Vedal The Culture of Language in Ming China

Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55376-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vedal, Nathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Language
Introduction
Part I. Sound and Script
1. The Number of Everything: Music, Cosmology, and the Origins of Language
2. Letters from the West: Sanskrit, Latin, and Phonetic Legibility in Ming China
3. Script, Antiquity, and Mental Training: Metaphysical Inquiry Into the Nondiscursive Potential of Writing
Part II. Singing and Speaking, Reading and Writing
4. Opera and the Search for a Universal Language
5. Reading the Classics for Pleasure: Prose as Verse, Verse as Music
Part III. Philology: The Making and Remaking of a Discipline
6. Afterlives: Ming Methods and Their Competition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
7. The Reinvention of Philology: Specialization, Disciplinarity, and Intellectual Lineage
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan Vedal is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.