Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Bachner, Andrea.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]

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Description

xii, 282 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This title looks at the history and usage of Chinese script to pinpoint the multiple connections that exist between languages, scripts, medial expressions, and cultural and national identities. It shows how new communication and information technologies provide distinct challenges and possibilities for Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles.

Series Statement

Global Chinese culture

Uniform Title

• University press scholarship online.
• Global Chinese culture.

Subject

• Chinese language > History
• Chinese characters > History
• Inscriptions, Chinese > History and criticism
• Chinese in literature
• Chinese in motion pictures
• Mass media and language > China
• Chinese in art
• Art
• Chinese
• Chinese characters
• Chinese language > Writing
• Inscriptions, Chinese
• Literature
• Mass media and language
• Motion pictures
• China

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

ISBN

• 9780231164528 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0231164521 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 9780231536301 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013016490

OCLC

• 842879010
• SCSB-13781122

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library