Bulletin The Museum Of Far Eastern Antiquities

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Genre : China
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Release : 1942
File : 814 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015015799425


Contributions To Historical Linguistics

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Genre : History
Author : Frans Van Coetsem
Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2023-08-28
File : 349 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004655386


Bicorporates Text

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Genre : Animals, Mythical, in art
Author : Vilhelm Slomann
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Release : 1967
File : 272 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015015814844


The Writing System Of Scribe Zhou

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This book investigates the nature of regional variation in the early Chinese writing system through bamboo manuscripts and inscriptions dating from the late pre-imperial China (5th-3rd centuries BCE). Diachronic and synchronic comparisons of graphic details show that none of the well-recognized regional varieties developed independently from one another. Furthermore, differences in graphic components can be accounted for as alternations of graphs that are compatible in their semantic or phonetic values. The phonological systems underlying various regional orthographies unanimously point to a single coherent sound system with some mixture of dialect pronunciations. This strongly suggests that all the late pre-imperial regional scripts derived from a kind of orthographic meta-system based on one spoken standard language. This orthography and its phonological systems should reasonably be dated to ca. 9th century BCE, just about the time when the earliest known Chinese lexicography "Book of Scribe Zhou" (ca. 830 BCE) was written. The conclusions of this book have further implications on reading and understanding manuscript texts in general as well as on using them as data for linguistic studies.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Haeree Park
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release : 2016-02-22
File : 312 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783110459319


The Columbia History Of Chinese Literature

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The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions. Stretching from earliest times to the present, the text features original contributions by leading specialists working in all genres and periods. Chapters cover poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, and consider such contextual subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion, the role of women, and China's relationship with non-Sinitic languages and peoples. Opening with a major section on the linguistic and intellectual foundations of Chinese literature, the anthology traces the development of forms and movements over time, along with critical trends, and pays particular attention to the premodern canon.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Victor H. Mair
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release : 2010-03-10
File : 1369 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780231528511


Old Japanese

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What did eighth-century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an unprecedented range of data from the past and the present.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Marc Hideo Miyake
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-08-21
File : 308 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134403738


Rereading The Stone

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The eighteenth-century Hongloumeng, known in English as Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone, is generally considered to be the greatest of Chinese novels--one that masterfully blends realism and romance, psychological motivation and fate, daily life and mythical occurrences, as it narrates the decline of a powerful Chinese family. In this path-breaking study, Anthony Yu goes beyond the customary view of Hongloumeng as a vivid reflection of late imperial Chinese culture by examining the novel as a story about fictive representation. Through a maze of literary devices, the novel challenges the authority of history as well as referential biases in reading. At the heart of Hongloumeng, Yu argues, is the narration of desire. Desire appears in this tale as the defining trait and problem of human beings and at the same time shapes the novel's literary invention and effect. According to Yu, this focalizing treatment of desire may well be Hongloumeng's most distinctive accomplishment. Through close readings of selected episodes, Yu analyzes principal motifs of the narrative, such as dream, mirror, literature, religious enlightenment, and rhetorical reflexivity in relation to fictive representation. He contextualizes his discussions with a comprehensive genealogy of qing--desire, disposition, sentiment, feeling--a concept of fundamental importance in historical Chinese culture, and shows how the text ingeniously exploits its multiple meanings. Spanning a wide range of comparative literary sources, Yu creates a new conceptual framework in which to reevaluate this masterpiece.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Anthony C. Yu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release : 2018-06-05
File : 341 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780691188195


Chinese Annals In The Western Observatory

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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While these discoveries have necessarily taken place in China, Western scholars have also contributed to the study of these documents throughout this entire period. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the contributions of these Western scholars to the field of Chinese paleography, and especially to study of oracle-bone inscriptions, bronze and stone inscriptions, and manuscripts written on bamboo and silk. Each of these topics is provided with a comprehensive narrative history of studies by Western scholars, as well as an exhaustive bibliography and biographies of important scholars in the field. It is also supplied with a list of Chinese translations of these studies, as well as a complete index of authors and their works. Whether the reader is interested in the history of ancient China, ancient Chinese paleographic documents, or just in the history of the study of China as it has developed in the West, this book provides one of the most complete accounts available to date.

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Genre : History
Author : Edward Shaughnessy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release : 2019-11-18
File : 520 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781501517105


Science And Civilisation In China Volume 1 Introductory Orientations

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Genre : History
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 1954
File : 392 Pages
ISBN-13 : 052105799X


Ibss Anthropology 1988

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This bibliography lists the most important works in anthropology published in 1988.

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Genre : Reference
Author : British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release : 1992
File : 330 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0415064716