A history of the Chinese language
Title:
A history of the Chinese language
Author:
Dong, Hongyuan, 1976- author.
ISBN:
9780415660396
9781315794235
Personal 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.
Genre:
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-200) and index.
Field 805:
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