书名：The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China / 文字的风景：中国古代早期到中期的文字石刻  
定价：420.0  
ISBN：9780295987286  
作者：Jr. Robert E. Harrist  
版次：1  

内容提要：  

书名：The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China 文字的风景：中国古代早期到中期的文字石刻

作者：韩文彬 Robert E. Harrist Jr.

出版：University of Washington Press, 2008

装帧：精装，424页

开本：32开

语种：英文

直到公元一世纪左右，中国人才开始广泛使用石头作为书写媒介——比埃及、近东、希腊和罗马等古代文明要晚。但到了二十世纪，中国的石刻数量居世界之冠。本书是第一部专门研究摩崖石刻的专著。摩崖石刻文字多笔锋粗犷，无数枚石刻构成了两千多年来不断扩大的庞大文本库，也形成一种重要的公共艺术形式。

韩文彬在本书中提出，摩崖石刻将自然山水风景作为文字铭刻的媒介。游客不是仅仅简单地爬上刻有铭文的山峰，还要阅读其上镌刻的文字，书面文字媒介从而将地理环境转化为具有意识形态和宗教意义的景观。本书主要篇幅研究汉朝和两晋时期的摩崖石刻，从而说明铭文的意义取决于文字如何适应地形环境。韩文彬跨越艺术史、政治史、文学史及宗教研究，对重要的摩崖石刻遗址进行了详细的案例研究，如陕西的石门隧道、山东的云峰山、铁山和泰山。这些碑文的文字体裁、内容和形式不尽相同，包括诗歌、佛经、记录皇家仪式等等。

本书荣获亚洲研究协会（Association for Asian Studies）的列文森图书奖。

Winner of the Levenson Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies

Shortlisted for the 2009 ICAS Book Award

Silk and bamboo are easily ruined,
But metal and stone are hard to destroy.

Placed on a high mountain

[The writing] will be passed down without limit.

- from Stone Eulogy, Mount Tie

To look at the mountains is like gazing at a painting, and roaming in the mountains is like reading history.

- Chen Yuanlong (1652-1736), commentary on inscriptions in and near Longyin Cave, Guilin

In this fascinating and meticulously researched book on the Chinese landscape as a medium for literary inscription, Robert E. Harrist Jr. focuses on the period prior to the eighth century C.E. to demonstrate that the significance of inscriptions on stone embedded in nature depends on the interaction of words with topography. Visitors do not simply climb inscribed mountains, they read them, as the medium of the written word has transformed geological formations into landscapes of ideological and religious significance.

The widespread use of stone as a medium for writing did not begin in China until around the first century C.E. - later than in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome - but by the twentieth century, more inscriptions had been carved in natural stone in China than anywhere else in the world. The Landscape of Words is the first study in a Western language devoted to these texts, moya or moya shike, carved into the natural terrain on granite boulders and cliffs at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest. Like the writing system itself, moya are one of the distinguishing features of Chinese civilization. Carved in large, bold characters, they constitute a vast repository of texts produced continuously for more than two thousand years and are an important form of public art.

Harrist draws on insights from the fields of art history, social and political history, literature, and religion to present detailed case studies of important moya sites, such as the Stone Gate tunnel in Shaanxi and Cloud Peak Mountain, Mount Tie, and Mount Tai in Shangdong. The inscriptions analyzed represent a range of literary genres and content, including poetry, Buddhist sutras, records of imperial rituals, and commemorations of virtuous conduct in public life.