The Chinese language in European texts: the early period

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 sil...

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1. Verfasser: Luca, Dinu (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Palgrave Macmillan [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Chinese literature and culture in the world
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 242 pages) Illustrations
ISBN:9781137502919
DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-50291-9

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