, we have been familiar with all existing data pertaining to their language thanks to Chinese annals. Chinese annals mention some words which belong to their language. One part of those words constitutes the captions belonging to Hunnic ruling class. One of those captions is Ku-t’u’ meaning “son” which is given by the Huns for their rulers. The mentioned caption has been tried to be explained with different meanings. Some researchers evaluate the true meaning of this caption as “son”and link this with the words which match up with it semantically and phonetically while others aim at clarifying it with the namings which are evocative of the meaning of majesty. In this paper it will be shown that the mentioned caption is related to a belief system belonging to Turks and Mongols. The main topic of this paper revolves around explanation of the mentioned caption on the base of a belief in Turks and Mongols.

Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals

Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals

Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals by Newell Ann Van Auken (review)

Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals by Newell Ann Van Auken (review)

Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals


 
 
 Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals. By Newell ann Van Auken. New York: Columbia UniversitY Press, 2023. Pp. xx + 328. $65.
 
 

Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals By Newell Ann Van Auken. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 352 pp. $65 (cloth).

Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals By Newell Ann Van Auken. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 352 pp. $65 (cloth).

Dutch Sinologists, Chinese Annals, and Other Stories

Dutch Sinologists, Chinese Annals, and Other Stories

:The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610–1795)

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The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai shiji and other Stories (1610-1795)

La partie principale de ce volume (pp. 51-201) consiste en la traduction annotee du Kai Ba lidai shiji 开吧历代史记, chronique de la communaute chinoise de Batavia, redigee vers 1794 par un auteur qui ne revele pas son nom. Elle est precedee d’une partie introductive en six chapitres. Le premier donne un apercu de la situation a Batavia aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles et insiste sur l’idee qu’il y aurait eu une sorte de convivencia, ou coexistence culturelle entre Hollandais et Chinois, laquelle aurai...

Socialist Workhorse to Capitalist Powerhouse: Developing a Modern Chinese Commercial Fleet in the Pre-Reform Era

As China approaches dominance in commercial shipping, the task of understanding its rise from irrelevance as a seafaring nation in 1949 to its current position has increasing importance. This article remedies the absence of scholarship on this subject by describing the foundation and development of China’s commercial fleet through political turmoil before 1971. Working with data from Chinese annals 志, chronicles 史, and international primary sources, the article explores the development of China’s merchant fleet. Fleet development followed two contrasting modes: the domestic fleet, founded on a backward junk fleet and a limited fleet of liners inherited in 1949 and shaped by internal pressures, and an international fleet, which developed modern capacity and became integrated with the global market. The article traces the growth of China’s fleet through a period of political turmoil from 1966 to 1971 when, paradoxically, fleet-building demonstrated impressive stability. This suggests high-level political patronage despite violent and contrary changes in political circumstances.

Le grand séisme de Huaxian (1556) : quelques documents chinois

The strong earthquake that struck Shaanxi, Shanxi and several other Chinese provinces in 1556 is generally considered as the deadliest of all earthquakes. It is said that the Chinese annals reported 830,000 casualties. We give here a translation into French of the relevant passage of the annals, as well as of a testimony of a survivor Qin Keda, and of a text engraved on a stela.

An MsFEM Type Approach for Perforated Domains

We follow up on our previous work [C. Le Bris, F. Legoll and A. Lozinski, Chinese Annals of Mathematics 2013] where we have studied a multiscale finite element (MsFEM) type method in the vein of the classical Crouzeix-Raviart finite element method that is specifically adapted for highly oscillatory elliptic problems. We adapt the approach to address here a multiscale problem on a perforated domain. An additional ingredient of our approach is the enrichment of the multiscale finite element space using bubble functions. We first establish a theoretical error estimate. We next show that, on the problem we consider, the approach we propose outperforms all dedicated existing variants of MsFEM we are aware of.

The Roman Empire According to the Ancient Chinese Sources

Through a careful examination of the accounts of Daqin (大秦) — presumably the Roman Empire — and Fulin (拂菻) — Byzantinum —, we can depict a picture of how the Chinese imagined another ancient empire far away in the West. The Chinese annals not only give information on and the interpretation of the name of that mysterious country but also add details about its geography, administration, economy — including agriculture, domesticated animals and products -, trade and the envoys sent by Daqin (大秦) people. Such a description could be remarkable on its own but the accounts also emphasise the similarities between the two great empires that might have originated in their same cultural level.

Rise and fall of Kantu: A historical study of an ancient Tibeto-Burmese speaking group

On the basis of Chinese records and previous academic achievements in and outside China, the author makes a deeper study on the history of Kantu. As an ancient Tibeto-Burmese speaking group, Kantu was likely to have developed from the Qiongdu (Kontu) of Xinan yi (ancient ethnic groups in southwestern China). During the 12th–13th centuries, the Kantu group resided in an extensive area expanding from the border area between present Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China to Burma. In the late 13th century, the Yuan troops occupied the area of Kantu. Since then, there have been no more record about Kantu in Chinese annals, and they were likely merged into the groups of “Luoluo” (Lolo). In Burma, most of the Kantu people had been merged into the local peoples, with only a few remaining in remote mountain forests of northern Burma and still keeping their own name and customs. Thus, these people are just the living sources for our studies on ancient Kantu.

ON PERIODIC DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

The authors investigate the existence and the global stability of periodic solution for dynamical systems with periodic interconnections, inputs and self-inhibitions. The model is very general, the conditions are quite weak and the results obtained are universal.

Daytime observations of sungrazing comets in Chinese annals

Kreutz sungrazers consist of a handful of major comets and some 400 minor (faint) members found by satellite observations through 2001. Although they can be spectacular visual objects, many must be absent from historical records. Here I show that a dozen or so previously unrecognized sungrazers were probably recorded in Chinese solar observations, and from their brightnesses they must be major group members. The earliest dates from 15 AD, but nearly half were seen in a short period in the 17th century, and there is some evidence that most of the entire ensemble belong to the Kreutz class.

Optimal Controls of 3-Dimensional Navier--Stokes Equations with State Constraints

This work is concerned with the maximum principles for optimal control problems governed by 3-dimensional Navier--Stokes equations. Some types of state constraints (time variables) are considered.

Γ-convergence of integral functionals depending on vector-valued functions over parabolic domains

Chinese Annals of MathematicsVol. 21, No. 02, pp. 249-258 (2000) No AccessΓ-CONVERGENCE OF INTEGRAL FUNCTIONALS DEPENDING ON VECTOR-VALUED FUNCTIONS OVER PARABOLIC DOMAINSHUAIYU JIANHUAIYU JIANDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China Search for more papers by this author https://doi.org/10.1142/S0252959900000285Cited by:0 PreviousNext AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsRecommend to Library ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail AbstractThis paper studies Γ-convergence for a sequence of parabolic functionals, where the integrand f is nonconvex, and periodic on the first variable. The author obtains the representation formula of the Γ-limit. The results in this paper support a conclusion which relates Γ-convergence of parabolic functionals to the associated gradient flows and confirms one of De Giorgi's conjectures partially.Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 19701018).Document Code A, Article ID 0252-9599(2000)02-0249-10Keywords:Γ-convergenceParabolic-minimaNonconvex functionalsParabolic equations1991 MR Subject Classification 35B2749J45Chinese Library Classification O175.26O232 FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Recommended Vol. 21, No. 02 Metrics History Received 23 June 1998 Revised 14 November 1999 KeywordsΓ-convergenceParabolic-minimaNonconvex functionalsParabolic equations1991 MR Subject Classification 35B2749J45Chinese Library Classification O175.26O232PDF download

ADDITIONAL SYMMETRIES OF KP, GRASSMANNIAN, AND THE STRING EQUATION

It is well-known that solutions to the string equation are generated by elements of Sato's Grassmannian which are invariant under action of some differential operator. Here it is shown that this operator is nothing else than the infinitesimal operator of the group of additional symmetries of the KdV flow. This is done for KdV hierarchies of arbitrary orders. Virasoro constraints are obtained in a slightly more general form than they are usually written.

π1 OF ELLIPTIC AND HYPERELLIPTIC SURFACES

π₁ OF ELLIPTIC AND HYPERELLIPTIC SURFACES

A derivation of the rate of spin-down of the Earth using ancient Chinese records of central eclipses

We describe a method of studying the variation in the rotation of the Earth in historical times using ancient records of central solar eclipses. From the records of central eclipses covering a period of some one thousand four hundred years (7th century B.C. to 7th century A.D.), given in the Chinese annals, we selected 88 entries and calculated the rotation variation parameter ΔT. Our result shows that the Earth is spinning down at a relative rate of − (1.88 ± 0.10) × 10 −10/ yr .