Author: Yunesuko Higashi Ajia Bunka Kenkyū Sentā (Tokyo, Japan)Publisher: [Tokyo] : Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A Survey of Bibliographies in Western Languages Concerning East and Southeast Asian Studies
Author: Yunesuko Higashi Ajia Bunka Kenkyū Sentā (Tokyo, Japan)Publisher: [Tokyo] : Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
日本文化研究論集
Author: YUNESUKO HIGASHI AJIA BUNKA KENKYU SENTA, TOKYO. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: The Encyclopaedia Britannica
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ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
The Voice of Korea
Author: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Leibniz Discovers Asia
Author: Michael C. CarhartPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421427540
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
How did early modern scholars—as exemplified by Leibniz—search for their origins in the study of language? Who are the nations of Europe, and where did they come from? Early modern people were as curious about their origins as we are today. Lacking twenty-first-century DNA research, seventeenth-century scholars turned to language—etymology, vocabulary, and even grammatical structure—for evidence. The hope was that, in puzzling out the relationships between languages, the relationships between nations themselves would emerge, and on that basis one could determine the ancestral homeland of the nations that presently occupied Europe. In Leibniz Discovers Asia, Michael C. Carhart explores this early modern practice by focusing on philosopher, scientist, and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who developed a vast network of scholars and missionaries throughout Europe to acquire the linguistic data he needed. The success of his project was tied to the Jesuit search for an overland route to China, whose itinerary would take them through the nations from whom Leibniz wanted language samples. Drawing on Leibniz's extensive correspondence with the members of this network, Carhart gives us access to the philosopher's scintillating discussions about astronomy and mapping; ethnology and missionary work; the contest of the Asiatic empires of Muscovy, Persia, the Ottoman, and China for control of the Caucasus, the steppes, and the Far East; and above all, language, as the best indicator of the prehistoric genealogy of the myriad peoples from Central Asia to Western Europe. Placing comparative linguistics within Leibniz's intellectual program, this book offers extensive insight into how Leibniz built his early modern scholarly network, the network's functionality within the international Republic of Letters, and its limitations. We see the scholar, isolated and lonely in little Hanover, with his hands on knowledge trickling in from scientific centers across Europe and around the world. By the end of 1697—the year his network finally began to work—Leibniz laughed to one of his patrons, "I'm putting a sign on my door reading, 'Bureau of Address for China'!" Depicting Leibniz not as a philosophical authority but as a scholar with human limitations and frustrations, Leibniz Discovers Asia is a thrilling and engaging narrative.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
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Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.