The early modern travels of Manchu : a script and its study in East Asia and Europe
Title:
The early modern travels of Manchu : a script and its study in East Asia and Europe
Encounters with Asia
Encounters with Asia.
Author:
Söderblom Saarela, Mårten, author.
ISBN:
9780812252071
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Physical Description:
viii, 301 pages : illustrations (black&white) ; 24 cm.
Series:
Encounters with Asia
Encounters with Asia.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Conventions -- Introduction. A Cultural History of the Manchu Script -- Chapter 1. To Follow Fuxi or Kubilai Khan? Written Manchu Before 1644 -- Chapter 2. The Beijing Origins of Manchu Language Pedagogy, 1668-1730 -- Chapter 3. Phonology and Manchu in Southern China and Japan, c. 1670-1716 -- Chapter 4. Manchu Words and Alphabetical Order in China and Japan, 1683-1820s -- Chapter 5. Leibniz's Dream of a Manchu Encyclopedia and Kangxi's Mirror, 1673-1708 -- Chapter 6. The Manchu Script and Foreign Sounds from the Qing Court to Korea, 1720s-1770s -- Chapter 7. The Invention of a Manchu Alphabet in Saint Petersburg, 1720s-1730s -- Chapter 8. The Making of a Manchu Typeface in Paris, 1780s-1810s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Abstract:
"This book is about the progress, migration, and impact of the Manchu written language. A key characteristic of Manchu is that it could be read by speakers of other languages without those speakers' ever hearing it spoken. This is a book in intellectual history, cultural history, and the history of language"-- Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
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