Sound And Script In Chinese Diaspora
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Sound And Script In Chinese Diaspora
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Author : Jing Tsu
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-15
Sound And Script In Chinese Diaspora written by Jing Tsu and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-15 with Social Science categories.
What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself? Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical battles over the control of the medium through standardization, technology, bilingualism, pronunciation, and literature in the Sinophone world. Encounters between global languages, as well as the internal tensions between Mandarin and other Chinese dialects, present a dynamic, interconnected picture of languages on the move. In Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, Jing Tsu explores the new global language trade, arguing that it aims at more sophisticated ways of exerting influence besides simply wielding knuckles of power. Through an analysis of the different relationships between language standardization, technologies of writing, and modern Chinese literature around the world from the nineteenth century to the present, this study transforms how we understand the power of language in migration and how that is changing the terms of cultural dominance. Drawing from an unusual array of archival sources, this study cuts across the usual China-West divide and puts its finger on the pulse of a pending supranational world under “literary governance.”
Global Chinese Literature
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Author : Jing Tsu
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-09-14
Global Chinese Literature written by Jing Tsu and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This path-breaking collection of critical essays introduces a diverse range of approaches to open up the field of modern Chinese literature to new cross-regional, local, and global analyses. Each of the ten essays deals with a particular conceptual problem or case study of different locations and modalities of Chinese-language, or Sinophone, production. From language to music, literature to popular culture, minority politics to internal diaspora, theories of sinography to China's quest for the Nobel Prize, this volume brings together leading and new voices in the study of Chinese literature from a variety of comparative and intranational perspectives. Contributors include scholars from Asia, North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. It is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in contemporary China and the global politics of Sinophone literature. ``This thought-provoking anthology has opened up many fascinating questions. Although its intended readership is scholars from literary studies, anyone who is interested in the interplay between language, ethnicity and identity should not miss it.`` Zhengdao Ye, The Australian National University
Seeing Stars
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Author : Dennis J. Frost
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010
Seeing Stars written by Dennis J. Frost and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Preliminary Material -- Sports Celebrity in Japan: A Transnational History -- Saving Sumo: Re-Presenting the National Sport -- The Making of a Self-Made Star: Celebrity Images and the Emergence of a Sports-Star Paradigm -- "So, Your Daughter Is a Sportsman": Gender Anxiety and Nationalism in the Golden Age of Sports -- "Japan's Number One" Goes to War: Baseball, Militarization, and Memory -- Becoming the Kanmuriwashi: Ethnicity, Narrativity, and "Spectacular Difference" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.
The Culture Of Language In Ming China
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Author : Nathan Vedal
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2022-04-13
The Culture Of Language In Ming China written by Nathan Vedal and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Winner, 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China (1368–1644) is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century. He explores the collaboration of Confucian classicists and Buddhist monks, opera librettists and cosmological theorists, who joined forces in the pursuit of a universal theory of language. Drawing on a wide range of overlooked scholarly texts, literary commentaries, and pedagogical materials, Vedal examines how Ming scholars positioned the study of language within an interconnected nexus of learning. He argues that for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers, the boundaries among the worlds of classicism, literature, music, cosmology, and religion were far more fluid and porous than they became later. In the eighteenth century, Qing thinkers pared away these other fields from linguistic learning, creating a discipline focused on corroborating the linguistic features of ancient texts. Documenting a major transformation in knowledge production, this book provides a framework for rethinking global early modern intellectual developments. It offers a powerful alternative to the conventional understanding of late imperial Chinese intellectual history by focusing on the methods of scholarly practice and the boundaries by which contemporary thinkers defined their field of study.
Dear China
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Author : Gregor Benton
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-07-24
Dear China written by Gregor Benton and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-24 with History categories.
Qiaopi is one of several names given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times. Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions’ socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.
Slow Boat To China And Other Stories
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Author : Jinshu Huang
language : en
Publisher: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
Release Date : 2016
Slow Boat To China And Other Stories written by Jinshu Huang and has been published by Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Electronic book categories.
Ng Kim Chew's stories are raw, rural, and rich with the traditions of his native Malaysia. They are also full of humor and spirit, demonstrating a deep appreciation for human ingenuity in the face of poverty, oppression, and exile. Ng Kim Chew creatively captures the riot of cultures that roughly coexist on the Malay Peninsula. In prose that is intimate and atmospheric, these stories depict the struggles of individuals torn between their ancestral and adoptive homes.
Sinophone Southeast Asia
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Author : Tom Hoogervorst
language : en
Publisher: Chinese Overseas
Release Date : 2021
Sinophone Southeast Asia written by Tom Hoogervorst and has been published by Chinese Overseas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Social Science categories.
"This volume explores the diverse linguistic landscape of Southeast Asia's Chinese communities. Based on archival research and previously unpublished linguistic fieldwork, it unearths a wide variety of language histories, linguistic practices, and trajectories of words. The localized and often marginalized voices we bring to the spotlight are quickly disappearing in the wake of standardization and homogenization, yet they tell a story that is uniquely Southeast Asian in its rich hybridity. Our comparative scope and focus on language, analysed in tandem with history and culture, adds a refreshing dimension to the broader field of Sino-Southeast Asian Studies"--
Chinese Grammatology
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Author : Yurou Zhong
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-12
Chinese Grammatology written by Yurou Zhong and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-12 with Foreign Language Study categories.
For nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. In Chinese Grammatology, Yurou Zhong traces the origins, transmutations, and containment of this script revolution to provide a groundbreaking account of its formative effects on Chinese literature and culture and lasting implications.
The Xinjiang Conflict
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Author : Arienne M. Dwyer
language : en
Publisher: East-West Center
Release Date : 2005
The Xinjiang Conflict written by Arienne M. Dwyer and has been published by East-West Center this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Meticulous renderings depict 9 dolls and 46 authentic costumes, including work clothes, winter wear, wedding outfits, more. Broad-brimmed, elaborately decorated hats and leg o' mutton sleeves for the women, derbies, walking canes, starched collars for the men. Descriptive notes.
A Billion Voices
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Author : David Moser
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Release Date : 2016-05-23
A Billion Voices written by David Moser and has been published by Penguin Group Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the boundaries of language reform. Now, Internet users take the Chinese language in new and unpredictable directions. David Moser tells the remarkable story of China's language unification agenda and its controversial relationship with modern politics, challenging our conceptions of what it means to speak and be Chinese. 'If you want to know what the language situation of China is on the ground and in the trenches, and you only have time to read one book, this is it. A veritable tour de force, in just a little over a hundred pages, David Moser has filled this brilliant volume with linguistic, political, historical, and cultural data that are both reliable and enlightening. Written with captivating wit and exacting expertise, A Billion Voices is a masterpiece of clear thinking and incisive exposition.' Victor H. Mair, American sinologist, professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Columbia History of Chinese Literature 'David Moser explains the complex aspects of Putonghua against the backdrop of history, delivering the information with authority and simplicity in a style accessible both to speakers of Chinese and those who are simply fascinated by the language. All of the questions that people have asked me about Chinese over the years, and more, are answered in this book. The history of Putonghua and the vital importance of creating a common language is a story David Moser brings to life in an enjoyable way.' Laszlo Montgomery, The China History Podcast