1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827222103321

Autore

Bachner Andrea

Titolo

Beyond sinology : Chinese writing and the scripts of culture / / Andrea Bachner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-231-53630-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Global Chinese Culture

Global Chinese culture

Disciplina

495.1/11

Soggetti

Chinese language - Writing - History

Chinese characters - History

Inscriptions, Chinese - History and criticism

Chinese in literature

Chinese in motion pictures

Mass media and language - China

Chinese in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Script politics -- Corpographies: Death and the sinograph -- National calligraphies -- Iconographies: Poetics of visuality -- On (not) writing Chinese -- Sonographies: Muteness envy -- Sinographic glossolalia -- Allographies: Crypto-Chinese -- Graphic parasites -- Technographies: Radical design -- Under e(rasure) -- Conclusion: Beyond sinology.

Sommario/riassunto

New communication and information technologies provide distinct challenges and possibilities for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, film, visual and performance art, and design and architecture, within both China and different parts of the West.Approaching this history from a variety of alternative theoretical perspectives, Beyond Sinology reflects on the



Chinese script to pinpoint the multiple connections between languages, scripts, and medial expressions and cultural and national identities. Through a complex study of intercultural representations, exchanges, and tensions, the text focuses on the concrete "scripting" of identity and alterity, advancing a new understanding of the links between identity and medium and a critique of articulations that rely on single, monolithic, and univocal definitions of writing.Chinese writing-with its history of divergent readings in Chinese and non-Chinese contexts, with its current reinvention in the age of new media and globalization-can teach us how to read and construct mediality and cultural identity in interculturally responsible ways and also how to scrutinize, critique, and yet appreciate and enjoy the powerful multi-medial creativity embodied in writing.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910522566803321

Titolo

12th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing / / edited by Zhiwei Peng, Jiann-Yang Hwang, Jesse F. White, Jerome P. Downey, Dean Gregurek, Baojun Zhao, Onuralp Yücel, Ender Keskinkilic, Tao Jiang, Morsi Mohamed Mahmoud

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

3-030-92388-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (642 pages)

Collana

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, , 2367-1696

Disciplina

620.11217

620.1617

Soggetti

Metals

Materials

Production engineering

Materials - Analysis

High temperature plasmas

Metals and Alloys

Materials Engineering

Process Engineering

Materials Characterization Technique

High Temperature Plasma

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection includes the analysis, development, and operation of high-temperature processes that involve the extraction and processing of material resources, production, and treatment of metals, alloys, and ceramic materials. Contributions describe innovative methods for achieving property enhancement, impurity segregation and removal, byproduct recovery, waste minimization, energy efficiency, and utilization of complex ores. Also included are various technical, economic, and environmental issues associated with commercial-scale high-temperature processing methods.