Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History 9780824894078, 9780824894580, 9780824894597, 9780824894603, 0824894073

Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History 9780824894580

China’s past and present have been in a continuous dialogue throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time a

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Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture 9780231536301

New communication and information technologies provide distinct challenges and possibilities for the Chinese script, whi

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Redeeming Time - People's History of 1920s and New Deal

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The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy 9780824840303

DeFrancis John : John DeFrancis (1911- 2009) John DeFrancis (1911–2009), Emeritus Professor of Chinese at the Univers

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Collins Chinese Language and Culture 9780007502424, 0007502427

The language and culture of China: over 3,000 years of history, more than a billion inhabitants, and a country that stre

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New Export China: Translations across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art 9780520390010, 9780520392571

Why do so many contemporary Chinese artists use porcelain in their work? In New Export China, Alex Burchmore presents a

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Time Travelers: Victorian Encounters with Time and History 9780226676821

The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not th

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Time and Space in Chinese Culture 9004102876, 9789004102873

All cultures and times have their own notions of time and space. Being one of the fundamental ideas in every society the

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A Brief History of the Chinese Language IV: Old Chinese Lexicon [1 ed.] 9781003365556

As the fourth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the lexical system of Old Chinese

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A Brief History of the Chinese Language VI: Middle Chinese Lexicon 2 [1 ed.] 9781003365570

As the sixth volume of a multivolume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the influence of foreign culture on

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