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Author:

Bachner, Andrea.

Title:

Beyond sinology : Chinese writing and the scripts of culture / Andrea Bachner.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Chinese language--History.--History.
Chinese characters--History.
Inscriptions, Chinese--History and criticism.
Chinese in literature.
Chinese in motion pictures.
Mass media and language--China.
Chinese in art.
Art.
Chinese.
Chinese characters.
Chinese language--Writing.
Inscriptions, Chinese.
Literature.
Mass media and language.
Motion pictures.
China.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Script politics -- Corpographies: Death and the sinograph -- National calligraphies -- Iconographies: Poetics of visuality -- On (not) writing Chinese -- Sonographies: Muteness envy -- Sinographic glossolalia -- Allographies: Crypto-Chinese -- Graphic parasites -- Technographies: Radical design -- Under e(rasure) -- Conclusion: Beyond sinology.

Series:

Global Chinese culture

ISBN:

0231164521 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780231164528 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)842879010

LCCN:

2013016490

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)