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Yes, you can access Time and Language by Ori Sela,Zvi Ben-Dor Benite,Joshua A. Fogel in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Storia & Storia cinese. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Year

2023

eBook ISBN

9780824894580

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Topic

Storia

Subtopic

Storia cinese

Contents
Introduction: Time, Text, and History in China
1 Tulišen’s Embassy to Distant Territories: The Travels of a Text
2 Struggles over the Historical Memory of a Heterodoxy: Chinese Commentaries on the Nestorian Stele
3 How Much Does an Understanding of History Help? Naitō Konan’s Reading of “Communism” in China
4 To “Turn the Historical Clock Back”: Past, Text, and the Politics of Yuan Shikai’s Monarchy
5 Wenxue and New Practices of Writing in Post-1840 China
6 Cai Yuanpei’s Politico-Philosophical Languages
7 Vernacular Knowledge in Time: Sinology outside the Archive
8 In Search of a Standard National Language in Republican China
9 A Guangxu Renaissance? Manchu Language Studies in the Late Qing and Their Republican Afterlife
10 The Textual Time Machine: Truth, Facts, and the Shuowen, 1770–1932
11 A Time to Heal or a Time to Kill: Confessions in the Anti-Shaman Campaign at Communist Yan’an, 1944–1945
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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