Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Liwei Jiao, USA) Jiao, Liwei (University of Pennsylvania

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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture represents the first English anthology that delves into the fascinating and thought-provoking relationship between the Chinese language and culture, exploring various macro and micro perspectives.Chinese culture boasts a history of ten thousand years, while the Chinese language’s recorded history spans at least three thousand years, dating back to the Shang dynasty oracle bone inscriptions (OBI).This handbook is comprised of 17 chapters from 18 scholars including Victor Mair and William S-Y. Wang. Many chapters approach their respective topics with a comprehensive and historical outlook. Certain extensive subjects are addressed in multiple chapters, complementing one another. These topics include:The languages and peoples of China, and the southern Chinese dialectsMandarin’s evolution into a national language and its related writing reformsLanguage as a propaganda tool in the Cultural Revolution and in contemporary ChinaChinese idioms and colloquialismsThis book offers an approachable exploration of the subject, appealing to both specialists and enthusiasts of the Chinese language and culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-03-26
Mått174 x 246 x 21 mm
Vikt720 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Language Handbooks
Antal sidor286
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138052475

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Liwei Jiao is Senior Lecturer of East Asian Studies at Brown University. His research interests include Chinese phraseology, lexicography, language and culture, and language instruction. His publications include a series of Routledge dictionaries, such as 500 Common Chinese Idioms, 500 Common Chinese Proverbs and Colloquial Expressions, and A Cultural Dictionary of the Chinese Language. He has also contributed three entries, including one on Yuen Ren Chao, to the Encyclopedia of China (third edition, 2022).

List of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroductionPart IWriting, Sounds, and Culture1 Chinese Manuscript Culture2 A Century of Chinese Writing Reform3 Chinese Phonology and Cross-Cultural Exchange in History4 Monosyllabicity of Chinese in a Quadripartite Classification of World Languages: Exceptions ExplainedPart IIPhilosophy, Politics, and Culture5 The Linguistics of Chinese Philosophical Keywords6 Power and Persuasion: Language and Politics in China7 Chinese Exceptionalism: Linguistic Construction of a Superpower8 Distinguishing between Early Modern and Modern Chinese Lexicons: Mandarin’s Journey to Becoming a national languagePart IIIWords, Expressions, Discourse, and Culture9 Chinese Idioms and Culture10 Colloquialisms and Chinese Culture11 Place Name as Personal Identification12 Chinese Emotions: Words, Meaning and Culture13 Classroom Discourse in Chinese as a Second LanguagePart IVChina, Chinese, Dialects, and Culture14 Sinophone Studies15 A Dynamic Perspective on the Languages and Peoples of China16 On the Origin of Han Chinese and Chinese Dialects of South China17 The Common Language, Dialects and Chinese Cultural TraditionsIndex