A history of the Chinese language
by
Dong, Hongyuan, 1976- author.
Title
:
A history of the Chinese language
Author
:
Dong, Hongyuan, 1976- author.
ISBN
:
9780415660396
9781315794235
Personal Author
:
Dong, Hongyuan, 1976- author.
Publication Information
:
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
Physical Description
:
xii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents
:
1 A walk through time: general introduction -- 2 Where it all began: prehistory -- 3 Thus spake Confucius: sounds of Old Chinese -- 4 Poetically they dwelt: sounds of Middle Chinese -- 5 Marco Polo's phrasebook: sounds of Early Modern Chinese -- 6 Philosophy and history: Classical Chinese -- 7 Literature and religion: vernacular writing -- 8 In other words: vocabulary change -- 9 One for all: Modern Standard Chinese -- 10Celebration of diversity: Modern Chinese dialects -- 11 The legend of Cangjie: Chinese characters.
Subject Term
:
Chinese language -- History.
Language and culture -- China.
Historical linguistics -- China.
Chinese language.
Historical linguistics.
Language and culture.
Language and languages.
Geographic Term
:
China -- Languages -- History.
China.
Genre
:
History.
Bibliographical References
:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-200) and index.
Field 805
:
npmlib 11000194 PL1075 D64 yh
| Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
|---|
| NPM Library | PL1075 D64 2014 | 11000194 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |