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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814978903321

Autore

Kadar Daniel Z. <1979->

Titolo

Xue-guanhua : a Ryukyuan source of language education / / Daniel Z. Kadar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011

ISBN

1-283-14321-6

9786613143211

1-4438-3131-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 p.)

Disciplina

495.18

Soggetti

Chinese language - Study and teaching - China - History

Ryukyuan language

China Social life and customs 1644-1912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; XUE-GUANHUA; LIST OF TEXTS; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX II

Sommario/riassunto

The Sino-Japonic manuscript Xue-guanhua/Gaku-kanwa ??? (Learning Mandarin Chinese), compiled for students from the Ryukyu Kingdom, is a noteworthy historical Chinese educational source. It represents historical cross-cultural interactions between Okinawan residents in China and the locals in a wide variety of speech situations, and as such it is one of the few historical cross-cultural sources available on Chinese communication and social behaviour. Along with revealing norms of historical Ch...