Dinu Luca

The Chinese Language in European Texts (eBook, PDF)

The Early Period

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137502919
• Artikelnr.: 46898122

Autorenporträt

Dinu Luca is Assistant Professor of European Cultures at National Taiwan Normal University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 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.