The Key to Chinese Civilization: The Explication and Exploration of Chinese Characters (Sage China Studies) - Hardcover

Huang, Dekuan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9352806743 ISBN 13: 9789352806744

Verlag: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2019

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The Key to Chinese Civilization: The Explication and Exploration of Chinese Characters is a fascinating guide to the history of the Chinese civilization, which has been recorded not just by means of the Chinese characters but also in the characters themselves. It studies the long history of Chinese characters, the laws of their construction and development, and what their correct interpretation can mean for contemporary communication. The Chinese writing system, vastly different from phonetic alphabet systems and the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world, is dynamic and its evolution reveals much about the historical and sociocultural development of China. 

The book shows how the interpretation of the cultural connotation of Chinese characters is necessary, even crucial, though it is a daunting task. It proposes a scientific method for this kind of interpretation and gives elaborate examples. Authored by an expert in philology and palaeography, the book is written in simple language and will be of great help to Chinese language enthusiasts.

 

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Dekuan Huang is Professor, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University. He is a former president of Anhui University and the Chairman of the Chinese Writing Society. He completed his PhD in Chinese paleography from Jilin University, China, and has been engaged in the study of Chinese language and characters for around three decades. He is also Deputy Director of Unearthed Research and Protection Centre, Tsinghua University. By unearthing and explicating many important documents, he has made a major contribution to the study of the Chinese civilization.

He has many publications to his credit, for example, A History of Chinese Philology, Annotated Genealogy of Ancient Chinese Characters, Collected Papers on the Theory of Chinese Characters, Chinese Characters Interpretation and Cultural Tradition, Development of Ancient Chinese characters, and so on. Professor Huang has been a member of the Committee of Chinese Education and the Committee of Social Science of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9352806743
• ISBN 13: 9789352806744
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 428
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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