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Nathan Vedal The Culture of Language in Ming China (Paperback)
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- The Culture of Language in Ming China
- Publication Name
- Culture of Language in Ming China : Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge
- Title
- The Culture of Language in Ming China
- Subtitle
- Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0231200757
- EAN
- 9780231200752
- ISBN
- 9780231200752
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Subject
- Children's Learning & Education
- Release Year
- 2022
- Release Date
- 12/04/2022
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 16.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Winner, 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China (1368-1644) is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century. He explores the collaboration of Confucian classicists and Buddhist monks, opera librettists and cosmological theorists, who joined forces in the pursuit of a universal theory of language. Drawing on a wide range of overlooked scholarly texts, literary commentaries, and pedagogical materials, Vedal examines how Ming scholars positioned the study of language within an interconnected nexus of learning. He argues that for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers, the boundaries among the worlds of classicism, literature, music, cosmology, and religion were far more fluid and porous than they became later. In the eighteenth century, Qing thinkers pared away these other fields from linguistic learning, creating a discipline focused on corroborating the linguistic features of ancient texts. Documenting a major transformation in knowledge production, this book provides a framework for rethinking global early modern intellectual developments. It offers a powerful alternative to the conventional understanding of late imperial Chinese intellectual history by focusing on the methods of scholarly practice and the boundaries by which contemporary thinkers defined their field of study.
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Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231200757
ISBN-13
9780231200752
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2321073741
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Culture of Language in Ming China : Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
16.9 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Pl1051.V43 2021
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Required reading on the historiography of language and writing in China. With clarity, insight, and impressive erudition, Vedal weaves together material from fields including philosophy, poetry, music, lexicography, religion, and mathematics, showing the richness and sophistication of Ming philology and its persistence through the Qing and down to the present., By examining Ming philology on its own terms rather than through the lens of later critics, Vedal reconstructs its richly comprehensive view of language. His inspiring exploration of linguistic study in relation to script and sound, cosmology, mental discipline, and moral message sheds new light on the learned culture of 16th- and 17th-century China and invites comparison with other parts of the early modern world., By examining Ming philology on its own terms rather than through the lens of later critics, Vedal reconstructs its richly comprehensive view of language. His inspiring exploration of linguistic study in relation to script and sound, cosmology, mental discipline, and moral message sheds new light on the learned culture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China and invites comparison with other parts of the early modern world., On the basis of a large body of still under-studied Chinese philological texts from the 16th and 17th centuries, Vedal documents in impressive detail an important transformation in knowledge production in Chinese philological tradition., A highly interesting and important book, not just for those specializing in late imperial China, but also for outsiders to the field, who are curious about the historical study of language., Vedal makes a point to draw from largely unknown thinkers to produce a more nuanced portrait of Ming intellectual culture, an intellectual culture not dominated by a handful of eminent personalities but populated by a sprawling constellation of scholars., A brilliant and stimulating book . . . It should be required reading for anyone who works in early modern China., Grand in scope and ambition, The Culture of Language in Ming China presents new and boldly interdisciplinary research. Connecting phonology to music, Chinese to Sanskrit, classical scholars to opera librettists, and Confucians to Buddhists, it will become a must-read for scholars of late imperial China and beyond., This important study recovers a long-ignored domain of vibrant intellectual activity that was long thought to be nonexistent or, worse, uninteresting. Vedal shows that scholars in the Ming were deeply engaged in the creative study of language and devised novel ways of understanding it. A significant contribution to Chinese intellectual history., Vedal's work illuminates the veiled context of Ming philology and reflects its moral motivation, thus offering another mirror for observing the culture and knowledge of language in China., This brilliant, important book successfully reinstates the centrality of philology to late imperial Chinese intellectual culture. By liberating philology from the narrowly defined discipline of linguistics, Vedal powerfully unfolds how the historical understanding of the study of language is pivotal in the reconsideration of the boundaries of knowledge, intellectual change from the Ming to the Qing, and ways of forming intellectual communities.
Table of Content
Note on Language Introduction Part I. Sound and Script 1. The Number of Everything: Music, Cosmology, and the Origins of Language 2. Letters from the West: Sanskrit, Latin, and Phonetic Legibility in Ming China 3. Script, Antiquity, and Mental Training: Metaphysical Inquiry Into the Nondiscursive Potential of Writing Part II. Singing and Speaking, Reading and Writing 4. Opera and the Search for a Universal Language 5. Reading the Classics for Pleasure: Prose as Verse, Verse as Music Part III. Philology: The Making and Remaking of a Discipline 6. Afterlives: Ming Methods and Their Competition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 7. The Reinvention of Philology: Specialization, Disciplinarity, and Intellectual Lineage Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Topic
Asian / Chinese, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Asia / China, Linguistics / General
Lccn
2021-023360
Dewey Decimal
407.2051
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
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