Bernhard Karlgren

Author : N. G. D. Malmqvist
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611460001

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Bernhard Karlgren by N. G. D. Malmqvist Pdf

This book deals with the life and career of Bernhard Karlgren (1889–1978), whose research in a great variety of fields, particularly the historical phonology of the Chinese language, laid the foundations for modern western sinology. The definition ofthe term "sinology" has undergone great changes since Bernhard Karlgren entered the stage a century ago. At that time the term covered research related to the language, literature, history, thought, and intellectual aspects of early China. Since the mid-twentieth century the definition has been considerably broadened to include more modern aspects, with special emphasis on sociopolitical and economic topics. In many Chinese language departments in both China and the West, studies of early China have beenput at a disadvantage. This book may serve as a reminder that the time may have come to redress the imbalance. The book begins by sketching the intellectual milieu that characterized Karlgren's school years and ends with a mention of his last publication, "Moot words in some Chuang Tse chapters," published in 1976. The intervening seventy years were filled with intense scholarly activities-including his disputatio for the PhD in Uppsala in 1915; his subsequent career as professor of East Asian languages at Gothenburg University, 1918-39; and his directorship of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, 1939-59. For many years he served as vice-chancellor of Gothenburg University and as president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities. He also played a leading role in various endeavors to strengthen the standing of Swedish humanities.

Author : S©ıren Egerod,Else Glahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : China
ISBN : UCSD:31822004766648

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Studia Serica Bernhard Karlgren Dedicata by S©ıren Egerod,Else Glahn Pdf

Author : Edward Shaughnessy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501517105

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Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory by Edward Shaughnessy Pdf

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While these discoveries have necessarily taken place in China, Western scholars have also contributed to the study of these documents throughout this entire period. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the contributions of these Western scholars to the field of Chinese paleography, and especially to study of oracle-bone inscriptions, bronze and stone inscriptions, and manuscripts written on bamboo and silk. Each of these topics is provided with a comprehensive narrative history of studies by Western scholars, as well as an exhaustive bibliography and biographies of important scholars in the field. It is also supplied with a list of Chinese translations of these studies, as well as a complete index of authors and their works. Whether the reader is interested in the history of ancient China, ancient Chinese paleographic documents, or just in the history of the study of China as it has developed in the West, this book provides one of the most complete accounts available to date.

Author : Michael Loewe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000595536

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Ways to Paradise by Michael Loewe Pdf

First published in 1979, in Ways to Paradise Michael Loewe, an internationally recognised authority on Han China, assesses a wealth of an archaeological evidence in an attempt to uncover the attitudes of the pre-Buddhist Chinese to matters relating to death and hereafter. Dr Loewe examines in particular three major subjects of Han art and iconography: a recently found silk painting from Central China dating from around 168 BC; the numerous bronze mirrors of the so-called TLV pattern that came into fashion at the beginning of the Christian era, and which are especially rich in cosmological symbolism; and the representations of the Queen Mother of the West which appear as a leading motif of Chinese art from perhaps a century later. These Dr Loewe sets within a framework of contemporary literature and historical incident to create a wonderfully vivid picture of religious life and thought in this early and fascinating period of Chinese history which was to contribute so much to later developments in Far Eastern Philosophy, religion and art.

Author : Konrad Ehlich,Florian Coulmas,Gabriele Graefen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2896 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110889352

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A Bibliography on Writing and Written Language by Konrad Ehlich,Florian Coulmas,Gabriele Graefen Pdf

The bibliography offers information on research about writing and written language over the past 50 years. No comprehensive bibliography on this subject has been published since Sattler's (1935) handbook. With a selection of some 27,500 titles it covers the most important literature in all scientific fields relating to writing. Emphasis has been placed on the interdisciplinary organization of the bibliography, creating many points of common interest for literacy experts, educationalists, psychologists, sociologists, linguists, cultural anthropologists, and historians. The bibliography is organized in such a way as to provide the specialist as well as the researcher in neighboring disciplines with access to the relevant literature on writing in a given field. While necessarily selective, it also offers information on more specialized bibliographies. In addition, an overview of norms and standards concerning 'script and writing' will prove very useful for non-professional readers. It is, therefore, also of interest to the generally interested public as a reference work for the humanities.

Author : Gina Anne Tam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478281

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Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960 by Gina Anne Tam Pdf

Analyzes how fangyan (local Chinese languages or dialects) were central to the creation of modern Chinese nationalism.

Author : Nils Göran David Malmqvist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0982131380

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Bernhard Karlgren by Nils Göran David Malmqvist Pdf

Author : Endymion Porter Wilkinson
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0674002490

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Chinese History by Endymion Porter Wilkinson Pdf

Endymion Wilkinson's bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. In this latest edition, now in a bigger format, its scope has been dramatically enlarged by the addition of one million words of new text. Twelve years in the making, the new manual introduces students to different types of transmitted, excavated, and artifactual sources from prehistory to the twentieth century. It also examines the context in which the sources were produced, preserved, and received, the problems of research and interpretation associated with them, and the best, most up-to-date secondary works. Because the writing of history has always played a central role in Chinese politics and culture, special attention is devoted to the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese historiography.

Author : Perry Johansson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004220973

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Saluting the Yellow Emperor by Perry Johansson Pdf

Saluting the Yellow Emperor tells the fascinating story of a group of Swedish scholars who rediscovered the pronunciation of the Chinese classics, buried Silk Road cities, and a Chinese Stone Age, while spiriting antiquities out of Asia.

Author : Bernhard Karlgren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : UVA:X001085833

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Philology and Ancient China by Bernhard Karlgren Pdf

Author : Östasiatiska museet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015015799839

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Bulletin by Östasiatiska museet Pdf

Author : Yurou Zhong
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231549899

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Chinese Grammatology by Yurou Zhong Pdf

Today, Chinese characters are described as a national treasure, the core of the nation’s civilizational identity. Yet for nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. They declared it an archaic hindrance to modernization, portraying the ancient system of writing as a roadblock to literacy and therefore science and democracy. Movements spanning the political spectrum proposed abandonment of characters and alphabetization of Chinese writing, although in the end the Communist Party opted for character simplification. Chinese Grammatology traces the origins, transmutations, and containment of this script revolution to provide a groundbreaking account of its formative effects on Chinese literature and culture, and lasting implications for the encounter between the alphabetic and nonalphabet worlds. Yurou Zhong explores the growth of competing Romanization and Latinization movements aligned with the clashing Nationalists and Communists. She finds surprising affinities between alphabetic reform and modern Chinese literary movements and examines the politics of literacy programs and mass education against the backdrop of war and revolution. Zhong places the Chinese script revolution in the global context of a phonocentric dominance that privileges phonetic writing, contending that the eventual retention of characters constituted an anti-ethnocentric, anti-imperial critique that coincided with postwar decolonization movements and predated the emergence of Deconstructionism. By revealing the consequences of one of the biggest linguistic experiments in history, Chinese Grammatology provides an ambitious rethinking of the origins of Chinese literary modernity and the politics of the science of writing.

Author : Liwei Jiao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351684071

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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture by Liwei Jiao Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture represents the first English anthology that delves into the fascinating and thought-provoking relationship between the Chinese language and culture, exploring various macro and micro perspectives. Chinese culture boasts a history of ten thousand years, while the Chinese language’s recorded history spans at least three thousand years, dating back to the Shang dynasty oracle bone inscriptions (OBI). This handbook is comprised of 17 chapters from 18 scholars including Victor Mair and William S-Y. Wang. Many chapters approach their respective topics with a comprehensive and historical outlook. Certain extensive subjects are addressed in multiple chapters, complementing one another. These topics include: The languages and peoples of China, and the southern Chinese dialects Mandarin’s evolution into a national language and its related writing reforms Language as a propaganda tool in the Cultural Revolution and in contemporary China Chinese idioms and colloquialisms This book offers an approachable exploration of the subject, appealing to both specialists and enthusiasts of the Chinese language and culture.

Author : S. Robert Ramsey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691268248

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The Languages of China by S. Robert Ramsey Pdf

An incredible source of information about the Chinese language and China’s minority languages In this accessible and informative book, S. Robert Ramsey lucidly explains what the Chinese language is—its social and geographical situation, its history, its range of dialects, the structure of the modern standard language, and the writing system. He goes on to describe the languages of China’s national minorities, showing how they interrelate with each other and with Chinese. Readers learn about the peoples who speak the languages of China, what China is like linguistically, and the cultural and historical settings of the country’s languages. For those who want more linguistic detail, Ramsey provides lists, maps, charts, and descriptions along with technical references in notes at the end of the book. Invaluable to general linguists and Sinologists alike, The Languages of China is an excellent introduction to Chinese and East Asian linguistics.

Author : Donald B. Wagner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004096329

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Iron and Steel in Ancient China by Donald B. Wagner Pdf

A study of the production and use of iron and steel in early China, and simultaneously a methodological study of the reconciliation of archaeological and written sources in Chinese cultural history. Includes chapters on the technology of iron production based on studies of artifact microstructures.