List Of Works On Corea Japan And China

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Author : Boston Public Library
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Release : 1895
File : 182 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HNI1CY


Languages Scripts And Chinese Texts In East Asia

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Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the reader from the early centuries of the common era, when the Chinese script was the only form of writing and Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and medical texts spread throughout East Asia, through the centuries when vernacular scripts evolved, right up to the end of the nineteenth century when nationalism created new roles for vernacular languages and vernacular scripts. Through an examination of oral approaches to Chinese texts, it shows how highly-valued Chinese texts came to be read through the prism of the vernaculars and ultimately to be translated. This long process has some parallels with vernacularization in Europe, but a crucial difference is that literary Chinese was, unlike Latin, not a spoken language. As a consequence, people who spoke different East Asian vernaculars had no means of communicating in speech, but they could communicate silently by means of written conversation in literary Chinese; a further consequence is that within each society Chinese texts assumed vernacular garb: in classes and lectures, Chinese texts were read and declaimed in the vernaculars. What happened in the nineteenth century and why are there still so many different scripts in East Asia? How and why were Chinese texts dethroned, and what replaced them? These are some of the questions addressed in Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia.

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Genre : History
Author : Peter Francis Kornicki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2018-01-11
File : 424 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780192518682


Special Catalogue

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Author : Essex Institute
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Release : 1895
File : 28 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015033594279


The Directory Chronicle For China Japan Corea Indo China Straits Settlements Malay States Siam Netherlands India Borneo The Philippines C With Which Are Incorporated The China Directory And The Hongkong Directory And Hong List For The Far East

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Genre : East Asia
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Release : 1921
File : 1766 Pages
ISBN-13 : CHI:73550402


Encyclopedia Of Library And Information Science

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"The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Allen Kent
Publisher : CRC Press
Release : 1977-05-01
File : 524 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0824720210


Korea Update

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Genre : Korea (South)
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Release : 1999
File : 76 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000070480367


Foreign Directories

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Genre : Commerce
Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
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Release : 1931
File : 72 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112104059768


Handbook For Asian Studies Specialists

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An indispensable tool for librarians who do reference or collection management, this work is a pioneering offering of expertly selected print and electronic reference tools for East Asian Studies (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). Handbook for Asian Studies Specialists: A Guide to Research Materials and Collection Building Tools is the first work to cover reference works for the main Asian area languages of China, Japan, and Korea. Several leading Asian Studies librarians have contributed their many decades of experience to create a resource that gathers major reference titles—both print and online—that would be useful to today's Asian Studies librarian. Organized by language group, it offers useful information on the many subscription-based and open-source electronic tools relevant to Asian Studies. This book will serve as an essential resource for reference collections at academic libraries. Previously published bibliographies on materials deal with China or Japan or Korea, but none have coalesced information on all three countries into one work, or are written in English. And unlike the other resources available, this work provides the insight needed for librarians to make informed collection management decisions and reference selections.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Noriko Asato
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release : 2013-10-08
File : 491 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9798216093800


The Handbook Of Asian Englishes

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Winner of the 2021 PROSE Humanities Category for Language & Linguistics The first volume of its kind, focusing on the sociolinguistic and socio-political issues surrounding Asian Englishes The Handbook of Asian Englishes provides wide-ranging coverage of the historical and cultural context, contemporary dynamics, and linguistic features of English in use throughout the Asian region. This first-of-its-kind volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the English language throughout nations in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Contributions by a team of internationally-recognized linguists and scholars of Asian Englishes and Asian languages survey existing works and review new and emerging areas of research in the field. Edited by internationally renowned scholars in the field and structured in four parts, this Handbook explores the status and functions of English in the educational institutions, legal systems, media, popular cultures, and religions of diverse Asian societies. In addition to examining nation-specific topics, this comprehensive volume presents articles exploring pan-Asian issues such as English in Asian schools and universities, English and language policies in the Asian region, and the statistics of English across Asia. Up-to-date research addresses the impact of English as an Asian lingua franca, globalization and Asian Englishes, the dynamics of multilingualism, and more. Examines linguistic history, contemporary linguistic issues, and English in the Outer and Expanding Circles of Asia Focuses on the rapidly-growing complexities of English throughout Asia Includes reviews of the new frontiers of research in Asian Englishes, including the impact of globalization and popular culture Presents an innovative survey of Asian Englishes in one comprehensive volume Serving as an important contribution to fields such as contact linguistics, World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and Asian language studies, The Handbook of Asian Englishes is an invaluable reference resource for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and instructors across these areas. Winner of the 2021 PROSE Humanities Category for Language & Linguistics

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Kingsley Bolton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release : 2020-09-09
File : 930 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781118791790


Lineage Organisation In South Eastern China

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This essay is the work of a social anthropologist but it is not based upon field work. It is concerned with Chinese matters but it is not written by a sinologue. In this essay are the author’s reflections on certain aspects of southeastern Chinese society during the last hundred and fifty years, with attention on the Fukien and Kwangtung region of China has it has specialized not only in large-scale unilineal organization but also in sending people overseas.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Maurice Freedman
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2021-01-07
File : 154 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000323405