UID:
almahu_9947409114002882
Format:
XVI, 242 p. 8 illus. in color.
,
online resource.
ISBN:
9781137502919
Series Statement:
Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
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:
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.
In:
Springer eBooks
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781137512253
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-50291-9
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50291-9
