The Chinese Language in European Texts

The Early Period
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-51225-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4401 g

Reihe: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luca, Dinu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dinu Luca is Assistant Professor of European Cultures at National Taiwan Normal University, USA.