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Author Bachner, Andrea.

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

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
2014

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations.
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series Global Chinese culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bachner, Andrea. Beyond sinology : Chinese writing and the scripts of culture. New York : Columbia University Press, [2014] xii, 282 pages Global Chinese culture 9780231164528 (DLC)17739476
ISBN 9780231164528 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780231536301 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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