Historical Chinese Letter Writing

AvDaniel Z. Kadar

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-02-11
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:284
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441107718
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation

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Mer om författaren

Dániel Z. Kádár is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary.He is winner of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Young Scholar Award 2010.

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"The author is an expert in the field and this is a particularly valuable contribution to a previously neglected, but important topic. There is a wealth of literary and historical detail here." - Professor Andy Kirkpatrick, Department of English, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Part I: Family Letter Writing 1.Family Letter Writing I: Letters of Zheng Banqiao 2. Family Letter Writing II: Letters of Zeng Guofan Part II: 'Specialized' Epistolary Discourse 3. 'Specialized' Epistolary Discourse I: Literary Letters of Jin Shengtan 4. 'Specialized' Epistolary Discourse II: Scholarly Letters of Gu Yanwu Part III: Non-family 'Social' Letter Writing 5. Non-Family 'Social' Letters I: Letters of Xu Jiacun 6. Non-Family 'Social' Letters II: Letters of Gong Weizhai Joint Exercise for Chapters 5 and 6 Part IV: Political Letter Writing 7. Political Letters: A Long Letter of Yuan Shikai Postscript: What next? Appendix I: The Chinese Texts (printed in a punctuated form) Appendix II: Chronological List of Chinese Dynasties Glossary of Epistolary Expressions, Honorifics and Grammatical Words Index