Beyond sinology : Chinese writing and the scripts of culture

Beyond sinology : Chinese writing and the scripts of culture /

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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: Electronic 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
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
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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