Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Centre de recherches sur le Japon

Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann

Chargée de recherche, CNRS

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Thèmes de recherche :

  • Exploration des conceptions géographiques dans la Chine impériale de la première période (ca. 1er siècle av. J.-C. -6e siècle)

  • Examen des textes chinois classiques organisés selon des modèles spatiaux.

Publications

Articles and chapters of books

In Western Languages

  • “‘Vents des royaumes’ (Guo feng): un schéma géographique.” Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident 13 (1991): Modèles et structures des textes Chinois Anciens: les formalistes soviétiques en sinologie, pp. 58-91.

  • “Conception of Terrestrial Organization in the Shan hai jing.” Bulletin de l'Ecole Française d'Extrême Orient 82 (1995), pp. 57-110.

  • “La production de l’espace sacré.” Géographie et cultures 18 (été 1996), pp. 3-30 (adapted translation of n° 2, see above).

  • “Political Concept Behind an Interplay of Spatial ‘Positions’.” Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident  18 (1996): Disposer pour dire, placer pour penser, situer pour agir,  pp. 9-33.

  • “Spatiality of the Media for Writing in Ancient China and Spatial Organization of Ancient Chinese Texts.” Göttinger Beiträge zur Asienforschung N° 1 (2001), pp. 87-135.

  • “Mapping a ‘Spiritual’ Landscape: Representing Terrestrial Space in the Shan hai jing.” In: Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries, and Human Geographies in Chinese History, eds. Nicola di Cosmo and Don Wyatt. London – New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, pp. 35-79.

  • “Text as a Device for Mapping a Sacred Space: A Case of the Wu zang shan jing (“Five Treasuries: The Itineraries of Mountains”).” In: Creating and Representing Sacred Spaces, eds. Michael Dickhardt and Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann. Göttinger Beiträge zur Asienforschung 2-3 (2003, special issue), pp. 147-210.

  • “Spatial Composition of Ancient Chinese Texts.” In: History of Science, History of Text, ed. Karine Chemla. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 238). Dordrecht: Springer, 2004, pp. 3-47 (revised n. 5)

  • “Contradicting Representations of the Yellow River Source in Song Cartography.” Vestnik MGU, Vostokovedenie, Seriya 13  (Journal of the Moscow State University, Oriental Studies), Series 13, 2006, n°3, pp. 50-58.

  • “Mapless Mapping: Did the Maps of the Shan hai jing Ever Exist?” In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft, eds. Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann and Georges Métailié, Leiden: Brill, 2007, pp. 217-294.

  •  “Where is the Yellow River Source? A Controversial Question in the Early Chinese Historiography.” Oriens Extremus 45 (2005-2006), pp. 68-90.

  • “Ritual Practices for Constructing Terrestrial Space (Warring States-Early Han).” In: Rituals, Pantheons and Techniques: A History of Chinese Religion before the Tang, ed. John Lagerwey. Leiden: Brill, 2008, pp. 595-644 (forthcoming).

  • “The Rong Cheng shi version of the “Nine Provinces”: Some Parallels with Transmitted Texts,” East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine, (forthcoming).

In Chinese

  • “‘Shan hai jing’ de diyu xingzhi guannian 《山海經》的地域形制觀念 (Conception of terrestrial organization in the “Classic of Mountains and Seas”)”. 曆史地理 Lishi dili (Historical geography) 17 (2001), pp. 434-44 (translation of n° 2, see above).

Encyclopaedia entries

  • “I testi geografici ufficiali dalla dinastia Han alla dinastia Tang.” In: Enciclopedia Italiana, Storia della Scienza, ed. Sandro Petruccioli, vol. II, “La scienza in Cina”, eds. Karine Chemla, Francesca Bray, Fu Daiwie, Huang Yi-Long and Georges Métailié. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2001, pp. 190-197.

  • “Il Classico dei monti e dei mari (Shanhai jing) e la concezione dell’‘organizzazione terrestre’.” In: Enciclopedia Italiana, Storia della Scienza, ed. Sandro Petruccioli, vol. II, “La scienza in Cina”, eds. Chemla, Karine, Francesca Bray, Fu Daiwie, Huang Yi-Long and Georges Métailié. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2001, pp. 197-198.

Conference proceedings

  • “Conceptual Foundations of Terrestrial Description in the Shan hai jing.” In: Traditions of East Asian Science and Beyond: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Kyoto, 2-7 August, 1993, Kyoto: Kansai University Press, 1995, pp. 419-23.

  • “Topographical Accuracy or Conceptual Organization of Space? (Some remarks on the system of locations found in the Shan hai jing).” In: Current Perspectives in the History of Science in East Asia, eds. Kim Yung-Sik and Francesca Bray. Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 1999, pp. 165-179.

  • “Why ‘The Classic of Mountains and Seas’ (the Shan hai jing) Contains Topographically Inaccurate Data.” In: Science and Technology in East Asia.  The Legacy of Joseph Needham. (Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liege, 20-26 July 1997), vol. IX). ), eds. Alain Arrault and Catherine Jami. Turnhout: Brepols, 2001, pp. 111-124.

  • “Geographical Treatises in Chinese Dynastic Histories: ‘No Man’s Land’ Between Sinology and History of Science.” Panel S 34 Typological Parallels in Pre-Modern Geographical Knowledge: Non-Geographical Geographies. In: Science and Cultural Diversity, Proceedings of the XXIst International Congress of History of Science (Mexico City, 8-14.07.2001), ed. Juan José Saldaña. CD-ROM, Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y de la Tecnología-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 2005, pp. 2262-2276.

  • “Introduction” (with Natalia Lozovsky), Panel S 34 Typological Parallels in Pre-Modern Geographical Knowledge: Non-Geographical Geographies. In: Science and Cultural Diversity, Proceedings of the XXIst International Congress of History of Science (Mexico City, 8-14.07.2001), ed. Juan José Saldaña. CD-ROM, Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y de la Tecnología-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 2005, pp. 2259-2261.

  • “Comparative Analysis of Early Accounts of the ‘Nine Provinces’ (Jiu zhou).” In: Studies on Ancient Chinese Scientific and Technical Texts. Proceedings of the 3rd ISACBRST (The 3rd International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Books and Records of Science and Technology, Tübingen, 31.03-04.04.2003), eds. Gao Xuan, Hans-Ulrich Vogel and Christine Moll-Murata. Zhengzhou: Daxiang chubanshe, 2006, pp. 1-23.

Edited Collections of Papers

  • Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident 13 (1991): Modèles et structures des textes Chinois Anciens: les formalistes soviétiques en sinologie (co-edited with Karine Chemla et Alexeï Volkov).

  • Göttinger Beiträge zur Asienforschung 2-3 (2003, special double issue): Creating and Representing Sacred Spaces (co-edited with Michael Dickhardt).

  • Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft (co-edited with Francesca Bray and Georges Métailié). Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Participation in the Editorial Committees

  • Member of the Editorial Committee of the “Géographies et culture” journal.

Publications in Russian

  • “Nadpisi na ‘Kamennykh barabanakh’ kak proizvedenie drevnekitayskoy poesii” (‘Inscriptions on the Stone Drums’ (Shi gu wen) as a creation of Chinese poetry (with translation of the inscriptions)). In: XV SSC* (1984), vol.1: 104-18 (extracts from the M.A. Thesis).

  • “Funktsiya drevnekitayskikh tekstov, postroiennykh na desyatiritchnykh strukturakh” (Function of the ancient Chinese texts composed according to 10-unit structures). In: XVI SSC* (1985), vol.1, pp. 155-66 (reduced version); Dalny Vostok i Tsentralnaya Aziya (Far East and Central Asia). Moscow: Nauka: 1985, pp. 13-38 (complete version).

  • “13-richnye struktury kak plan (tu)” (13-unit structures as a plan (tu)). In: XVII SSC* (1986), vol.1, pp. 72-81.

  • “Parallelizm struktury i soderzhaniya ‘Kanona Stikhov’ (Shi tszina)” (Parralelism between structure and content of the “Canon of Poems” (Shi jing)). Kolichestvennye metody v izuchenii istorii stran Vostoka (Quantitative methods in studies of the history of oriental countries). Moscou: Nauka, 1986, pp. 18-46.

  • “Prostranstvennye tekstologicheskie struktury ‘Kanona gor i morei’ (Shan hai tszina) i ‘Kanona Stikhov’ (Shi tszina)” (Spatial textual structures of the ‘Canon of Mountains and Seas’ (Shan hai jing) and the ‘Canon of Poems’ (Shi jing)). In: XVIII SSC* (1987), vol.1, pp. 48-58.

  • Prostranstvennye modeli shantsev i chzhoustsev” (Spatial models of the Shang and the Zhou). In: XIX SSC* (1988), vol:1,  pp. 60-7.

  • “Transformatsiya chzhouskoy i shanskoy prostranstvennykh modeley v ‘Gimnakh Lu’ (Transformation of the spatial models of the Shang and the Zhou in ‘The Hymnes of Lu’). XX SSC* (1989), vol.1: 151-55.

  • “Shi tszin (‘Kanon Stikhov’) kak istochnik dlya rekonstruktszii prostranstvennykh predstavleny v Drevnem Kitae.” (Shi jing (‘The Canon of Poems’) as a source for the reconstruction of the spatial notions in Ancient China). Résumé of the Candidate of Historical Sciences Dissertation (equivalent of the Ph.D.). Moscow: Institute of Asian and African Countries, Moscow State University, 1992, 28 p. (Part of the dissertation is published in the Extrême-Orient Extrême Occident 13 (1991), see above, n° 1 of the articles in Western languages).

  •  “Regulirovanie vodnykh putei Velikim Yuem v manuskripte Rong cheng shi” (Regulation of waterways by the Great Yu in the Rong cheng shi Manuscript). Istoriya Kitaya. Materialy nauchnoy konferentsii ISAA pri MGU, 4 maya 2004 g. (History of China. Proceedings of the Sinological Conference at the Institute of Asian and African Countries, Moscow State University, 04.05.2004), Moscow State University, 2005, pp. 97-106.

  • “Istoriya prostranstvennykh predstavleny i kartografii v stranakh Vostochnoi Azii (Kitay, Yaponiya)” (History of Spatial Conceptions and Cartography in East Asia (China, Japan))(with Ekaterina Simonove-Gudzenko) [Program of a Seminar for Master Students, Institute of Asian and African Countries]. Moscow: Moscow State University Publishers, forthcoming.

*SSC – Naoutchnaia konferentsiia “Obshchestvo i gosudarstvo v Kitae”. Tesisy dokladov (Scientific Conference “Society and State in China”. Abstracts of Papers. Moscow: Nauka).




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