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Beyond sinology : Chinese writing and the scripts of culture / / Andrea Bachner



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Autore: Bachner Andrea Visualizza persona
Titolo: Beyond sinology : Chinese writing and the scripts of culture / / Andrea Bachner Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina: 495.1/11
Soggetto topico: Chinese language - Writing - History
Chinese characters - History
Inscriptions, Chinese - History and criticism
Chinese in literature
Chinese in motion pictures
Mass media and language - China
Chinese in art
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Script politics -- Corpographies: Death and the sinograph -- National calligraphies -- Iconographies: Poetics of visuality -- On (not) writing Chinese -- Sonographies: Muteness envy -- Sinographic glossolalia -- Allographies: Crypto-Chinese -- Graphic parasites -- Technographies: Radical design -- Under e(rasure) -- Conclusion: Beyond sinology.
Sommario/riassunto: New communication and information technologies provide distinct challenges and possibilities for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, film, visual and performance art, and design and architecture, within both China and different parts of the West.Approaching this history from a variety of alternative theoretical perspectives, Beyond Sinology reflects on the Chinese script to pinpoint the multiple connections between languages, scripts, and medial expressions and cultural and national identities. Through a complex study of intercultural representations, exchanges, and tensions, the text focuses on the concrete "scripting" of identity and alterity, advancing a new understanding of the links between identity and medium and a critique of articulations that rely on single, monolithic, and univocal definitions of writing.Chinese writing-with its history of divergent readings in Chinese and non-Chinese contexts, with its current reinvention in the age of new media and globalization-can teach us how to read and construct mediality and cultural identity in interculturally responsible ways and also how to scrutinize, critique, and yet appreciate and enjoy the powerful multi-medial creativity embodied in writing.
Titolo autorizzato: Beyond sinology  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-231-53630-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827222103321
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Serie: Global Chinese Culture