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Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia /

This is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia, examining Chinese script of the early common era, the spread of Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and medical texts throughout East Asia, all the way to the end of the nineteenth century when nationalism created new roles for vernacular lang...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kornicki, Peter F. (Peter Francis) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
East Asia > Languages.
Chinese characters > East Asia.
Chinese language > East Asia.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Southeast Asian Languages.
Chinese characters
Chinese language
Language and languages
East Asia
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Orientations
  • Sinitic in a global perspective
  • Scripts and writing
  • The oral dimension
  • Material texts: manuscripts, xylography, and typography
  • Book roads and routes
  • Part II: Reading and translating
  • Reading sinitic texts in the vernaculars
  • Written vernacular translation
  • Part III: Chinese texts and the vernaculars
  • The Chinese Buddhist canon and other Buddhist texts
  • Classics, examinations, and confucianism
  • Primers, medical texts, and other works
  • Conclusion: simitic and the evolution of vernacular societies in East Asia
  • Bibliography
  • Abbreviations
  • Index.