03971nam 2200721 450 991016076860332120200520144314.03-11-045930-23-11-045931-010.1515/9783110459302(CKB)3710000000609753(SSID)ssj0001653046(PQKBManifestationID)16428182(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001653046(PQKBWorkID)14974734(PQKB)10810561(DE-B1597)461158(OCoLC)944081832(OCoLC)945612119(DE-B1597)9783110459302(Au-PeEL)EBL4426455(CaPaEBR)ebr11172239(MiAaPQ)EBC4426455(EXLCZ)99371000000060975320160319h20162016 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe writing system of scribe Zhou evidence from late pre-imperial Chinese manuscripts and inscriptions (5th-3rd Centuries BCE) /Haeree ParkBerlin :De Gruyter,[2016]©20161 online resource (342 pages) illustrationsStudies in manuscript cultures ;volume 4Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph3-11-044944-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Symbols and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Old Chinese phonology -- 3. The Shanghai "Zhouyi" and the Warring States script -- 4. The Chu Script -- 5. The Shanghai "Zhouyi" and the Early Chinese Orthography -- 6. Conclusions -- Appendix I: A Lexicon of the Shanghai "Zhouyi" -- Appendix II: Index of Synonymous Significs and Equivalent Phonophorics -- Index of Equivalent Phonophorics -- ReferencesThis book investigates the nature of regional variation in the early Chinese writing system through bamboo manuscripts and inscriptions dating from the late pre-imperial China (5th-3rd centuries BCE). Diachronic and synchronic comparisons of graphic details show that none of the well-recognized regional varieties developed independently from one another. Furthermore, differences in graphic components can be accounted for as alternations of graphs that are compatible in their semantic or phonetic values. The phonological systems underlying various regional orthographies unanimously point to a single coherent sound system with some mixture of dialect pronunciations. This strongly suggests that all the late pre-imperial regional scripts derived from a kind of orthographic meta-system based on one spoken standard language. This orthography and its phonological systems should reasonably be dated to ca. 9th century BCE, just about the time when the earliest known Chinese lexicography "Book of Scribe Zhou" (ca. 830 BCE) was written. The conclusions of this book have further implications on reading and understanding manuscript texts in general as well as on using them as data for linguistic studies.Studies in manuscript cultures ;v. 4.Chinese languageWritingHistoryTo 221 B.CChinese languageTo 600PhonologyChinese charactersHistoryManuscriptsChinaChinaHistoryWarring States, 403-221 B.CPre-imperial China.bamboo manuscripts.orthography.writing culture.Chinese languageHistoryChinese languagePhonology.Chinese charactersHistory.Manuscripts495.11109014Park Haeree938903MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910160768603321The writing system of scribe Zhou2116465UNINA