Ideography and Chinese Language Theory : : A History /

Ideography and Chinese Language Theory : : A History / / Timothy Michael O’Neill.

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This book is a much-needed scholarly intervention and postcolonial corrective that examines why and when and how misunderstandings of Chinese writing came about and showcases the long history of Chinese theories of language. 'Ideography' as such assumes extra-linguistic, trans-historical,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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O’Neill, Timothy Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l’Extrême Orient : Im Auftrag der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft - On behalf of the Swiss Asia Society - Au nom de la Société Suisse-Asie , 26
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 348 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Egyptian Hieroglyphic and Chinese Characters
  • Chapter One: Platonism and the Strong Theory
  • Chapter Two: Aristotelianism and Soft Theory
  • Chapter Three: Hellenized Egypt, Pythagoreanism, and the Primitivist Theory
  • Chapter Four: Patristic Apologetics and the Scriptural Theory
  • Chapter Five: Neoplatonism and the Hermetic Theory
  • Chapter Six: Universals and the Scholastic Theory
  • Chapter Seven: Renaissance Neoplatonism and the Emblematic Theory
  • Chapter Eight: Athanasius Kircher on Egyptian and Chinese Ideography
  • Chapter Nine: The Great Chinese Encyclopedia
  • Chapter Ten: Zhengming 正名“Making Words Correct” and Chinese Language Theory
  • Chapter Eleven: Chinese Language Theory and the Interpretation of the Classics
  • Chapter Twelve: The Erya and Lexicographic Classification
  • Chapter Thirteen: The Erya and Chinese Language Theory
  • Chapter Fourteen: The Shuowen jiezi and Chinese Language Theory
  • Chapter Fifteen: The “Shuowen Postface” (Annotated Translation)
  • Conclusion: Ideography and Chinese Language Theory
  • Appendix: The Metalinguistic Terms Ming 名,Yi 義,Yi 意, and Zhi 志
  • Bibliography

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