Beyond Sinology : Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture
Andrea. Bachner
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : Columbia university press , cop. 2014
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (297 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; A Note on Characters, Romanization, Translations and Images; Acknoledgments; Introduction: Script Politics; 1. Corpographies; Death and the Sinograph; National Calligraphies; 2. Iconographies; Poetics of Visuality; On (Not) Writing Chinese; 3. Sonographies; Muteness Envy; Sinographic Glossolalia; 4. Allographies; Crypto-Chinese; Graphic Parasites; 5. Technographies; Radical Design; Under E(rasure); Conclusion: Beyond Sinology; Sinographic Dilemmas; Sinographic Mimicry; Beyond Si(g)nology; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - 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, film, visual and performance art, and design and architecture, both within China and different parts of the West. Approaching this history from alternative theoretical perspectives, this volume pinpoints the phenomena binding languages, scripts, and medial expressions to cultural and national ide
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| ISBN | 0231164521. - 9780231164528
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