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The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period (Repost)

Posted By: DZ123
Date: 8 Oct 2020 15:15:52
The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period (Repost)

Dinu Luca, "The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1137512253 | PDF | pages: 255 | 3.4 mb

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.
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