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Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000-1919 /

This volume presents a new conceptual framework that recognizes that in East Asia the literary and vernacular registers historically interacted and influenced each other as part of a unified, if hybrid, language system that was mastered by Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Vietnamese according to thei...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Elman, Benjamin A., 1946- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : BRILL, [2014]
Colección:Sinica Leidensia ; v. 115.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contributors; Introduction: Languages in East and South Asia, 1000-1919; Benjamin A. Elman; The Vernacularization of Buddhist Texts: From the Tangut Empire to Japan; Peter Kornicki; The Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge, and the Politics of Language in Early Chosŏn Korea; Wang Sixiang; Rebooting the Vernacular in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam; John D. Phan; Mediating the Literary Classics: Commentary and Translation in Premodern Japan; Haruo Shirane; The Languages of Medical Knowledge in Tokugawa Japan; Daniel Trambaiolo.
  • The Manchu Script and Information Management: Some Aspects of Qing China's Great Encounter with Alphabetic LiteracyMårten Söderblom Saarela; Unintended Consequences of Classical Literacies for the Early Modern Chinese Civil Examinations; Benjamin A. Elman; Competing "Languages": "Sound" in the Orthographic Reforms of Early Meiji Japan; Atsuko Ueda; Writing and Speech: Rethinking the Issue of Vernaculars in Early Modern China; Shang Wei; Index.