Beyond sinology : Chinese writing and the scripts of culture

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

New communication and information technologies remain challenging for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bachner, Andrea
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Series:Global Chinese culture.
Subjects:
Chinese language > Writing > History.
Chinese characters > History.
Inscriptions, Chinese > History and criticism.
Chinese in literature.
Chinese in motion pictures.
Mass media and language > China.
Chinese in art.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Southeast Asian Languages.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Chinese characters
Chinese in art
Chinese in literature
Chinese in motion pictures
Chinese language > Writing
Inscriptions, Chinese
Mass media and language
Ideogramm
Chinesisch
Chinesische Schrift
Massenmedien
Literatur
Kulturelle Identität
Nationalbewusstsein
China
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of 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.

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