LEADER 04223nam 2200565 450 001 9910466491203321 005 20200917021826.0 010 $a3-11-045722-9 010 $a3-11-045923-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110459234 035 $a(CKB)3850000000000829 035 $a(EBL)4595516 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4595516 035 $a(DE-B1597)460717 035 $a(OCoLC)954046775 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110459234 035 $a(PPN)202112209 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4595516 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11237013 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL941027 035 $a(EXLCZ)993850000000000829 100 $a20160809h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $ager 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aIdeography and Chinese language theory $ea history /$fTimothy Michael O'Neill 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (356 p.) 225 1 $aWelten Ostasiens,$x1660-9131 ;$vBand 26 =$aWorlds of East Asia$aMondes de l'Extre?me-Orient 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-045714-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tTable of Contents -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIntroduction: Egyptian Hieroglyphic and Chinese Characters -- $tChapter One: Platonism and the Strong Theory -- $tChapter Two: Aristotelianism and Soft Theory -- $tChapter Three: Hellenized Egypt, Pythagoreanism, and the Primitivist Theory -- $tChapter Four: Patristic Apologetics and the Scriptural Theory -- $tChapter Five: Neoplatonism and the Hermetic Theory -- $tChapter Six: Universals and the Scholastic Theory -- $tChapter Seven: Renaissance Neoplatonism and the Emblematic Theory -- $tChapter Eight: Athanasius Kircher on Egyptian and Chinese Ideography -- $tChapter Nine: The Great Chinese Encyclopedia -- $tChapter Ten: Zhengming ???Making Words Correct? and Chinese Language Theory -- $tChapter Eleven: Chinese Language Theory and the Interpretation of the Classics -- $tChapter Twelve: The Erya and Lexicographic Classification -- $tChapter Thirteen: The Erya and Chinese Language Theory -- $tChapter Fourteen: The Shuowen jiezi and Chinese Language Theory -- $tChapter Fifteen: The ?Shuowen Postface? (Annotated Translation) -- $tConclusion: Ideography and Chinese Language Theory -- $tAppendix: The Metalinguistic Terms Ming ?,Yi ?,Yi ?, and Zhi ? -- $tBibliography 330 $aThis book is a much-needed scholarly intervention and postcolonial corrective that examines why and when and how misunderstandings of Chinese writing came about and showcases the long history of Chinese theories of language. 'Ideography' as such assumes extra-linguistic, trans-historical, universal 'ideas' which are an outgrowth of Platonism and thus unique to European history. Classical Chinese discourse assumes that language (and writing) is an arbitrary artifact invented by sages for specific reasons at specific times in history. Language by this definition is an ever-changing technology amenable to historical manipulation; language is not the House of Being, but rather a historically embedded social construct that encodes "idian human intentions and nothing more. These are incommensurate epistemes, each with its own cultural milieu and historical context. By comparing these two traditions, this study historicizes and decolonializes popular notions about Chinese characters, exposing the Eurocentrism inherent in all theories of ideography. Ideography and Chinese Language Theory will be of significant interest to historians, sinologists, theorists, and scholars in other branches of the humanities. 410 0$aWorlds of East Asia ;$vBand 26. 606 $aChinese characters$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChinese characters$xHistory. 676 $a495.11109 700 $aO'Neill$b Timothy Michael$01047165 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466491203321 996 $aIdeography and Chinese language theory$92474569 997 $aUNINA