Xing Yu

Language and State

An Inquiry Into the Progress of Civilization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that a tribe of the primitive society is formed because of kinship, while a state of the civilized society is formed because of language. Language presets the whole process of the progress of human civilization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Revised Edition
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 916g
• ISBN-13: 9780761869030
• ISBN-10: 0761869034
• Artikelnr.: 47976093

Autorenporträt

Xing Yu is a political scientist who taught at two universities in China in the 1980s and 1990s. He obtained a bachelor of arts degree from Sichuan Foreign Languages Institute in Chongqing, China in 1982, and a master of law degree from Fudan University in Shanghai, China in 1985. He now works as a freelance writer and translator in British Columbia, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Part One: Language and State Formation Introduction Chapter One:
People Chapter Two: Community Chapter Three: Nation Chapter Four: State
Part Two: Language and State Governance Introduction Chapter Five:
Appellation Chapter Six: Constitution Chapter Seven: Election Chapter
Eight: Representation Chapter Nine: Government Part Three: Language and
State Spirit Introduction Chapter Ten: History Chapter Eleven: Philosophy
Chapter Twelve: Literature and Art Chapter Thirteen: Religion Chapter
Fourteen: Law Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About
the Author