LEADER 02949nam 22006015 450 001 9910255237903321 005 20251030103531.0 010 $a9781137502919 010 $a1137502916 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-50291-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000830518 035 $a(EBL)4716655 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-50291-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4716655 035 $a(PPN)194807576 035 $a(Perlego)3483256 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000830518 100 $a20160819d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Chinese Language in European Texts $eThe Early Period /$fby Dinu Luca 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (255 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aChinese Literature and Culture in the World,$x2945-7262 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781137512253 311 08$a1137512253 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThis detailed, chronological study investigates the rise of the European fascination with the Chinese language up to 1615. By meticulously investigating a wide range of primary sources, Dinu Luca identifies a rhetorical continuum uniting the land of the Seres, Cathay, and China in a tropology of silence, vision, and writing. Tracing the contours of this tropology, The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period offers close readings of language-related contexts in works by classical authors, medieval travelers, and Renaissance cosmographers, as well as various merchants, wanderers, and missionaries, both notable and lesser-known. What emerges is a clear and comprehensive understanding of early European ideas about the Chinese language and writing system. 410 0$aChinese Literature and Culture in the World,$x2945-7262 606 $aOriental literature 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAsian Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aLiterary History 615 0$aOriental literature. 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 14$aAsian Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aLiterary History. 676 $a895.1 700 $aLuca$b Dinu$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01059287 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255237903321 996 $aThe Chinese Language in European Texts$92505015 997 $aUNINA