The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period

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.

Author: Dinu Luca
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/20/2016
Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.63h x 6.11w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781137512253
2016 Edition