TY  - BOOK
AU  - Luca,Dinu
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period 
T2  - Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
SN  - 9781137502919 (ebook:PDF)
U1  - 809.5 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan US(Imprint)
KW  - European literature
KW  - Asian Literature
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50291-9
ER  -