Nathan Vedal

The Culture of Language in Ming China

Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 229mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780231200752
• ISBN-10: 0231200757
• Artikelnr.: 62111896

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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
Bibliography
Index