Author: Robert MorrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Wu Che Yun Fu
Author: Robert MorrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Culture of Language in Ming China
Author: Nathan VedalPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231553765
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Winner, 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China (1368–1644) is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century. He explores the collaboration of Confucian classicists and Buddhist monks, opera librettists and cosmological theorists, who joined forces in the pursuit of a universal theory of language. Drawing on a wide range of overlooked scholarly texts, literary commentaries, and pedagogical materials, Vedal examines how Ming scholars positioned the study of language within an interconnected nexus of learning. He argues that for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers, the boundaries among the worlds of classicism, literature, music, cosmology, and religion were far more fluid and porous than they became later. In the eighteenth century, Qing thinkers pared away these other fields from linguistic learning, creating a discipline focused on corroborating the linguistic features of ancient texts. Documenting a major transformation in knowledge production, this book provides a framework for rethinking global early modern intellectual developments. It offers a powerful alternative to the conventional understanding of late imperial Chinese intellectual history by focusing on the methods of scholarly practice and the boundaries by which contemporary thinkers defined their field of study.
The New American Cyclopaedia
Author: George RipleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The New American Cyclopaedia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The New American Encyclopaedia
Author: Mapping Meanings
Author: Michael Lackner, Ph.D.Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004139192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
"Mapping Meanings," a broad-ranged introduction to China's intellectual entry into the family of nations, guides the reader into the late Qing encounter with Western, at the same time connecting convincingly to the broader question of the mobility of knowledge.
The New American Cyclopaedia: a Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge
Author: The Genealogy of Dictionaries
Author: Jia Jane SiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A General Catalogue of Books
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1696
Book Description
Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-century China
Author: Chun-shu ChangPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472085286
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Describes the social and cultural transformation of seventeenth-century China through the life and work of Li Yu