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The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period (Chinese Literature and Culture in the World) - Hardcover

Book 6 of 15: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World

Luca, Dinu

 
9781137512253: The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period (Chinese Literature and Culture in the World)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1137512253 ISBN 13: 9781137512253
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

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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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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1137512253
ISBN 13 
9781137512253
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
258