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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780948903321

Autore

Kádár Dániel Z. <1979->

Titolo

Historic Chinese letter writing [[electronic resource] /] / Dániel Z. Kádár

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum, c2010

ISBN

1-282-59061-8

9786612590610

1-4411-0771-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

491.7

895.164808

Soggetti

Letter writing, Chinese - History

Chinese letters - History and criticism

China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912

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

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I: Family Letter Writing; Part II: 'Specialized' Epistolary Discourse; Part III: Non-family 'Social' Letter Writing; Part IV: Political Letter Writing; Postscript: What Next?; Notes; Appendix I: The Chinese Texts (Printed in a Punctuated Form); Appendix II: Chronological List of Chinese Dynasties; Glossary of Epistolary Expressions, Honorifics and Grammatical Words; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) letter writing, this compendium is an outstanding study of historical Chinese communication. Letter writing is a pivotal yet neglected medium of historical Chinese communication. The epistolary format is key to sinological research. As historical letters have a specific vocabulary and rhetorical structure it is difficult to read them without the supporting apparatus of specialised study. The aim of this compendium is to fill the gap in Chinese studies by providing a bilingual Chinese-English edition of a corpus of Chinese letters, prepared for advanced