The Chinese Language In European Texts
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The Chinese Language In European Texts
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Author : Dinu Luca
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-08-19
The Chinese Language In European Texts written by Dinu Luca and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This detailed, chronological study investigates the rise of the European fascination with the Chinese language up to 1615. By meticulously investigating a wide range of primary sources, Dinu Luca identifies a rhetorical continuum uniting the land of the Seres, Cathay, and China in a tropology of silence, vision, and writing. Tracing the contours of this tropology, The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period offers close readings of language-related contexts in works by classical authors, medieval travelers, and Renaissance cosmographers, as well as various merchants, wanderers, and missionaries, both notable and lesser-known. What emerges is a clear and comprehensive understanding of early European ideas about the Chinese language and writing system.
Europe Studies China
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Author : Ming Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Europe Studies China written by Ming Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with China categories.
Languages Scripts And Chinese Texts In East Asia
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Author : Peter Francis Kornicki
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-19
Languages Scripts And Chinese Texts In East Asia written by Peter Francis Kornicki and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-19 with History categories.
Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the reader from the early centuries of the common era, when the Chinese script was the only form of writing and Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and medical texts spread throughout East Asia, through the centuries when vernacular scripts evolved, right up to the end of the nineteenth century when nationalism created new roles for vernacular languages and vernacular scripts. Through an examination of oral approaches to Chinese texts, it shows how highly-valued Chinese texts came to be read through the prism of the vernaculars and ultimately to be translated. This long process has some parallels with vernacularization in Europe, but a crucial difference is that literary Chinese was, unlike Latin, not a spoken language. As a consequence, people who spoke different East Asian vernaculars had no means of communicating in speech, but they could communicate silently by means of written conversation in literary Chinese; a further consequence is that within each society Chinese texts assumed vernacular garb: in classes and lectures, Chinese texts were read and declaimed in the vernaculars. What happened in the nineteenth century and why are there still so many different scripts in East Asia? How and why were Chinese texts dethroned, and what replaced them? These are some of the questions addressed in Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia.
Chinese Literature
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Author : Richard John Lynn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Chinese Literature written by Richard John Lynn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Literary Criticism categories.
Notes On Chinese Literature
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Author : Alexander Wylie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Notes On Chinese Literature written by Alexander Wylie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with China categories.
The Birth Of Twentieth Century Chinese Literature
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Author : Yu Gao
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-09
The Birth Of Twentieth Century Chinese Literature written by Yu Gao and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This study makes a linguistic case for the twentieth century revolution in Chinese language and literature. It offers a history of reform and change in the Chinese language throughout the country’s history, and focuses on the concept of ‘baihua’, a language reform movement championed by Hu Shi and other scholars which laid the foundation for the May fourth New Literature Movement, the larger New Culture Movement and which now defines modern Chinese. Examining the differences between classical and modern Chinese language systems alongside an investigation into the relevance and impact of translation in this language revolution - notably addressing the pivotal role of May Fourth leader Lu Xun - this book provides a rare insight into the evolution of the Chinese language and those who championed its development.
Notes On Chinese Literature
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Author : A. Wylie
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-17
Notes On Chinese Literature written by A. Wylie and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-17 with History categories.
Excerpt from Notes on Chinese Literature: With Introductory Remarks on the Progressive Advancement of the Art; And a List of Translations From the Chinese Into Various European Languages Most students of Chinese literature, at the commencement of their career, must have felt themselves frequently arrested in their readings, by the occurrence of proper names, and quotations from books, to which they could find no clue without the assistance of a native scholar; and it may be, were unconscious of the fact that they were dealing with the names of books, persons or places. To furnish the means of alleviating, if not of overcoming such a difficulty, is one of the main objects of the following pages. The ground it is true is not altogether unoccupied; several works have appeared from time to time on Chinese Bibliography; but they have been so limited in the extent of their subject, or are now become so rare, that the present treatise can scarcely be deemed superfluous, or a mere repetition of what has been done before. The "Catalogus librorum bibliothecæ regiæ Sinicorum," is a complete list by Fourmont, of the Chinese books in the Royal Library at Paris, with copious explanatory details; containing much information doubtless, but so full of errors as to make it a very unsafe guide to the uninitiated. It is appended to his "Linguæ Sinarum Grammatica," pp. 343-511, and was issued at Paris in 1742. This work has been charged, and justly so, with numerous and glaring defects; but if we consider the state of Chinese studies in Europe when the author wrote, before the publication of the "Memoires" of the missionaries, or De Mailla's translation of Chinese History, and with scarcely any of the numerous aids that later students have enjoyed, we have reason rather to wonder at what he was able to accomplish, and that he did it so well. Sir John F. Davis tells us indeed, "that Fourmont merely compiled the materials which were sent to him by the French missionaries." That Fourmont was chiefly indebted to the missionaries, for what progress he was able to make in the language, seems most probable; but that a man could issue a large tome like his folio Grammar and "Meditationes Sinicæ," without some pretention to a knowledge of the language, is difficult to believe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Translations From The Manchu With The Original Texts Prefaced By An Essay On The Language
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Author : Thomas Taylor MEADOWS
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1849
Translations From The Manchu With The Original Texts Prefaced By An Essay On The Language written by Thomas Taylor MEADOWS and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1849 with categories.
Notes On Chinese Literature With Introductory Remarks On The Progressive Advancement Of Art And A List Of Translations From The Chinese Into Various European Languages
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Author : Alexander Wylie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Notes On Chinese Literature With Introductory Remarks On The Progressive Advancement Of Art And A List Of Translations From The Chinese Into Various European Languages written by Alexander Wylie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with categories.
Notes On Chinese Literature
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Author : A. Wylie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1922
Notes On Chinese Literature written by A. Wylie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1922 with categories.