Description: Further DetailsTitle: Beyond SinologyCondition: NewEAN: 9780231164528ISBN: 9780231164528Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/21/2014Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Andrea BachnerLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of CultureISBN-10: 0231164521Description: New communication and information technologies provide distinct challenges and possibilities 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, within both China and different parts of the West. Approaching this history from a variety of alternative theoretical perspectives, Beyond Sinology reflects on the Chinese script to pinpoint the multiple connections between languages, scripts, and medial expressions and cultural and national identities. Through a complex study of intercultural representations, exchanges, and tensions, the text focuses on the concrete "scripting" of identity and alterity, advancing a new understanding of the links between identity and medium and a critique of articulations that rely on single, monolithic, and univocal definitions of writing.Chinese writing-with its history of divergent readings in Chinese and non-Chinese contexts, with its current reinvention in the age of new media and globalization-can teach us how to read and construct mediality and cultural identity in interculturally responsible ways and also how to scrutinize, critique, and yet appreciate and enjoy the powerful multi-medial creativity embodied in writing.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Global Chinese CultureGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Language & ReferenceRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Beyond Sinology
Title: Beyond Sinology
EAN: 9780231164528
ISBN: 9780231164528
Release Date: 01/21/2014
Release Year: 2014
Subtitle: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture
ISBN-10: 0231164521
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Language & Reference
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Name: Beyond Sinology : Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Asian / Chinese, Media Studies, Chinese, Semiotics & Theory, Asia / China
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Type: Language Course
Item Length: 1 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Foreign Language Study, Social Science, History
Author: Andrea Bachner
Item Width: 0.7 in
Series: Global Chinese Culture Ser.
Format: Hardcover
