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Historical Chinese Letter Writing
Contributor(s): Kadar, Daniel Z. (Author)
ISBN: 0826430880     ISBN-13: 9780826430885
Publisher: Continuum
OUR PRICE:   $227.70  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2010
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Annotation: Focussing on Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) letter writing, this compendium is an outstanding study of historical Chinese communication.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Asian - General
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General
- Foreign Language Study | Russian
Dewey: 895.1
LCCN: 2009034846
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.23 lbs) 284 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
 
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Publisher Description:

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 Classical Chinese as well as academics with an interest in historical Chinese epistolary art. The book has a broad and general introduction, systematically constructed vocabulary sections as well as detailed grammatical and philological explanations.

It focuses on Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) letter writing, a high point of pre-1911 epistolary activity in Chinese, and will appeal to Chinese scholars and Sinologists at a broad range of academic levels.