Phonology and orthography in Ming China
New book from Columbia University Press:
The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge
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Publisher's description:
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.
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