Beyond sinology : Chinese writing and the scripts of culture / Andrea Bachner.
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TextSeries: Global Chinese culturePublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780231536301
- 0231536305
- 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
- Chinois (Langue) -- Écriture -- Histoire
- Chinois (Langue) -- Caractères -- Histoire
- Inscriptions chinoises -- Histoire et critique
- Chinois au cinéma
- Médias et langage -- Chine
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies
- Chinese characters
- Chinese in art
- Chinese in literature
- Chinese in motion pictures
- Chinese language -- Writing
- Inscriptions, Chinese
- Mass media and language
- China
- Ideogramm
- Chinesisch
- Chinesische Schrift
- Massenmedien
- Literatur
- Kulturelle Identität
- Nationalbewusstsein
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- PL1171 .B25 2014eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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New communication and information technologies remain challenging 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, both within China and different parts of the West. Approaching this history from alternative theoretical perspectives, this volume pinpoints the phenomena binding languages, scripts, and medial expressions to cultural and national ide.
In English.
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