Rethinking East Asian languages, vernaculars, and literacies, 1000-1919 / / edited by Benjamin A. Elman.
The authors consider new views of the classical versus vernacular dichotomy that are especially central to the new historiography of China and East Asian languages. Based on recent debates initiated by Sheldon Pollock’s findings for South Asia, we examine alternative frameworks for understanding Eas...
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| Superior document: | Sinica Leidensia, Volume 115 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sinica Leidensia ;
Volume 115. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Introduction: Languages in East and South Asia, 1000–1919 / Benjamin A. Elman
- 2 The Vernacularization of Buddhist Texts: From the Tangut Empire to Japan / Peter Kornicki
- 3 The Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge, and the Politics of Language in Early Chosŏn Korea / Wang Sixiang
- 4 Rebooting the Vernacular in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam / John D. Phan
- 5 Mediating the Literary Classics: Commentary and Translation in Premodern Japan / Haruo Shirane
- 6 The Languages of Medical Knowledge in Tokugawa Japan / Daniel Trambaiolo
- 7 The Manchu Script and Information Management: Some Aspects of Qing China’s Great Encounter with Alphabetic Literacy / Mårten Söderblom Saarela
- 8 Unintended Consequences of Classical Literacies for the Early Modern Chinese Civil Examinations / Benjamin A. Elman
- 9 Competing “Languages”: “Sound” in the Orthographic Reforms of Early Meiji Japan / Atsuko Ueda
- 10 Writing and Speech: Rethinking the Issue of Vernaculars in Early Modern China / Shang Wei
- Index / Benjamin A. Elman.