Mapping The Old Zhuang Character Script

Author : David Holm
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004242166

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Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm Pdf

The traditional Zhuang script is a character script based on Chinese, adapted for the purpose of writing the Tai languages of southern China and northern Vietnam. Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm, presents for the first time a systematic overview of such a script, based on a survey of traditional texts in 45 locations among the Zhuang and related peoples in Guangxi, Guizhou, eastern Yunnan, and northern Vietnam. Complete with 133 maps, it looks at patterns of geographic variation in relation to dialect, the domains of former native chieftaincies, the activities of ritual masters and Taoist priests, large-scale migrations, and the transplantation of garrisons of native troops. Internal evidence indicates the script has a history going back well before the Tang.

Author : David Holm
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004223691

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Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm Pdf

Illustrated with 133 maps, Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm, surveys the traditional character script of the Zhuang and related peoples in southern China and northern Vietnam, and discusses regional variation in relation to dialect, native chieftaincies, ritual masters, migration, and military garrisons.

Author : Zev Handel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004352223

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Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script by Zev Handel Pdf

In Sinography, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of the ways in which the Chinese-character script evolved as it was adapted to write other languages of Asia, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Zhuang, Khitan, and Jurchen.

Author : David Holm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111383095

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Vernacular Chinese-Character Manuscripts from East and Southeast Asia by David Holm Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 851 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789004498754

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The Brigands' Song: Serving in the Army of A Native Chieftain by Anonim Pdf

The Brigands’ Song is a unique testimony to the experiences of ordinary men – and women – during wartime in pre-modern China.

Author : Jörg B. Quenzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110753349

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Exploring Written Artefacts by Jörg B. Quenzer Pdf

This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of ‘manuscripts’ to the larger perspective of ‘written artefacts’.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004290006

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Hanvueng: The Goose King and the Ancestral King by Anonim Pdf

This work is an annotated edition of a ritual manuscript, written in the traditional Zhuang character script. The Hanvueng epic is a narrative in verse about murderous enmity between two royal step-brothers, recited when there is fraternal feuding, death by violence, outbreaks of smallpox, or other such disasters. The theme of enmity is an important one that resonates deeply in the Tai societies on the periphery of the Chinese empire. The narrative touches on many other aspects of life in the valley-kingdoms in the highlands of Guangxi: marriage and inheritance, match-making, slavery and social stratification, agriculture, hunting, fishing, raiding, livestock raising dye-making, wild animals and plants, and the use of ritual to put things to rights.

Author : Nicola McLelland,Hui Zhao
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800411579

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Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts by Nicola McLelland,Hui Zhao Pdf

This important contribution to the sociolinguistics of Asian languages breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standardization in two key ways: in its focus on Asia, with particular attention paid to China and its neighbours, and in the attention paid to multilingual contexts. The chapters address various kinds of (sometimes hidden) multilingualism and examine the interactions between multilingualism and language standardization, offering a corrective to earlier work on standardization, which has tended to assume a monolingual nation state and monolingual individuals. Taken together, the chapters in this book thus add to our understanding of the ways in which multilingualism is implicated in language standardization, as well as the impact of language standards on multilingualism. The introduction, Chapter 6 and Chapter 8 are free to download as open access publications. You can access them here: Introduction: https://zenodo.org/record/5749388#.YaiwuNDP3cs Chapter 6: https://zenodo.org/record/5749522#.Yaiw-9DP3cs Chapter 8: https://zenodo.org/record/5749586#.Yai0RNDP3cs

Author : Giorgio Francesco Arcodia,Bianca Basciano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198847830

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Chinese Linguistics by Giorgio Francesco Arcodia,Bianca Basciano Pdf

Presents a directory of WWW resources on Chinese linguistics, compiled by the East Asian Libraries Cooperative. Links to resources on phonetics, grammar, and dialects. Provides access to online courses, journals, and academic organizations.

Author : Peter Francis Kornicki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192518682

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Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia by Peter Francis Kornicki Pdf

Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the reader from the early centuries of the common era, when the Chinese script was the only form of writing and Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and medical texts spread throughout East Asia, through the centuries when vernacular scripts evolved, right up to the end of the nineteenth century when nationalism created new roles for vernacular languages and vernacular scripts. Through an examination of oral approaches to Chinese texts, it shows how highly-valued Chinese texts came to be read through the prism of the vernaculars and ultimately to be translated. This long process has some parallels with vernacularization in Europe, but a crucial difference is that literary Chinese was, unlike Latin, not a spoken language. As a consequence, people who spoke different East Asian vernaculars had no means of communicating in speech, but they could communicate silently by means of written conversation in literary Chinese; a further consequence is that within each society Chinese texts assumed vernacular garb: in classes and lectures, Chinese texts were read and declaimed in the vernaculars. What happened in the nineteenth century and why are there still so many different scripts in East Asia? How and why were Chinese texts dethroned, and what replaced them? These are some of the questions addressed in Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia.

Author : Jacob Cawthorne
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004444485

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Letters Without Capitals: Text and Practice in Kim Mun (Yao) Culture by Jacob Cawthorne Pdf

In Letters without Capitals: Texts and Practices in Kim Mun (Yao) Culture, Jacob Cawthorne demonstrates how the Chinese script is not only central to Kim Mun (Yao) cultural and religious practices, but also that it is an active vehicle for Kim Mun self-expression and community representation.

Author : Xing Wang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004429550

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Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body by Xing Wang Pdf

In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang provides an extensive reading of the Ming (1368-1644 C. E.) texts of a well-known body divination technique ‘xiangshu’ (physiognomy), and investigates its unique ‘somatic cosmology’ in Ming religious and intellectual context.

Author : Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110558142

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The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia by Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny Pdf

The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.

Author : Magnus Fiskesjö
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789208887

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Stories from an Ancient Land by Magnus Fiskesjö Pdf

The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own, and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. Their mythology suggests their land is the first place inhabited by humans, which they care for on behalf of the world. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world’s troubles and the lessons others might learn from it. It also presents a new interpretation of Wa headhunting, questioning explanations that see it as a primitive custom, and instead placing it within the fraught history of the last few centuries.

Author : Haun Saussy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691231976

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The Making of Barbarians by Haun Saussy Pdf

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many centers, and one of them is China. The Making of Barbarians offers an account of world literature in which China, as center, produces its own margins. Here Sinologist and comparatist Haun Saussy investigates the meanings of literary translation, adaptation, and appropriation on the boundaries of China long before it came into sustained contact with the West. When scholars talk about comparative literature in Asia, they tend to focus on translation between European languages and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, as practiced since about 1900. In contrast, Saussy focuses on the period before 1850, when the translation of foreign works into Chinese was rare because Chinese literary tradition overshadowed those around it. The Making of Barbarians looks closely at literary works that were translated into Chinese from foreign languages or resulted from contact with alien peoples. The book explores why translation was such an undervalued practice in premodern China, and how this vast and prestigious culture dealt with those outside it before a new group of foreigners—Europeans—appeared on the horizon.