Author: Joseph Edkins
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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China's Philological Turn
Author: Ori Sela
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231545177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship and identity. With the power to construct the textual past, philology has the potential to shape both individual and collective identities, and its rise to prominence consequently deeply affected contemporaneous political, social, and cultural agendas. Ori Sela foregrounds the polymath Qian Daxin (1728–1804), one of the most distinguished scholars of the Qing dynasty, to tell this story. China’s Philological Turn traces scholars’ social networks and the production of knowledge, considering the texts they studied along with their reading practices and the assumptions about knowledge, facts, and truth that came with them. The book considers fundamental issues of eighteenth-century intellectual life: the tension between antiquity’s elevated status and the question of what antiquity actually was; the status of scientific knowledge, especially astronomy, mathematics, and calendrical studies; and the relationship between learned debates and cultural anxieties, especially scholars’ self-characterization and collective identity. Sela brings to light manuscripts, biographies, letters, handwritten notes, epitaphs, and more to highlight the creativity and openness of his subjects. A pioneering book in the cultural history of intellectuals across disciplinary boundaries, China’s Philological Turn reconstructs the history of eighteenth-century Chinese learning and its long-lasting consequences.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231545177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship and identity. With the power to construct the textual past, philology has the potential to shape both individual and collective identities, and its rise to prominence consequently deeply affected contemporaneous political, social, and cultural agendas. Ori Sela foregrounds the polymath Qian Daxin (1728–1804), one of the most distinguished scholars of the Qing dynasty, to tell this story. China’s Philological Turn traces scholars’ social networks and the production of knowledge, considering the texts they studied along with their reading practices and the assumptions about knowledge, facts, and truth that came with them. The book considers fundamental issues of eighteenth-century intellectual life: the tension between antiquity’s elevated status and the question of what antiquity actually was; the status of scientific knowledge, especially astronomy, mathematics, and calendrical studies; and the relationship between learned debates and cultural anxieties, especially scholars’ self-characterization and collective identity. Sela brings to light manuscripts, biographies, letters, handwritten notes, epitaphs, and more to highlight the creativity and openness of his subjects. A pioneering book in the cultural history of intellectuals across disciplinary boundaries, China’s Philological Turn reconstructs the history of eighteenth-century Chinese learning and its long-lasting consequences.
Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960
Author: Gina Anne Tam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847828X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Analyzes how fangyan (local Chinese languages or dialects) were central to the creation of modern Chinese nationalism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847828X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Analyzes how fangyan (local Chinese languages or dialects) were central to the creation of modern Chinese nationalism.
Philology and Ancient China
Author: Bernhard Karlgren
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Catalogue of the Apprentices Library
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382507188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382507188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Catalogue of the library of the Peabody institute of the city of Baltimore ...
Author: Andrew Troeger
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338530718X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338530718X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular Or Spoken Language of Amoy
Author: Carstairs Douglas
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Publisher:
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Chinese-English Dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of Amoy, with the principal variations of the Chang-Chew and Chin-Chew dialects
Author: Carstairs Douglas
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: George Peabody Library
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public Library
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East
Author:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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