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Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia

Peter F. Kornicki (Author)
This is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia, examining Chinese script of the early common era, the spread of Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and medical texts throughout East Asia, all the way to the end of the nineteenth century when nationalism created new roles for vernacular languages and vernacular scripts
eBook, English, 2018
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018
1 online resource : illustrations, maps
9780192518682, 9780191839139, 0192518682, 0191839132
1019680494
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Introduction
Part I: Orientations
Sinitic in a global perspective
Scripts and writing
The oral dimension
Material texts: manuscripts, xylography, and typography
Book roads and routes
Part II: Reading and translating
Reading sinitic texts in the vernaculars
Written vernacular translation
Part III: Chinese texts and the vernaculars
The Chinese Buddhist canon and other Buddhist texts
Classics, examinations, and confucianism
Primers, medical texts, and other works
Conclusion: simitic and the evolution of vernacular societies in East Asia
Bibliography
Abbreviations
Index
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