Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Prologue (Daniel P. Morgan and Damien Chaussende).- Part I: The Work of Li Chunfeng.- Chapter 2. The Life and Intellectual Work of Li Chunfeng (602–670) (Howard L. Goodman).- Chapter 3. Numbers with Histories: Li Chunfeng on Harmonics and Astronomy (Daniel P. Morgan and Howard L. Goodman).- Chapter 4. Scholarship and Politics in Seventh Century China from the Viewpoint of Li Chunfeng’s Writing on Histories (Zhu Yiwen).- Chapter 5. The Compilation of the Astronomical Portion of the ‘Treatise on Harmono-Metrology and Mathematical Astronomy’ and its Impact (Li Liang).- Chapter 6. Heavenly Patterns (Daniel P. Morgan).- Chapter 7. The ‘Treatise on the Wuxing’ (Wuxing zhi) (Michael Nylan).- Part II : The Anonymous Treatises.- Chapter 8. The Treatise on Economics and Its Influences (Béatrice L'Haridon).- Chapter 9. The Treatise on Law (Frédéric Constant).- Chapter 10. Intertextuality, Customs and Regionalism in the ‘Geographical Treatise’ (Alexis Lycas).- Chapter 11. TheArt of Producing a Catalogue: the Meaning of ‘Compilations’ for the Organisation of Ancient Knowledge in Tang Times (Pablo Ariel Blitstein).- Chapter 12. Epilogue: Treatises According to Tang Historian Liu Zhiji (Damien Chaussende).

About the Author

Daniel Patrick Morgan is a researcher in the Laboratory SPHere (Sciences – Philosophie – Histoire) at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Université Paris Diderot / Panthéon Sorbonne, where he works on the history of the astral and mathematical sciences, sport, religion, historiography, classical studies, etc., in early imperial China. His recent book Astral Sciences in Early Imperial China: Observation, Sagehood and the Individual (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) explores similar issues surrounding Li Chunfeng (602–670) and the medieval historiography of ancient science. This is not what he thought that he would be doing when he grew up.
Damien Chaussende is a researcher in the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale (Paris, France) at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique. He works on the history of classical China, especially in the field of the writing of history. He publishedhis first book entitled Des Trois royaumes aux Jin : Légitimation du pouvoir impérial en Chine au IIIe siècle in 2010 (Paris, Les Belles Lettres), and translated from Chinese the inner chapters of Liu Zhiji’s Shitong (Traité de l’historien parfait. Chapitres intérieurs, texte présenté, traduit et annoté par D. Chaussende, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2014).