Format:
xvi, 242 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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21 cm
Edition:
1st ed. 2015
ISBN:
9781137512253
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1137512253
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9781137502919
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1137502916
Series Statement:
Chinese literature and culture in the world
Content:
Introduction: Entering the Language Continuum -- 1. Silence, Script, and "New Understandings" -- 2. Figures, Hieroglyphs, and Ciphers,- 3. Ships, Bricks, and the Majesty of Writing: The New Century -- Conclusion
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 30, 2016)
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Introduction: Entering the Language Continuum
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1. Silence, Script, and “New Understandings”
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2. Figures, Hieroglyphs, and Ciphers,- 3. Ships, Bricks, and the Majesty of Writing: The New Century
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Conclusion
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137502919 (eBook)
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
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Reisebericht
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Chinesisch
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Chinesische Schrift
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Faszination
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Geschichte 43-1615
URL:
http://www.springer.com/
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