02949nam 22006015 450 991025523790332120251030103531.09781137502919113750291610.1057/978-1-137-50291-9(CKB)3710000000830518(EBL)4716655(DE-He213)978-1-137-50291-9(MiAaPQ)EBC4716655(PPN)194807576(Perlego)3483256(EXLCZ)99371000000083051820160819d2016 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Chinese Language in European Texts The Early Period /by Dinu Luca1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (255 pages) illustrationsChinese Literature and Culture in the World,2945-7262Description based upon print version of record.9781137512253 1137512253 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Entering the Language Continuum -- 1. Silence, Script, and “New Understandings” -- 2. Figures, Hieroglyphs, and Ciphers,- 3. Ships, Bricks, and the Majesty of Writing: The New Century -- Conclusion.This detailed, chronological study investigates the rise of the European fascination with the Chinese language up to 1615. By meticulously investigating a wide range of primary sources, Dinu Luca identifies a rhetorical continuum uniting the land of the Seres, Cathay, and China in a tropology of silence, vision, and writing. Tracing the contours of this tropology, The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period offers close readings of language-related contexts in works by classical authors, medieval travelers, and Renaissance cosmographers, as well as various merchants, wanderers, and missionaries, both notable and lesser-known. What emerges is a clear and comprehensive understanding of early European ideas about the Chinese language and writing system.Chinese Literature and Culture in the World,2945-7262Oriental literatureEuropean literatureLiteratureHistory and criticismAsian LiteratureEuropean LiteratureLiterary HistoryOriental literature.European literature.LiteratureHistory and criticism.Asian Literature.European Literature.Literary History.895.1Luca Dinuauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1059287BOOK9910255237903321The Chinese Language in European Texts2505015UNINA