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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan US
2016, 2016
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| Series: | Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Entering the Language Continuum
- 1. Silence, Script, and “New Understandings”
- 2. Figures, Hieroglyphs, and Ciphers,- 3. Ships, Bricks, and the Majesty of Writing: The New Century
- Conclusion