Chinese Grammatology : : Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958 /

Chinese Grammatology : : Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958 / / Yurou Zhong.

Today, Chinese characters are described as a national treasure, the core of the nation’s civilizational identity. Yet for nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. They declared it an archaic hindrance to modernization, portraying the ancient system of writing...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Zhong, Yurou,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource :; 11 illustrations
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • A NOTE ON ROMANIZATION
  • Introduction: Voiceless China and Its Phonocentric Turn
  • PART I. Provenance
  • Chapter One. THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF ALPHABETIC UNIVERSALISM
  • PART II. Transmutations
  • Chapter Two. PHONOCENTRIC ANTINOMIES
  • Chapter Three. CAN SUBALTERN WORKERS WRITE?
  • Chapter Four. REINVENTING CHILDREN
  • PART III. Containment
  • Chapter Five. TOWARD A CHINESE GRAMMATOLOGY
  • Epilogue: The Last Custodian
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

Similar Items