Constance Cook

Selected Publications:

BOOKS:

Authored:

2023    Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia: A View from Excavated Texts. Ed. E. Brindley & R. Flad. Cambridge Elements Series; Ancient East Asia. UK: Cambridge University. Open Access.

2021    Dice and Gods on the Silk Road: Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination and Its Transcultural Context. With Brandon Dotson and Zhao Lu. Leiden: Brill. Open Access.

2017   Birth in Ancient China: A Study of Metaphor and Cultural Identity in Pre-imperial China. With Luo Xinhui. State University of New York.

2017    Stalk Divination: A Newly Discovered Alternative to the I Ching. With Zhao Lu. Oxford University Press.

2017    Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao. Harvard University Asian Center.

2016    Ancient China: A History. With J. Major. Routledge Press. Open Access.

2006    Death in Ancient China: The Tale of One Man’s Journey. Leiden: Brill Press. Open Access.

Edited:

2024  Metaphors and Meaning: Thinking about Early China with Sarah Allan. Ed. with Susan Blader and Christopher Foster. Albany: State University of New York.

2024  Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan. Ed. with Susan Blader and Christopher Foster. Albany: State University of New York.

2024  Myth and the Making of History: Narrating Early China with Sarah Allan. Ed. with Susan Blader and Christopher Foster. Albany: State University of New York.

2020   A Sourcebook of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions. Ed. & written with P. Goldin. Society for the Study of Early China Monograph 7. 2016. Revised version SSEC Monograph 8.

1999   Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China. Ed. & written with J. Major, University of Hawaii Press.

Chapters in Books:

2024  “Exorcism and the Spirit Turtle.” In C. Cook, Susan Blader and Christopher Foster, eds. Metaphors and Meaning: Thinking about Early China with Sarah Allan. Albany: State University of New York,117-146.

2023  "周代'明心'：一種統治工具 [Zhou Enlightenment as a Government Tool]." In Li Feng and Shi Jingsong, eds. Zhang Changshou and Cheng Gongrou Memorial Volume 张长寿、陈公柔先生纪念文集. Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute for Archaeology, 490-503.

2022  “Divination in BCE China according to Newly-Recovered and Excavated Texts: an Overview.” In Michael Lackner and Zhao Lu, eds. Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China: Part 1: Introduction to the Field of Chinese Prognostication. Leiden: Brill, 61-122.

2022  with Andrea Bréard. “Stalk and Other Divination Traditions Prior to the Changes Canon: Views from Newly Discovered Texts.” In Hon Tze-ki ed. The Other Yijing: Alternative Visions and Practices. Leiden: Brill, 23-68.

2021   with Cai Lili 蔡丽利,  “Guanyu ‘xin’ zai Han yiqian chutu wenxian zhong suo biaoshi de shenti buwei ji qi neihan bianhua de yanjiu” 关于“心”在汉以前出土文献中所表示的身体部位及其内涵变化的研究 [changes in the role of the “heart” in pre-Han texts] in Qinghua Daxue chutu wenxian yanjiu yu baohu zhongxin清华大学出土文献研究与保护中心 ed., Banbu xueshu shi, yiwei Li xiansheng—Li Xueqin xiansheng xueshu chengjiu yu xueshu sixiang guoji yantaohui lun wenji半部学术史,一位李先生—李学勤先生学术成就与学术思想国际研讨会论文集. Shanghai: Zhongxi, 2021, 883-894.

2021   “Zhanbu wenshu zhong de Chu wenhua yinsu: jiyu Qinghua jian Shifa he Beida jian Jingjue de bijiao yanjiu” 占卜书中的楚文化因素—基于清华简《筮法》和北大简《荆诀》的比较研究 [Chu cultural factors in Divination as seen from the Tsinghua Stalk Divination and the Beijing Tricks of Jing bamboo manuscripts]. Xu Shaohua, ed., Chu wenhua yu Changjiang zhongyou zaoqi kaifa 楚文化与长江中游早期开发. Wuhan University, 233-242.           

2020  “The Role of Female Trigrams in the Fourth Century BCE Stalk Divination text, Shifa 筮法.” In S. Chan, ed. Rediscovering Early China: Perspectives from the Recovered Ancient Texts. Sydney: The Oriental Society of Australia, 241-261.

2020    “Rites and mortuary practices (inscriptions and texts).” In E. Childs-Johnson, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Early China. Section V, No. 19. Oxford University, 436-450.

2019    “Which comes first? Dao or De: Evidence from Guodian Manuscripts.” S. Chan, ed. Dao Companion to the Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts. Springer. 117-138.

2019   “Contextualizing ‘Becoming a Complete Person’ in the Tang zai Chimen.” In Li Xueqin, Sarah Allan, and Michael Lüdke, eds. “Qinghua daxue cang Zhanguo zhujian (wu) guoji xueshu yantaoyui lunwenji” [Collected Essays from the International Academic Seminar on Vol. 5 of the Warring States bamboo manuscripts stored at Tsinghua University]. Qinghua jian yanjiu 清華簡研究 3 (2019): 183-193.

2016  “Birth during the Shang and the Beginning of the Chu People: Interrogating the Warring States period bamboo text: the “Chu Ju” 楚居.” In Chen Guangyu 陳光宇and Song Zhenhao 宋鎮豪,eds. Jiaguwen yu Yin Shang shi (di liu ji)---Luogese Shangdai yu Zhongguo shanggu wenming guoji huiyi lunwen zhuanji甲骨文與殷商史（新六輯）——羅格斯商代與中國上古文明國際會議論文專輯. Shanghai guji, 2016, 248-266.

2013    “Pre-Han Healing.” In T.J. Hinrichs & Linda L. Barnes, eds. Chinese Medicine and Healing An Illustrated History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 5-29.

2011   “Education and the Way of the Former Kings.” In Li Feng & D. Branner, eds. Literacy in Ancient China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 302-336.

2009  “Ancestor worship during the Eastern Zhou.” In J. Lagerwey & M. Kalinowski, eds., Early Chinese Religion: Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD). Leiden: Brill, 237-79.

2007    “Ritual, Politics, and the Issue of feng 封.” In Wuhan University Historical Geography Research Center, ed. Shi Quan jiaoshou jiushi danchen jinian wenji [Memorial volume in honor of Prof. Shi Quan’s Ninetieth Birthday]. Wuhan: Hubei renmin, 215-67.

2005    “Moonshine and Millet: Feasting and Purification Rituals in Ancient China.” In Roel Sterckx, ed. Of Tripod and Palate: Food and Religion in Traditional China. New York: Palgrave, 9-33.

ARTICLES:

Refereed:

Submitted, “Manuscripts & Matters of the Heart in Early China.” Special Issue planned in honor of Nathan Sivin. M. Hanson, ed. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine TBA

2024  "The Tricks of Jing (Jingjue 荆決): The beginnings of Jue 決/訣 as an epistemic genre." International Journal of Divination and Prognostication 5. TBA 

2023  “The First Documented Experience of Qi and an Account of Healing Failure: 4^th Century BCE.” Chinese Medicine and Culture. Marta Hanson & Asaf Goldschmidt, editors. Featured article in the special issue: Narrative Medicine in China. Open Access: https://journals.lww.com/cmc/Abstract/9900/_The_First_Documented_Experi…

2021   “Thinking about the Physical Heart (xin 心) in Pre-Qin Bamboo Texts.” Qinghua jian yanjiu 清華簡研究4 (2021): 191-198.

2020    Andrea Bréard & C. A. Cook. “Cracking bones and numbers: solving the enigma of numerical sequences on ancient Chinese artifacts.” Archive for History of Exact Sciences 74 (2020): 313-343. Online Dec. 2019. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00407-019-00245-9
This article was reviewed in ZBMath Open https://www.zbmath.org/?q=an%3A1447.01004

2017    “A Fatal Case of Gu 蠱 Poisoning in the Fourth Century BC?” East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 44 (2016): 61-122.

2017   “Mother and the Embodiment of the Dao.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 42 (March-June 2015) 1-2: 242-49.

2016    “Shiyong Qinghuajian ‘Shifa’ jiedu Baoshan zhanbu jilu zhong gua yi”試用清華簡《筮法》解讀包山占卜記錄中卦義. Jianbo yanjiu 2016: 12-22.

2015    “Sun zhi sui” 巽之祟. Wen Shi Zhe 文史哲2015.6: 66-72, 165.

2015    “Mu yu Dao de juxiang” 母与道的具象. Guanzi xuekan 管子学刊 2015.1: 80-82.

2013    “Wenben yu zhi yi, sheng yu xing” 文本與岐義,‘生’與‘性.’ Jianbo, gudian, gushi 簡帛。古典。故事. Chen Zhi, ed.  Shanghai: Shnghai guji, 329-344.

2013    “Chu xianzu de dansheng gushi” 楚先祖的誕生故事. Xian Qin shi yanjiu dongtai 先秦史研究動態 2013.2: 28-45. Revised version in Luo Yunhuan, ed. Chu jian Chu wenhua yu xian Qin lishi wenhua guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwenji 楚簡楚文化與先秦歷史文化國際敘述研討會論文集. Wuhan: Hubei jiaoyu, 2013, 134-155.      

2013   “The Ambiguity of Text, Birth and Nature.” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 12 (June 2013) 2: 161-178.

2012-2013 “Sage King Yu & the Bin Gong xu.” Early China 35 (2012-2013): 69-103.

2006    “From Bone to Bamboo: Number Sets and Mortuary Ritual.” Journal of Oriental Studies 41 (2006) 1: 1-40.

1998    “Myth and Fragments of a Qin Yi text: A Research Note and Translation.” Journal of Chinese Religions 26 (1998): 135-143.

1997    “Wealth and the Western Zhou.” The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60 (1997) 2: 253-294.

1996    “Scribes, Cooks, and Artisans: Breaking Zhou Tradition.” Early China 20 (1995-96): 241-277.

1995   “Spring and Autumn Period (Eight to Fifth centuries BCE).” In "Chinese Religions: State of the Field.” Ed. by Daniel Overmeyer. Journal of Asian Studies 54 (Feb. 1995) 4: 12-14.

1994    “Three High Gods of Chu.” Journal of Chinese Religions 22 (Fall 1994): 1-22.

1993    “Myth and Authenticity: Deciphering the Chu Gong Ni Bell Inscription.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 113 (1993) 4: 539-550.

1986    with Patricia Sieber "Orpheus and the Revengeful Ghost: A Comparison of Rilke and Feng Zhi." Phi Theta Papers 17 (1986): 59-69.