The Chinese Language in European Texts
Subtitle: The Early Period
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 20, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781137512253
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period (Chinese Literature and Culture in the World)