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  • Time and Language

    New Sinology and Chinese History

    by Ori Sela, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Joshua A. Fogel, Peter C. Perdue, Pingyi Chu, Theodore Huters, Peter Zarrow, Joan Judge0, Janet Y. Chen1, Marten Saarela2, Kang Xiaofei3 ...
    China’s past and present have been in a continuous dialogue throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time and language: the temporal orientation and the linguistic apparatus used to express and solidify identity, ideas, and practices. Presenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates the significance of “New ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Early Modern Travels of Manchu

    A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe

    by Mårten Söderblom Saarela ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    A linguistic and historical study of the Manchu script in the early modern worldManchu was a language first written down as part of the Qing state-building project in Northeast Asia in the early seventeenth century. After the Qing invasion of China in 1644, and for the next two and a half centuries, Manchu was the language of state in one of the early modern world's great powers. Its prominence ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • The Early Modern Travels of Manchu

    A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe

    by Mårten Söderblom Saarela ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    A linguistic and historical study of the Manchu script in the early modern worldManchu was a language first written down as part of the Qing state-building project in Northeast Asia in the early seventeenth century. After the Qing invasion of China in 1644, and for the next two and a half centuries, Manchu was the language of state in one of the early modern world's great powers. Its prominence ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China

    by He Bian, Mårten Söderblom Saarela ...
    Series Book 143 - Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
    As the territory of Qing China expanded, so evolved the ways in which birds, beasts, fish, trees, and flowers came to be known in the multilingual empire. The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China is the first systematic study of how the Qing court sought to codify Manchu and Chinese words for animals and plants throughout the eighteenth century, with a ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Language Diversity in the Sinophone World

    Historical Trajectories, Language Planning, and Multilingual Practices

    Edited by Henning Klöter, Mårten Söderblom Saarela ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Language Diversity in the Sinophone World offers interdisciplinary insights into social, cultural, and linguistic aspects of multilingualism in the Sinophone world, highlighting language diversity and opening up the burgeoning field of Sinophone studies to new perspectives from sociolinguistics.The book begins by charting historical trajectories in Sinophone multilingualism, beginning with late ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • Chinese Script

    History, Characters, Calligraphy

    by Thomas O. Höllmann ...
    Translated by Maximiliane Donicht ...
    In this brisk and accessible history, sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning the earliest epigraphs and oracle bones to writing and texting on computers and mobile phones today, Chinese Script is a wide-ranging and versatile introduction to the complexity and beauty ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages

    by Sanping Chen ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of East Asian civilization occurred during this period, although much of this multiculturalism has long ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Writing Early China

    by Edward L. Shaughnessy ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.Archaeological discoveries over the past one hundred years have resulted in repeated calls to "rewrite ancient Chinese history." This is especially true of documents written on oracle bones, bronze vessels, and bamboo strips. In Writing Early China, Edward L. Shaughnessy surveys all of these ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century

    Edited by Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova ...
    Series series Heritage
    This collection of essays reveals the dynamic role of the late Qing novel in the process of modernization of Chinese fiction. Substantial changes in various aspects of the Chinese novel at the turn of the century, demonstrated by structural analyses of several representative novels, suggest that the evolution of modern Chinese fiction was a more complex process than a simple imitation of Western ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Borders of Chinese Civilization

    Geography and History at Empire's End

    by Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi, Douglas Howland ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the Chinese used to portray Japan—the travel diary, poetry, and the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Chinese Literature

    by Taiping Chang Knechtges ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
    A Dictionary of Chinese Literature provides more than 250 entries on the lengthy and remarkable literary tradition of China, from its earliest literary genres such as the 6th century gongti wenxue (palace-style literature), to contemporary forms, such as wanglu wenxue (internet literature). Covering notable writers, works, terms, trends, schools, movements, styles, and literary collections, as ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Craft of Oblivion

    Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China

    by Albert Galvany ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.The Craft of Oblivion is an innovative and groundbreaking volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. Oblivion has tended to be relegated to a marginal position, often conceived as the mere destructive or ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD