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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture

Name: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture
ISBN: 9781351684071

Liwei Jiao,

302 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture

Liwei Jiao,

About this book

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 dialects
Mandarin's evolution into a national language and its related writing reforms
Language as a propaganda tool in the Cultural Revolution and in contemporary China
Chinese idioms and colloquialisms

This book offers an approachable exploration of the subject, appealing to both specialists and enthusiasts of the Chinese language and culture.

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