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Ideography and Chinese Language Theory : a History.

This book is a much-needed scholarly intervention and postcolonial corrective that examines why and when and how misunderstandings of Chinese writing came about and showcases the long history of Chinese theories of language. 'Ideography' as such assumes extra-linguistic, trans-historical,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Neill, Timothy Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.
Colección:Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l'Extrême Orient.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Table of Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Egyptian Hieroglyphic and Chinese Characters ; Chapter 1: Platonism and the Strong Theory ; Chapter 2: Aristotelianism and the Soft Theory ; Chapter 3: Hellenized Egypt, Pythagoreanism, and the Primitivist Theory.
  • Chapter 4: Patristic Apologetics and the Scriptural Theory Chapter 5: Neoplatonism and the Hermetic Theory ; Chapter 6: Universals and the Scholastic Theory ; Chapter 7: Renaissance Neoplatonism and the Emblematic Theory ; Chapter 8: Athanasius Kircher on Egyptian and Chinese Ideography.