China across the centuries
Subtitle: papers from a lecture series in Budapest
By: edited by Gábor Kósa
Series: Budapest monographs in East Asian studies -- 7; Budapest monographs in East Asian studies -- 7.
Publisher: Department of East Asian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Budapest
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9789632848297
Subjects: History; Chinese language; Writing
Description: "The present volume is one of the products of a lecture series generously financed by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. Following a chronological order from the Shang dynasty to the Qing dynasy, these lectures, delivered during the 2013/14 academic year, aim to offer a glimpse into some new developments in the study of Chinese history and culture. Six eminent Sinologist were invited to Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) to give talks on what they considered important innovations in their respective research fields."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Zeng: the rediscovery of a forgotten regional state  -- Olivier Venture; title: Graphic variation in early Chinese writing  -- Imre Galambos; title: Three years and not a word has faded: reading letters in early medieval Chinese poetry  -- Antje Richter; title: Is Nirvāṇa the same as insentience? Chinese struggles with an Indian Buddhist ideal  -- Robert H. Sharf; title: The Song [Sòng character] Dynasty (960-1279) - a revolutionary era turn?  -- Angela Schottenhammer; title: Using late imperial literary sources for historical purposes -- Paolo Santangelo.