The Chinese Language in European Texts
The Early Period
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Word Count
60,500 words, Guess
Page Count
242 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-101137512253
- ISBN-139781137512253
- OCLC Control Number942380468
- Better World Books9781137512253
- Open LibraryOL27959417M
Classifications
- LCCPJ305.2-489
- LCCPL2274.2.E85 D83 2016
Description
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.
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