The Chinese Language in European Texts

Autor*innen

• Dinu Luca

Parameter

• 242 Seiten
• 9 Lesestunden

• Lehrbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften
• Universitätslehrbücher

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Einband: Hardcover