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03338aam a2200445 i 4500 001 D99623D4AE9011EDA0B1416654ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230217010059 008 210622s2022 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021023360 020 $a 0231200757 020 $a 9780231200752 020 $a 0231200749 020 $a 9780231200745 035 $a (OCoLC)1267403511 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d COO $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a PL1051 $b .V43 2022 082 00 $a 407.2/051 $2 23 100 1 $a Vedal, Nathan, $e author. 245 14 $a The culture of language in Ming China : $b sound, script, and the redefinition of boundaries of knowledge / $c Nathan Vedal. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a ix, 321 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China (1368-1644) is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century. He explores the collaboration of Confucian classicists and Buddhist monks, opera librettists and cosmological theorists, who joined forces in the pursuit of a universal theory of language. Drawing on a wide range of overlooked scholarly texts, literary commentaries, and pedagogical materials, Vedal examines how Ming scholars positioned the study of language within an interconnected nexus of learning. He argues that for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers, the boundaries among the worlds of classicism, literature, music, cosmology, and religion were far more fluid and porous than they became later. In the eighteenth century, Qing thinkers pared away these other fields from linguistic learning, creating a discipline focused on corroborating the linguistic features of ancient texts. Documenting a major transformation in knowledge production, this book provides a framework for rethinking global early modern intellectual developments. It offers a powerful alternative to the conventional understanding of late imperial Chinese intellectual history by focusing on the methods of scholarly practice and the boundaries by which contemporary thinkers defined their field of study"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Chinese philology $x History. 650 0 $a China $x Intellectual life $y 1368-1644. 651 0 $a China $x Intellectual life $y 1644-1912. 650 6 $a Philologie chinoise $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378888 $x Histoire. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378888 651 6 $a Chine $x Vie intellectuelle $y 1644-1912. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0089823 650 7 $a Chinese philology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00857664 650 7 $a Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975769 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 648 7 $a 1368-1912 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Vedal, Nathan. $t Culture of language in Ming China $d New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] $z 9780231553766 $w (DLC) 2021023361 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024125.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D99623D4AE9011EDA0B1416654ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search