Historic Chinese letter writing / Dániel Z. Kádár.

Dániel Z. Kádár was awarded with the Academy Award for Young Outstanding Scholars by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for this book. Letter writing is a pivotal yet neglected medium of historical Chinese communication. The epistolary format is key to sinological research. As historical letters h...

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Main Author: Kádár, Dániel Z., 1979-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010.
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Summary:Dániel Z. Kádár was awarded with the Academy Award for Young Outstanding Scholars by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for this book. Letter writing is a pivotal yet neglected medium of historical Chinese communication. The epistolary format is key to sinological research. As historical letters have a specific vocabulary and rhetorical structure it is difficult to read them without the supporting apparatus of specialised study. This compendium fills the gap in Chinese studies by providing a bilingual Chinese-English edition of a corpus of Chinese letters, prepared for advanced students of.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781441107718
1441107711
1282590618
9781282590618
9786612590610
6612590610
Language:English.
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