Rethinking the Sinosphere
Subtitle: poetics, aesthetics, and identity formation
By: edited by Nanxiu Qian, Richard J. Smith, and Bowei Zhang
Series: Cambria sinophone world series; Cambria sinophone world series
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Amherst, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781621964858; 9781621964865; 9781604979909
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: East Asian literature; History and criticism; Intercultural communication; History; Littérature extrême-orientale; Histoire et critique
Description: "For hundreds of years, into the twentieth century, the culture groups in the areas we now know as China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam shared a great many political and social values, religious beliefs, and artistic and literary traditions. These common cultural features were recorded and transmitted in the same basic written language-classical or literary Chinese (known as guwen/wenyan in China, Kanbun in Japan, Hanmun in Korea, and Hánvan in Vietnam). The umbrella term for this shared language is 'literary Sinitic'-a term designed to recognize the fact that although guwen/wenyan originally developed in China, it had a vibrant life of its own in other areas of East Asia (i.e., what this study terms the Sinosphere). Rethinking the Sinosphere: Poetics, Aesthetics, and Identity Formation will appeal not only to academic specialists in the histories, philosophies, literary and artistic traditions of East Asia, but also to instructors of college-level courses in East Asian history and culture"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.