Languages And Genes In Northwestern China And Adjacent Regions
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Languages And Genes In Northwestern China And Adjacent Regions
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Author : Dan Xu
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-05-05
Languages And Genes In Northwestern China And Adjacent Regions written by Dan Xu and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book presents an investigation of language contact, focusing on Northwestern China. It breaks down the barrier between human sciences and natural sciences in order to reconsider the diversity of languages on the basis of the latest research findings from genetics, linguistics, and other domains, offering valuable insights into when and how the divergence of languages and genes began and language and gene admixture and replacement occurred. The book focuses on language evolution between the border of Gansu and Qinghai Province in China, but the research doesn’t neglect the area beyond China’s northern borders. Manchu, a dying language belonging to the Tungusic group, is also studied to enhance our understanding of language replacement. This work is the result of a four-year collaboration between teams of geneticists and linguists in France and China.
The Tangwang Language
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Author : Dan Xu
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-23
The Tangwang Language written by Dan Xu and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-23 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book studies the Tangwang language, providing the first comprehensive grammar in English of this Chinese variety, with detailed analysis of its phonology, morphology, and syntax. This fills a gap in the literature, as previously only a few articles on this language were available. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, examining genetic data to determine historical patterns of population migration, as well as linguistic data that focus on the influence of the Dongxiang (Santa) language as a consequence of language contact on the Silk Road. The concluding chapter argues that Tangwang has not yet become a mixed language, and that syntactic borrowing has a stronger impact than lexical borrowing on languages.
The Routledge Handbook Of Asian Linguistics
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Author : Chris Shei
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-28
The Routledge Handbook Of Asian Linguistics written by Chris Shei and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-28 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which Asian languages should be conceptualized as a whole, the distinct characteristics of each language group, and the relationships and results of interactions between the languages and language families in Asia. Asia is the largest and the most populous continent on Earth, and the site of many of the first civilizations. This Handbook aims to provide a systematic overview of Asian languages in both theoretical and functional perspectives, optimally combining the two in intercultural settings. In other words, the text will provide a reference for researchers of individual Asian languages or language groups against the background of the entire range of Asian languages. Not only does the Handbook act as a reference to a particular language, it also connects each language to other Asian languages in the perspective of the entire Asian continent. Cultural roles and communicative functions of language are also emphasized as an important domain where the various Asian languages interact and shape each other. With extensive coverage of both theoretical and applied linguistic topics, The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics is an indispensable resource for students and researchers working in this area.
China Myth Or History
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Author : J.G. Cheock
language : en
Publisher: J.G. Cheock
Release Date : 2017-10-02
China Myth Or History written by J.G. Cheock and has been published by J.G. Cheock this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Art categories.
Viewing ancient China in world context, exploring the possibilities of international activities particularly in relation to the Philippines, during their classical dynasties based on the presence of abundant artifacts, ancient texts, and new archaeological discoveries.
The Invention Of China
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Author : Bill Hayton
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-13
The Invention Of China written by Bill Hayton and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with History categories.
A provocative account showing that “China”—and its 5,000 years of unified history—is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day China’s current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but “China” as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals. In this compelling account, Hayton shows how China’s present-day geopolitical problems—the fates of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea—were born in the struggle to create a modern nation-state. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reformers and revolutionaries adopted foreign ideas to “invent’ a new vision of China. By asserting a particular, politicized version of the past the government bolstered its claim to a vast territory stretching from the Pacific to Central Asia. Ranging across history, nationhood, language, and territory, Hayton shows how the Republic’s reworking of its past not only helped it to justify its right to rule a century ago—but continues to motivate and direct policy today.
The Sinitic Civilization Book I
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Author : Hong Yuan
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2018-10-27
The Sinitic Civilization Book I written by Hong Yuan and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-27 with Social Science categories.
The Sinitic Civilization A Factual History through the Lens of Archaeology, Bronzeware, Astronomy, Divination, Calendar and the Annals The book covered the time span of history of the Sinitic civilization from antiquity, to the 3rd millennium B.C. to A.D. 85. A comprehensive review of history related to the Sinitic cosmological, astronomical, astrological, historical, divinatory, and geographical developments was given. All ancient Chinese calendars had been examined, with the ancient thearchs’ dates examined from the perspective how they were forged or made up. The book provides the indisputable evidence regarding the fingerprint of the forger for the 3rd century A.D. book Shangshu (remotely ancient history), and close to 50 fingerprints of the forger of the contemporary version of The Bamboo Annals. Using the watershed line of Qin Emperor Shihuangdi’s book burning of 213 B.C., the book rectified what was the original history before the book burning, filtered out what was forged after the book burning, sorted out the sophistry and fables that were rampant just prior to the book burning, and validated the history against the records in the oracle bones, bronzeware, and bamboo slips. The book covers 95-98% and more of the contents in the two ancient history annals of The Spring Autumn Annals and The Bamboo Annals. There are dedicated chapters devoted to interpreting Qu Yuan’s poem Asking Heaven (Tian Wen), the mythical book The Legends of Mountains & Seas (Shan Hai Jing), geography book Lord Yu’s Tributes (Yu Gong), and Zhou King Muwang’s Travelogue (Mu-tian-zi Zhuan). The book has appendices of two calendars: the first anterior quarter remainder calendar (247 B.C.-104 B.C./247 B.C.-85 A.D.) of the Qin Empire, as well as a conversion table of the sexagenary years of the virtual Yin-li (Shang dynasty) quarter remainder calendar versus the Gregorian calendar, that covers the years 2698 B.C. to 2018 A.D. Book I stops about the midpoint of the 242 years covered in Confucius’ abridged book The Spring & Autumn Annals (722-481 B.C.). Book II stops at Han Emperor Zhangdi (Liu Da, reign A.D. 76-88; actual reign Aug of A.D. 75-Feb of A.D. 88), with the A.D. 85 adoption of the Sifen-li posterior quarter remainder calendar premised on reverting to the sexagenary years of the virtual Yin-li (Shang dynasty) quarter remainder calendar, a calendar disconnected from the Jupiter’s chronogram, that was purportedly invented by the Confucians on basis of Confucius’ identifying the ‘qi-lin’ divine giraffe animal and wrapping up the masterpiece The Spring & Autumn Annals two years prior to death.
Polyglot From The Far Side Of The Moon
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Author : Lauren F. Pfister
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-03-25
Polyglot From The Far Side Of The Moon written by Lauren F. Pfister and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-25 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Though recognized in the latter part of the 19th century as "the greatest Orientalist in Britain," the Geneva-born Anglican priest, Solomon Caesar Malan (1812–1894) was such an extraordinary person that he has defied any scholarly person to write a critical account of his life and works. Consequently, almost no one has written anything critically appreciative and insightful about him since his death. A polymath with extraordinary talent for languages and sketching, among other specialized skills, Malan focused much of his life on assessing biblical translations in ancient Middle Eastern and East Asian languages, while also producing English translations of alternative expressions of Christianity found in north Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. A life-long interest of his was comparing the proverbs of his name-sake, King Solomon, with proverbial wisdom from as many cultures and languages as he could find. That interest culminated in a three-volume work that enshrined his achievements realized through his capacities as a hyperpolyglot within the context of a search for shared wisdom across many cultures. In this volume, produced by a team of collaborators from a wide range of scholarly interests and varying expertise, we have presented a critically assessed account of the life and key works produced by Solomon Caesar Malan. In fact, it is the first work of its kind on Malan written since his death, now having occurred more than 125 years ago. Readers will journey through an itinerary that starts in Geneva before it became part of Switzerland, moves to Great Britain, and ultimately into one of the colleges in Oxford. Subsequently, it moves us into an exploration of the journey of his life that involved a huge range of places, people, and languages: starting in Calcutta, touching unusual figures from Hungary, India, and China. Those seminal experiences led Malan into studies of languages related to even more distant cultural worlds in Central, Southeastern, and East Asia. The historians among us have delved into Malan’s life in Calcutta, Geneva, and Dorsetshire, while others have explored the nature of his hyperpolyglossia, and tested the quality of his understanding of ancient literature in classical languages that include Chinese, Manchurian, Sanskrit and Tibetan. Notably, Malan’s personal library was so unique, that when he donated it to his alma mater at Oxford University, it became one of the major bibliographic precedents for what is now the Oriental Division in the Bodleian Libraries. Yet, when one follows the twists and turns of his life’s journey, and the surprises that occur from documenting the history and content of the Malan Library as well as critically analysing aspects of his opus magnum, Original Notes on the Book of Proverbs (1889–1893), we believe both general readers and scholarly specialists will be entranced.
The Sinitic Civilization Book Ii
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Author : Hong Yuan
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2018-11-14
The Sinitic Civilization Book Ii written by Hong Yuan and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-14 with Social Science categories.
The Sinitic Civilization A Factual History through the Lens of Archaeology, Bronzeware, Astronomy, Divination, Calendar and the Annals The book covered the time span of history of the Sinitic civilization from antiquity, to the 3rd millennium B.C. to A.D. 85. A comprehensive review of history related to the Sinitic cosmological, astronomical, astrological, historical, divinatory, and geographical developments was given. All ancient Chinese calendars had been examined, with the ancient thearchs' dates examined from the perspective how they were forged or made up. The book provides the indisputable evidence regarding the fingerprint of the forger for the 3rd century A.D. book Shang-shu (remotely ancient history), and close to 50 fingerprints of the forger of the contemporary version of The Bamboo Annals. Using the watershed line of Qin Emperor Shihuangdi's book burning of 213 B.C., the book rectified what was the original history before the book burning, filtered out what was forged after the book burning, sorted out the sophistry and fables that were rampant just prior to the book burning, and validated the history against the records in the oracle bones, bronzeware, and bamboo slips. The book covers 95-98% and more of the contents in the two ancient history annals of The Spring Autumn Annals and The Bamboo Annals. There are dedicated chapters devoted to interpreting Qu Yuan's poem Asking Heaven (Tian Wen), the mythical book The Legends of Mountains & Seas (Shan Hai Jing), geography book Lord Yu's Tributes (Yu Gong), and Zhou King Muwang's Travelogue (Mu-tian-zi Zhuan). The book has appendices of two calendars: the first anterior quarter remainder calendar (247 B.C.-104 B.C./247 B.C.-85 A.D.) of the Qin Empire, as well as a conversion table of the sexagenary years of the virtual Yin-li (Shang dynasty) quarter remainder calendar versus the Gregorian calendar, that covers the years 2698 B.C. to 2018 A.D. Book I stops about the midpoint of the 242 years covered in Confucius' abridged book The Spring & Autumn Annals (722-481 B.C.). Book II stops at Han Emperor Zhangdi (Liu Da, reign A.D. 76-88; actual reign Aug of A.D. 75-Feb of A.D. 88), with the A.D. 85 adoption of the Sifen-li posterior quarter remainder calendar premised on reverting to the sexagenary years of the virtual Yin-li (Shang dynasty) quarter remainder calendar, a calendar disconnected from the Jupiter's chronogram, that was purportedly invented by the Confucians on basis of Confucius' identifying the 'qi-lin' divine giraffe animal and wrapping up the masterpiece The Spring & Autumn Annals two years prior to death.
Ethnic History And Language Typology In Western China
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Author : Nathan Loggins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Ethnic History And Language Typology In Western China written by Nathan Loggins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
The following dissertation examines the language history of areas historically lying along the China-Tibet frontier, namely Amdo, Kham and the Dali region of northwest Yunnan. It draws from a wide and diverse literature related to descriptive and theoretical linguistics, ethnology of the many peoples in the region and historical scholarship concerning their settlement and encounters with the Chinese State and Han from roughly the Han era to the early 20th century. More specifically, this dissertation takes at its core three case studies on local languages: the Xining dialect of Chinese in Qinghai, the Daohua language of Yajiang County in western Sichuan, and the Bai language spoken by the Bai people in Dali. Besides being spoken in geographically adjacent regions, along the largely autonomous borders of the Chinese empire, these languages have in common that they draw a majority of their lexicon from Sinitic, and all have been variously described as creoles, mixed languages, or as varieties of Sinitic by different linguists examining their lexicons and grammatical structures. This study attempts to reconcile those differing viewpoints, while at the same time compiling the relevant descriptive information about each language’s historical, ethnic, and linguistic environment. All three are a product of their specific settings, and what gives each language its particular flavor is precisely the way it has incorporated non-Sinitic elements (or been constituted from them) into its phonological, morphosyntactic and lexical profile. Judging from the accumulated evidence, the conclusions here are that Xining appears to be one of several regional Sinitic varieties, restructured via contact by its multilingual setting, while Daohua appears more like a classic mixed language, and Bai a historically Tibeto-Burman language. More generally, this dissertation broadly examines several linguistic questions relevant to hypothesizing the origins, development and classification of each language, including those related to the formation of language areas, the typology of contact-based languages and their relationship to genetic language families, and issues of relative complexity in language contact settings. It also pursues historical questions concerning possible avenues for language contact to have occurred in Amdo, Kham and Dali, and how potential conclusions are complicated by historically shifting and fluid ethnic affiliations. To this end, drawing together a broad range of published sources, the text provides historical overviews, linguistic descriptions of over a dozen Sino-Tibetan and Altaic languages, and contextualized accounts of the focal languages in the case study chapters. In calling for more holistic treatments of language history couched in ethno-historical reality, the ultimate conclusions and analyses presented here bear on the nature and applicability of typological and genetic classification, the goals of historical linguistic methodology, and the implication for using linguistics in other disciplines, such as historical and ethnological studies.
Space And Quantification In Languages Of China
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Author : Dan Xu
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-24
Space And Quantification In Languages Of China written by Dan Xu and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-24 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This volume provides general linguists with new data and analysis on languages spoken in China regarding various aspects of space and quantification, using different approaches. Contributions by researchers from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe, the United States and Australia offer insights on aspects of language ranging from phonology and morphology to syntax and semantics, while the approaches vary from formal, historical, areal, typological, and cognitive linguistics to second language acquisition. After separate volumes on space and quantification in languages of China, the studies in this volume combine space and quantification to allow readers a view of the intersection of the two topics. Each article contributes to general linguistic knowledge while discussing a particular aspect of space or quantification in a particular language/dialect, offering new data and analysis from languages that are spoken in the same geographical area, and that belong to various language families that exist and evolve in close contact with one another.