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Historical Chinese Letter Writing

By Daniel Z. Kadar, Kadar, Daniel Z.

Historical Chinese Letter Writing

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Dániel Z. Kádár was awarded with the Academy Award for Young Outstanding Scholars by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for this book. Letter writing is a pivotal yet neglected medium of historical Chinese communication. The epistolary format is key to sinological research. As historical letters have a specific vocabulary and rhetorical structure it is difficult to read them without the supporting apparatus of specialised study. This compendium fills the gap in Chinese studies by providing a bilingual Chinese-English edition of a corpus of Chinese letters, prepared for advanced students of Classical Chinese as well as academics with an interest in historical Chinese epistolary art. The book has a broad and general introduction, systematically constructed vocabulary sections as well as detailed grammatical and philological explanations. It focuses on Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) letter writing, a high point of pre-1911 epistolary activity in Chinese, and will appeal to Chinese scholars and Sinologists at a broad range of academic levels.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
284
Release Date:
2011-10-27
Publication Date:
2011-10-27
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1441180362
ISBN13:
9781441180360
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
436 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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