COMPTES RENDUS - AFEC

Comptes rendus
huang, et sur les particularités historiques, politiques (en tant que frontière)
et culturelles de cette région.
Il n'est guère utile de préciser qu'un volume contenant les contributions
d'une quinzaine d'auteurs ne saurait avoir la même cohérence, dans
ses problématiques et dans le niveau d'intérêt, qu'un ouvrage écrit d'une
seule main. Mais, bien présenté et édité, avec peu de coquilles, celui-ci
s'imposera désormais comme indispensable : aux « Dunhuangologues »
historiens de la médecine de lui apporter de futurs compléments !
Frédéric Obringer
CNRS/CECMC
Tze-ki Hon, The Yijing and Chinese Politics: Classical Commentary and
Literati Activism in the Northern Song Period, 960-1127. Albany : State
University of New York Press (SUNY Séries in Chinese Philosophy and
Culture), 2005. xi-217 pages
In this ambitious and well-written study of Northern Song commentaries
on the Yijing, Tze-ki Hon undertakes a séries of comparisons along four
axes. First, he asks how the understanding of the Yijing, represented by the
Wujing zhengyi EfSIEiÉ édition with commentaries by Wang Bi and
Han Kangbo with a subcommentary by Kong Yingda et al. was transformed
over three générations of Northern Song commentaries, taking
works from Hu Yuan, Zhang Zai, and Cheng Yi as his principal texts.
Second, he compares the views of thèse three with each other. Third, he
compares the views of his principal authors with some of their contemporaries:
Hu with Li Gou and Ouyang Xiu, Zhang with Sima Guang and
Shao Yong, and Cheng with Su Shi. Fourth, Hon asks how thèse works
speak to what he identifies as the foremost issues in political culture of
their respective eras: the effort to reestablish civil governance and a leading
rôle for the literati in officialdom prior to 1022 (Hu Yuan), the need
for governmental reform in response to military, fiscal, and personnel
Études chinoises, vol. XXIV (2005)