The Chinese language in European texts

• Verfasst von: Luca, Dinu [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The Chinese language in European texts
• Titelzusatz: the early period
• Verf.angabe: by Dinu Luca
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Jahr: 2016
• Umfang: xvi, 242 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Chinese literature and culture in the world
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 30, 2016)
• Ang. zum Inhalt: 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
• ISBN: 978-1-137-50291-9
• ISBN: 1-137-50291-6
• ISBN: 978-1-137-51225-3
• ISBN: 1-137-51225-3
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 870982605

Abstract

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