Translating early modern China : illegible cities /
"The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities tells the story of translation in China to and from non-European languages and Latin between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, and primarily in the Ming and Qing dyna...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Global Asias.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- On History and Its Opposites (a Preface)
- On Cities and Their Opposites (an Introduction)
- Cities and Desire
- Cities and Signs
- Thin Cities
- Trading Cities
- Cities and Eyes
- Cities and Names
- Cities and the Dead
- Cities and the Sky
- Hidden Cities
- Gathering
- 1. Glossary (1578)
- Tools and Implements
- Heavenly Bodies and Phenomena
- Precious Objects
- Human Affairs
- Colors
- Geography and the Land
- Types of People
- Writing and Records
- Flowers and Trees
- Buildings
- Lesson 6: How to Make and Keep Friends-Writing Letters
- Lesson 7: How to Make and Keep Friends-Kvetching
- Lesson 8: How to Make and Keep Friends-Standing on Ceremony
- Lesson 9: How to Be a Guest and Host
- Lesson 10: How to Move On
- 5. Poems (1848)
- A Song Sung Drunkenly
- A Song Mumbled in My Sleep
- The Dream of Handan
- On Reading Hukou yusheng
- A Ballad on Lin Xiangru's Returning the Jade to Zhao
- Verses on the Peach Blossom Spring
- A Ballad to Banish Boredom When It's Raining
- Pondering the Past of Lousang Village
- A Speech on the Love of Chrysanthemums
- On Stabbing Yizhihu
- A Rambling Ballad on Wealth
- In Praise of Snow
- An Ode to the Hut of Peace and Joy
- Verses on Chaisang
- Lyrics in Praise of Tobacco
- A Song of Plum Flowers
- Lyrics on Lotus
- Ode to the Fishing Pier
- On Narcissus
- In Praise of Fire
- A Text of Offering to the Beard God
- In Praise of Mad Fun
- A Discourse on Becoming an Immortal
- Dispersal
- Hidden Cities
- Continuous Cities
- Cities and the Sky
- Cities and the Dead
- Cities and Names
- Cities and Eyes
- Trading Cities
- Thin Cities
- Cities and Signs
- Cities and Desire
- Cities and Memory